Can I do a full shop?

[BlackHillsofDakota]

I haven't been out for over a week now, I've seen lots on the tv about essential shopping only and one in one out at the shops.

Can I go and do a full weekly shop? I don't want to hold people up taking a long time but to me it makes more sense to go out once do a big shop and then stay home for another week.

Of course you can. That is the whole point. You buy plenty to do you for as long as possible meaning you don't have to go to the shops very often.

Yes, far more sensible than popping out every other day for bits and bobs. As they are limiting numbers inside at any one time, worth making a list so you can get round a bit quicker though.

Of course. You should do a full shop where possible, rather than going daily for bits

Yes it's fine, supermarkets still have lots of 'luxury' goods round here. Some items will have a limit though. Old couple in front of me the other day tried to buy 4 angel delights and were told they could have 3! Angel delight! I popped their other one through with my shopping, surely we want old people to stay at home as much as possible so it seemed silly to limit their shopping especially non essential items forcing them to go out more often.

Yes. It’s better to do one big shop to last a week than lots of little ones.

You're actually supposed to do that, to minimise outings. Advice is avoid panic buying and hoarding, not a normal weekly shop.

Yes, I went yesterday and most people had full trolleys. It makes sense to buy what you need to limit trips out. There was plenty of stock, even had loo roll.

Are Tesco limiting it to 80 items in store too or just online?

I went last night at 7. Sainsbury’s has everything I needed/wanted except tinned tomatoes, lentils and pine nuts of all things! It was very quiet and most shelves were full.

Yes you should. I think everyone needs to get their heads around planning their food/household needs a bit better, a lot of people are reliant on being able to pop to the shops whenever they need. I used to be much better at being organised and would only do one shop a week but have gotten very lazy.

Plan what you need for all your meals/snacks/drinks for the week, check things like toothpaste, and toiletries etc that might be running low and make a full list and be prepared to make substitutes if you can’t get exactly what you want.

It's much more sensible than just getting enough for a couple of days.

Thanks everyone I thought it made more sense but didn't want to get shouted at by the corona police

Make sure you have substitutions in mind in case there are things you want that are unavailable.

Maybe try and go at a quiet time so the queue will be shorter - I read about people waiting 30 mins to 2 hours over the weekend and I absolutely wouldn't wait that long unless I had literally no food, so maybe try a weekday morning but check for any restrictions if you don't fall into the vulnerable/essential worker groups.

Yes I'm aiming to go out every 10 days and we eat mainly fresh food and it lasts at least a week if you check dates then can top up with a bit from freezer if need be.

Yup. I did my same old usual weekly shop yesterday morning. Our Asda was very well stocked. Only things they didn't have were beans or tinned vegetables. It is limited to two of each item. But you get round that by buying different varieties of the same thing.

In some ways the restrictions on numbers of people being in the store at once might be problematic as Waitrose had so much fresh produce on the shelves yesterday, I thought to myself that there was no way they would get rid of it all before the use by dates.

bluegheko what a lovely gesture! Well done!

You'll get shouted at by the corona police whichever way you do it.

Do a big weekly shop, you're buying too much and could leave some for others.

Go to the shop more than once a week and you might as well be literally killing people.

Go shopping while you have food in the house, it's not essential.

Buy anything that isn't strictly necessary food, you shouldn't be buying it.

Go to more than one shop in the same trip instead of doing without or buying something unsuitable in the one shop you're allowed, you're literally killing people.

etc etc

Yes you can. I only do a monthly shop because I want to be out as little as possible.
Sainsburys said to me they's like to limit customers to three itmes of each thing but as long as you are "sensible" they won't stop you buying.
My sensible they mean you can't buy 10 loaves of bread.
Makes me wonder how Sue and Noel Radford are managing with 21 kids

The procuring of food and groceries for the purpose of reasonable conssumption has not yet been prohibited by the State.

Further, we are to shop as "infrequently as possible".

So go for it with your weekly shop. That's the idea.

Yes that’s what your are SUPPOSED TO DO.

The restriction that tesco is implementing is because people were buying way MORE than the weekly shop.

I’m usually a very haphazard shopper who does lots of top up shops (mainly because we only have a tiny kitchen with an under counter fridge with one of those old fashioned freezer sections at the top- no proper freezer to speak of) Anyway, I went shopping on Thursday. I looked at what we had in already then planned meals for a week, made a list and did a shop. I filled a trolley but everyone else in there was doing the same. We won’t need to shop for a week now except possibly for milk and bread.

I bought stuff that “isn’t strictly necessary food” too. Some stationery items necessary for working from home. So maybe that’s not unreasonable?

I did a big shop yesterday. I felt bad as misty people seemed to have baskets. But I was allowed my trolley and I got plenty of things. This was a fairly small Tesco, middle of a Saturday, it was fairly quiet and well stocked, with most things available.

My mum went to her local large Sainsbury's the other day though and was only allowed two dairy total, so she got milk and cream but couldn't also get yoghurts, which I thought was bizarre.

I went on Friday morning and did a big shop, I don't want to go out again until NEXT Monday night to do another one. I say night because I went to a big Tesco at 6.15am and it was quite busy, I found it stressful and infuriating trying to stick to the 2 meter rule. I hope if I go half an hour before it closes instead maybe it'll be empty... I just hope all the bread and fresh food isn't gone :-(