Two food shopping trips a week?

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Hi. I know this isn't a big issue.
Just wanted to see what people thought and what you will be doing.
I usually do one big click and collect shop and then a small (fruit and milk) shop a few days later. No chance of getting a click and collect slot and I'm thinking it should go to the more needy anyway.

So do you think one big shop and one little shop is ok with the current lockdown.
How are you going to plan you essential food shop now?
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I'd love to do a weekly shop but I suspect store limits will mean I can't I have 4 dc we through 4 pints of milk a day, a couple of bags of fruit best part of a loaf of bread. Not been affected really as I have a big freezer full of yellow sticker bread, milk, ready meals etc so far but now no more supermarket delivery slots mean I'll have to go to town and traipse round all the shops to get enough for a week or go multiple times a week.

Boris advises to only go to the shops once a week.

Boris has never shopped for a family, on a budget, in his life.

Only half way through the thread but THERE IS NO UHT MILK, ANYWHERE!

there really are a lot of variations in shops and locations. So far, I've had no problem with milk, fruit, veg and bread but can't get any store cupboard type stuff e.g. dried goods/flour/tins. I've been able to get fresh noodles and pasta. the problem is that there is a shorter life span on these items so I need to prioritise the early dates at the beiginning of the week and use up my normal supplies at the end of the week. Those things are nearly finished now.

I'm being as inventive as I can and im sure folks will get used to it at some point, but it is a big shift from being to plan your meals and buy what you need to buying what you can and making it it into something. Making sure that nothing gets wasted.

We have quite a lot of eggs as I'd put some in my click and collect order without the expectation of getting them and then also ordered some from the farm delivery. Tomorrow i'll do some sort of tortilla or omelette, can't do a quiche as have no flour and haven't been able to get any for weeks. I do have potatoes and a bit of choritzo and some brocolli and tomatoes so think that's us sorted.

Maybe we need some threads where we can find ideas to make things out of random ingredients? Like shoe polish, butter beans and a lamp...

Only half way through the thread but THERE IS NO UHT MILK, ANYWHERE!

Nope, we actually regularly buy this to save extra trips to the shops, so in normal times would always have a couple of cartons on the go and buy roughly one a week. Not seen any in weeks.

Morrisons online if you can get a delivery have no issues with uht milk .

I think many of us will at some point be eating combinations of food that we would rather not. MIL has food issues and eats literally exactly the same thing every day. It’s very hard trying to reason with someone so set in their ways. We get through a lot of milk and I have told everyone to cut down. I am forgoing my nightly mug of milk. The last shop done here was last Thursday and we will have to do one this Thursday.

That sounds reasonable to me. In Italy, I believe they are restricted to one shopping trip every 3 days, so you’d be doing less than that

And have you seen the state of Italy? We want to avoid that, not bloody recreate it!!!

Who gives a flying fuck what Nicola sturgeon said?? Not the virus that’s for sure

EVERYTIME you go out you risk getting, or passing it on

Buy what FOOD you can, be less precious and adapt - buy what’s available-not what you want. Don’t go out for ‘bread & milk -or fruit’ eat other things & shop when you have no food above your base level.

I’d suggest a base level of at least 3 days.

But every shopping trip could kill someone. Change your ways and save lives!!!!

I'll go to my Sainsbury's Local at around 7am, should be okay.

Yep, the virus got that memo - no spreading at 7am🙄

People REALLY have to look at their use of NEED & realise what they actually mean is WANT. No one NEEDS milk mid week.

Obviously there’s less risk at less busy times,but it’s not risk free.

Having not been able to even get basic food shopping including milk teabags, sugar, bread, flour or any type of milk for the last two weeks let alone NO toilet roll for 10 days and absolutely no chance to get basics for my 12 week isolation I would say once a week shopping but only IF your cupboards and freezers are absolutely bare! Just like mine is!!!!

Boris has never shopped for a family, on a budget, in his life.

He’s not giving shopping advice, he’s giving keeping the NHS going and people alive advice.

Defoe:

“It was very sad to reflect how such a person as this had been a walking destroyer perhaps for a week or a fortnight before that; how he had ruined those that he would have hazarded his life to save, and had been breathing death upon them, even perhaps in his tender kissing and embracings of his own children.”

*meat not milk

It depends what you have nearby imo, going to 2 large supermarkets then no, doing a click and collect as you mentioned without leaving the car, and then popping to a corner shop whilst adhering to social distancing and hygiene seems more reasonable. Do you have a local greengrocer? The one here is delivering, and there's quite a few fruit and veg boxes who will leave it on your doorstep; but we live near a lot of farms etc.

The guidance from BJ was essentials. So do not buy 50 toilet rolls/tins, as that's not what you need essentially. Essentials is subjective (like a lot of his "rules"!) but whatever is essential for you, it does not mean stockpiling.

DH and I get one online delivery a week (always have done) but we still go shopping for one or two things a lot usually, as we don't bulk buy and live walking distance from several supermarkets. We have obviously cut this down and are trying to combine it with our "one" exercise of the day since Monday, and are absolutely not taking DC to the shops. But even with meal planning, with two small DC and the shops not always having what we need, it's impossible to quantify how often we go.

I think two is fine if you don't have much storage.

I have a car, so won't be going any more often than once every 10 days. Go as little as you possibly can.

Reading with interest. Others saying they can make their bread and milk last a week.

Supermarkets will only let you buy 2 of everything. 2 bread and 2 x 4 Pinter of milk, only last a few days in my family of 4.

There had been not a single delivery slot available, not one! Since this all started. From 5 supermarkets who deliver, not a Single availability, since this all started.

we could let milk/bread last a week. last as in stopping it going bad.
but all of us are home atm, plus we have 2 hollow legged teenagers. we go through 1 loaf of bread a day.

I would be going into a shop as little as possible to protect yourself and your family . Get by for as long as you can on what you can buy in 1 shop. The more you are out in public the more chance of getting ill

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/coronavirus/3860306-this-is-our-reality-please-stay-inside-nurse?pg=6&order=

Please, please look at this thread.

If you have a freezer, freeze half your milk and half your loaf when you get it.

I have 4 dc we through 4 pints of milk a day why so much?

There are four of us, who all.have cereals, coffee etc and a pint lasts 2 days.
Are you bathing in it?

... to stop it going bad - sorry misunderstood your post.

Just don’t eat bread and milk for a few days. Ration milk for tea & coffee only, no cereal or hot chocolate. One slice of toast each in the morning. If you have oats make porridge with water. If you have yogurt have that with cereal. If you have eggs eat an egg each for breakfast. Have stewed or tinned fruit. Instead of sandwiches have cheese and crackers or peanut butter on crackers. If you have any flour, make bread or soda bread. Get creative.