'I stockpiled dozens of eggs, fruit and sauces but had to bin it all – I don’t care I’m doing the vulnerable out of food'
WHEN the coronavirus crisis first started to rear its ugly head, single mum-of-two Emmie Shute, 47, bulk bought everything she could think of.
"PUNNETS of rotten strawberries, mouldy bread, unwanted packets of Jaffa Cakes, out-of-date peas and carrots… I’ve never been a hoarder in the past, but when the panic buying started, I just did what everyone else was doing. When I offered them to friends, they were too scared to accept them in case they contracted coronavirus - even though we have no symptoms - so as a last resort, I put them in a box on the street with a sign to say they were free, but my neighbours didn’t want them either.With only a small freezer I wasn’t able to store the vast majority of the fresh produce, so it went off and had to be binned within the week.
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