What’s your food situation?

[GreyishDays]

Just wondering how everyone is doing.

We had a good start with a Brexit stash. Have had a couple of click and collects and one normal supermarket shop. DH has been checking regularly for stock though. Our supermarket has been up and down in terms of stock.
We have most stuff, couldn’t get cornflakes last week and can’t get tinned tomatoes. Trying to cook with potatoes as much as we can as pasta is sometimes not available. Loo roll arrived as normal last week in the clock and collect.

I think we’ve been quite lucky and fortunate to be able to stock up in advance.

How’s everyone else doing? Missing major stuff and having to eat odd combinations or fairly complete now.

[orangeicecream]

Running low on everything now as haven't been to any shops for 11 days now. Planning on going to medium sized tesco at 7pm tonight as it was really quiet last time I went there at that time. Hoping to buy enough for 2 weeks. It is me and 2 teens here.

[Mummyoflittledragon]

Fine here. Have fought very hard to get deliveries.

[MrsPear]

I live in the London burbs. Unlike the majority, who i very much doubt known what to do with the majority of what they bought, I did not go crazy. I would love flour, caster sugar, tin tomatoes, fresh fish and fabric softener. H (who is designated shopper currently) cannot find any in Tesco or Sainsbury or Lidl. He is off to Waitrose later.

[hiredandsqueak]

Seem to be able to get most things around here been to the supermarket once and to the farm vending machines once as well. The item I'm struggling with is Birds Eye original and best beefburgers which is one of only two items my autistic son will eat (the other is Cadburys dairy milk) My stash has been depleted and that is a worry because he will not eat another brand or anything else (eaten them every day for the last fifteen years) and so will starve. Managing by asking friends and family to add them to their orders and leave them on doorstep but my anxiety is rising when I have fewer than thirty in the freezer.

[TheStarryNight]

Much better than I thought we would be at this point.

It suddenly got easy to get a Sainsburys delivery slot here, it was difficult for a while. One of them told they’ve been offered at the overtime they want and a 10% bonus. And a lot of the part-timers have gone up to full-time. Last week they had 5 days With slots available and it took 4 days for those slots to go.

Before that it was pretty easy to get an Asda slot, especially in am before alcohol deliveries are allowed.


Village Co-op has been really good all the way through. Butcher has his shop closed but you can phone in an order and collect. Village deli is still getting daily deliveries from a bakery in a nearby town and has local fruit and veg on offer.

Local pubs/hotels that’d usually be busy with tourists by now are all doing takeaway/delivery and sales of produce from their wholesale suppliers.

Village association is collecting food from food bank in region as well as food manufacturers/suppliers locally and distributing to vulnerable and older people as well as those who are struggling financially.

They leafletted every house with a number to call/instructions to leave leaflet out if you needed help or if you knew someone who might. Leaflet was very clear it was on a no questions asked basis re finances.

Local Co-op is both donating to and collecting for the local scheme. They also have bags of shopping by food bank donation point that you can pick up to redistribute to people sheltering or struggling financially.

[MonaLisaDoesntSmile]

Not too bad, but we are paying through the nose at the moment, around double if not triple of our weely shop. Partner managed to find a golden slot yesterday for delivery, but everything organic (which is good! Good quality) but the price is 2/3 times more than we'd usually get from the supermarket. Because we pay 50% of childcare and no petrol/public transport cost, we can afford it for the time being.

[Wiaa]

We've always got a lot of food in so we've only had to do top up shops for fresh stuff, some snacks and baby stuff. I did 1 big shop at aldi a few days ago (my 1st time in a shop for 16days) we were in isolation from before the lock down so we had a couple of family drop offs of milk and nappies. Dh has done a couple of little shops when we've needed milk and bread. We can easily walk to 3 supermarkets and they all seem fairly well stocked no pasta or rice but pretty much every thing else. We could only get 2 pint milk cartons at first but aldi had the 6pints back so we can seriously reduce how often we need to shop now (ds 3yr drinks 2-3 pints a day)

[Piggywaspushed]

I'd be fine : it's more my DH and DS1 who still can't seem to grasp that they might have to make do with different things from normal (less would be good too!) : they are very much creatures of habit. Also, we never used to eat home cooked food every day because of school dinners and DH getting fed at work so the real jolt is the change of habits and the need to meal plan which I find stressful.

I went through my cupboards when all this started and have a stockpile of pasta I didn't even know about!! Nothing to go with it though!

Eggs and rice are a big problem round here.

[Samtsirch]

Fortunately we have plenty of food, it’s just not what I would normally choose to eat at each meal, and we have had some interesting combinations, lol.

[Piggywaspushed]

Also, I am worried about my leg of lamb for Easter day. There will be tears if I can't get that!

