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Grocery Store Update:

Have you all found a good delivery service? I was looking at instacart but then read a ton of horrible reviews. Are you ordering online at supermarkets and then picking up? I did this at sprouts once but had some tweaker looking lady bring me my stuff to the car. She blew my phone up texting me each time something wasn't in stock which was a lot. It was a creepy experience.

I live in the Phoenix area.

I'm wondering if going to a 24 hour Walgreens in the middle of the night is the way to do it to avoid crowds. Obviously they don't have everything.
 
Have you all found a good delivery service? I was looking at instacart but then read a ton of horrible reviews. Are you ordering online at supermarkets and then picking up? I did this at sprouts once but had some tweaker looking lady bring me my stuff to the car. She blew my phone up texting me each time something wasn't in stock which was a lot. It was a creepy experience.

I live in the Phoenix area.

I'm wondering if going to a 24 hour Walgreens in the middle of the night is the way to do it to avoid crowds. Obviously they don't have everything.

I did instacart & aldi yesterday, it wasn't bad, except that they were out of some of the stuff I wanted (chicken and paper towels)
 
whats all this 'pancake mix' talk about?


1 cup all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, or vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

If you are using powdered milk you can just add more water. You can also add in extracts. If you are really industrious you can pop open one of your cans of wheat that has been in your food storage forever and grind your own flour. Fresh ground wheat...even older wheat...makes for sweeter bread and cakes.
 
i was able to get most of the stuff we need for a while yesterday. like others have said, there were no paper towels and no TP of any kind. also, much of the baking stuff was gone. i do find it interesting that the TP manufacturers aren't really cashing in here, but whatever. i was able to get the stuff i need for my kid, cans of food for my dog, and dinners for us. almost no one was wearing PPE. i'm not even sure that you can still get it around here. that's a shame. i wore a mask and gloves. i hope that it helped.
 
No shortage of anything but TP in my AO.
I have a bidet plus 60 rolls, don’t care.

Wife always kept a good stockpile of TP, I don’t know why. Must be a girl thing.

I have used leaves when hunting.

Most not wearing masks. ( it’s a waste of time, cheap dust masks do not help.)
 
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whats all this 'pancake mix' talk about?


1 cup all-purpose flour, (spooned and leveled)
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted, or vegetable oil
1 large egg
1 tablespoon vegetable oil

If you are using powdered milk you can just add more water. You can also add in extracts. If you are really industrious you can pop open one of your cans of wheat that has been in your food storage forever and grind your own flour. Fresh ground wheat...even older wheat...makes for sweeter bread and cakes.

Ikari says his grocery was out of baking stuff, like baking powder, flour, etc. Our grocery was out of flour.


i was able to get most of the stuff we need for a while yesterday. like others have said, there were no paper towels and no TP of any kind. also, much of the baking stuff was gone. i do find it interesting that the TP manufacturers aren't really cashing in here, but whatever. i was able to get the stuff i need for my kid, cans of food for my dog, and dinners for us. almost no one was wearing PPE. i'm not even sure that you can still get it around here. that's a shame. i wore a mask and gloves. i hope that it helped.

I think all these store purchases are temporarily propping up the market, along with gov relief. But once this quarter ends and the tallying added up, unemployment numbers, missed rent/mortgages/utilities, credit cards, etc, the bottom will fall out.

I can't find any PPE worth buying but wore a cut-up, cotton t-shirt mask. Felt like a Ninja. Any barriers to diseases help, especially hand washing. I'm hoping to stay clear until a vaccine comes out.
 
No shortage of anything but TP in my AO.
I have a bidet plus 60 rolls, don’t care.

Wife always kept a good stockpile of TP, I don’t know why. Must be a girl thing.

I have used leafs when hunting.

60 rolls? My goodness, I couldn't go thru that much if it was one ply and I had diarrhea for a month.

