Buggies & shopping

[loobylou79]

Hello all
I hope you can help me Im new to Mumsnet.
Im doing a project on the problems of going shopping with a pushchair and not having enough storage space on the buggy. Being a parent myself living in a small town I remember the days well when I would just nip to the shops but after buying what I needed would have problems getting it all home - struggling with plastic bags etc - can you all empathise?!

There must be a way of designing a product that would attach to a buggy similar to the way a buggly board does..

Please could you tell me how you go about your shopping with a pushchair and how you get round this problem?

Any details would be great! Thanks for your time :)

Louise

I stuff the basket FULL and use pram clips to hang more shopping off the handle and the back. :)

I have a 3 wheeler Teutonia Spirit which has a fair carrying capacity in the basket, but I do all my shopping on foot, including all food for 2 adults and a toddler. I tend to do at least 2 shops weekly, probably 3 plus bits & pieces. If I'm really struggling or with something big, my DS goes in the sling and the shopping goes in the pushchair.

My changing bag hangs off the handlebars.

HTH

Oh, and welcome to MN. :)

I used both shopping baskets that came with my pram and have hooks on the handle for other bags. I don't worry about a changing bag unless we are going out for longer than an hour or so, especially now that my son is nearly 22 months.

I also have a very long handled bag from M&S that slings across my back like a backpack which holds quite a bit of shopping as well.

I can carry a full weeks worth of groceries this way.

Someone on the Dragons Den had a product that was basically a shopping trolley on a buggy board.

I use a carrier for dd and use the puschchair for all the shopping.

buggy clips are really good if you have a buggy with one long handle so you cant hang bags off the handle bars, i use mine all the time, otherwise stuff everything underneath. for supermarket shopping tend to do on weekend so one of us will go with one child and other one stay @ home with other child, and then can use the 2nd seat of p&t to fit in loads of bulky stuff, so that comes in quite handy

I struggle actually doing the shop in the first place, only have a O Baby Atlas and the hood isnt very sturdy and collapses if you try and balance a basket on it (ds found that out the hard way!) Its pain in the ass holding the basket in one hand and pushing the buggy (any direction cept the way i want) with the other hand.

Once i've paid its a piece of cake. bags on the handles and remember to hold on at all times or it'll ds will be upended!