to wonder if cucumbers are an essential purchase?

[MadameMeursault]

Woman walked out of Tesco in front of me carrying 2 cucumbers only! Wtf?

Absolutely not.

Evidently the only absolute essentials are water (preferably from your own rain butt/and or a bucket, or if that's not an option, recycled urine - and before you laugh at that, where else do you think the folk on the ISS get their water from?!) and, for food itself, mouldy seaweed if you live at the coast or ground dandelions if you live inland. (This time of year. We might be lucky and get berries in the summer and apples in the winter.)

So looking forward to the inordination of the officers of Stasi Lite (or whatever the new State is called when this is finally all over).

It's unlikely to be essential to pop to the shops for a couple of bits only, unless it's for something like baby milk. People should be going to the shops as infrequently as possible.

However, it's entirely possible that you might go to the shops with the intention of doing a full grocery shop, then find out that there's practically nothing in stock that is suitable for your household.

It's a bit like questioning people for parking in the disabled space and then walking unaided - you will never know full facts from just looking, and you have no right to ask to satisfy your own curiosity. If you don't know the full story, you can't judge.

I hope people aren't watching and judging what I buy! How on earth do you decide what food is essential and what isn't? I'd say food on the whole would come under essential whereas decorating supplies or whatever would not. What makes cucumbers less essential than any other kind of food? At least they're healthy!

Did your nose go with her and the cucumbers?

Fucking hell, it's not a race to the bottom. Let them eat cucumber and all that. 😂😂😂

Mind your own business

You do know that your sort of snooping, snitching judginess is what got millions of Jews killed in WWII?

of all the stupid and offensive comments you can read, this is one of the top.

Pathetic. I can’t believe we are reduced to this.

It's not that bad, lovehoney are still delivering.

Omg this is getting so pathetic... time for me to come off social media and Mumsnet, people have far too much time on their hands

Fuck off. How dare you shame me on here. They ran out of milk. The other thing on my list were cucumbers

ThatFriebdsReunion. I dare say I'd look into your trolley and consider something you've bought completely unnecessary too.

This post made me think of tzatziki...might go and make some now.

Don't worry, I have most of the ingredients in the fridge.

@myself2020 doesn't surprise me that those things my mnetters are considered non-essential.

Milk is vital in a baby's diet never mind anyone else 🤷‍♀️

You are making yourself sound deranged.

Uck. I hate judgey posts like this. It's like all the tell tales I have to listen to with my primary students (am not missing that part of my job).

Cucumbers are essential here, similar to a PP, one of few vegetables ASD DS will eat, so we eat them daily.

She might have done her big shop and realised she forgot them. But the whole point is, concentrate your energy on you and yours.

Oh come on
This is what we’re reduced to now

You are allowed to go out and buy food

Sooooo much else to worry about in the world right now!

How on earth do you decide what food is essential and what isn't?

How hard is it to comprehend, STAY THE FUCK HOME.
You don't pop to the shops for a couple of bits. You shop for whatever you need as seldom as you possibly can. It doesn't matter what you buy, but if you only needed 1 pack of milk or a cucumber, you are taking the piss.

If you buy enough food for a week - or 2, because apparently some people can't even carry a shop for 2 weeks - you needed it. If you buy barely enough for a snack, you are a CF who deserves to be fined.

If you go to the shop with a list, go, grab everything you need and go, you are doing it right. If you go for a browse, you are an idiot.

How difficult is that to comprehend?

They are in this house! My eldest has ASD and a very limited diet. One of the few fruit/veg/salad things he will eat!

Same in this house! Cucumbers are one of the only vegetables DS eats so when they run out we have to buy more, if they didn't arrive on the online delivery then I'd need to go out and get them. The other day DH had to go out for a jumbo bag of chicken dippers because none came on the shopping delivery. Probably looked frivolous to some, grown man walking out with his bag of nuggets, but essential to us.

of all the stupid and offensive comments you can read, this is one of the top.

Not stupid - historically, it was a slippery slope.

And if I've offended you, and you're anything like the OP, I couldn't care less.

No, absolutely not. You must survive on oats and water (preferably rain).

Here. Happy?

Carrie, if you're on mumsnet, please tell Boris to publish an 'essentials' list, busybodies on mumsnet and facebook are going crazy over this.

BigusBumus
as I don't go the shops for a snack or a a couple of apples, you won't.

This is what many AIBU regulars have been waiting for, isn’t it? State-sanctioned judging. No need to try to understand what other people might be doing or what is behind behaviour you don’t understand. You can just call them stupid, selfish and even better, accuse them of killing others or causing more hardship through their actions. Absolutely ideal.

My Morrisons "essentials" box had a cucumber in it.