Food shopping.

Sorry, just saw this! There is one that's finally started delivering to Baltimore (it used to just be DC). I'm trying to find out more info about it before committing, but we'll probably start ordering from there when we get jobs!

Have you seen this? They're new from what I can tell.

http://www.milkmoo-vers.com/index.html

Have you seen this? They're new from what I can tell.

http://www.milkmoo-vers.com/index.html

No! Thanks!

Waking up at 6am and DH heading out to the shops at 7:45am is the way forward! Got what we needed, and everything was put away by 9:30ish. Don't like waking up early on Saturday, but it makes Sunday nicer, I'm hoping!

The only nearby shop for us is the local Co-op.  It's about the size of a (small) Tesco Metro, and similarly stocked, and it's meant to serve the entire south half of the island, at least.  It's great if you want booze, magazines, candy or ready-meals-- plenty of those. But there's no deli, very little fresh bakery, and the produce section is significantly smaller than the liquor section.

Also, you'd better get there within a few hours of the delivery truck (assuming the truck shows up), or the shelves are bare.  It's like the scene of post-apocalyptic looting!  And it's even worse this time of year because of all the damned tourists. : /

So, yeah.  I can totally sympathize with food shopping frustrations.  It's such a treat to drive the 40 minutes to the larger shops in Benbecula (though I still wouldn't call them supermarkets; no deli, etc.), but we only do it once every couple of weeks, because our truck isn't terribly fuel efficient.

Our small local Co-Op is like this sometimes. The bigger supermarkets (which are all about 10 miles away) are fine, but sometimes our local shop (which normally has loads of bread including freshly baked stuff) is often completely out of bread. It is kind of nuts. I'm friends with all of the people who work there, and when I've asked about the bread, eggs, etc being sold out, they say it seems to be down to tourists. Some weekends we have loads of them around here, and some weekends we don't, depending on the weather. But then when the weather is bad (the snow days in winter) they can't get the deliveries in, so either way, the shelves are often bare. I guess they don't have much room in back to store extra stock, either, so that might have something to do with it. 

This is truly one of those things that really gets to me. I work 8-5. By the time I get off work, everything is closed and I can't get anything done until Saturday - and like people have said, everyone is out and everyone takes everything by the time 10 rolls around.

I might be generalizing but I get frustrated when I see pensioners and people who are spending dole money shopping on a Saturday morning - you had all week!!!!

We have a tescos down the road but they don't stock and you can't get to the doors for the kids anyway. There's a smell in there that makes me wretch. I'd rather not.

I'm currently off work due to some surgery, so we've been doing the online shopping thing - all I can say is know what weight everything is.

I'm sad to hear that a lot of people have problems with farmers markets. We have a brilliant farm shop near us and I get my fruit and veg from them - quality that exceeds anything in the supermarkets and, I find, cheaper as well.