Or are some people using the food crisis as an excuse for one-upmanship and bossiness?

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I appreciate that with an Ocado delivery as valuable nowadays as a half-pound diamond there's a premium on hacks for buying food online...

But does anyone else feel like some people are just showing off with it now?

I've got a mate who is constantly bombarding me with links to super upscale organic delivery box services. and slightly bossy instructions not to use supermarkets. Then two hours later the link she sent me will have gone offline and here's Daylesford Organic. Now he's this very bijou ethnic delivery box service which only sources rare yams from Senegal but they're very affordable. You should try this fruit and veg box, they're all organic and its run by a bunch of retired opera singers who have reinvented themselves as food delivery people. Bla bla bla.

All I want is some dried pasta and bog-roll, and people sending me links to ridiculously expensive delivery box services which will bankrupt me in a week and have gone offline before I can get past the server doesn't really help.

Or is this just that I know mad people with too much time on their hands?

I wish particular food delivery companies would stop advertising on FB when they're no longer accepting new customers.

Just mute her.

What food crisis?

I have this but it’s to do with homeschooling.

Their life is in serious danger of going tits up right now due to financial reasons and I know this is their way of trying to pretend they are on top of the world and living their best life. When in reality I know they will be drinking too much and self harming.

We’re not in a food crisis

Sounds like they may be trying to help.

So much criticism and judgement around. Lots of people are anxious and probably not being entirely rational. People are peddling their pet theories and non-evidence based advice because it makes them feel a bit better. You can choose to judge them or decide that they are a well meaning friend and find a bit of compassion for them. Or just block them.

But mostly our irritation levels will reflect our own mental state as much as anything else. If you're not finding someone online unbearable at the moment, you're probably finding your own family and friends unbearable. It's ( mostly) not about them. It's the intense and uncontrollable situation we're in.

Feel free to find this profoundly irritating.

But I may have to block.my vegan friend who thinks this is the best thing since sliced bread because we're all going to have to stop eating animals! 😁

Bishy I know you're right and in the scheme of things its a minor irritation.

It's just the failure to grasp that I might have more pressing things on my plate than the need to source lentils and spirulina at the moment.

foamrolling that would be the food crisis whereby a) the government requests you don't go to physical supermarkets unless absolutely necessary because they are massive disease vectors and b) its impossible to get any food delivered. Thus forcing millions of people into physical supermarkets. Call it a logistical challenge if it makes you feel more comfortable but, for me its a crisis.

OK, OK. Calm down. I haven't actually been to a supermarket in a week and I'm planning on attempting it tomorrow - I was wondering if there had been further issues like supply chain problems on top of what was already happening.

It's not a food crisis.

There's plenty of food to go round, people just need to be sensible. Go into your local shop, keep your distance and wash your hands. You won't starve.

Plenty of local corner shops, dairies and farms are offering contactless delivery too. They're no more expensive than normal. If you look on your local Facebook page there are plenty of options. Our local dairy, for example, is delivering milk, orange juice, bread, fruit/veg, cream, cheese and butter. Lots of local restaurants are delivering food to your door as well - you can have meals or things like bread, milk, toilet roll and pasta.

foamrolling I don't think its technically a supply chain issue -- its not to do with getting food to destinations, its just a huge surge in demand. Its understandable that supermarkets are struggling with it, they can't be blamed for it.

The onus is now on the government to sort it out. They can't tell us to stay away from supermarkets and stop hoarding if they aren't prepared to facilitate an efficient delivery of food to people who aren't allowed to go to supermarkets.

adaline I'm working FT and home-schooling a child. I simply don't have time to spend hours on the phone/online toggling between various different options which may theoretically get me a delivery slot three weeks hence if I'm really lucky.

It may not meet the theoretical definition of a food crisis in the sub-Saharan African sense of the world but its a food crisis for a lot of people.

I know its not the most pressing part of this crisis. But its irritating when the government continues to reiterate advice which it knows a large number of the population can't follow through on. They are intervening heavily in large parts of the economy now so I don't immediately see why they can't do so in retail/food distribution.

People just need to learn to be creative with what they eat and how they get their food. Whether that's using local delivery services, co-ordinating with a neighbour to share a delivery slot, eating different food to normal - we can't expect things to be normal because they're not normal.

X-post.

Then just go to your shop as usual and buy what you need. You'll be fine. Just be sensible and wash your hands afterwards.

adaline they're not normal and I don't expect them to be normal. And if I have to go to Sainsburys once a week, so be it. But no matter how "creative" I am, there are no local delivery slots to me. So its irritating for people, whether on here, in RL or in the government, to continue to bang on about the importance of avoiding supermarkets.

There are no delivery slots here either. So we're going shopping, but only once a week. If they don't have what we want, we'll just have to get something else. There's plenty of food - you won't starve - you just need to be creative and not rely on them having what you're used to.

I don't see why it's such a problem.

adaline we're going round in circles a bit aren't we. I acknowledge its not the most significant coronavirus problem and I will have to go to the shops and be sensible.