Grocery Procedures?

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What are you doing with groceries after you get them home? Do you have any procedures in place? Is there recommendations?

Wiping everything down with Clorox wipes?
Washing some items?
Nothing?

What about produce?

Curious what others are doing?
Aggie95
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wife started taking stuff out of bags and wiping with lysol and then we bring it in...we realize it's probably overkill.

While at the store (Kroger) yesterday I watched an employee loading an online order (ClickList). She had her own opened snack on the cart, eating as she was strolling through the store. She dgaf....
Barnyard96
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I crack open a pack of E.L. Fudge and proceed to see how many I can eat in a day.

Bruce Almighty
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Nothing. I'm not living in a bubble. I'd probably feel different if I was old.
aggierogue
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Aggie95 said:

wife started taking stuff out of bags and wiping with lysol and then we bring it in...we realize it's probably overkill.

While at the store (Kroger) yesterday I watched an employee loading an online order (ClickList). She had her own opened snack on the cart, eating as she was strolling through the store. She dgaf....


We are wiping stuff down as well and washing produce. I joked with my brother that we're probably going to die from bleach if this virus doesn't get us.

But we have been on lockdown at my house. The only way we're going to get this virus is if our groceries have Covid-19 on them.
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Not saying I am doing as good as this guy... but worth posting since you asked.

nai06
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MrProfit said:

Not saying I am doing as good as this guy... but worth posting since you asked.




Some of that stuff is overkill. I don't think you should be washing your food with soap.
Sq 17
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next week i probably will let the canned goods soak up some UV on the driveway i hear Sunlight is a good disinfectant
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MrProfit said:

Not saying I am doing as good as this guy... but worth posting since you asked.


This is the level I've taken it too.
TexasAg21
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I've implemented most of this. Probably not as extreme though
Bruce Almighty
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Sq 17 said:

next week i probably will let the canned goods soak up some UV on the driveway i hear Sunlight is a good disinfectant


I read an article a couple days ago that sunlight doesn't kill the virus. Only concentrated UV will kill it.
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Sq 17 said:

next week i probably will let the canned goods soak up some UV on the driveway i hear Sunlight is a good disinfectant


I heard that too but see this??

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/2931170001


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Sq 17 said:

next week i probably will let the canned goods soak up some UV on the driveway i hear Sunlight is a good disinfectant


Even better, use a little radiation therapy. Stick them in the microwave and let the waves do the work. Guaranteed to kill the viruses not just on the cans but in your house too!
John Francis Donaghy
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I am wiping items down before putting them away. Probably overkill, but with an infant in the house, I'm ok with a little overkill.
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The more paranoid my wife gets, the more G*D hoops I have to jump through to get my groceries into the fridge.

First few visits werent bad, but at this point it is almost an OCD-type ritual that I am to perform at every stage from entering my car at home in the garage to getting back home; disinfecting the load and putting the groceries away.

The process at this point involves layers of gloves, a mask (new this week!), hand sanitizer, a disinfecting wipe to wipe down the cart handle (to the chagrin of the people at Costco who already are highly advertising the fact that they already do the same); and a mantra that she told me to repeat stating that I shall "never touch my mouth, nose, eyes, or face" Getting the load to the fridge, usually involves quite a few "let me do that"s, a few "I will handle those", and at least 1 or two "JUST STOP"s.

Most of the putting away of the groceries in the interior of our household occurs with myself in just my boxer briefs, as she demanded that I immediately throw all of my "contaminated" outer layers immediately into the washing machine that she washes HOT on MAX TIME. Like i Just got back from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and somehow a tide pod on my laundry is an iodine pill.

We wipe down our "harvest", a product at a time, disinfecting the whole way, before finally wiping down our kitchen and every surface that they have so far touched. We then head out to our designated doorknobs, to blast with force with 409, then set a timer for 5 minutes until they are sufficiently disinfected before wiping down aid doorknobs with our freshly-disinfected and now completely contaminated textiles, which we also toss into the hot soak with my previously contaminated clothing.

I do this not so much for my health, but for my sanity. It makes her feel safe. And right now that's what matters.
Sq 17
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Bruce Almighty said:

Sq 17 said:

next week i probably will let the canned goods soak up some UV on the driveway i hear Sunlight is a good disinfectant


I read an article a couple days ago that sunlight doesn't kill the virus. Only concentrated UV will kill it.
on to plan B put groceries in cupboard and wash hands after i put them up and after i open them on the bright side i an the only person touching groceries in my house
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Anything not in the fridge I am just leaving out on my living room for a day or two. The virus does not live that long outside the body
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Bruce Almighty said:

Nothing. I'm not living in a bubble. I'd probably feel different if I was old.
Not picking on you specifically, but I wonder how people with this approach would feel if they found out that they killed a few old people because they carelessly contracted the virus and spread it to those who otherwise woukd have been unaffected? Food for thiught.

