What does your 10 day isolation store cupboard /meal plan look like

[InTheLongGrass]

Very late to the party here.
We have generally decently stocked cupboards, and a small freezer.
A 10 day isolation, starting just before I did a supermarket shop was decidedly random and not particularly balanced!

So, who has actually thought this through, and has a 10 day cupboard meal plan (3 meals a day, 2 adults, 2 kids who eat pretty adult meals) they would be prepared to share? Better still if they have the shopping list!!

I’ll be honest, I’d spend 10 days eating takeaways.

I have not got one but have been having supermarket deliveries from time to time so if it were ever needed I could have a large delivery of food etc.

Am pretty fully stocked including frozen veg, but if I needed more I would order groceries on Deliveroo from co op.

Are supermarket deliveries available again?
We tried once back when it all went crazy in the spring, and again over Christmas. Not suprisingly, none were available!

I’ve been getting weekly deliveries from Ocado all through (have been with them over 10 years though) and get top ups on Deliveroo or Amazon prime

Are you sick isolating or not, as that would depend on my plans.
Not that I have any (do have enough foot but just not planned meals) but might use this to think of some.

Gousto/Hello Fresh/Pasta Evangelists/JustEat/UberEats/ Deliveroo are available for new customers if you can afford them (and there are free/discounted introductory options if that’s a problem)

Have a reasonable stock of tins and dried, baking ingredients and some stuff in the freezer. We’d run out fresh in the usual time. We have a delivery pass though so guaranteed a slot. Also my mum would bring over in emergencies!

Do you have a friend/relative/neighbour who can do a shop for you and leave it on your doorstep? Or ask the volunteers set up to help in this situation if not.

That's what I would do if the family was isolating and I was at risk of running out of food or other supplies.

Failing that, you need to prioritise anything that won't keep for 10 days, just as you would normally. Salad, soft fruit etc. Then see what you can make with tins and frozen stuff.

Depending on what you have in the house, it might be a good opportunity to use up anything that's lurking in the cupboard or freezer even if it gets a bit repetitive or random. No-one's going to contract scurvy if they go a few days without fresh fruit or veg, despite what half of Mumsnet seems to believe.

Kind of depends on how many of you (if any ) are ill. Ours has plenty of uht milk, cereal, crackers and tinned soup so the kids can help themselves if dh and I are incapacitated. Also dried and tinned fruit and frozen veg for when the fresh stuff runs out.

We're all healthy, for the moment, just trying to plan ahead to the next time we get told to stay home!
No deliveroo or ubereats, but just eat looks possible, as do the other suggestions, thanks Samurai
So, noone is really keeping more than a couple of days worth of tins and freezer stuff? Generally relying on deliveries, either supermarket or restaurant?

Sorry, what I meant was, make sure and keep some easy to prepare stuff in because self isolating with the virus can be very different to self isolating due to a close contact.

I live alone so mine is full of simple bits. When I had it before I was glad of a cupboard like this despite not actually eating for the majority of the 10 days.

I went for food ill eat but won't choose to eat beforehand 🤣

We have several weeks supply and 2 freezers but we always do anyway, not just for covid, but there are only 2 of us and we have plenty of space.

We’ve got a fair amount of frozen veg, pasta etc in and get gousto every week so would cope, but I’d ask a friend to drop off fresh bread, fruit, milk etc once or twice.

Ours is essentially:

Breakfasts:
A couple of unopened boxes of cereal, plus milk in the freezer plus generally keeping plenty of milk in.
A large bag of just-add-water pancake mix (from Costco) plus plenty of maple syrup.
Several bags of bread flour (bought when the supermarkets started selling it off cheap after restocking) plus yeast. Extra butter, marg, jam.

Lunches: (also using bread from the above)
Tinned soup
Baked beans with sausages
Plenty of cheese for sandwiches
Tinned tuna

Dinners:
Corned beef (making sure we have lots of potatoes in and served with baked beans)
Pasta with pesto or dolmio type sauce.
Bacon, sausages and eggs have a long date.
Frozen fish fillets and chips
Frozen veg (tinned would be better for space reason but we don't like tinned veg)
Dried lentils, tinned pulses to make veg curry, veg chilli. Rice to serve.
Frozen pizzas.

