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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Hi op I would suggest for fruits things like apples and pears and a melon would last well for the week (until you cut into it) also green bananas so they can ripen over the week. Veggies I’d go for root veg, broccoli should last a while, green beans, corn on the cobs, and fresher stuff to eat first. Instead of bread try tortilla wraps (they’ll last ages) and milk should last a week too. That’s if you can find those items. I’ve not been shopping for a week, going first thing, hoping I can find some food and milk too!

I will need to do 2 shops. There are 6 people in our house and our fridge and freezer are tiny.

Shopping for two households here at the moment so will probably end up having to do two shops to get the things we need - we'll make do where we can but still need the basics like milk and bread.

I have to go every day for milk which is so damn stupid

We are doing 2-3 shops per week as my partner and I are having to shop for both of our mums who are having to self isolate due to age and health.

I was thinking this. It's a 50 mile round trip to the supermarket. In an ideal world I'd just get get a delivery once a week but no slots mean a trip to town and shortages and limitations mean I'll have to mooch round all the shop's to get what we need or drive in repeatedly. It sounds nuts but I'll actually be less isolated than ever before as quite happy to stay at home with the dc.

7 of us here.

Shopping twice a week won't work.

I was only allowed to get two of everything today, so won't go far.

I don't drive, all taxi companies have stood down so will have to go a few times a week.

Any one of us could have been infected in the last 2 weeks and not showing symptoms as yet. Everytime we go into a shop we are putting everyone else in that shop at risk. Every member of staff every other shopper, every person who goes into the shop after you and touches something you might have touched.
Please, please LIMIT the frequency of your shops and the amount of time you spend in the shop.
Write a list before you go, think of alternatives for if what you normally buy is unavailable.
Don't touch any items that you don't want to buy, stay 6ft away from other people, don't chat, Don't Browse! And if they don't have eggs, get something else instead and wait until next week!
This isn't about protecting ourselves, it's about not unintentionally infecting others, and it's about protecting the hospitals, NHS workers and patients who already have it! Slowing down and halting new transmissions to give those who already have it a fighting chance of recovery.

We're struggling to get by on three shops a week, simply because there are no available online deliveries for a big shop and other shops are missing key items. We're eating a lot of veg and perishables and trying now to stockpile

I’m shopping once a week without any online deliveries. If the supermarket hasn’t got what’s on the list, I buy something else. There was no meat last week, not a scrap so we’ve been veggie this week. For God’s sake don’t try and stockpile now, it’s way too late.

Depending on availability, you could get powdered milk and fresh milk. Or use less milk?
I have a pint of milk in the freezer for emergency use.

Tinned or frozen fruit as well as some fresh. Or dried.

We have to be flexible.

Do you only ever eat soft fruits? Apples, oranges, melons, kiwis, plums... all last longer than a week in the fridge.

No I'm not doing any for at least two weeks. We will just manage. We may end up with odd meals, )looking forward to fish fingers and custard :). But we will manage. Can do without bread , meat in the freezer etc

We are not allowed out because of being in the vulnerable category. Except, according to Sainsbury’s we aren’t. So we can’t get food delivered any more. We have enough dried stuff to last for a bit, but no fresh fruit or veg . I don’t think there will be a way of getting Sainsbury’s to accept that we are in their category.

I go every day :( stupid and awful and selfish I know. but I am struggling with a terrible eating disorder being made 10x worse by this stress/being stuck at home/loss of hospital support. I can't have food in the house so can I only buy what I need for the day. Taking all the precautions I can but its either continue to shop daily or I just don't eat..I deserve the virus at this rate.

It's milk that is our problem as well.

DH and I are no longer using any. Saving it for the kids, but it still disappears so fast.

If they allow me to buy my normal amount in one go, i can manage once a week, but at the moment we're only allowed to buy a days worth at a time.

fishfingers and custard ive spotted the whovian

I thought click and collect was still available?

Apples and oranges keep well, and tinned fruit. You could try UHT milk or powered milk ifyou can find any. xx

Blend your fruit and freeze it for smoothies
Buy flour (if you can) and make bread or flatbread if no yeast
Order veg boxes and milk from milkman
Freeze milk for tea and coffee in ice cube trays
You don't need snacks
Make soup from veg getting close to going off
Musclefood for meat

Put yourself in the frame of mind that you already have cv and every time you go out you are spreading it.

Kids won't die if they eat a little less and I am so tired of hearing that they won't drink water without squash in.

In fact eating less is probably advisable given that we're all going to be moving less.

Trying not to be preachy but staying home means just that! I'm vulnerable and don't really want to die.

A lot of people will be going out every day to buy newspapers.

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.

It’s really important to limit the frequency of shopping trips to limit the spread of the virus. Say you catch it whilst doing big shop, 4 days later not yet showing symptoms but contagious, go to small shop, infect cashier and other shoppers - someone dies. All for the sake of some fresh fruit.

Look into fruit and veg and mil, dairy and egg deliveries. I live rurally and companies exist here who do that.

Angryrant printing newspapers is non essential and should not be happening.

ludothedog, using absolutely everything up before shopping again is a very high-risk strategy.

Speaking as a veteran of being housebound and unable to pop out, I'd recommend replenishing when you have at least three days' food in the house.

If you can go two weeks between restocks, then you'll go two weeks between restocks whether or not your bottom mark is three days' food or zero days food.

I know a lot of people don't have three days' worth in right now, but it's not a situation you should be planning to be in if you have a choice.