How often are you going out shopping?

[NeverYouMind123]

Ideally I'd like to go out once every two weeks... but you can't stock up on fresh fruits and salads for two weeks! Kinda hard to eat healthily...

We are doing once a week each at the moment so twice as a family. But that is more for fresh items (milk and veg) than actual food.

We have a guinae pig so need fresh veg. There are companies who deliver fresh veg boxes so might look at that, but they are set boxes and not particularly great value so will see how we go.

Was under the impression we weren’t supposed to stockpile and needed to leave delivery slots for the vulnerable so once a week.

I went last Tuesday and did a decent sized shop and i've got an online order to collect at weekend to avoid having to go in the store but I'm on rations of fresh food and dinner the next couple of nights will be out of the freezer! After that I can't find a delivery or click & collect slot for weeks so I'll be aiming to get as much as possible this week to avoid going too often.

Sorry @CherryPavlovai misread your post . Thought it said no shopping for 3 weeks but you meant visiting a shop.

We don’t need to stockpile on our weekly or fortnightly shopping trips - We have a good store of non-perishables, and a freezer stocked with meat/veg/berries, so we just buy what we actually need for two weeks at a time. We have got through the last two weeks on what eggs we already had plus a pack of six we bought in our last shop two weeks ago, and one loaf of fresh bread, plus the grain bread we had in the freezer. We eat fresh for one week, fresh/frozen the next. We got over a week out of our milk, and if it had started to turn we would have cooked with it. Luckily, it’s still fresh enough this morning to use the last of it in our coffee.

We’re getting deliveries now because there’s a cough in the household.

Every three or four days. I can walk to put shops. I take my wheelie trolley & use an app on my phone to scan the items, then they go straight into the wheels, then pay contactless if possible. So I only actually touch the items I'm taking home with me. Wash my hands when I get back plus any food that'll be eaten raw. We've always had our milk delivered & are grateful for that but none of us are vulnerable so happy to leave the slots to others.

I do worry about my MIL who's shielding at 84 - he lives in a village in Dorset & there's no milk or newsagents deliveries there & no delivery or C&C slots at any of her local supermarkets for at least 3 weeks. Luckily the pub is selling the basics & she's stuff in the freezer but I think she's going to have to chance a Silver Shopping Hour before we get to the end of the 12 weeks. No alternatives as we live to far away for it to count as an essential journey to shop for her.

@1stWorldProblems you can deliver shipping to a vulnerable person, this is seen as essential. I have checked this and it is permitted given that it prevents a vulnerable person from having to go to a shop.

If you need to deliver to a vulnerable person then that is an essential journey. As far as I know there is no restriction on distance.

Too much !! There's 7 of us in my house. Youngest are 12 yr old twins who eat like adults anyway. And ds came back from a back packing trip in SE Asia 2 months early, and his mate is staying with us to keep each other company. They're both 19 and always starving!
All of us in for 3 meals a day. I spent £130 in Sainsbury's on Sunday and felt everyone was staring at me! I hadn't been for a week before that and not planning to go again for a while. I had bought some extra stuff in the weeks before the shit hit the fan though (thanks to the preppers board in Mumsnet!).

I went twice last week, as I couldn't get quite a few things I really wanted for us or my Mum. Have been today and got everything I wanted, so really hoping I can leave it a whole week.

Thanks, Chankly!

Every 5 days or so, have 2 at home that are shielding, DH working so he’s the only one out of the 5 of us leaving the house