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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In what world can people spread two cartons of milk out over a week?!

Us, easily. I’ve always been perplexed by families who seem to guzzle never ending quantities of milk.

It’s not difficult to understand, unless people are being wilfully obtuse.

You spread out what you have, because that’s what’s required of you.

Only half a glass to drink in the morning, or half a glass with your breakfast cereal. No one needs a huge amount of milk per day, every single day.

We’ve taken our portion sizes down a little already, and can probably cut to about half of what we normally eat if needs must and still have plenty (because we love good food and are normally quite greedy).

The two carton thing obviously depends on how many people there are in the household.

In what world can people spread two cartons of milk out over a week?!

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

You don't need to drink milk at all. Have your tea and coffee black. Don't eat cereal and have something different for breakfast instead.

those rations were supplemented with bread, veg/fruit from the garden or allotment

Only in a rose tinted Enid Blyton world. There weren’t many vegetable filled gardens or allotments in heavily bombed big cities. Bread was rationed too. And there weren’t fridges. Yet the general population was way healthier than we are.

People ate things like onion sandwiches, (nothing else, just fried onions) or basically whatever was available. Root veg and whatever lettuces they had. Apples. People didn’t have allotments filled with a wide range of exotic fruits and veg. Delia was championing peppers, and telling people to ask their local grocers to stock them, in the late seventies.

‘Back in Time for Dinner’ is a timely programme to watch, I think. Very interesting.

During ww2 Fruit and veg were not rationed but were in short supply hence the governments dig for victory campaign.
I am old enough that I grew up on war stories from my parents and my mum didn’t even see her first banana until the end of the war.

@Ninkanink

I'm letting the nettles at the bottom of the garden take hold to make soup .

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sort of relishing the challenge of coming up with great meals out of what we have. Food prep is now strictly 50:50 in our house, but I can't resist putting out my husband's 'rations' for his turn to make dinner each night (what fresh, frozen and tinned veg and meat he's allowed to use, plus a measured out portion of carbs). Happily admit I'm a control freak there, and he lets me crack on with it!

Having 1600cals a day here plus a multivitamin.

@thecats

I really like the challenge of it, too. We’re extremely careful to avoid waste at the best of times anyway so a lot of this comes naturally to me. But I am also relishing being even more careful and being as intrepid as possible - it obviously appeals to my control-freak tendencies. 😆 Come join us on the thread linked to above, I think you’ll like it.

I understand it’s a worrying time for those who haven’t got any stores of food, aren’t finding what they need, or don’t really know much about how stretch their food. I hope you do manage to get food for your households.

(Apologies if you’re already on there and I haven’t remembered you - I’m terrible with names until I’ve seen them many times)

For those for whom one shop a week will work, great. For those of us where it's impossible, leave us be

This isn’t just a matter of individual choice. Yes there are people for whom it’s much more difficult. This has been covered in the thread many times.

There are many, many people on this thread who think it’s impossible for them when it clearly isn’t. They’re going out more than necessary, creating many, many more opportunities for the virus to spread.

This affects all of us, not least the vulnerable people who really DO need to shop more because of allergies, illness, and unavailability of food due to the actions of spoilt, selfish fools.

@NiteFlights we're making the same point. I'm not suggesting it's a matter of choice, I'm saying repeated trips out is a necessity, in my case. Where it's not a necessity but people are choosing to do it anyway, that's idiocy that risks us all.

Fair enough @occulus

It's also worth looking at what is in your freezer and if its the best use if space. Im in France, so some time ahead of the uK. I saw that we were headed for lockdown so emptied the freezer of bulky, less useful stuff (ice cream, pizza,...) and bought frozen veg and meat instead. DC were happy anyway

I've been getting double my shop, so I've got stuff for 2 weeks.
Then we just go corner shop for bread and milk.

For us going more than once is a necessity as there are not enough products we can get in one go. Yeah, maybe we can not eat such and such every once in a while, but we have to eat SOMETHING, and there is no way to get the items we need. Sometimes there are no eggs, sometimes there is no milk (we need it for the toddler), sometimes there is no something else. We are getting quite creative with our meals, but my child is very fussy and eats a few things, we need dairy free stuff, and we need to keep on going to shops for them as 75% of the time the items we really need are not there.

I really hate how some people who are clearly very comfortable and either have deliveries sorted or well stocked shops or support network (nonexistant where we are) judge others when it comes to basic necessities.

Fussy children are a luxury we can no longer afford. They’ll eat what’s put in front of them if they’re hungry enough.

For us going more than once is a necessity as there are not enough products we can get in one go. Yeah, maybe we can not eat such and such every once in a while, but we have to eat SOMETHING, and there is no way to get the items we need. Sometimes there are no eggs, sometimes there is no milk (we need it for the toddler), sometimes there is no something else.

Oh my goodness! Once again buy what is there not what you would ideally like. What are you going to do when the products in the shops become much more limited (which is a virtual certainty given that so much of our food comes from overseas and there are massive logistic difficulties at the moment). You should not be going from shop to shop hunting for the things on your shopping list. That potentially increases your viral load making you more likely to get it and more likely to get it severely.

@cardibach now shops are limiting to one of any item it is pretty hard for a shop for a family of 5 to last more than a couple of days. I don't see an easy way to prove it but it's hard on big families who are only allowed the same amount of shopping as a single person.

But they are not limiting to one of each item per family

there is no way to get the items we need. Sometimes there are no eggs, sometimes there is no milk (we need it for the toddler)
But you don’t need eggs and milk. Even toddlers don’t need it.

Sometimes there are no eggs, sometimes there is no milk

But you don't need either of those things. Neither does your toddler. They can have something else for a few weeks.

For us going more than once is a necessity

Is it though?

At the end of the day you could live on easter eggs and crisps for the entire three weeks if you had to. Clearly you'd feel rubbish and be spotty and probably a fair bit fatter than when you started but you wouldn't die. Going out and potentially spreading the virus and increasing your own viral load on the other hand means that real people actually die.