american 2020 isn’t just about survival, it’s about comfort because they still have the money to spend
I mean people have smartphones, high speed internet, endless media and entertainment yet they freak out if they have to stay home for even a day, two weeks is torture
All canned and dried beans were gone, except for the black eyed peas.
Silly Yankees.
Meat, especially ground beef and chicken. I guess the warmer weather everyone is grilling out? I mean we have bought more and stocked up on a few items, but there ain’t nothing out therr unless you hit the store right when the truck arrives. Now I can still find a nice steak, but anything cheaper is gone.
Besides if I was prepping, I would go for canned beans, oatmeal, canned veggies in general. People think scarcity is a thing, but not that they are going to lose utilities.
I guess I’ll make do with some pepperoni sticks and a pencil sharpener.
In my area, chicken breast, pork and ground meat went fast but steaks, chicken thighs and “plant based” meat stuck around for a while and were the first to be replenished. (I am in an apartment complex, very few grills).
I am picturing spring loaded exploding jello from mixing it with yeast and refrigerating it.
I would test it out but the only yeast I have is probably long dead by now. I bought a breadmaker two years ago. It used to make interesting loaves, but nothing ever suitable for sandwich making
<Whew!> Takeout containers aren’t on the list.
Or canned tuna
In the UK, based on my own shopping attempt this week, we are out of or low on
Bread flour
Tinned fish and tomatoes
Toilet roll
Webcams (for my parents)
Printer paper
Eggs
Worth adding that food-wise, it appears that we will be absolutely fine. and I do not understand why people’s priority is toilet roll in a crisis. There are many, many things I would trade my last toilet roll for.
Torus Knot Ham??
Yummmm
Me? Oatley is cheap here (around the same price as cow’s milk), and the use-by date on the carton in my fridge is in 2021. I bought it as part of my 14 day emergency reserve stash that includes a pound of bacon.
I never had it back home; I’m pretty impressed with both its taste and its steaming ability for the morning quaff. (Also, it is Vitamin D enriched, which most milk here is not.)
The Oatley in Europe is different than the one in the States, fwiw.
I was checking the back of the kitchen cupboard. There were a couple Indian dishes in MRE-style boil-bags that have been there for a year. Mom developed a sensitivity to spicy food (flavorful rather than hot), so we’ve been avoiding them. I was happy to see that they’re still within the expiry dates. Now I just have to juggle a couple split meals so that I can finish them.
I have a room with a view.
And a stocked bar.
And I just negotiated a turn down service. Sweet.
I assume because of the oat variety they use. If the American product is anything like the European product, I will be a convert provided (a) the price comes down a bit, and (b) the flight I hope to take back to the US ever returns to the schedule.
Oat milk specifically has had a ton of advertising in the past year, at least in Los Angeles, so people may have chosen it over other milk and/or box milk alternatives. I’m just glad my Tempt hemp milk is back on the shelf at my local organic market.
I’d already been fuming about the special snowflakes who are so worried about growing man boobs (fake news) that it’s been impossible for the last few years to get soy milk at all in some stores, and absolutely none of the lunch-box size, which are really helpful if you only use a ‘milk’ product occasionally when cooking, rather than drink it by the glass. Ripple (pea protein) is now available in 4-packs of the lunch size, but honestly an unsweetened soy milk is often the most neutral choice. Oat milk is fine, but I’m old-school when it comes to plant milks. Especially for baking, there’s a certain level of fat and mouth feel that almond, cashew, and oat just don’t achieve.
I agree. I’ve used soy when I’ve been able to bake, and the mouth-feel of cakes and cookies is indistinguishable.
Eeeyeahhh…you can have 'em. Trade ya for garbanzos?
