Essential Items to shop before Coronavirus lockdown

This is our list of essential items to shop before the coronavirus lockdown begins tonight in Lagos and Abuja.

If you are not yet aware, please go now and do your last minute shopping of supplies to keep your family indoors beginning from 11 pm today Monday March 30th.

 

The Government of Nigeria has imposed a lock-down on major cities like Lagos and Abuja which takes effect from tonight. Do not be caught unawares.

 

This list is to help us all  remember some basic items to stock up at home during this coronavirus stay home period. If you don’t go out now to do the shopping for grocery and other essentials, you or your family members might suffer lack while indoors.

Try as much as possible to avoid panic shopping. Some items are perishable and will get wasted if you shop too much of those like fresh fruits and vegetables.

During the COVID-19 stay home order, there are so many basic items to save at home if you live in Nigeria: We need to stay home to be safe and to avoid catching that virus.

 

Essential Items to shop before Coronavirus lockdown

Starting from personal items that you cannot do without like medications and toiletries.

• Keep some cash at home first and foremost. Withdraw some cash to keep just in case. No one knows when this plague will finally be conquered.
• Sanitary pads and tampons. Get sanitary pads to last for 3 months just in case. You never can tell. Deodorants and shaving equipment.
• Are you on any medication? get extra supplies and keep at home to avoid running out too soon in search of  your drugs.
• Get supplies for your first aid box. Pain killers, some cough syrup for kids. Get methylated spirit and cotton wool. You may also need some plaster and other medical items to help in case of first Aid needs at this time.
• Toiletries like your body lotion, toilet soaps, hand sanitizers should be shopped too.
• If you do skin toning or skin bleaching, don’t forget yourself. Imagine missing a month or more of your skin tone cream or bleaching cream. Stock up on those please.
• Pay you TV subscription so the kids can remained entertained while indoors. Without any form of distraction for kids, their energy can tire you out like ….

 

Cleaning items for the home are also essential items to shop before CoronaVirus lockdown begins in Nigeria

• Shop detergents and washing soaps
• Enough Toilet and bathroom cleansers like harpic, hypo, jik, Ariel detergent and other washing items you use at home.
• My family adds jik or hypo with detergents to mopping water.
• Dettol or jik is also added to water used in cleaning surfaces like kitchen counters and tables. You may want to do that too at this time.

 

Food items and Grocery supplies to stock up

Food is another essential to shop before Corona Virus lock down begins in Nigeria

 

• First of all, start with the most important that could be medicinal for the family: Garlic, ginger and  lemon.
• Do you have basic staples like garri or semovita and yams at home? Enough to last a month? Have you shopped a bag of rice or half bag? Nigerian Kids love to eat rice even without stew or sauce they just love it.
• Beans
• Guinea corn  for kunu making. The kids at home? They drink a lot. I used my blender to make a few bottles of kunu yesterday.
• Zobo leaves and spices for homemade zobo
• Do you have enough food items in your kitchen? Canned tomatoes?
• Enough packs of salt but not a trailer load please
• Seasoning for food
• Milk
• Eggs
• Sugar
• Margarine
• Butter
• Peanut butter
• Ketchup
• Jam
• Milo bournvita or ovaltine for Nigerian tea drinking.
• Juice to drink in this hot weather
• Frozen foods like meats if electricity is good in your area. A carton of chicken in your deep freezer if you can afford that.
• Dried fish
• Stockfish
• Crayfish
• Onion
• Potatoes
• Curry
• Turmeric
• Thyme leaves
• All purpose baking flour
• Cooking oil like palm oil and vegetable or groundnut oil
• Ogbono and egusi for your Nigerian soup cooking
• Insecticide for the kitchen
• Tissue paper to last a month or more.

 

Families with babies should not forget to shop diapers in good quantities or better still get cloth diapers that can be washed and reused sine everyone is staying home. Shop baby items like soaps, lotions and stockings before the country goes on lockdown and crackdown.

Once supplies in supermarket shelves are exhausted, no new ones can get in considering that countries are closing boarders.

Did I forget anything? How are you shopping for coronavirus stay home order?

Can you think of any Essential Items to shop before Coronavirus lockdown? Help us by leaving a comment below.

God bless as we all try our best to stay safe and fight off the virus.