Supermarket items out of stock

I haven’t been shopping for 10 weeks so have no idea what a supermarket looks like during the plague. My daughter won’t let me shop so does it for me and every week there are one of two things she can’t get in Waitrose. Baked beans, frozen chicken for the animals, jam doughnuts, little gem lettuces, pesto, flour (of course), frozen spinach. Such random availability!
I did a big shop before lockdown and haven’t needed any toiletries or cleaning products since, I just keep running out of salad stuff and vegetables.

I have a feeling things are going to get scarcer. It may be that packaging is having an impact with foodstuffs and availability. I must admit, if I order something online, I will consciously check it’s place of origin and not buy it if it’s from China. Also I believe we should support our own country and Buy British! Unfortunately the people responsible for sourcing goods and food in this country are not bothered about this - it boils down in the majority of cases to PROFIT!

There is no shortage of flour apparently just a problem in packing it in the bags sizes we normally buy it in. A friend of mine approached a local baker who was quite happy to sell her some.

Strong flour from Tesco today. I have just enough yeast to make three batches of bread/rolls. Planning to make some marmalade now as I have oranges and lemons plus one lime.

Brilliant thank you Marydoll

Cabbage for my coleslaw local shop has had none and I have one ordered from Asda in my Click and Collect it cost £1.85 . Co-Op say it is lack of pickers.

To make by hand: Place dry bread in a sealed bag. Smash with a rolling pin to break into crumbs. Place in a resealable bag, and store in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
If using fresh bread, place slices on a baking sheet and dry out slightly in a 300-degree-Fahrenheit oven for 15 minutes.

I usually add seasoning of my choice.

Hope this helps, Gilly.

Also does anyone know a quick/ easy way to make breadcrumbs to coat chicken ?

Still haven’t managed to get any flour . Not that I’m a huge baker but DH does like the occasional cheese scone .

Ah, you’ve lured him out with your tablet, Marydoll. It’d take a strong man to resist, to be fair.

I’ve just checked, and condensed milk is showing as available on the Sainsburys site. I could add it to my order..... But for the sake of my teeth and hips I’d better not.

I had a stash of condensed milk to make tablet for my daughter's wedding, but of course, it couldn't go ahead. The stash is now gone!

I have been making tablet for my lovely neighbours, as they have been helping me with shopping. It's now run out!
All my neighbours and family are on the alert for it in the shops. It's liquid gold! ?

What I find really amusing, is that this particular neighbour is quite reserved and often avoids eye contact and scuttles inside the house if he see you

Oh, I love condensed milk, Marydoll. I can eat it from the tin by the spoonful, just like Nutella. Just as well I never buy it these days.

I’d love some tablet even more though.

Late last night, I found a tin of condensed milk, left on my doorstep by a kind neighbour. ?
He has an ulterior motive. He knows I will make tablet for him and other neighbours with it.
Apparently it was sitting all alone on the shelf!

I’ve just added 30 cod fillet fish fingers to my Sainsburys order for a fiver, amymorris01, and they had 10 minced cod ones for as little as 69p, so I’d be surprised if Asda’s were so dear.

I haven’t noticed any out of the ordinary price increases, but there are fewer lines available from Sainsburys online and not as many special offers. Both perfectly understandable. It’s actually easier to shop when you’re not confronted with 200 varieties of sliced loaf.

Good morning. Has anyone else noticed that the prices have gone up in the supermarkets in the last few weeks. I noticed 10 fishfingers were £4.95 in asda or was I dreaming. I think the supermarkets are doing a great job staying open but they are a bit cheeky if this is true. Some people have less money at the moment and supermarket profits have gone up a lot.

The delivery woman was panting, not my neighbour!

Just had a delivery from Sainsburys. The only substitutes are things like a different scent of washing up liquid. I order a small bag of rice (250gm). Then when I went to make some amendments, that was unavailable so changed it to 500gm. They've substituted 1kg which will last me years. All the use by dates were reasonable which makes a nice change.
I felt guilty because it was a very large shop and a small woman delivering it up a flight of stairs. She also got accosted by my neighbour asking what she was doing (which was pretty obvious). She's a friendly neighbour but does like to know what's what. She was panting a bit. I won't order so much next time. My fridge is small so is packed.
It's a relief to know that I'll be ok for hopefully 3 weeks.

I just keep looking for macaroni, there’s everything but back in the shops.

Flour
Yeast
Baking powder
For a while, condensed milk. Odd.
Condensed milk caramel/dulce de leche
Tinned tomatoes
Sometimes the cheese I order
A couple of weeks ago, bread? Odd.
Powdered emergency milk although I have some now.
Tinned fruit in juice (plenty in syrup available)
For a while, eggs

I was sent Typhoo tea instead of Yorkshire, tofu instead of Quorn, and crab paste instead of crab pate.

I haven’t been in a shop since the middle of March, all of my groceries are delivered. In the beginning there were lots of unavailable items, not so many now but a couple of weeks ago I had a tin of rhubarb instead of fresh in my delivery but no toothpaste as the one I’d ordered was out of stock. I did think that the picker must have been in an odd mood that day, cannot believe the supermarket had absolutely no toothpaste.

I got flour from a mill in the neighbouring county and I get eggs from a local farm. But Sainsburys never has caster sugar.

@Daftbag1 your suggestion made me smile. We don't have anything quite so salubrious in my neck of the woods but I will try my local Spar store.

Sorry that was meant as a PM to Puzzler 61. ?

Thank you for your advice about your Tesco having All Bran. I shall try mine again for my next shop.
Stay safe. ?

Hello Bijou - not ‘seen’ you for a while. Hope you’re doing ok in all this!