These 7 tips will make your quarantine shopping more efficient
Fiona Staunton • April 12, 2020
Some of the tips I gave today on Newstalk Radio
First of all I wish you a happy Easter.
When shopping for cookery demos, I often shop for 6-8 meals in one go, in 40 mins. Today I would like to share my top tips with you to help your shopping during quarantine.
- Get input or buy-in from all in the household. Perhaps allow each person to choose their favourite dish on a particular day.
- Choose dishes you can re-purpose, eg have a bolognese one day, and add beans and have chilli the next or make a curry but have enough for lunch the next day.
- Check what you have in your fridge or to use up first and incorporate them into your menu e.g. soup or stir fry, reduce waste.
- Organise your shopping list according to your supermarket layout. I put fruit and veg on the right, fridge and freezer on the left, dry goods on bottom left and household items beside that. In the centre I put specialist things like fishmongers.
- Add pulses - peas, beans and lentils to your list. These are great to have in your store-cupboard, slow release of energy, very nutritious and last a long time.
- Frozen veg are a great option, veg like peas and corn are often more nutritious and taste better than fresh produce buy the time they get to our supermarket shelves.
- Support your local farmer/producer. Now is a very important time to support our local producers and smaller retailers. Many are offering home delivery or collection so that it is a contactless service & help them stay in business after this pandemic.
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