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do I go out now to try and get more in case I can't when we run out?
Yes!
Especially if you are in London.
Get yourself to 2 weeks worth of absolute essentials like this. Do it today if you can as things are changing too rapidly. Most shops have stock, I think Co-Op just has poor supply chain, but most other shops have enough of most things.
Why go today? If a lock down comes, you may not be able to go tomorrow.
Just get the basics, don't go over the top, but definitely go get formula for your daughter.
Velocio-
2 large sainsburys near to me in Putney are stripped bare. You literally couldn't scramble together a single meal.
No tins of any kind, no rice, no pasta, no bread, no milk, no chilled meals like pizza or anything.We went to stock up before any lock down that may or may not happen but came away with basically nothing
PhilDAS
I have been indoors too since Monday evening and envisioning a lawless wasteland has left me feeling very anxious. Similarly, imagining the opposite has had the same effect.
Really worrying about the shopping/grocery situation not sorting itself out anytime soon and having difficulty finding formula for my daughter. My rational brain says we're fine, we have about a week's worth (normal supply, not hoarded), but do I go out now to try and get more in case I can't when we run out? It's not like I can ask her to wait a day and "try again tomorrow". She doesn't eat enough solid food to sustain her and she isn't breastfed. Then thinking about all that brings home (even more so than usual) that this is a struggle that far too many deal with regularly anyway, which then ramps up the guilt which feeds the anxiety and around and around and around....
I often find myself just thinking I'll go for a walk/drive just to see what the shops are like, but then worried I'll see carnage/empty shelves and worry more or if it's all fine, I will be being irresponsible about social distancing when I didn't have to go out at all.