How do you sanitise your shopping?

[Lottiebugz22]

Do you wash your tins with soap for 20 seconds? What do you do about bread in paper or meat or plastic cartons? And what about fresh fruit and vegetables?

I wash my hands as soon as I get in and (normally, but sometimes I forget) I wash my hands again after I put my shopping away and I don't do anything else different from 2 years ago.

@1forAll74

I don't sanitise anything.. I have once or twice washed my hands properly, if I have brought in a cardboard box from an online delivery,as boxes are handled by various people throughout their journey.. I have never bought any sanitiser at all.

This is the culprit! Why revive a year old thread??

@1forAll74

I don't sanitise anything.. I have once or twice washed my hands properly, if I have brought in a cardboard box from an online delivery,as boxes are handled by various people throughout their journey.. I have never bought any sanitiser at all.

So @1forAll74 what was the thinking behind reviving a year old thread to tell everyone that?

@TheBullfinch

Why start a thread and then not participate in it?

I don’t do anything beyond using hand sanitiser and hand washing. Some of you sound ... troubled.

You're posting on a thread that's a year old. The OP may not even be on MN. anymore!

@1forAll74

You must have searched hard to revive a thread from last year! I read the whole thing, quite interesting to read what people were thinking a year ago. I somehow missed this thread the first time, there were hundreds of them!!

I wasn't originally classified as CEV, just CV, but I was still extremely careful as I felt I should have been CEV due to a combination of underlying issues. I was one of the ones reclassified as CEV recently.

I quarantine as much as possible in the spare room, now store room. The bags go in there and nothing gets touched for a week. (If anything is needed/wanted during that week, it gets washed/wiped) Fresh veg goes into the massive veg drawer in the fridge & washed as cooked/eaten (and hands washed etc)

Anything that goes into the main part of the fridge gets washed in cold water with dishwashing liquid and a cloth, rinsed, dried & put in the fridge.

To be honest, it is a little bit of a faff & a year on I'll be glad when I no longer feel the need, but some local supermarkets are still having staffing issues with shortages due to staff having COVID, so now isn't the the time to stop (for me). & now that restrictions are starting to be lifted and local rates are increasing, I'm not sure when will be. So, on I plod.

I started my post about 3:15, but fell asleep, I should have refreshed before posting!

I don't wash my shopping
Was a bit surprised when using the toilet in a shopping centre that 2 people just went out without washing their hands
I did that anyway

We don't and never have; because it's a ridiculous overreaction.

I know this post is a year old, but I still can’t believe people did this.

We don't and never did.

I'm cv and at the first lockdown we had mil living with us, who is mid 70s. Still didn't do this with shopping, deliveries, etc.

"Antibacterial" wipe (eg Dettol/disinfectant-happy it will work against viruses as well) surfaces of nearly all groceries . Obviously wash hands after.

I am not vulnerable (I am unvaccinated in my 40s), DH is twice vaccinated as NHS I do this for my non CV eldest to try to do my bit to ensure he and his friends can continue to go to school and not get tested as positive (via lateral flow test) for an illness very unlikely to have any negative effect on him (may be even entirely asymptomatic).

@yoyo1234 your unwashed shopping is very unlikely to close the schools.

Nope. Never have. Never will. Think it's OTT.

@Jo9996. Indeed, it is all I can do though. The exam cohort this year has had so much cancelled, more than last year's eg mocks etc, they are having tests on return (exams by any other name). This is their chance to show their improvement and all the work they have done.

I soak bread in disinfectant and set fire to everything else.

I cover everything with salt and ashes and bury it for a year. I'm eating food now that I bought when the OP made the first post.

@NoseOfJericho

I soak bread in disinfectant and set fire to everything else.

Murderer, what if there’s traces of Covid in the ashes

Jo99996 Sat 03-Apr-21 11:39:49
NoseOfJericho

I soak bread in disinfectant and set fire to everything else.

Murderer, what if there’s traces of Covid in the ashes

Oh, I never thought of that. I will douse it in isopropanol alcohol as well, just to be sure

@yoyo1234

I am not vulnerable (I am unvaccinated in my 40s), DH is twice vaccinated as NHS I do this for my non CV eldest to try to do my bit to ensure he and his friends can continue to go to school and not get tested as positive (via lateral flow test) for an illness very unlikely to have any negative effect on him (may be even entirely asymptomatic).

Just in case you don't know@yoyo1234, school lft testing isn't compulsory. If you're OK to not know if your child has covid and could be passing it on you certainly don't need to be doing the tests and a home positive doesn't count until confirmed by a pcr anyway

Wash hands unpack wash hands again.
Never sterilised shopping.
I visit the supermarket, not online.

I know it needs a positive PCR (as DH is NHS). I am reasonably certain others will be doing it if requested, but at the moment we do not know what his school will request (he is not back yet).

Believe me when DC has had a fair chance (or any chance) to show what he can do, I will hopefully feel like a new person.

If DH came back positive etc though and with a further PCR then as family we may all need tests/appropriate isolation etc.

Thank you for the info though flying burrito 🙂