A single mum-of-two who splurged more than £250 on stockpiling food amid the coronavirus pandemic says she has no regrets at having to bin it.
Emmie Shute, from Bournemouth, was left with piles of rotting or out of date goods after her and her two kids, aged 15 and 11, didn't manage to eat it all.
The factory worker estimates the dumped food amounted to £60. From eggs to fruit, meat and sauces, the 47-year-old had grabbed whatever she could off supermarket shelves when Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the lockdown.
She was "terrified of what was to come" and felt like the country had been" plunged into a disaster movie." But Emmie soon discovered her freezer could not hold the amount of food she had purchased, so the goods ended up