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

[ssd]

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.

[slimecentury]

And funny enough I changed to doing this (apart from the gousto that's just for lazy/lack of time reasons) for environmental reasons - glass milk bottles, eco egg, bread maker, ethical bog roll. I'm feeling bad about the gousto as there is still so much plastic on stuff but I reason that the equivalent in the shops would still be wrapped in the stuff. Anyway off topic...

[Honeyroar]

Big shop every fortnight. Paper for my mum on Saturdays. Probably one other trip for a bit of veg at a local shop, although frequently bought with the paper. We’re getting bread and milk delivered.

[user1471523870]

One huge supermarket delivery every other week and milkman three times a week.

[diege]

Every other day 😩 I've tried everything I can to cut down, but as the only adult with 6 kids, and a non- driver, there's only so much I can physically carry at a time. That's with a nana-trolley, rucksack on my front, and two resizable shipping bags!

[fedupwiththisshitnow]

Supermarket once a week and perhaps corner shop once per week.

[BikeRunSki]

Bakery/Deli; CoOp; Butcher- once a week
Milk, eggs - have been delivered by milkman for ages

[BikeRunSki]

Posted too soon
Greengrocer - delivering

We were lucky we had a big Tesco order about 3 weeks ago.

[UntamedShrew]

Haven’t been in six weeks. We are lucky and can get deliveries - I know it’s much easier in some places than others. We get food twice a week delivered (one ocado and one fresh meat and vegetables)

[MooseBreath]

Once a week. Twice, DH has gone out an additional time to get heavy things (beer, soda, etc.) that I can't easily carry as I'm pregnant.

[GlomOfNit]

Since lockdown, I've been on two large shops (Waitrose - not my usual shop of choice but local reports were that the nearby Lidl and Sainsbury were chaotic and full of stupids) so that's about every two weeks. There's a small Co-op in the village that I've gone to every 3\4 days maybe, for top-ups, and another small village shop/post office I've also used. Plus a farm shop. None of these smaller shops are at all busy and people are being pretty sensible.

I wear a mask (handmade) for big shops and dispose of it carefully. I'm a hell of a lot more liberal with the alcohol spray/hand gel than a lot of people in there (I use it repeatedly during my visit) and it takes bloody ages because of all the dancing around people. I'd go less frequently than every fortnight but the fridge isn't large enough to store more fresh stuff, and vegetables only last so long.

[planningaheadtoday]

I've had to go three times over each fortnight, about once every 5 days. It's click and collect with everything put in the boot for me.

I've managed to secure a local dairy delivery as they opened for new customers for a few hours on Monday.

This means I can drop a shop and go once a week. I am feeding 6, four of which are huge men/teenagers who can put away 24 pints of milk a week.

Only having 80'items allowed was challenging but I think with my farm delivery I can cut the shopping down.

[Valkadin]

I was ill with suspected Coronavirus, so friends dropped food round for 14 days. We have now had three large online shops and DH has been out twice to get milk. So over five weeks DH has gone shopping twice.

[Figmentofmyimagination]

My M&S fruit box arrived yesterday - just 3 days after I ordered it. Loads inside and lovely quality. I won’t need to go fruit shopping now for at least a couple of weeks.

[TheGreatWave]

It has been interesting to see that many who are not doing extra shops are having, often expensive, alternatives. Milk deliveries, fruit / veg / meat boxes etc. So it seems very few are shopping once a week / fortnight and that is it.

[HelenaJustina]

Family of 6 and we manage with one grocery shop a week. We already meal planned so it hasn’t been too hard to not ‘top up’ as we know what we need for the week.

[Strugglingtodomybest]

1 big shop a week, with maybe 1 trip to the corner shop or egg lady a week.

[Frangipanini]

This situation has taught me to meal plan for the week. I used to decide on the day what we were having and go to the shop after the school run or before pick up. I wasted a lot of time and money on this buying a lot of extras and offers. During lockdown I've planned for the week and made a massive list and planned meals based on what dried goods I have. I have had to go to a few shops to get everything because I live in a town where there is a butcher, greengrocer, fishmonger, bakery and the supermarket is more like an express shop. We do have a couple of bargain shops and I've started with them and got my supermarket shop (posh shop) down to just a basket of things. Since I've done this my shop cost has reduced by about 25%. In future I am just going to allocate one morning in the week to do a massive shop and stay away from them the rest of the week. I've found that 3 2L bottles of milk can last see a week. Sounds a lot but I have milk guzzling teenagers.

[MRex]

Since mid-March neither of us went to any shops, then last week DH went to 2 shops plus 2 pharmacies to get missing essentials and medications. Only one of the shops could have been avoidable, but we really really wanted our M&S bits!

We got 2 grocery deliveries in between, a meat delivery, a cheese delivery, several beer deliveries and we have another grocery delivery plus another cheese delivery this week. Each of our deliveries has had things for at least 4 households as we get bits in for neighbours and PIL. I also had other deliveries sent direct to DP and PIL houses. Different neighbours have bought us a couple of things that ran short too (these days everyone offers when they do a shop) - milk, anbesol and yeast. We've had a few days between deliveries where we're down to just tinned or frozen veg and no fresh; I roasted veg one meal, others had baked beans, sweetcorn, veg soup and we had fruit so we were fine really. We like certain things so a veg box would be bad value for us as 3/4 items are things we have only occasionally but little of what we want regularly. Food is much more expensive with less offers.

[MRex]

Oh - I had one fruit delivery too.

[GreyishDays]

Once a week delivery or collection.
Not been to the supermarket for five weeks. Been to boots twice to pick up a prescription.

[LockdownCwtches]

I have been going about twice a week, probably every 3/4 days. I am currently shopping for my own family of 2 adults and two children, my parents, my parents in law, and my next-door neighbours! It works well like this, I can get most of it at Lidl but sometimes I have to pop to Tesco for some items.

[GreyishDays]

@TheGreatWave
We have no additional deliveries and are just getting once a week. We do freeze milk and bread but generally aren’t needing to break into it.

[TheGreatWave]

I didn't say everyone, some people can manage just fine with one shop a week, others can't. Some of those have to go to a shop, others get extra deliveries.

One poster above said that 3 2l bottles of milk can last the week - freshness wise yes, but that would last not much more than 2 days in my house.

People are generally doing the best they can with the resources they have. I could go less but then I would need to have two small supermarket deliveries a week rather than one large one. One difficulty is that Sainsbury's aren't selling 6pt bottles of milk, so 4 x4 pt is much less than 4 X 6 pt.

[GreyishDays]

You said ‘very few’ are managing with just a weekly or fortnightly shop.

[DBML]

Every other day. Sometimes every day.