So all the 'non essential moaners' what do you class as non essential

[HoppingOnSteppingStones]

Because I've just been to tesco and brought a kettle. I've just had a bloke when I was stood in front to pay. Mumble about an 'essential kettle'

Did he know why I had to buy it. Did he plums!
It's not so I can go home and have a relaxing cuppa. Its so I can make formula for my baby. Because last night our kettle went bang!
We had to get hot water off the neighbour for this mornings bottle so I could then run to grab one.

What's essential to some isn't to others.

Yes I think there's prob a fine line but I wish people wouldn't judge

@farandfew

Except that not everyone can AFFORD to have food delivered. If you rely on LIdl for your shopping, and can’t afford Tesco prices... you go shopping

Exactly this... And there is a minimum spend and a delivery fee.

Waitrose have a minimum spend of £40 for delivery and Click and Collect but no delivery fee. I notice Aldi do Click and Collect (bring it to you in the car park) but they charge £4.99 which seems a bit steep.

all the coke, wine and unhealthy food missed will make. everyone healthier.

I'm sure I wouldn't be the only person making bathtub vodka out of the potato peelings . . .

I bought a key lime pie from M&S- I don't give a shit what others view as essential. Snitchy snitchers can go to hell!

@Springersrock

Or did you just think "She likes polos. I'll try peppermint tea."

pretty much that.

Given choices, she’d have gone for Bute in a jam sandwich but she’s rotund enough as it is so peppermint tea it was.

I'm disappointed.

I had visions of you standing in a rainswept field in Barbour and muckieboots , with a silver tray , lifting the lid and saying "Or would Modom prefer a banana daiquiri?"

I went to the shop solely to buy Angostura bitters the other day.

Gin can never be too pink, FKAT

@verticality

I wouldn't class a kettle as essential personally. Anything you can buy in a supermarket, you can get delivered from an online store the next day.You can boil water in a saucepan until a kettle arrives the next day.

The only thing I can think that's essential is stuff that you'd need to fix things going majorly wrong in the house - like a big water leak or something like that.

I haven't been inside any building that isn't my house since March. It hasn't been difficult to do that. I donate £40/month to the local foodbank via direct debit.

ahh I see, use Amazon, line the pockets of old Jeff B.

Though using Tesco isn't much better, but choices are limited at this time.

I am not sure that advising people to try to boil a pan of water and tip it into a bottle whilst dealing with a crying baby is particularly safe.

@verticality

I wouldn't class a kettle as essential personally. Anything you can buy in a supermarket, you can get delivered from an online store the next day.You can boil water in a saucepan until a kettle arrives the next day.

The only thing I can think that's essential is stuff that you'd need to fix things going majorly wrong in the house - like a big water leak or something like that.

I haven't been inside any building that isn't my house since March. It hasn't been difficult to do that. I donate £40/month to the local foodbank via direct debit.

It’s not something to be proud about that you haven’t left your house since March. it’s not a race to who can stay in the longest.

I agree@TheGreatWave
A parent of an infant, getting up to make bottles on who knows how little sleep should not be using a saucepan to boil water. I know everyone had to do it before we had electric kettles- but look at the figures for accidents in the home and scaldings from then, and they will be far higher than today.

Yesterday when I collected my click and collect at Tesco, I popped inside and bought a couple of sushi trays for lunch and a bunch of flowers because I couldn’t add them to my online shop. I could feel the judgement in the air!

Anything you can buy in a supermarket, you can get delivered from an online store the next day

Ha! Maybe you can....even amazon are quoting me a 3 week lead time on anything.

Or maybe I was just feeling guilty for being inside - but if I had done my shopping inside instead, would it be ok to put sushi and flowers in my trolley?

Ignore the comments. Having a kettle for ease for your baby is a lifesaver.
You do know though that you can boil water in the hob?

I had visions of you standing in a rainswept field in Barbour and muckieboots , with a silver tray , lifting the lid and saying "Or would Modom prefer a banana daiquiri?"

Modom does not go out in the rain . She thinks she might melt.