Pun intended.
Barnyard96
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Because we don't come home and spray Lysol on our groceries?
TxSquarebody
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I usually put my groceries away in the pantry.
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barnyard1996 said:

Because we don't come home and spray Lysol on our groceries?
Because you don't think sensible precautions are worthwhile since you think you'll be able to live thriugh poor consequences. Question is... at the expense of what?? Truth is, if you get this, and unknowingly spread it around (which is apparently common), then chances are that YOU WILL wind up killing someone, somewhere down the line. That's just how this sort of thing works.
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DifferenceMaker Ag said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Nothing. I'm not living in a bubble. I'd probably feel different if I was old.
Not picking on you specifically, but I wonder how people with this approach would feel if they found out that they killed a few old people because they carelessly contracted the virus and spread it to those who otherwise woukd have been unaffected? Food for thiught.

Pun intended.
I understand what you are saying, but I'm already washing my hands 10+ times a day and use hand sanitizer every time I go out, which has only been twice in the last two weeks. I'm also not going to live in fear of this thing to the point where I feel like I'm walking around on egg shells all the time. If people are really getting this from toughing a box of cereal, then we're likely all going to get this at some point in time in the next year or so. Eventually, people are going to start going back to work and kids are going to go back to school. When that happens, what we do with our groceries will be the least of our concerns.
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DifferenceMaker Ag said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Nothing. I'm not living in a bubble. I'd probably feel different if I was old.
Not picking on you specifically, but I wonder how people with this approach would feel if they found out that they killed a few old people because they carelessly contracted the virus and spread it to those who otherwise woukd have been unaffected? Food for thiught.

Pun intended.


You're a special kind of "Difference".
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Good for you, and I hope all of that is true. And I wasn't specifically referring to you, or to grocery storage protocol. What I was referring to was the general attitude that youth is viable insurance against negative consequences. Yes, we will all be rejoining polite society soon, and we should never operate out of fear, but repardless of any of that, it will remain imortant to be very mindful. None of us are out of the woods until we have an effective vaccine.

For the record, I am in the "safe demographic" as well.
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I wiped items with hard surfaces (milk) with a Lysol wipe. I quarantine soft packaged items (bread) on the kitchen table for a couple of days. I don't eat at the kitchen table. Frozen items go straight to the freezer. They will be there several days before use anyway. I am currently not buying any fresh produce.

Shopping has become a tedious process.
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I just chase my food and drink with a little bit of bleach. Its tangy and gets the job done.

Plus, my teeth havent been this white for a long time.
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I hope you are 20 and think 40 is old. I lost two close friends this week to this Satan disease. One was 41 and the other was 51. Neither had any hidden health issues. I don't even remember the 51 year old ever even having a bad cold. They both were fitness nuts and always had perfect annual physicals. Not just olds are dieing from this....that hit me head on this week.
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Ag_N_Houston said:

I wiped items with hard surfaces (milk) with a Lysol wipe. I quarantine soft packaged items (bread) on the kitchen table for a couple of days. I don't eat at the kitchen table. Frozen items go straight to the freezer. They will be there several days before use anyway. I am currently not buying any fresh produce.

Shopping has become a tedious process.


I wiped down the frozen stuff I got with a bleach washer solution after I heard that freezing is mot sn effective method to kill this virus.

But I just put the canned stuff into the pantry because it'll probably be 3 dsys begore I use it. And I'm washing my hands so frequently its getting to be neurotic-level overdone. I can't help it.
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Check the label on the wipes to see what the "kill time" is. For example, the wipes we use at work have a 60 second kill time. The Clorox wipes at home have a 6 minute kill time. Make sure you let them sit without touching or efforts are a waste of time.
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DifferenceMaker Ag said:

Bruce Almighty said:

Nothing. I'm not living in a bubble. I'd probably feel different if I was old.
Not picking on you specifically, but I wonder how people with this approach would feel if they found out that they killed a few old people because they carelessly contracted the virus and spread it to those who otherwise woukd have been unaffected? Food for thiught.

Pun intended.


Let's just stop this nonsense, nobody is killing grannys or grandpas. Until grandpa COVID dies, but the death certificate cause of death says STEVE. Then you come back and post update.

Unaware Steve will join the wave of this new victim class needing treatment catapulting PSG to a F1 circuit retirement.
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nai06 said:

MrProfit said:

Not saying I am doing as good as this guy... but worth posting since you asked.




Some of that stuff is overkill. I don't think you should be washing your food with soap.


Haven't watched video yet but I can only assume you're referring to fruits and veggies. If so, what's wrong with that? I (and lots of other people) have washed our produce all of our lives when we get it home from the store.
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DifferenceMaker Ag said:

barnyard1996 said:

Because we don't come home and spray Lysol on our groceries?
Because you don't think sensible precautions are worthwhile since you think you'll be able to live thriugh poor consequences. Question is... at the expense of what?? Truth is, if you get this, and unknowingly spread it around (which is apparently common), then chances are that YOU WILL wind up killing someone, somewhere down the line. That's just how this sort of thing works.
I heard on CNN that its Trump's fault for not doing more. If he had a Texags handle, all of this could have been avoided.
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