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Can’t get food ANYWHERE

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GaaaaarlicBread · 20/03/2020 08:21

Husband and I don’t drive , my husband is however, currently having lessons and close to passing but that’ll be a couple of months away as his lessons have been cancelled .
Anyway besides the point, we have two supermarkets by us. An Aldi and a Tesco (Tesco is 40 min walk though and buses have been made less regular now). Neither store have any food, no exaggeration . I have been after work to aldi and husband has too (he finishes late so we thought they might have restocked but no).
We tried to order online last night- Ocado have suspended online shop as they have too many deliveries- Tesco, Asda, Morrison’s, Iceland and Co-op have zero slots until end of April. What do we do? Seriously? We have frozen bits from our last shop but nothing to last us more than a week.
I’m pregnant , so being extra cautious about going out other than work, my husband works shifts and we literally can’t get anything . We have loo roll , shampoo you know normal toiletries but food we have a bit of milk left , and a few tinned things and cous cous etc. A few people on here might say ‘why have you left it until you have nothing’ but we have been trying and trying and it’s getting worse because people are selfish and bulk buy unnecessarily. We both work for the nhs so work long days and this is just ridiculous .
We ended up buying nappies etc for baby even though I’m not quite half way through the pregnancy yet but every single shop is out of baby essentials too so we thought sod it we will get some in case it’s still like this in 4 or so months time.

Any ideas what we can do? Please be kind .

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Alakazam8 · 23/03/2020 18:24

Does anyone know how I can get food delivered. Should be registered with Sainsbury’s as disabled but despite holding on for 45 mins yesterday and being told I was added. I haven’t been. It’s basically the only way I can get what I need for myself and dd- without making 4/5 separate trips any way I can think of to contact them but no luck. Is there anything else I can try? I haven’t stockpiled but could manage till middle of next week at a stretch..?

BodiesMakeForGoodFertiliser · 23/03/2020 18:27

Our council has help lines and tons of volunteers. Check with yours. Or there are lots of groups on facebook with local volumteers

Washyourhandsyoufilthyanimal · 23/03/2020 19:29

www.morrisons.com/food-boxes/

DC10 · 23/03/2020 20:00

Could you try a local foodbank? Maybe an appeal on a local village/town Facebook group? Your local Church might be able to help. Ours has put a note through the door saying if anybody in need they have volunteers who are able to help with shopping etc. If you're pregnant and both working I think you'd qualify for help to get food. Good luck.

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