For not washing my shopping?

[Nochangeplease]

It seems like on mn everybody is doing this but I don’t know anybody that has admitted to it in real life.
I’ll admit, I have become a little bit worried about it, but I’m partly too lazy to wash and wipe all my shopping, and also do not want to let myself get that obsessive. It can become a never ending cycle of cleaning (in general, not just shopping) and I think I’d find it hard to break in the future. I don’t want to send myself crazy.

I am so glad to see so many other non shopping washers - there was a thread here a week ago that made me think I was in a minority by not doing so.

I don’t. I think the risk is tiny. I do wash my hands very well after putting everything away and after getting things out of packaging. I think if I go to Tesco and boots and stand in queues with people and walk down aisles close to people it really is hardly worth the bother of wiping everything down in Milton or whatever when I get in. Seems a bit fruitless in comparison.

God no, we’re a family of 6 (pretty much 4 adults, a teen and a primary aged child) so I’d be there all day washing the shopping with the amount I need to buy to feed us all.

I also don’t quarantine the post, there’s no point as dh is our postman so I’d have to quarantine him too...actually, that might not be a bad idea....😆

I’m washing mine. Queing up to get into the supermarket, shopping, queuing to get allocated a check out then washing all packages before they came into the kitchen took about three and a half hours in total. I’m trying to do about 10 days shopping in one go so it’s not too arduous.

No.

Washing hands lots. Washing down kitchen surfaces. Washing door handles, taps, light switches.

But when you're working 10 hours a day, trying to juggle kids, a husband on night shift, and feed, clothe, and keep some semblance of order in the house, washing the shopping is not going to happen.

Each to their own though.

I'm not doing this either. But I do wash my hands after keeping the shopping that's been delivered, dont know why 🤷‍♀️ pretty wash my hands after I touch anything these days!

@Kitchendoctor can you Post/send me the link about eh couple getting covid when they haven’t left the house?

There was a great thread the other day from a poster who was soaking strawberries in Milton before eating

I’m another for not washing everything, although I did wash (rub down) a parcel that was delivered today 😐

I do. If I or any of my family fall ill I want to be able to say we did everything we could to stop us getting covid.
I couldn't loose someone for the sake of washing a banana.

COVID is like a glitter. It can be anywhere. We don't know if someone is is ill coughing at night stacking shelves or packing the food or carrying it to the lorry.

I wipe it all down with hot soapy water. Makes me feel happier.

Depends on the item.

This is me:

1. Return from shopping, empty shopping bags in the hall (I live in a small flat), go into the bathroom off the hall (door left open and turn on tap with elbow) and wash my hands with soap.
2. Get Dettol wipes from under the sink.
3. Discard unnecessary packaging from the shopping (e.g. toothpaste boxes and place in recycling in the hallway).
4. Wipe the remaining packaging of the shopping, and my phone, purse, and house keys.
5. Throw away Dettol wipes.
6. Re-wash hands.
7. Put wiped shopping away in the cupboard / fridge.
8. Take fruit and veg. to the sink for washing. Pat dry and place in the fridge or fruit bowl.
9. Dettol wipe the outside doorknob.

10. Wash hands again and apply handcream.

It sounds like loads but I only shop for one person every 7 days (and only really fresh food, as I bought dried food before confinement was announced, and that's still going; the whole procedure takes about 10 minutes, most of which is washing the fruit and veg.

I don't dettol my food I just wash with fairy washing up liquid... Take what can come out of packing out....

The whole world has ground to a halt, washing food seems minimal to me.

I admit that we do wash ours but to be honest it doesn't take too long and better safe than sorry. Helps my anxiety too.

We have a little system now with one of us touching the unwashed stuff and one of us only touching the washed stuff. Full bags go on the floor, "dirty" shopping on the left of the sink, sink filled with warm water and soap flakes, little sink for rinsing. Clean stuff popped on the right hand side and dried and put away. Bags go in the bin. Any package that can be removed goes in the bin. Veg get washed (only with water). Anything that can't be washed (aka cardboard or paper packaging that can't be removed) will go in our little quarantine zone until later.

After it has all been done we clean the sides (again with soap, no bleach here), take the bin out and wash our hands.

We're wiping it down and it does take ages and feel most likely to be pointless. But, I dunno... it's just that feeling of wanting to be able to say you were as careful as possible.

Sorry not read through the thread. Today I read a microbiologist say she does wash her shopping. Last week another expert in this area said he feels it’s low risk but not no risk so personal choice how much risk you are happy with.

@Solina, may I ask what kind of food items do you wash in the soapy water? Thank you.

@Heartbroken123456

I am so so sorry to hear that. Thinking of you, and hoping for a miracle turnaround.

Cardibach if you think you have it why the hell are you going to supermarkets and school? Wtf?

@Feodora Pretty much everything packaged in a way that the soapy water wont get to the food item. So milk bottles, fizzy drinks, plastic packaged stuff like cheese slices, ham, yogurt, raw meats etc. All the tins and so on.

We empy all fruit and veg from their bags so dont wash those packages but do wash the fruit and veg in water.

Stuff that goes on quorantine is stuff like flour, sugar, tea bags, chocolate bars etc.

No me neither

I haven't left non perishable food in the hall since I did just that then found my muesli packet had been chewed up by something - this was when we hadn't lived here long so didn't know about the mice!

I'd rather just shove it in the cupboard because it'll be fine in a few days, anyhow. None of us are high risk so figure that our shopping was possibly already being handled, at some point, by habitual soap dodgers, and we've lived to tell the tale.

No. I will wash hands after accepting or handling post or parcels, wear gloves and wash hands after shopping (which is minimal) and I'm hardly going out at all. But I don't sanitise the shopping. I do choose packets from the back of the shelf which are less likely to have been handled or coughed on though.

Even if you sanitise, you'd have to spray/wipe literally every nook and cranny of every packet for it to be effective against these invisible, microscopic particles which is probably impossible, also how can you know if your all-purpose anti-bac spray would definitely kill the virus? AFAIK they are not anti-viral (or if they are, then the amounts of certain ingredients in the product would need to be a certain strength like the alcohol level needs to be in anti-bac hand sanitiser for example).

Also we are told you need to wash your hands for 20 seconds to remove any virus from your hands, so can anyone tell me how a quick wipe could remove the virus from a packet?

No, never washed my shopping but having read some of the threads on here I'm beginning to think I'm pretty slack ! I'm probably not washing my hands enough according to some on here!

This is quite a good informative video for those who want to wash stuff. www.DrJeffPublicSafety.com