Realistically, how often do you go to the shops per week?

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How often do you go to the shops, including if you pop in for milk one day etc

I mean if everyone in the family is healthy.

We’ve managed not to go to a shop at all. We’ve managed a delivery every week to 10 days and we get a Hello Fresh box with three meals in. The only thing we completely ran out of was milk and we had to use soy for a couple of days till the shop came.

Pre covid,3 or 4 times a week. Supermarket is next to DS's school, so I'd buy what I needed for the day on the school run.

DH is now shielding so I shop every 14 days. A neighbour drops off bread or milk if I need in the meantime.

Since corona, once a week with careful planning.
Before, one big shop & two small ones mostly for bread & milk.
Two adults, two primary school children.

A couple. We don't have a car or a big fridge, nor do we get deliveries. I think DH gets fags and sweets sometimes on top of that.

Delivery every 10-14 days, no top-up shops.

Not been in a supermarket for over a month.

Not at all. I've managed to get deliveries/boxes etc from different sources and done large shops to last between deliveries. I've been inside alone since 11th March and am going a bit queer.

About once every 10 days for a biggish supermarket shop. Pre lockdown it was one delivery a week plus multiple drop ins to the local shop for odd bits and bobs. I'm surprised and impressed how easily we've adapted.

4 times

2 adults 2 pre teens.

DH does a big shop including bits for my mum once a week then when he drops that off the next day he drops into her Sainsbury's to get missing bits. She orders us eggs from her milkman.

Both supermarkets are small and he goes at quiet times. The huge Tesco near us is always rammed and serves quite a big semi rural area. Even he was shocked at the lack of social distancing there the one time he did go and queues are immense so we avoid, hence the need for the 2 shops. We tried to get a few online slots but can't.

Every six days. I shop in the morning before my (3) night shifts begin. At the moment I am working 3 on/3off, that's how I can be that exact.

It's incredible in this day and age that people can't look beyond their noses and see that other people live in different situations or have different circumstances.
Not everyone can do online shopping or get food delivered especially if they live rurally.
A lot of people do not live near Tesco superstores and therefore rely on smaller shops which carry less stock.
Not everyone has a car or the good health to be able to carry heavy loads of shopping.
A lot of people do a food plan for the week but if the supermarket only has 50% of the items you need for your week's food plan, it's only going to last 50% of the week which entails another trip halfway through the week.
A lot of people do not have a larder, chest freezers, a pantry and loads of cupboards to store weeks worth of food. There's no point in buying a week's worth of fresh food if you only have space in the fridge to store half of it.
Many people have food intolerances/allergies/sensitivities and cannot just make do with alternatives or go without.
A lack of basic reasoning seems abundant on this thread.

To add to your list OP a lot of people can't afford to buy different brands or pack sizes, alternative items, just use the farm shop, milk man, small shops, veg boxes, Gousto and all the other options that are likely to double or treble the cost of their shopping compared with shopping at Aldi or Lidl at a time when their already insufficient income has further reduced due to being furloughed etc.

Also people have to struggle against greedy family members who think nothing of eating all the food no matter how long it needs to last so while they may have bought a week's worth of food, it might have disappeared into the endless bored snackers.

This thread has brought out the worst in the competitive isolation 'well I haven’t bought any food since February so I don’t see why anyone else needed to either' crowd unable to see why anyone else might need to operate differently.

There isn't any definition of 'as infrequently as possible'. I don't think people are joining queues outside supermarkets unless they really need to be there, hence by definition it's 'essential'.

Sorry, that reply was to FML not the OP.

In my previous life, I used to go several times a week as I worked within a minutes walk of two supermarkets.

In my new life (post lock down), I have been to a supermarket once, a Co-op twice and I go to the village shops (butcher and very small convenience store) about twice a week. I get milk, fruit and veg delivered and I've had a few other things delivered too. I have an Asda Click and Collect slot next week, which I am strangely looking forward to. This will be a really big shop to replenish my cupboards and freezer and should last me another 3 weeks at least.

I did not enjoy the one trip to Tesco at all. The Co-op is more expensive but I was advised to go at 8am on a Sunday when it is empty. They're well stocked but as I said, quite pricey.

I've made very careful use of my freezer - but I am a household of one so in that sense I have it easier than many others.

I haven’t been in a shop for six weeks.

Two shops a fortnight, but the two shops will be 2-3 days apart then a gap of 12 days.

Working around the days when ds is with me as I'm on my own with him so can't really go then.

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We are doing 100% online but we did pre-lockdown anyway. I hate shops!

Every ten days

There's me, DH and DS6mo

The other thing I wouldn’t dream of doing even if I could is take a delivery slot. They should firstly be reserved for high risk group, then the vulnerable group after that. Can everyone say the same.

I am in the vulnerable group - not been since lockdown. We've been fortunate to get several Asda deliveries.

Once a week - found it so much quicker now the supermarkets are restricting shopping to one person with no couples and families shopping together.

Not at all

Get deliveries.

Had a Tesco delivery Friday.
Then a Sainsbury's today, as Tesco is only 80 items.

Shielding. Cant leave at all

I'm trying to keep my freezer as my "just in case" stash, with reasonable stock rotation. Working on the assumption that if/when we get it the adults will be hit harder than the DC it contains shove in the oven beige stuff that the fussy twat 4 yo will eat without being ridiculous about it. We have 1 freezer meal a week (not counting frozen stuff that requires defrosting and 'proper' cooking)

We could last 2 weeks but we'd be screwed if we had to self isolate at the end of the 2 weeks so better to stay at 1 week intervals.

Need to plan when to get 1 year old's vaccine done too - git has dodged it a couple of times with vomiting bugs, ongoing chest infections and chicken pox. Will certainly be doing a full shop before then in case.

One "big shop" and then a top up midweek!

Once a fortnight if that but we are lucky in that we have a bread maker, milk and fruit delivery, gousto and bog roll delivery! Also use an eco egg so no laundry stuff needed (All pre coronavirus)