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The online food shops still taking orders for home deliveries



Supermarkets are under more strain than ever as new measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus kick in. 

Delivery slots are scarce and regular trips are discouraged unless it is to buy essentials. We’ve compiled the latest information on the supermarket’s delivery slots here. 

This doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do your food shop while staying safe and self-isolated. 

But if you’re still struggling to secure a delivery with the major supermarkets, stick to smaller online food shops instead. 


It’s the easiest way to get hold of fresh food too, with many butchers, bakeries and farm shops sending produce made to order. 

These are the places that are still delivering, so you won’t need to leave your house to keep the fridge stocked up. 

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While all its cafes are closed for now, Daylesford farm shops are still open and its groceries are available to order from its online shop to be delivered in London. To order to a London address, Daylesford advises calling your local farm shop or emailing delivered@daylesford.com.  

You can create a bespoke order or choose from seasonal dishes like spiced salmon fillets with slow-roasted tomatoes and ginger or grass-pastured beef burger with blue cheese, bacon jam, pickled bets and crisp potatoes. 

Delivery is expensive for London customers, however, costing £8.50 for the first two-miles, then £3 every mile after that, up to just five miles. Alongside that, there is a range of Daylesford goods on Deliveroo too. 

If you have a sweet tooth, place an order with Betty’s, the famous Yorkshire bakery and tea room, which is still offering online deliveries. With everything you need for a teatime treat from cakes, bread, biscuits, chocolates, teas and coffees, you can get your sugar fix from one place. 

Delivery costs from £3.95 and we’d recommend getting your Easter egg hampers and chocolates sorted now before they sell out. We’ve got our eye on the hazelnut and almond milk chocolate egg.

Pescatarians and fish fans will be pleased to hear Fish Society is running the business as normal. 

The luxury online fishmonger is accepting orders but unable to deliver to some of the UK’s more remote postcodes, you can check if yours falls into that category here. The peeling king prawns look delicious and will pair nicely in a pasta dish or as a prawn cocktail starter. If you can’t treat yourself now, then when can you?

If your basket comes to less than £50, delivery will be £7.50, but anything over £75 and you will get free delivery. 

Jake’s Artisan Foods is a small hand-cut pork pie company based in Petersfield with a simple menu of individuals pies costing £3.50 and a family-size version for £32. 

Made with freshly chopped, locally sourced free-range pork with sea salt and pepper, it’s comfort food at its finest, standard home delivery will cost you £6.95, so we’d recommend buying big to get your money’s worth of pie. 

In Scotland, Jarvis Pickle Pies makes handmade meat, fish, vegetarian and vegan pastry pockets and offers free delivery when you order 12 or more from its online shop. Available in batches of four, eight, 12 or 16, fillings include Moroccan lamb, beef and ale, spinach and goat cheese, vegan cauliflower curry and more. All are made fresh, and you will need to order by midnight on Thursdays to qualify for delivery the following week, anywhere in the UK. 

For meat-lovers, if you’ve been struggling to get hold of poultry, beef or pork in your local supermarket, head to Turner & George, whose small team of butchers have curated a British reared menu from independent farms. They dry-age in-house and make their own sausages and burgers. 

Its staples box should be enough to see you through a few weeks of dinner, featuring a whole herb fed chicken, four pork loin chops, four lambs T-bones, six breakfast sausages, back bacon and 500g of ground beef. Plus, key workers and over 70’s can get a 20 per cent discount on it by emailing email info@turnerandgeorge.co.uk for a code.

Southwark based butchery, The Ginger Pig, is also catering to the masses with its cuts of beef, lamb, pork, bakery and Easter selection available for delivery across the UK. Taken from British livestock, we’ve got our eye on the sirloin steaks, £27.50 for two 350g pieces.

Pricey yes, but a nice way treat for a special dinner, maybe an anniversary or birthday stuck indoors? For London deliveries, email sam@thegingerpig.co.uk and for nationwide, simply select a delivery slot on its website. 

Further south you’ll find Phillip Warren Butchers in Cornwall who specialise in British reared cattle, but also has poultry, bacon, lamb and burgers. The butchery is also a meat supplier to around 20 Michelin starred restaurants, including Rick Stein’s Bistro in Padstow.

It will deliver across England for £9.99, so to get your money’s worth of meat, we’d suggest getting a big order in. Or, if you spend over £100, delivery is free, with all deliveries guaranteed to arrive by midday, dispatched on the next working day. Delivery to postcodes, PL, TR and EX23 costs £4.99.

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