How are you disinfecting groceries?

[Moominmummy12]

Can see that it’s possible to wipe down bottles/jars but how do you clean a punnet of fruit or a loaf of bread?

I used to in lockdown 1 but i dont bother now. I now shop in M&S but as i just buy ingedients its not that expensive. Its v clean though.

Used to clean tins and packets eg cheese, etc etc with antibac spray and wipes.
A lot of things I took out of the external packaging. Club biscuits, mutipack crisps, cereal etc.
I washed all fruit / veg with handsoap in sink. (Saw this tip from a doc online.) This was just potatoes, carrots, oranges, apples, pears and bananas and melons. All other fruit bought tinned or frozen.
Also washed all eggs.
All types of flour and sugar I quarantined.

I baked loads so didnt need to buy fresh biscuits, bread, cakes, fudge etc. Those things are v hard to clean.

It took hours on the day the shopping arrived from online.

Im CV though.

@bofski14

Everything that is able to be left without being refrigerated (veg, bread, tins, packets) gets put into a cupboard we specifically kept for Quarantining things and it sits there for three days and then gets put away. (Plastic and tin can hold the virus much longer). Frozen food like nuggets or chips gets decanted straight into zip lock freezer bags. Things we definitely need to refrigerate like bottles of milk or meat get wiped down with bleach. Then all the surfaces get bleached. I wouldn't dream of handling and eating things that haven't been disinfected especially with the more infectious variants. It's playing with fire. It's so dirty. You don't know who's handled it. I think I'll continue this even if Covid ended tomorrow.

If it's that dangerous then those of us who don't do any of this would be dropping like flies, and so would supermarket staff, postal workers, delivery drivers, and so on.

@DenisetheMenace I know! The excitement we have to look forward to!

@ktp100

Quarantining or wiping with soapy cloth should be standard at the moment, really.

I tend to swill each piece of fruit in soapy water, rubbing slightly with my hands.

Why should it be standard when the risk is so small? The risk is higher from airborne particles than surfaces.

It’s hard to believe that this madness was around this time last year.(Yes I realise that it’s a zombie thread.) I know one or two households where they’re still doing the disinfecting/quarantining malarkey. I used to wipe packets last year for the first month or so but then gave up. The way I see it is that with all the sanitising of hands and trolleys going on and all the mask wearing everywhere (I’m not in UK) it’s surely safer shopping now than this time last year. Hope I won’t be eating my words before I get vaccinated!

A year working face to face with patients
A partner teaching all year
Never washed an item of shopping or post
No one in our household has had covid
Good hand hygiene
Reasonable social distancing
Not one single health professional I know has washed their shopping or deliveries
Utter madness

I think some are being a bit hard on the grocery washers. I am not given to panic but when the pandemic hit were were not given good information about infection. No one said 'you don't need to do this'. Long after the research was published official advice was still faffing about.
I remember the first days of lockdown. They were bloody terrifying. It felt like if you walked out the door the virus would fall on you.
Its no wonder people started antibacing their carrot.

@fartyface

I lick them clean.

Genuinely sniggered at this . Thank you!

Another vote for I'm not, and never have done all the way through.

How that there have been about twice as many replies almost a year after the thread started than there were at the time

Anyone still doing it might want to give themsleves a reality check and google the proven worldwide cases of tranmission via shopping

@Moominmummy12

I don't bother wiping down groceries,
I only do this if food/beverages have split or the packaging is dirty.

I just feel,if you wash your hands after handling /or before having something to eat that's ok/good enough.

Its just common sense know need to go over the top,hysterical about doing things too.

I washed every single item of food individually in neat bleach in April 2020 and I sadly died. So now I'm a ZOMBIE, like this thread

I used to with disinfectant wipes. Or id empty th content if possible into different containers. Got fed up so stopped doing it. Just wash th fruit bfre i use it. Or wash my hands after touching packaging and before i eat i make sure my hands are washed. Apparently its very low risk catching it from packaging. But be cautious by not touching ur mouth/nose.

After u touch th packaging.

Year old or not, you can't be too careful.

Firstly I make sure the delivery driver is disinfected. You know those little baths you had to walk through in swimming pools between the changing room and the pool? We've got one of those at the end of the drive but deeper. There's only been a couple of drownings.

Then we had a special decontamination room set up in the house where all deliveries are sprayed with industrial strength disinfectant and left in a heated chamber under a sun lamp for a week. Then - and only then - are they permitted to be transferred into the rest of the house, but only after the appropriate paperwork has been filled in to keep a record of everything.

Then we burn down the house, just to be sure.

@TheFirstMrsDV

I think some are being a bit hard on the grocery washers. I am not given to panic but when the pandemic hit were were not given good information about infection. No one said 'you don't need to do this'. Long after the research was published official advice was still faffing about. I remember the first days of lockdown. They were bloody terrifying. It felt like if you walked out the door the virus would fall on you. Its no wonder people started antibacing their carrot.

Terrifying for you maybe but I've never been terrified at any point.

A whole year has gone by since this thread was started, and I have yet to disinfect my shopping. The only thing I do is to use hand sanitiser on the way out of the supermarket as well as on the way in, and to wash my hands when I get home.

I'm not!

@ktp100

Quarantining or wiping with soapy cloth should be standard at the moment, really.

I tend to swill each piece of fruit in soapy water, rubbing slightly with my hands.

Why? Where's the evidence it's necessary?

Never have done. Working front line , least of my worries.

Oh. My. God. This is still going?? Cmon! Zombie!

Shop, unpack, stick it straight in the cupboard, fridge or freezer. I've better things to do then piss on disinfecting my groceries before I put them away.

@MiddletownDreams

I washed every single item of food individually in neat bleach in April 2020 and I sadly died. So now I'm a ZOMBIE, like this thread

🤣🤣🤣

@HopingForOurRainbowBaby

Shop, unpack, stick it straight in the cupboard, fridge or freezer. I've better things to do then piss on disinfecting my groceries before I put them away.

Actually when I can't be bothered to put the shopping away I tell my DC it's all part of the quarantine routine and they mustn't eat any of itfor 48 hours, cuts down on the food bill too

omg, is this thread a joke?
I can see therapists having a field day.