Question about removal men - will they take my food shopping?

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Just that really

I should be moving shortly, fingers crossed, and have agreed £500 for removal men to take our stuff

It costs extra because they need to remove my fridge doors

I am going to do a HUGE food shop of heavy items, such as bottles and tins and jars, bags of rice and pasta, just all of the heavy shopping, as its a 2nd floor flat, no lift

Aibu to think that they would take that stuff? It would be in heavy duty shopping bags

Tia x

I'm gonna call them 😬😬

Oh yes and pasta bake etc, but it won't perish for ages

They're laughing emojis!

A Luton van would be too small?

Fucking hell. 40kg of rice would probably take me years to go through!
Some of it may get manky with veewels as pps said... What a waste
Will you even fit into the flat😂

Normla people do it that they stock up bit by bit. So did I when I had to carry my stuff up to 4th floor. Simply grab this and that when wheopping and eventually you have nice stock🤷 Free exercise!

They are not 🙈

OP- maybe you'll need to learn how to carry things on your head! 😆

😄 I like to buy in bulk! This shopping should last for the rest of the year, and I'd only need to top up with meat and fresh and frozen ingredients

Although apparently rice isn't non perishable so now I'm stressed

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I've already bought the rice 🙈

Maybe i should return 2 packs 🥺😅

I posted this thread truly curious about this smallish problem and now I have more problems

Ageing and rice weevils and the fact that apparently this 😭 emoji is not seen as laughter but crying

I don't know how I will cope with age but I'm 30s so hope not to worry about that for now!

😭 Crying
😂 Cryong with laughter.
For future reference😂

this smallish problem
Sounds like 100kg + problem😂

Can you still eat rice with weevils in it?

It's perfectly safe to eat the weevils, but there is a squeamish factor and a texture factor involved with doing so; as a result you may hear people suggesting to discard the rice and start over. 😱

I once bought rice from a bulk food shop, where you scoop the rice, flour, sugar etc into your own or their containers to reduce plastic waste. The rice had weevils in it. I threw it all away- never thought eating with the weevils in it was an option for added protein!

Won't the delivery driver take it up the stairs ? You would probably need to ask your removers I suppose if it's all boxed up they would, but what about fresh food ?

I have lived in a second floor period conversion walk-up flat and used Tesco and Ocado regularly who both brought my (large-ish) online shops upstairs. If you’ve already got lots of rice perhaps pack that in a couple of boxes but hold off on the tins etc.
I am small and not in the best of health but can you really not manage, say, four or five tins up the stairs once or twice a week?

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See how I've changed the emoji i use 🤭 - very demure

Okay i will expect them to bring it up

Maybe I'll call before placing an order

Ive already bought some of the stuff though

Edit, I hate being a pain and if they're say no ill feel so awkward

Who's eating rice with weevils in it? 😄😄

I will return two bags, can't cope at all at the thought of these weevils

How do they get in through, I wonder, as the bags are sealed

It's £25 minimum with Morrisons. I pay for a delivery pass and get unlimited deliveries. I usually book two deliveries a week as standard, but have been known to do a top-up if I have forgotten something or DS eats the fridge in the middle of the night.

OP, this is honestly truly bonkers.

So you buy this huge stock of 40Kg of rice and fill your nice new flat with pallets of tomatoes - at which point will you start to do top ups? When it is all gone and you order another massive bulk delivery? Which the delivery people will carry upstairs for you?

Or each time you use tin of tomatoes will you buy another to top up your stash? In which case the massive store is pointless because you are carrying the top up tins anyway.

Let's say I use 5 tins of tomatoes -
I'd replace them with 5 tins on my next shop, and put them towards the back of the cupboard

It will be far less heavy to carry, the same with rice

It works in my mind 😄

If you put the things in boxes they will.

Why would you do that. Get the food delivered to your new address

My groceries always get delivered to my door when I was in a top floor flat