To think be worried people think I'm not shopping for essentials

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I know iabu BUT I had an Asda shop delivered yesterday, we were supposed to be having friends over this week so I booked it waaaaaay in advance. I didn't cancel it and did a really big shop with it instead, 10 day meal plan, house hold items etc. It came missing 10 items. They're mostly 'ingredients' needed to complete the meals in the meal plan and there's also laundry detergent and an Easter egg. We could possibly do without most of it but we've completely run out of washing powder so AIBU to think that when I do my shop tomorrow people are going to think I'm batshit and flouting the rules? My list is:

Laundry detergent
Limes
Easter egg
Cheese
Coriander
Onion
Mini marshmallows
Cumin
Baby toothbrush
Parsley

Yes, OP take your clothes to the nearest river and beat them against rocks Does that count as exercise?

Oh who cares what others think. I would go and get it. Baby toothpaste is vital here and so is laundry powder as I am a key worker I wash my clothes when I get in. I have not judged anyone shopping not that I have noticed. Too busy holding my breath!

Do not feel guilty. Think, instead, of all the joy you will be giving to The Isolation Police as you check out.

I think you are being unreasonable to even consider depriving these people of their chance to sit on their high-horses on the moral high ground.

Get your stuff guilt-free - if it's in the shops, it's there to be bought.

If you are in reasonable good health (and not elderly or pregnant), and practice social distancing and good hygiene, the possibility that you’ll catch C19 and die just from popping into a supermarket is astronomically small. Probably about the same risk of being hit by a car walking to and from the supermarket!

Just be sensible.

Baby toothpaste is an absolute essential!!! You can’t use grown up toothpaste on a baby. These amateur gestapos need to wind their fucking necks jn

Having friends over???

There is no list of 'essentials'.

You can go into the supermarket and buy wherever it is they have available for sale. Is it Mumsnet that's doing this to people's minds?

Who cares what people think? Imo laundry detergent is essential. I thought I’d have less washing being in all the time and kids off school but if anything I have more laundry! So definitely an essential in this house! And the other items are fine too!

I had a shop delivered last week. No eggs so oh went to the small supermarket near his work to look for eggs. He only bought eggs. No one seemed to care!

If you can't get hold of coriander, check the soap aisle, tastes the same.

I work in essential retail, honestly we don't care what you buy once you follow the route laid out on the floor, stay the correct distance away from others and don't give out about what we don't have. You are keeping us in paid employment after all.
My own main foodshop was very strange this week because I only bought bits that would help make meals with what I had. No one is judging your shopping I promise we are too busy stocking, ordering and trying to stay safe.

I don't care what other people think and if anyone said anything to me I would ignore them or tell them to fuck off depending on how I am feeling

We did a full online shop last week but yesterday my son had some allergy testing done and found out he's allergic to eggs but not peanuts. The allergist said that's uncommon and the two go hand in hand so to prevent it we should offer 3 spoonfuls of nut protein a week. She recommended peanut butter and to start asap.
I didn't need anything else from the shop, I don't have unlimited finances either so I went in just for peanut butter and got slammed and told it wasn't essential by the lady floating round the self checkouts.

But it was essential. I had been told it was essential by a medical bloody professional just hours before.

Wish people would just stfu about what is essential.

no, the packers are far too busy,
or perhaps they do judge
but really,
it is not a big deal

Why on earth would care what other people think. When I’m able to get a click and collect, about once every 3 weeks at the moment. If it’s for sale and I want it, buy it it’s got to last until I can get the next shop. This is hard enough without making yourself a martyr for no reason.

I seriously don’t get this. I really don’t give it a thought as to what my neighbours might think of what I am doing
I am in and out of my house several times a day all with very valid reasons . Walking my dogs or running if DH walks the dogs delivering food / shopping for my parents and a few people of FB as they can’t get out . Picking up C&C and prescriptions .
I have had three Tescos deliveries that were booked before lockdown
Last thing I’m thinking about is my neighbours

Having friends over???

I understood that the OP was supposed to be having friends over and didn't cancel the Asda delivery, not that she hadn't cancelled the friends coming over.

Yesterday I needed GF stuff. Asda has been out of stock for weeks for the stuff I'd buy so decided to do a top up at sainburys.

I've also quit smoking so needed more lozengers.
So I went for

GF stuff
Lozengers

And also decided as going there to order a coffee machine to pick up from Argos and so brought some pods too.

I also brought some hash browns as ds and I decided as we couldn't do a country walk and cooked breakfast at a lib we'd do our own at home.

So no, not all of it was essential.
But if I'm going out for essentials I'm not going to leave non essentials behind just because!

I honestly couldnt care if people judged my shopping or not. I go once, maybe twice a week.

Yesterday I went to Aldi and did a shop for myself, my parents who are self isolating and an elderly neighbour. As well as all the normal stuff, in my own shopping I bought a reef diffuser, blender and oven dish that were on the Special Buys. No one batted an eyelid. It seems only on MN people have something to say about what people are buying.

Batshit crazy stuff. It's no one's business what you buy in a food shop. Stop even asking.

I did my essential shopping on saturday as I now do once a week but I also bought 6 easter eggs. In all this craziness the kids have been worried that they cant have their easter egg hunt and the easter bunny will be too busy due to corona virus. The kids haven't seen anyone else for the past 3 weeks so the one thing I could give them was their easter eggs.

If the food is on the shelves it's there to be bought.
I bought raspberries and avocados along with my other shopping last time I went to the supermarket. I self scan and go once every 10 days.
Are we supposed to leave stuff to go bad?
Eat what you want if it's there!

Why would alcohol "raise a few eyebrows"
Why are we raising eyebrows at each others shopping baskets? Surely to be in a position to raise eyebrows we'd need to be in a shop ourselves in the first place. Buying items we want or need.....

Oh my Goodness, I just remembered I bought some face cream and a reed diffuser in Aldi last week. I must've been surrounded by raised eyebrows and was too intent on maintaining social distance to notice!

I’ve just been and bought a curtain pole, amongst other things from B-+M. Couldn’t give a flying fuck what the local Stasi think, it was essential to me, the old one broke as we took it down whilst decorating ( bought the paper and paint weeks ago) .
My local faceache group are having a ball ‘reporting’ on what their neighbours are up to 🙄

Who cares what people think? If they are looking in your basket they are the weird ones. If they raise an eyebrow raise one back or give a cheery wave.