So husbands took my food list to the supermarket and came back with....(light hearted)

[worldsworststepfordwife]

Just reminded me of the threads from Christmas I’ve got £5 worth of fresh posh clementines and I’m thinking wtf I didn’t ask for those he must be thinking we need our Vit C then I realised the tin of mandarin oranges I asked for wasn’t there, it’s going to be an expensive jelly!!

Not knocking him though bless him he tried just he’s expensive to send to the shops a few tins of chopped toms he substituted with two pots of fresh Tom pasta sauce and 3 bags of cherry toms

I could go on ...

I never let DH do the shopping due to random substitutes, including lambrusco wine for risotto once. But this week I had no choice as had to work. And he was amazing, every thing on the list, I was realistic though and didn't include toilet roll, tins etc. So far seems OK round here for fresh food.

DH was despatched to our local Coop on Sunday evening to get a pint of milk and some bread and also came back with 4 beers and 2 pizzas for a fiver!

#nopanicbuyinghere

Even better than that...

Mine came back with a dishwasher deodorant - our local Tesco looked like it had been looted. It's sickening. Empty aisles, nothing fresh, pharmacy out of paracetamol, calpol and hand sanitiser. Not sure why the'd bothered to stay open.

I really don't get why everyone is claiming they are not panic buying. But someone is. More than someone - most people. They must be.

Is it some strange lack of self-awareness?

4 beers and 2 pizzas for a fiver!

My DH has done this twice - it’s a bargain.

Once sent dh shopping with a list of ingredients I needed to make salmon fish cakes.
Included watercress...
Tea time approaches and I set to it...
With my box of salad cress..

DP came back with Cadbury’s marvellous creations. It’s literally the only chocolate I don’t like!! Sigh.....

We visited our Lidl this evening and were pleasantly surprised to find three boxes of half a dozen eggs, we bought one box and the lady behind us thanked us for not taking all of them and she bought one. I felt a bit tearful at that to be honest.

We also got nappies thankfully as youngest is currently teething and her nappies are explosive and many.

DP usually is very good at shopping. I’m the one who gets side tracked by those little Portuguese custard tarts in the bakery and the aisle of crap I never knew I wanted. But that’s Lidl for you.

I’m going to check out our farm shops tomorrow, I can cook quite creatively.

@Undies1990 you need to eat that tinned haggis with packet curry sauce in a morning roll - its the best and only way!

Our local tesco is bare in every department its getting worse as the days go on.

I went shopping for my housebound dm and got her a broken carrot. Could have got an bag of organic frozen sprouts 🤮
Oddly could have bought hot chicken drumsticks and fresh strawberries and raspberries.

You have more than one husband?

All of our local shops - Coops, corner shops etc are well stocked, whereas Tesco is stripped bare.

Couple dried noodles and bag of peas was all mine came back with

I think that a lot of cat's have been sent out shopping with their little cat trolleys, as most of the cat food and cat biscuits and treats had almost gone in the Co-op the other day. Unless people are eating cat food,as they can't find any human food now.

Nothing in our shops. Told dc the longer it goes on the more appetising their drabbits are looking!!
*lighthearted...
We have 5 dc and no bread or milk.

It's not my DTwatCats doing the shopping with their little cat trolleys - they'd have come back with prawns, poached crayfish and packets of chicken fridge raiders, leaving the Whiskas and Go-Cat safely on the shelves.

They have, however, persuaded me with their big, sad eyes and arses of death to bang out eighty five quid on wanky cat crunchies to cover the next 4 months.

For context, DTwatCat #2, Madame Fluffyknickers, is gluten intolerant and they've just got through the last packet of the bulk buy I did in late November. Would have cost me around £125 if I'd bought them from a supermarket not that they were in stock anyhow.

A week on Butchers is tolerable for the entire household (as long as you don't subscribe to the Miasma Theory of Disease), but just in case they disappear from the independent supermarket, I might have ordered 40l of cat litter to come tomorrow afternoon.

can everyone use this experience to get on reusable sanpro, spread the word!

Whilst I agree with your sentiment @MerryDeath

a) my supermarket doesn't have reusable sanpro in stock
b) there isn't any washing powder, laundry liquid etc with which to wash it either!

@BournvilleGreen - I'm presuming from your username you must live near me - I'd love to know where this plentiful cheese is, that's what I was struggling for today along with long life milk

LuluJakey1

We are just shopping in our village and not seeing real shortages. The fruit and veg shop has everything, there is a butcher(I don't buy meat), a Sainsbury and a Co-op- not full size but both well-stocked, bakers, a BM bargains and an Iceland

No candlestick maker? That’s some village!

Mine panic bought a giant block of cheese. It’s longer than a loaf of bread. I dont know where he even got it from. It’s like he went into the cheese mongers and pointed at the biggest block and went ‘I’ll have that one’
Cheesemonger: ‘How much?’
DH: ‘One’
Cheesemonger increasingly exasperated: ‘100 grams?’
DH ‘No, one piece’
Cheesemonger seriously fucked off: ‘One slice?’
DH: ‘No, one piece, the whole block you’ve got’
Cheesemonger: wraps cheese in stunned silence

@BackforGood big new Sainsbury's. They've not had uht for almost 3 weeks though...
Of course, I didn't need cheese.

I sent mine out for chicken breasts, pieces, basically whatever he could get. He came back with milk, baked beans, red wine, bacon, beer and lo and behold...chicken! Love him and Lidl for obviously not being frequented by stockpiling bellends!