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’m not I just put them away and wash my hands afterwards.

I'm not. Used anti bac wipes to wipe everything down that was wrapped last year. Lasted about a month then got sick of it.

I’m leaving all larder stuff for a few days before unpacking (overkill no doubt) and I decant fridge caper into containers. I have a couple of shelves in fridge of ‘contaminated’ stuff that I tip into dishes or whatever and then I bin packaging and wash hands.

I blast everything with a blow torch...

I don’t. But if I did have the anxiety to, Milton tablets seems the safest option. Also quickest if you fill up a bowl/sink full of it and dip things in there.

Why has a (nearly) year old thread been reanimated? I thought everyone wiped groceries last march but then stopped because there is v little evidence CV spreads on surfaces rather than in the air?

At the beginning of lockdown, i wiped off cans and cartons but didn't touch food items. I've always washed fruit and veg in water etc.

This is a ZOMBIE thread resuscitated by a troll.

Don't waste your time & energy .... no-one is doing this shit any more.

I wouldn't dream of cleaning or quarantining food or deliveries. That would seriously send me over the age. For deliveries I unpack them straight away, bin the packaging, wash my hands. Most food you cook first. Other stuff that you don't eat fresh is often in packets that you can just tip out into something else if you're that bothered, or straight onto your plate if it's something like rocket.

For fruit, I always just rinse apples and soft fruit under the tap. Bananas have their own hygienic covering, don't they? You don't eat the skin. So I just peel the top and eat it. Then wash or antibac my hands afterwards.

I hand wash fairly often, wear a mask when out, stick to all the government guidance on distancing and travel.

I think it helps that I've been working in a school where, you know, the risk of coming across the virus is fairly high. So, what can you do? You can't hide at home scared.

I though 'disinfecting groceries'? A nostalgic whiff of lockdown 1 - and then saw this is a zombie.

I read that the evidence still indicates the covid virus stays on hard surfaces for a variety of lengths of time, depending on environmental factors, much like cold and flu viruses. Hence the very low profile of flu in the general population so far.

I think for people for whom wiping down groceries doesn't send them over an edge, it's further action to prevent spread, on top of washing hands after shopping.

@LApprentiSorcier

I though 'disinfecting groceries'? A nostalgic whiff of lockdown 1 - and then saw this is a zombie.

Me too. Happy memories of faffing about with anti bac and j cloths, but not now for months. I wonder what the troll that resurrected this thread said?

I’m taking a leaf out of Miss Havisham’s book. Leave the banquet long enough and it will disintegrate.

People are crazy. I just wash fruit and veg.

I realise this a zombie thread, but my answer will still be the same, I have never wiped anything down at any time.

Alcohol - I reward myself with a G and T when I've put the weekly shop away. Helps my anxiety anyway.

Well I'm still urinating on all my shopping, as I stated on page 1 of this ZOMBIE THREAD FROM MARCH 2020. I haven't caught Covid yet so guess it worked.

@MacDuffsMuff

I use soap and water and only use sanitiser if I really have no alternative.

Isn't that what everyone does?

What I meant was I wouldn't use necessarily use sanitiser if I was shopping, I'd wait until I got home to wash my hands instead. I hate places that make you use their own sanitiser as well as I have no idea what's in it.

This thread is scary and reassuring at the same time. Glad to see so many people saying they don't disinfect their messages.

Never have. Ever. And not since Covid started.

Can't understand why anyone would be doing it, still, now. Unless they have chronic anxiety, in which case they should be talking to their GP, instead of wiping jars and disinfecting punnets of strawberries.

We wash most things. It’s normal everywhere else in the world.

I'm not, each to their own but seems OTT and bit paranoid to me.

Oh bloody hell, didn't realise was a zombie from last year (I even looked at the date as well lol, didn't twig March 2020 was a YEAR ago, thought it meant now!
I haven't washed any of the shopping ever, did think "Gawd., people aren't STILL doing that, are they?!"

Some threads just won't lay down and die! Troll reanimated thread to advertise home deliveries.

Wire brush and dettol. It's the answer to most of life's questions.