Corona Virus Concerns
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+1, around £100 too🤷🏻♂️
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In these times of concern with little knowledge of the future near or far it’s good to be able to rely on the sage advice of those we’ve grown up being able to believe in. A message of hope-
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Another £100 for 2 of us and no wine included in that total.
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When it was just two of us a few (happy) week ago it was usually a £100 per shop but now we have two extra 'guests' it is way more. It's not the extra in meals that is pushing up the price but they have reverted to teenagers wanting loads of snacks and things we wouldn't normally buy, cheese strings, dunkers, pringles... oh and Vodka, gin, tonic water (Ok late teens there).
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In normal times I would have had no idea of weekly spends for shopping. As we are close to the two supermarkets that I use I might pop out every 3 or 4 days depending on what I wanted to cook/fancied. Now that I have been going to each shop once a week for the past month I know that I spend under £60 as before they raised my non pin use card limit to £45 from £30 I never had to use my pin number in either shop
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"At least the Guardian's free which is a little bonus"
David, is there still,a toilet roll shortage where you are?
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We're definitely not moneyed - but I like Booths. I've been shopping there for 50 years on and off - from before self-service. We travel 7 miles to one of their smaller stores and it's big enough for everything we need. The staff are friendly and know us - my husband talks to them (used to!) while I decide what to buy. The meat and veg are as local as possible and are not really any more expensive than elsewhere. And - they have an award winning wine/beer/spirit section.
I don't like big supermarkets (or anywhere big and crowded) so it suits us, but I realise some people prefer other shops.
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No milk worries here - fresh from the tank.
Full fat, organic, unpasteurised, zero food miles.
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when we're over in the lakes it's always Booth, both a tradition and a treat really. I do like their fresh meat and their bread is excellent, and the cream teas in their cafes are very good value.
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"Seems that the biggest concern on here regarding the virus is membership fees and food shopping"
.....agreed....with a bit of Top Trumps thrown in, too
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Games, eh? 😉
I thought you couldn't have overlooked all those pages concerning people putting folk at risk by travelling unnecessarily.
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Mmmm, interesting-ET a first responder😊
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Got an e mail from Sainsburys to say that as a vulnerable person I should click on for priority deliveries. Did all the stuff and then the answer was " we dont deliver to your area"> Great service. None of the others do either. Part of living in the countryside. At least I dont get worked up about "Slots".
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I always think that Booths is what Waitrose would like to be😁 Their own label food is simply superb, best ready meals I have ever tasted, I think of it more as a Super deli, as they have so much choice of really good quality ingredients on the shelf. It’s a cooks paradise. But we don’t find the ordinary groceries any dearer either. First time in one we did laugh though, came out with two not particularly stuffed bags, and did remark that the amount spent would have done a massive Aldi shop!
We don’t have meat bills in our shop, so it never seems too bad. Veg box coming today, loaf is in bread maker, so hopefully fresh soup for lunch😋
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"hopefully fresh soup for lunch"
hope its vichyssoise as its alread heading towards 20 deg in the back garden..
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No, I don’t like vichyssoise in truth. My all time love is spicy parsnip, so it might be a tad too warm for that😁 Bit of nice bread and butter will do, I have a lasagne planned for this evening. Sort of a Jamie make do one, no bechamel sauce, so I might have to put a mix of blue Stilton and Parmesan on the top........yummy😋 I like to make do.....😂
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We used to get raw/green top delivered to the door but the then milkman decided to stop selling it (apparently Scotland stopped the sale of none pasteurised milk 🤔 so he thought he'd preempt an English ban) then the milkman packed his round in so we're now on supermarket homogenised milk 😕
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I use the scanners all the time at our Tesco, so much easier and quicker, although you do have to keep focussed and remember to scan. I hated the stuff-in trolley, stuff out of trolley, stuff back into trolley routine at normal checkouts, so works well for me. Good to hear larger supermarkets are coping better with queues, I haven’t been in any of ours for weeks.
My lasagne’s are always decadent, but for true oozing bliss......it’s got to be Macaroni Bolognese! Bottom layer of rich tomato based veg sauce, topped with creamy Cheese and Macaroni Sauce, topped with a crunchy mix of porridge oats and more strong cheese. I love cheese that walks up, slaps you in the mouth, full of flavour. Given the calorific rating, it’s a very much once in a blue moon treat!
It’s haircut day for OH. #tuppennyalloff
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I find charcoal and bread mix a little gritty; tends to lodge between the gaps in the dentures. Wholemeal is much better and also keeps things moving. Though excesses can be devastating; sometimes the world falls out of my bottom, but that's straying into information overload ...
Phase 3 of cutting Mrs March's hair is the next excitement. Her hair is so thick that Phases 1 & 2 killed the battery on the clippers so an overnight charge needed; otherwise, it's back to the garden shears and they need sharpened ...
We'll have plenty of lockdown time for any exuberance or over estimations of my coiffure skills to grow back so fingers crossed [or not whilst cutting] thatI don't receive the 'I can't believe that you managed to do that' award again. 1 more win and I get to keep the trophy
Steve
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