Shopping and COVID

We quarantine fresh fruits and vegetables in the garage for a couple of days or until needed.

We wipe our food/packets/tins with a solution of Milton fluid. Safe for babies, must be safe for us. A few things we wash in hot soapy water. Detergent kills the virus as does Milton fluid.

I have been wiping shopping over with either antiseptic wipes or a bleach solution for ages - I hate doing it; it’s a colossal waste of time and effort and my common sense tells me it’s probably over the top, but now I can’t bring myself to stop doing it - it’s become a ritual!

At first I started wiping down shopping with wipes, but then I realised that though they were antibacterial, they would be ineffective against the virus. Even ones bought more recently labelled antiviral do not convince me, so I have stopped doing this, as it is pointless.
We store tins and packets initially in the garage, so by the time they come through to be used, they bear no risk. Before preparing food, and several times during preparation I wash my hands, so I am not worried about wiping things down as soon as they come into the house.
We have been very careful, but occasionally have done something a bit risky eg had a plumber in the house, had a five minute car ride home when I had to leave my car at the garage, and I worry far more about those encounters than the shopping. Aerosols are the greatest danger.

Just wash my hands after unpacking I have never wiped down my shopping .

What do you wash the food in? Just water will not be sufficient to remove the virus. Tins and packets will need to be wiped with antiseptic wipes. Any fresh food will need to be soaked in bleach or another disinfectant to remove any viral material present. You will then certtainly need to soak it in water to remove all the disinfectant/bleach

This will make the food uneatable, or at least exceedingly unpleasant. So, for the last 9 months, everything you have done has been either ineffecive or your food must have tasted awful.

Personally, I wouldn't bother.

Calendargirl

Never done it. Just wash hands well after handling anything and wash them well before dealing with any food I am going to cook or eat.

Yes, this. I think you can take things too far - for some folk, it's almost getting into the realms of OCD.

Never done it. Just wash hands well after handling anything and wash them well before dealing with any food I am going to cook or eat.

When I first started getting online deliveries, I washed everything with soapy water, apart from fruit and veg. I stopped doing it when lockdown was lifted for a few weeks. Now I dont wash my delivery but have often wondered if I should start again

I read somewhere last year, that an infected person would have to stand in front of a specific grocery item and cough constantly for quite a while in order to deposit enough virus to infect another person. I cant find the article now, but no I don't wash shopping, just my hands.

We wash/wipe everything that comes into the house, and also my mother’s shopping which we add to our Click and Collect and then take round to her flat. It didn’t stop us getting Covid though as my mother contracted it in hospital after a fall, and as we are in a bubble with her, it passed to us after she was discharged from hospital having tested negative twice, but she was in fact positive. I spent twelve days in hospital very ill as a result of that.

I still ash all the shopping I get delivered , it just makes me feeli am doing all I can to keep the virus away from my house, I wipe everything down with a solution of bleach , it is a bit of a faff , but I am not doing or going anywhere and I feel happier for doing it,
At least I know I have done my best to keep safe ,

I don't do this either. I open any packaging and wash my hands before touching any of the contents.

In addition to the usual fruit washing, we always wipe everything down with anti- bacterial wipes if the contents cannot be decanted into Tupperware boxes. However we have ‘decanted’ since the era of Aggie and Kim. All this has become a routine and generally takes the two of us about half an hour from the arrival of the supermarket delivery van. I don’t think we even consider it (after nearly a year) to be anything to do with covid, it’s just become a way of life.

I spray some things, tins, packets, post, etc, with anti-virus and anti-bacterial spray, or wipe them with anti-virus wipes.
And then leave them for a while.

I have never done this. Unless I am mistaken, there has never been any official advice to do so.

If it makes you feel safe, then keep doing it.