Corona Virus Treatment

With stores now starting to limit customers to only 5 cans of food (that's in total, not 5 cans of each), it's going to be difficult (impossible?) to buy a 'normal' weekly shop for just a single person, let alone a family or to last 2 weeks.

For example 1 can each of say tuna, baked beans, tomatoes, soup and peach segments and that's your lot when going to buy a 'family' shop.

Next they'll ration packets, so 1 pkt each of cereal, biscuits, crisps, tea and sugar and that'll be your lot, whether buying for a single person household or a family of 5. (I've excluded rice and pasta because there's none to be had anywhere).

 

We are well organised, well OK ,hubs is well organised!!
Our freezer is always well stocked with HIS batched cooked meals and to be honest we could survive for 6 weeks, maybe more! All I would probably add would be a couple more bottles of milk because I'm really not keen on hubs soya milk...but if push came to shove then I would have to. The only milk I have is on my breakast.

I would miss fresh fruit as we eat loads of it, so yes I would try and buy some under ripe and store it in the garage and also cook some up to freeze.
What would be really dismal is not being able to eat a daily big serving of mixed salad....we don't miss a day without enjoying one...so yes that would be a toughie.

Yogurt would also be missed too.

We have a larder that is well stocked with long lasting/ non perishable food items and hubs is a dab hand at bread making for when the frozen bread drawer runs out, but we only eat one loaf a week.

 

I drink hot water several times a day already so I wouldn't miss it if we ran out either @shiney.
However that would be highly unlikely as we have a 'tea cupboard ' stocked with all sorts of different teas , black, green, herbal, fruit and medicinal brews. We also have a good range of coffee too.

We feel quietly positive that we would be fine without having to ask for additional help.

 

Can anyone tell me what we are stocking up for???
I'm finding it all confusing.

Is it in case we actually get the virus ourselves, in which case I assume 7 days is the specified time of going around ringing a bell and shouting out "unclean".

Or, is it incase we get this so called "lockdown", which I assume could go on for months.

I'm getting conflicting information?

"Keep calm and carry on", along with panic and stock up for the worst scenario?

I go to Morrisons every sat morning for my weeks shopping, been doing it for ages, kind of know by sight most people that are there at the same time.
This morning I didn't recognise anyone, the place was full of people with trolleys totally loaded up , one bloke had even grabbed a tray of around 40 sausages that were bound for the restaurant and he had them taken off him at the till.

It seems we just lurch from one crisis to another these days.
At least the petrol pumps were quieter than normal.

 

Sow the seeds now and you will be self sufficient in some weeks' time when the peak is expected to hit. Beetroot leaves are great as well and come up quickly. Ditto pea sprouts. We gardeners are certainly in a good place if there is a situation where the shops close for a long period, especially now as the growing season is about to start.

I'm even planning to plant a Spaghetti tree and sell the produce in black market.

 

We're not stocking up Pete...this is just how we run things ,that's why IF things ran out OR if a 'lockdown ' happens we are pretty confident all will be OK.

Living out of town with no nearby shops for the last 38 yrs has made up think ahead, especially when our 3 boys were young and living with us.
Plus the fact apart from popping out to buy veg ,fruit and dairy products during the week ( often linked into when we have other errands to attend to in town) we only do a main shop once a month.

 

@Selleri ,we do and we have already.....that's thinking ahead!!


I can actually remember seeing that programme about the 'spaghetti tree' my siblings and I were very young and our parents played along with it too..until we drove them nuts insisting that we should get one in our garden!!

 

That's how we do things too FC..could be put down to the fact that hubs was a buyer before retiring....so he's always on the lookout for a good deal!!

Hate shopping too. Some people (one of my sisters ) even go...window shopping!! Horror upon horrors

 

Same here hubs and I wash out systems through with several mugs of hot water before eating breakfast. My Mum always did too.