What kind of slave do you think I am

Plus, she has an expensive out of hours vet call out addiction, I can’t afford Barbour

www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/307358533 Is esssntial.

@lovelemoncurd

I bought a key lime pie from M&S- I don't give a shit what others view as essential. Snitchy snitchers can go to hell!

I bought a chocolate gateaux in tesco after homeschooling hell. I don't feel guilty either! The woman who served me said ooo I am going to get one to take home!

@SchadenfreudePersonified

I went to the shop solely to buy Angostura bitters the other day.

Gin can never be too pink, FKAT

It was for an Old-Fashioned.

What's more I took my youngest with me, instead of leaving them unsupervised at home like apparently you're supposed to.

Went to the shops for tea bags (essential) and treated myself to a big bar of Lindt (hump day) and a small bunch of tulips to brighten up the gloomy room where I work

I went into a supermarket for some light bulbs (being able to find one’s waypoints around at night being fairly essential, although no doubt some here would just have me light a flare every time I need to go to the loo I’m the night) but they didn’t have any, so I came out with some crisps and a new travel mug. Bite me.

FFS. IN the night.

I never did formula so I'm honestly not trying to be dim... but how much do you have to plan ahead? I know that it takes many minutes to boil water on a hob (unless induction, maybe, dunno about those). it takes 3-4 minutes to boil 10 oz of water in a microwave.

I thought that making baby formula had to be 'faster' that all that unless you wanted the stress of hungry crying baby for longer. This is why kettle was good, fast boiling.

So say I'm wrong & it's just as fast for OP to prepare formula by boiling the water on hob (with lid presumably).,

A kettle is not essential for me but certainly is for many others. If people have to go to the shops to buy food it really doesn't matter what else they buy and if someone has to make a one off unexpected trip to replace a faulty appliance or other household item that's not a big deal. The problem is the people (like my parents) who purposely plan to buy one or two items at a time in order to go to as many shops as possible rather than buying as much as possible in one go. So far this week they have been to the supermarket for a partial weekly shop, a corner shop to pick up bread, a hardware shop twice, a butchers (just for a pork pie) and to Costco to buy Pepsi and already have plans to visit the corner shop twice more (once for bread and once for milk) and a different supermarket (to pick up one small pack of a brand of coffee not sold in the first one) before the end of the week.

Also take-aways are certainly essential both of the meal kind and the coffee kind. The meal kind are the only way that many people are able to access a cooked meal, either due a lack of (working) cooking facilities or because of an inability to cook due to disability (especially amongst the older population there are people who no longer feel safe cooking but can make it to the local take-away and the coffee kind are essential for homeless people and those working outdoors or away from their base and who often take their break in a place with no facilities provided by work (such as bus drivers).

Yes, probably could pour water into a bottle from a saucepan (I suppose that's what they did back in the golden days) but given the risk of severe burns and therefore an A&E visit surely a quick nip to Tesco is more sensible and less risky??

My friend went to Tesco yesterday with the sole purpose of buying my 8 year old underwear after we discovered the cheeky miss had been messing her knickers and throwing them away (obviously being 8 she didnt fathom that eventually she would have thrown them ALL away). She went to school in a pair of her sisters and given my job is manic right now my friend offered to buy and bought her 20 pairs!

Anyone who says clothes, food, kitchen items, shoes and basic furniture (beds, mattresses, duvets, sofa etc) is not essential are clearly living in cloud cuckoo land.

Yes, in the short term you could probably cope but not for more than a week in most cases. Given we dont know how long this lockdown is going to last just about anything may end up being essential to someone.

What does it matter to anybody else what's in anyone else's trolleys. It's absurd that people feel they have to either notice or comment. This pandemic has made people crazy. Those tutting at other people's trolleys need to get some perspective.

To all the comments about the saucepan, the point was being made that (if any of this is even true), in an EMERGENCY it can be done on the hob and poured in to a jug. Rather than going in to next door and risking contamination or spread of covid.

Then a kettle can be bought.