Weekly food shop... on your bike?

[Tigerbiten]

I'm another with a recumbent trike and a large carry freedom trailer.
I tend to do around 20-30 miles round trip to the shops two or three times a week as I tend to only buy a couple pf days food at a time.
That way I have to go out more often ..........................
I'm lucky that all the places I shop have places I can lock the trike to.

If you are interested in a trailer, look for a cheap secondhand kiddies trailer as a start.

 

[User169]

OT, and especially for @rich p, the Italian word for turbot is "rombo", which refers rather pleasingly to the shape of the fish, and the best way to cook it is in "crazy water". Which is why Italian is the world's greatest cuisine.

Kalcan - "shield" - in Turkish.

 

[cosmicbike]

Waitrose used to offer trailers to borrow for those shopping on bikes, not sure if they still do?

 

[KneesUp]

I... I could do home delivery, but that wouldn't be carbon free ...

Unless you hold your breath and never eat, going by bike isn't carbon free either. Get them to deliver, save your £333 a month and buy a trailer next month

 

[TheDoctor]

BREAKING NEWS!!!
Most supermarkets now do delivery.

And if you're happy to have the salad underneath the tinned tomatoes on delivery, then it may suit you. Or not.
I choose not to delegate selection of my food to a grunting minimum wage teenager, I'm picky like that...

 

[Gravity Aided]

Goodness, just googled it. Edible, I assume.

Good , especially fried. In the bad habit of sassing their stalkers from a tree limb

 

[Arch]

And if you're happy to have the salad underneath the tinned tomatoes on delivery, then it may suit you. Or not.
I choose not to delegate selection of my food to a grunting minimum wage teenager, I'm picky like that...

Did anyone see the thing doing the rounds on Twitter last week, where Tesco substituted for a loaf of walnut bread by sending an octopus?

I did all my grocery shopping by bike or on foot when I was still in York, and now NT and I do it all on foot as the supermarket is only 10 mins walk away. Working mostly from home, we can go out whenever we need anything. (and that means I can keep a regular eye out for reduced bargains to stock the freezer with...)

 

[Arch]

Some of my Uni colleagues and I used to club together and get a wholefoods order from Suma, then divvy it up to take home. It was always delivered on a Tuesday, which also happened to be the day a couple of us went horseriding. So one day, this was my load coming home:

From memory, that was 24 toilet rolls, 6 jars of pasta sauce, 6 tins of mixed beans, a packet of cashew nuts, 240 teabags, riding hat, boots and crop...

 

[DCLane]

What about this as a solution:

 

[Piemaster]

Has been known for me to go shopping:

though not as often recently as my wife now takes the (ageing) MiL for a weekly shop. The freeloader bag/panniers take a big Sports Direct bag on each side.

 

[Gravity Aided]

What about this as a solution:

Had one of those on my local Craigslist a few months back.

 

[ColinJ]

I do 95% of my shopping in Hebden Bridge and a trip round the shops is only about 1 mile so I walk and use a rucksack.

If I am shopping in Todmorden 4.5 miles away, I either walk there or go by train, load up my rucksack and get the train back, then walk half a mile home from the station.

The rucksack is 30 L capacity and for the main weekly shop, that is usually full. Sometimes I would carry a carrier bag in each hand as well.

Smaller shopping trips are done on foot and with a smaller bag.

 

[summerdays]

We're not car free, but do the majority of shopping on foot. Until fairly recently we only had a small fridge (after moving house 2 years ago), therefore it made sense to do regular small shops since we could only fit in one 4 pint milk bottle and for a family of five (some of who me must bathe in the stuff), that was a days supply. Even now with a larger fridge we do frequent small shops, the nearest is just 5 mins away so mostly walk, though it doesn't have as large a range as the Tesco's which is a 10 min bike ride away.

You can carry a lot more on a bike, especially the heavy stuff. But I've got large panniers. Every now and again we use the car to stock up on tins, loo rolls etc. and Mr Summerdays works opposite a Sainsburys where he usually goes for lunch and gets my porridge oats from.

I think it becomes easier the nearer you are to local shops, especially if you are passing some nearly every journey when you can grab stuff.

 

[MarkF]

We are a family of 5 and my wife and I do the food shopping on our bikes, we have Asda & Sainsburys 2 (hilly) miles either side of us. Yes, we shop at least every other day, but that's what keeps us fit.

 

[confusedcyclist]

I'll pick up those panniers from Halfords tonight or tomorrow and just give it a go this weekend! Just wondering how people buy items like sacks of potatoes without a car, the mind boggles!

I just had an epiphany, there are two farm shops within 2 and 5 minutes ride from my house... Clearly, I need to build the use of those into my shopping routine.

Luckily my household is small, only my partner, my (rather large) German Shepherd and I. The Dog's food gets delivered once a month by Amazon (for a saving of about £180 a year over Pets at Home/Supermarket prices). But as I stated, the idea is to minimise emissions and the use of cars.