Where Has All the Flour Gone?

This is so frustrating! I too use a lot of flour for cooking but I am struggling to get any now. I find it frustrating because people have hoarded it and I bet most won't even end up using it.

Strange that this is the new must have item, was in Asda Tuesday and they had stocks of virtually everything including what was the most sought after items Hand wash & Toilet rolls, but no flour on the shelves . Think everyone must at home be baking at the moment

We haven't had any trouble getting eggs or flour. We've been able to get them from our local corner shop or smaller supermarkets. I picked up our click and collect shopping yesterday and we got flour and eggs. I know that my Granny and mother in law have struggled to get eggs over in Northern Ireland. People are doing a lot more baking at the moment, especially parents with younger children.

I've been relatively lucky and have managed to find both flour and eggs in shops in my local area. This has been a problem for many though due to the increased demands. The main area of business for flour production is large food manufactures. It is easier to keep churning out the larger bags. I know some places supply these bags for home bakers, is that something you would consider?

This is an good article if you want to read more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52212760

Good luck and enjoy your baking (Hopefully)

I read a couple of weeks ago that the problem was with the packaging more than the production of the flour but your're right - eggs and flour have become the new toilet rolls. I haven't managed to get any within a delivery for five weeks and I''m using the pancake-day plain flour like a miser.

I bake also and it’s been hell trying to get flour

I hope the selfish people who have hoarded it get flour weevils

it's funny how you always need the things that seem to have disappeared - not been able to get hold of flour for weeks now, but no problem with eggs

I have ordered of amazon £16 for 16kg free delivery , it’s a lot but that’s the only place I was able to get flour from after searching for a while , got gluten free the other day from Tesco but rather use strong white for rolls

https://www.latestdeals.co.uk/deals/heygates-strong-white-bread-flour-1x16kg-amazon

I found this surprising too but I noticed it was out of stock the last couple of times I went to the supermarket before lockdown (along with toilet roll).

I can't get flour but have no trouble with eggs as we live in the country and have free range chicken farms nearby. I want some flour desperately though or this will be my last batch of cakes & scones!

Corner shop brought a boat load from Aldi for 45-50p wanted to charge me £2.29 for 1. I walked out swiftly!

Same here and there's not many shops where I live, and every time I've tried to order from Asda or Iceland, they've sold out. I've managed to find plain flour and a recipe to make scones with plain flour, so this'll have to do for now. If anyone has plain flour, you could add extra baking powder to it.

A lot of people aren't using flour for cooking with but to make salt dough ornaments with their children. The amount that are doing it I presume it was on the home schooling curriculum.

In my area people have managed to get some from bakerys

emmabeckz has posted this great deal for flour today: https://www.latestdeals.co.uk/deals/struggling-find-flour-pasta-rice-ppe-stock-alliance-online

Makes more sence to buy flour than loo rolls.why was so many people crazy about buying as many loo rolls as possible.you cannot eat or drink loo rolls.it would have made more sence to stock up with food and drinks

You can allways wash your backside.i was puzzled by it.

It was my sons 4th birthday during lockdown and I couldn't make him a cake till week after. Flour and eggs are real problem. I was hoping to start making my own bread again

The struggle for flour is real! Iv not needed flour during lockdown as still had a little in the cupboard, but it's my sons 18th birthday next week & I want to bake some cakes. Went into town today, couldn't get it anywhere. One lady in Home Bargains told me a local newsagent had some, rushed there to find they'd just sold out too. OH in the end managed to get me some from another local newsagents

Now I'm struggling to find caster sugar.

Plenty around now , you can get the 16kg bags from Amazon for about £16 and its coming back into the supermarkets again in the smaller bags .

Same problem as with other "imagined" shortages the intellectually challenged hoarders scooped up all the stock (thinking they were being clever !) along with bread, frozen food . loo rolls pasta etc .

Of course not thinking of the elderly and vulnerable who couldn't get their weekly bag of flour for their Yorkshire puds and cakes .

The big flour mills then prioritised bulk deliveries to the large bread producers (to keep bread on the shelves ) .

Now the hoarders have chucked out their rotten bread and have run out of credit on their cards there are no shortages - Of anything ! - There never was ! - Just the Distribution system couldn't keep up with the mindless idiots clearing the shelves of everything Facebook told them too !

If anyone lives near a Herons store try them, my local has loads in Plain and SR. Local Morrisons had a limited amount.

Not been able to find it no where for the past few weeks in Essex. Only have the 9KG bags, What am i going to do with that much Flour? Bake the whole street cakes?

I’ve been asking this from the beginning of lockdown. What on earth are the hoarders doing with that much flour? None anywhere at all & fed up of looking & never finding

Beats me, but we make bread in an oven and it comes out beautiful. Sorta like if you'd buy it at a store.

Not my photo though it gives you an idea:

It's always a good idea to take out the ashes so they don't mix with the bread and get 'em dirty.