Don't use Spanish moss though, you'll get the chiggers. :lol:
 
I got annoyed because all of a sudden everyone became star bakers. I love to bake, have for some time, but when this thing hit the stores all of a sudden all the baking supplies are gone. I finally got more baking powder this past weekend, but dang, the one plus I thought of was that being home I'll be able to bake/cook a bit more. Lay off the King Arthur's flour, some other folk need that!

go for the White Lily all-purpose
 
Ikari says his grocery was out of baking stuff, like baking powder, flour, etc. Our grocery was out of flour.




I think all these store purchases are temporarily propping up the market, along with gov relief. But once this quarter ends and the tallying added up, unemployment numbers, missed rent/mortgages/utilities, credit cards, etc, the bottom will fall out.

I can't find any PPE worth buying but wore a cut-up, cotton t-shirt mask. Felt like a Ninja. Any barriers to diseases help, especially hand washing. I'm hoping to stay clear until a vaccine comes out.
Its probably a good time for people to consider setting aside a few bucks a pay period to build in some food storage once things go back to normal.
 
Lat Friday. Plenty of everything except TP, thanks to maniacs. Done with Easter shopping and no need to shop for two months or more. In a month or two, I should buy TP. It occurs to me that all the normal people who did not partake in the mania, and have since missed their regularly scheduled TP buy, will be a second wave when TP finally stays on the shelves. The maniacs have set off a TP cascade event in which some people's supplies are dwindling and a now somewhat legitimate concern arises.

The second TP wave will be real. We're not talking stockpiling. We're talking need it and willing to fight for it.
 
Grocery delivery and curbside pickup is getting way backed up in my area. Anyone else doing this?
 
My area is still out of toilet paper and paper products. I was able to buy one small roll of store brand paper towels about a week ago. There were three left and I took one. I am actually weaning myself off of using paper towels. Save money.

No cleaning supplies but I was able to buy one container of dish soap. There were three left.

I am praying to the god of toilet paper that when I need some in about two weeks I will be able to score my usual large pack from Wal Mart. Other than that, I was given a bunch of canned goods from a neighbor, mostly black beans and salmon. Made salmon patties last night and some black beans. Pretty good. I spiced them up and they were pretty tasty.

I also received several cans of spaghetti sauce and several packs of spaghetti pasta from a food bank. I was able to go because of the old gentleman shut-in that I care for. I can go once a month to get supplies from that food bank. I got some shredded chicken from there plus some frozen fish. They also gave us a big cheese cake that was delicious. Lots of other food items as well.

If you need help, try going to a food bank. Some of them are real good.
 
Ikari says his grocery was out of baking stuff, like baking powder, flour, etc. Our grocery was out of flour.




I think all these store purchases are temporarily propping up the market, along with gov relief. But once this quarter ends and the tallying added up, unemployment numbers, missed rent/mortgages/utilities, credit cards, etc, the bottom will fall out.

I can't find any PPE worth buying but wore a cut-up, cotton t-shirt mask. Felt like a Ninja. Any barriers to diseases help, especially hand washing. I'm hoping to stay clear until a vaccine comes out.

I'll probably do scarves once the masks run out. Probably more effective anyway.
 
I work at a grocery store so...I'm in no danger of running out of food.
 
Its probably a good time for people to consider setting aside a few bucks a pay period to build in some food storage once things go back to normal.

Preppers appear very much less kooky right now. ;)


Lat Friday. Plenty of everything except TP, thanks to maniacs. Done with Easter shopping and no need to shop for two months or more. In a month or two, I should buy TP. It occurs to me that all the normal people who did not partake in the mania, and have since missed their regularly scheduled TP buy, will be a second wave when TP finally stays on the shelves. The maniacs have set off a TP cascade event in which some people's supplies are dwindling and a now somewhat legitimate concern arises.

The second TP wave will be real. We're not talking stockpiling. We're talking need it and willing to fight for it.

I bought a thousand rolls and plan to sell it in a month for $10 a roll. j/k :2razz:

Cascading is exactly what's causing the panic.


My area is still out of toilet paper and paper products. I was able to buy one small roll of store brand paper towels about a week ago. There were three left and I took one. I am actually weaning myself off of using paper towels. Save money.

