Just Been Shopping

[Lucky7]

The other half dragged me along to Tesco Leytonstone and Aldi on Lea Bridge Rd all very polite and no queue jumpers Security officers at both only allowing a few people in at a time Aldi was better stocked than Tesco some items restricted to 2-3 packs/bottles etc
That’s us done for at least 2 weeks now

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Our weekly shop isn't until tomorrow. Just hoping there's something left come then. :-)

[Lucky7]

Our weekly shop isn't until tomorrow. Just hoping there's something left come then. :-)

All the Supermarkets are cutting there opening hours to be able to replenish stock at a more timely pace you probably won’t find some of your fave items there but that’s just how it is at the moment

[Lovejoy]

I managed to get two bottles of tomato ketchup this morning in our local Co-op. At least the food will taste okay for a while.

[Long slender neck]

Went last night before the speech as it was obvious how people will react.

[Howling Mad Murdock]

No shopping till probably Next Monday I would guess as working at weekend and it's never my favourite time to shop anyway.Had already done a cheeky shop round Iceland and Pondland last week before this got worse.I have thee cans of well out of date food from Sep 2012 which I saved for a nucleur winter.Heinz Chocolate pudding is one of them.Perhaps they are collectors items and I could sell them on ebay.

[tuffers#1]

Just about to go stock up on some
Very necessary ingredients .

Got a small borrows & need to choose wisely.

High carbs & protein for me .
A reasonable amount of vit c.

[Top of the JES]

I had a delivery from Tesco at the weekend which would constitute almost a weekly shop for the four of us, we ordered £114 of food and drink and got £35 worth. We almost feel penalised for not stockpiling.

As I can't leave the house because of health issues, my wife who is currently designated a key worker and ironically works in food ingredient production will now have to shop again tonight when there will be bugger all on the shelf.

No one could have forseen this and I think the goverment have done OK'ish but some of the restrictions are very hap hazard and not very clear, It's obvious that some sort of food rationing at the checkouts should have been in place from early on in this crisis. On the radio yesterday they said there is over £1 billion excess grocery items in peoples larders that wasn't there a month ago.

[Mikero]

Just got back from walking round to our local shop, as I do most mornings for a paper, and they had everything including toilet rolls. I wont have to bother with the supermarkets.

Mikero

[Howling Mad Murdock]

Yup I know a few (local biggish) shops down the road which I notice on my very ealry morning commutes are still open.I will cycle to there at 3 in the morning if need be.

[tuffers#1]

Sainsburys down the high street is
Meagrely stocked .

No lou roll no washing up liquid
Plenty of milk , tinned foods
Pretty decent amount of veg
Plenty of cooked meats .
Deli counter closed.( ).
Plenty of pet food
Not massively busy but enough people piling in as i was on my way out.

[JimbO]

Just went to my local co-op and had some of most food stuffs although there were no cleaning products, pain killers and loo rolls.

We're quite lucky as we bought one of each before it all went crazy out there and my parents who are on painkillers gave us a couple of packets paracetamol so ok.

[EastDerehamO]

Morrisons Dereham was better stocked than I expected yesterday lunchtime, albeit not a loo roll or any pasta in sight. But an easy shop, everyone behaved, not overly crowded and no queues, unlike what I heard at the local Tesco superstore the day before.

So much conflicting though – make as few a trips as possible is the advice, yeah ok, but some stuff isn’t in stock, and some stuff there’s a limit on, so with a family, one can’t survive on one or two pints of milk for very long before another shop is needed.

Logic says it must settle down, people can’t go on panic buying and stock-piling indefinitely.

[Howling Mad Murdock]

Got milk in freezer but can manage without that if need be.Water will do.
Counted up my bog rolls must have about forty but I bought most of them long before this started and some before the panic started although not because I had predicted that this was going to happen or the panic buying.

[Bluecap]

Yea right most people have 40 toilet rolls in the house at any one time.

[tuffers#1]

Forgot to say , when i was in tesco express yesterday i noticed they had taken off the meal deal.

Seems rather inappropriate for some who will be essential workers .

Not sure its profiteering, but that meal deal has been a staple for many who work.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

I had a delivery from Tesco at the weekend which would constitute almost a weekly shop for the four of us, we ordered £114 of food and drink and got £35 worth. We almost feel penalised for not stockpiling.

As I can't leave the house because of health issues, my wife who is currently designated a key worker and ironically works in food ingredient production will now have to shop again tonight when there will be bugger all on the shelf.

No one could have forseen this and I think the goverment have done OK'ish but some of the restrictions are very hap hazard and not very clear, It's obvious that some sort of food rationing at the checkouts should have been in place from early on in this crisis. On the radio yesterday they said there is over £1 billion excess grocery items in peoples larders that wasn't there a month ago.

Woukldn't trust on-line ordering at the moment, absolutely no guarantees you'll get what you've asked for.

Agreed that the government have been too slow on this, just as they have with every aspect. I also heard that £1billion figure - what are there, 30 million homes, so that's only an extra £33 per household.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Yea right most people have 40 toilet rolls in the house at any one time.

We do. Buy 50 in bulk online.

[Ronnie Hotdogs]

Also, not been out before the weekend but there was still ample stuff on the shelves to ensure no one is going to starve, just need to be a bit more creative.

[Howling Mad Murdock]

Yea right most people have 40 toilet rolls in the house at any one time.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-con ... c-20356056

Must be because I'm a bit of a hoarder.

I think my seven (and a bit) bikes I posted about on another thread may be a clue to this.

My downstairs neighbour is worse.

My uncle is the same,he's 80+ but everytime I visited his place in Derbyshire his place was cluttered up with newspapers and that was in the late 70's...Even the last time I visited in November 1998 nothing had changed and I doubit it has changed,now.

[Thor]

Forgot to say , when i was in tesco express yesterday i noticed they had taken off the meal deal.

Seems rather inappropriate for some who will be essential workers .

Not sure its profiteering, but that meal deal has been a staple for many who work.

I was in a Tesco Express this morning and the meal deal was in order.

[tuffers#1]

Forgot to say , when i was in tesco express yesterday i noticed they had taken off the meal deal.

Seems rather inappropriate for some who will be essential workers .

Not sure its profiteering, but that meal deal has been a staple for many who work.

I was in a Tesco Express this morning and the meal deal was in order.

Maybe just the one at walthamstow central .
When i say i noticed ,
I heard someone complaining the meal deal wasnt applied .
So in theory could have been a technical .

[Howling Mad Murdock]

Good god,they are moaning about small things like this?

Although I suppose there is a point.People need to save money,sorry.

[Real Al]

I haven't seen a pack of loo rolls for about a fortnight. I've only survived because I bought a 24-pack just before the panic buying started, as they were on offer.

Murdo, want to sell me some of yours?

[Howling Mad Murdock]

I haven't seen a pack of loo rolls for about a fortnight. I've only survived because I bought a 24-pack just before the panic buying started, as they were on offer.

Murdo, want to sell me some of yours?

They are hard currency now bit like Bitofacon.Not sure why bluecap was so offended with my post meaning I had to explain about my menal disorder.

Then when I do throw things out a week later I need them.

Normally if I buy from the supermarket I always get more than one of a certain item and the bogroll pack im using now was in a pack of 24.