Plus biscuits, loads of tea bags, squash etc.

We have our milk delivered, so with that we probably have 3 weeks of food in place - loads of frozen veg, tinned fruit, bread flour/yeast, pasta, rice etc in the cupboards and we'd be able to get fruit/veg delivered locally as well.
If we were all ill, it would be noodles, tinned soup etc which we have extras of as well as cat/dog food.
There isn't UberEats/ Just Eat/ Deliveroo etc here so takeaways wouldn't be an option!

We have a surplus of cheese, crisps and chocolate from Christmas, I'm sure we'd survive!

Off the top of my head I reckon I could do this for 10d easily, but then I have a pretty well stocked freezer/cupboards.

Assume each breakfast is one of
Scrambled eggs, cereal or toast

Assume lunch is tinned soup, jacket potato with beans or sandwich (fillings- cheese or tuna Mayo or ham)

Dinners:
1: quiche and salad

2: sausages and mash, frozen peas
3: chickpea curry, rice
4: veggie lasagne & garlic bread (from freezer)
5: prawn stir fry (carrot/beans/pepper) and rice
6: chilli and jacket potatoes with sour cream
7: pasta carbonara
8: salmon and veg (frozen green beans and peas)
9: spag Bol
10: Spanish tortilla and chorizo

Shopping list
2 loaves bread (put 1 in freezer)
2 dozen eggs
Cereal
Butter x 2
2 x 4pts milk (plus any UHT for making custard) - freeze 1 for now.
2 pack beef mince
1 pack 12 chipolata sausages
1 chorizo
4 tins tuna
1 mayonnaise
1 bag rice
5kg potatoes
2 tin chickpeas
1 x curry paste
1 tin coconut milk
1 frozen pack prawns
1 pack each frozen peas and green beans
1 lettuce/bag salad
1 family pack ham
2 packs spaghetti
Sour cream
Peppers

We also always have plenty in, we'd last for weeks if we had to.

Never understood people not keeping a few spares in, it's not beyond the budget most people, and you can get creative with space if you need to. Saves so much worry and hassle if there's a problem with the supply chain.

It would depend where it falls in my shop cycle, but other than fresh fruit & veg I'd say that at the point at which I shop (approx every 10-14 days, mainly click & collect, occasionally Aldi when I periodically go into the office) I've probably got enough stuff to last 2 weeks, so the shop tops that up to 3-4 weeks.
I picked up a shop today, we'd struggle on milk for 4 weeks - have 4x4pts in the freezer plus 2x6pts out to use, and bread - 4 frozen leaves and 1 fresh but I'd make some the breadmaker if needed and have plenty of flour to do so.
I'd have enough meat to last, got minced turkey & beef today and have made 2 large cottage pies with the turkey (bulked with pearl barley) & about 12 portions of chilli with the beef (bulked with lentils). Also have a pack of both frozen turkey & beef mince in the freezer, plus bacon, frozen chicken breasts, sausages, fishfingers, a chicken, some chicken kievs and small joint of beef.
Plenty of tins - soup, various beans, hoops, tomatoes, some tinned fruit, evap.
Plenty of cereal - although using that depends on milk.
I do need to get a new sack of potatoes, got one at the beginning of the 1st lock down and it lasted ages, got another in the autumn and they are all but gone.
Fresh eggs from our hens, so unless they stop laying that's not an issue.

TBH I can't imagine only keeping a few days worth of food in a situation where I had the funds available.

We probably have enough for 3-4 days as we have a small fridge-freezer and hardly any cupboard or storage space. I shop twice a week as that’s all we can fit in!

But we’ve had 7 isolations so far, none of them for the full 10 days thankfully as results have come back faster. We managed and had a takeaway delivered to cheer ourselves up too.

Or the space to store it as well as funds I guess.

We did quite well except for milk. Had a very expensive Deliveroo of 4 litres of milk plus a packet of haribos

Depends how ill I feel. Have got enough rice, pasta, tinned veg/beans/soup, noodles and veg growing in the garden to last for weeks. Also regular deliveries of bread, extra veg and milk set up. I'd get complaints about the lack of variety and no crisps/chocolate (which I ate 😏) but we'd survive