No cleaning supplies but I was able to buy one container of dish soap. There were three left.

I am praying to the god of toilet paper that when I need some in about two weeks I will be able to score my usual large pack from Wal Mart. Other than that, I was given a bunch of canned goods from a neighbor, mostly black beans and salmon. Made salmon patties last night and some black beans. Pretty good. I spiced them up and they were pretty tasty.

I also received several cans of spaghetti sauce and several packs of spaghetti pasta from a food bank. I was able to go because of the old gentleman shut-in that I care for. I can go once a month to get supplies from that food bank. I got some shredded chicken from there plus some frozen fish. They also gave us a big cheese cake that was delicious. Lots of other food items as well.

If you need help, try going to a food bank. Some of them are real good.

Walmart runs out quick on TP. Grocery stores have more.

I just heard that TP manufacturers are ramping up production to the tits. TG


I'll probably do scarves once the masks run out. Probably more effective anyway.

If you can see light when you hold up the scarf, then try hairspray to block the front. You'll still get enough air from the sides.

There is a photo on Drudge's homepage of a miles-long line of vehicles hoping to reach a Florida food ban. And there is this: Grocery workers are beginning to die of coronavirus

Florida food ban? Oh, food bank, I just saw the photo, good lord.
 
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I work at a grocery store so...I'm in no danger of running out of food.

Or toilet paper since you get first dibs.

After this pandemic is over I'm going to check into buying stock at a toilet paper company.
 
I can't speak for all of Canada but our stores here in southwestern Ontario imposed purchasing limits and thus avoided having no products for the most part. We had about a week when TP and paper towelling was very hard to find but that and my beloved red lentils were the only products which I noticed being bought out for more than a day.

I did my emergency shopping in February and gradually laid in a two-month stock of non-perishable foodstuffs by the start of March. We are now cautiously expanding the stock to a three-month supply, without binge buying which will hurt others. We have a house emergency kit with about two weeks of emergency dry rations tucked away too, but that is reserved for a true emergency. I'm building three large raised planters out of cedar and pine right now to put on the side of the house and which can be secured, albeit with a wire mesh lid, to supplement the vegetable garden. Lots of beans and cabbage in our future perhaps.

Cheers.
Evilroddy.
 
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Preppers appear very much less kooky right now. ;)




I bought a thousand rolls and plan to sell it in a month for $10 a roll. j/k :2razz:

Cascading is exactly what's causing the panic.




Walmart runs out quick on TP. Grocery stores have more.

I just heard that TP manufacturers are ramping up production to the tits. TG




If you can see light when you hold up the scarf, then try hairspray to block the front. You'll still get enough air from the sides.



Florida food ban? Oh, food bank, I just saw the photo, good lord.

Lack of a social safety net will rise in importance come election time as this disease hits everyone but many wealthy will hardly notice the impacts
 
I got annoyed because all of a sudden everyone became star bakers. I love to bake, have for some time, but when this thing hit the stores all of a sudden all the baking supplies are gone. I finally got more baking powder this past weekend, but dang, the one plus I thought of was that being home I'll be able to bake/cook a bit more. Lay off the King Arthur's flour, some other folk need that!

I want cookies.

I'll be sooooooooo good if I get cookies.

:yes:
 
Lack of a social safety net will rise in importance come election time as this disease hits everyone but many wealthy will hardly notice the impacts

The poor and impoverished will get hit the hardest with no backup resources and food banks overwhelmed.
 
Everything's fine here - toilet paper, butter, booze - all the essentials.
 
We've done all online without too much issue. Toilet paper took a while, but got some. Pasta is rare but still get some. Have plenty.
Got some "yellow" instead of white rice..but will be a month before I think I'd need that anyway.
Been getting steady chicken and veggies, eggs, milk.. aside from the strangeness of it all (and slow on bread, pasta, paper products), there has been no issue.
Got worried about an inhaler delay, but it got filled the next day.

We've been eating great. Been doing lots of soups that freeze, and making giant pots of it...eat it for 2-3 days, freeze 3 days worth...totally unnecessary but there it is.
 
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