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

I have everything but macaroni, flour (wholemeal) and yeast. I have strong flour for bread, but no yeast. When this started happening I bought lots of tinned beans and tomatoes as well as some dried peas and lentils because I'm vegetarian and figured all the non-vegetarians would hone in on the food I eat whilst also buying meat.

[NotGenerationAlpha]

Fine for now. We have had Ocado deliveries every week so far. No slot this week but I got one booked for the next and the week afterwards. They even have tinned tomatoes. I went and got another bag of 10kg rice before the lockdown so I have plenty of carbs. But there are no shortages of rice. I'm on the facebook feed of my local chinese grocer and apparently have plenty of noodles and rice. But the rice do come in huge bags and if you don't have a big rice container, I don't know how you cope with it. I got mine from Hong Kong.

[RB68]

Generally fine. Whilst in the first couple of weeks (week before social distancing and week after things were a bit scarce some items are limited in supply but generally you can find altrnatives. Can we remember alot of tinned tommies come from Italy so not surprising in short supply, same for Pasta, RIce, Olive Oil etc. Loo rolls are still disappearing fast but supplies are coming through.

Everything else has been fine all through

[EricaNernie]

have a sack of potatoes, more pasta than usual, cannot buy tinned tomatoes or chick peas or frozen peppers and these are often staple ingredients in my house.
managed to get wipes, soap, toilet roll
flour via facebook, as was the sack of potatoes.

[RB68]

ps legs of lamb so expensive plenty in stock - one in my freezer from this weeks shop

[ErrolTheDragon]

We had some stores of tins, cleaning products etc and stuff in the freezer including plenty of peas and spinach. For the last 3 weeks we've been doing fine with local suppliers who've rapidly set themselves up for home delivery - veg/fruit boxes, with added milk, eggs and bread; meat boxes and even a cheese box. This means more cooking from scratch, vegetable soup for lunch etc and making egg custard to replace yogurt.

We need to see if the veg boxes can be customised to leave out the spuds, we aren't young and active enough with restricted walking to get through many carbs.

[YetAnotherSpartacus]

Oh Goodness! I forget my aged basmati rice! Can't get the good stuff for love nor money. The local grocer has sold out and it's not available online either. I did buy a LOT of the basic spices though.

[viccat]

Currently very low on fresh food (salad veg, bread, milk) as the next Ocado delivery is not due until Friday. But generally absolutely fine - still have bread left in the freezer that can be toasted, frozen veg, plenty of cupboard basics like rice and pasta, porridge and non-dairy milk for breakfast.

[justanotherneighinparadise]

Really struggling with home delivery slots with my shielded MIL and my vulnerable mother. It takes up so much of my thinking time. Personally we’re fine, it’s the delivery slots that are going my head in.

[RB68]

My frustration is around ensuring MIL has food stocks. 89, deaf, isolated normally but stubborn as fuck about accepting help

[Holdingmybreath]

Shopped at 7am today.Very few people, lots of food.No eggs or yeast but everything else I needed.

[LittlePesto]

We have a good stock in freezer and cupboards but still doing a normal weekly shop for fresh stuff and topping up cupboard and freezer supplies as we eat them because I'm conscious that if one of us comes down with symptoms neither of us can go out for the next 2 weeks. So keeping a at least a 2 week stock at all times.

Been going to the mid sized sainsburys rather than the superstore, slightly less choice but still plenty to make do with and less queuing to get in and smaller size to get out quicker. Also doing asda shop online when I can get a slot. I'm doubling up on everything and dropping shopping at my elderly parents each time I shop.

[welldonejean]

Fine, using a mix of the local CO-OP and independent grocery/bakery/offie and not having issues with buying anything really. Go out looking with green beans and apples on this list but may come home with broccoli and watermelon instead

[forrasee]

We're still struggling with getting fresh veg so having to go more than I'd like. Don't understand how people are only going every two weeks when they don't have veg boxes, how are you getting 5 a day?!

We went on Thursday and will have to go again today as we're out of veg. Can't get peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, courgettes etc at the moment. Wondering if it's due to Spain etc suffering so badly?

[MontysOarlock]

We shop at a supermarket but also Costco so a tin of tomatoes comes as a pack of 12. We do have plenty of those in but then we eat a lot of tomato based items. Toilet roll is a pack of 40! Missing my cheap milk though as we are now buying it from the supermarket. We haven't shopped at Costco for about 4 weeks.

There are sometimes a couple of items that we can't get at the supermarket but Dh is an NHS key worker so gets in first. We only get what we need, no one in this house is going to starve. We have rice, pasta and potatoes, pizza dough in the freezer which I am pleased about because we cannot get flour. We couldn't get some frozen veg this morning but there is a wealth of information online about cooking with what you have.