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A panic-buying mum who splurged £250 at the supermarket has admitted she ended up binning piles of rotting food.

Factory worker Emmie Shute headed straight to the shops when the coronavirus pandemic first started to spread across the UK - despite only have three mouths to feed.

However, much of what she bought was perishable and her family couldn't eat it all before it off - leaving her with no choice but to dump it.

She also splashed out on 50 toilet rolls - some of which also ended up in the trash.

Shockingly, the 47-year-old factory worker has now vowed to carry on stockpiling to ensure her family doesn't go hungry and to 'spoil her kids' at this terrible time, MirrorOnline reports.

Emmie says she now spends £100 a week on shopping - and throws away around 10 per cent of what she spends.

Despite this, Emmie says she feels no guilt in throwing away food while others maybe going without - and instead blamed the supermarkets.

She said: "I understand the criticism about food not being left for vulnerable people and key workers, but I don't feel bad - it's supermarkets' responsibility to order more and make sure they have enough stock in."

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Now, single mum Emmie said she will continue to stockpile, despite numerous heartbreaking stories of the elderly and the most vulnerable being left without any food.

Emmie said she plans on buying more chocolate, biscuits and treats for her three children because 'now more than ever' she wants to 'spoil them'.

Speaking about her hoarding , Emmie said she was 'terrified' at what was to come, so 'packed' her fridge with 'groceries, including lots of fruit, veg, biscuits, eggs, tinned food, pasta and 50 toilet rolls'.

Emmie revealed however that many of the toilet rolls were also binned as they accidentally got wet from the shower.

The mum, speaking to Fabulous magazine, said she felt like she had been 'plunged into a disaster movie' and was 'forced' to think of what her children would and wouldn't eat during the lockdown.

When her children refused to eat some of the food she had stockpiled, Emmie said she 'needed to make room for things they did like'.

She tried donating them to a homeless charity or offer them to friends, but eventually ended up putting them in a box on the street - where they rotted.

Emmie, who has been using savings to buy food after the factory she works in closed two weeks ago, said she also threw away some food because she worried all the extra perishables would attract mice and rats.