Common sense is in much shorter supply than surgical masks. It is on the verge of extinction.
My progressive SIL thinks we are kooks for having supplies that would enable us to live for 3 weeks (we are prepared for more than that but keep our own counsel) without leaving the house. She buys all of their food 1 week at a time. If they don't go to the grocery store on Sunday, they have nothing to eat on Monday.
I hope that when and if she does become short of food that she does turn to you, and you help her out. Perhaps she might listen to you in the future, and might even start helping prepare as well..
“If they don’t go to the grocery store on Sunday, they have nothing to eat on Monday.”
Living without an easily-obtained safety net.
Interesting, that she offers sacrifice on the Sabbath at the church of Piggly-Wiggly, Wegmans, or Publix.
However, if there is a delay of re-supply of the store's 3 day inventory, there is a possibility that she will be looking for food.
Plan accordingly !
A bag of rice, a case of pasta, and some sauce... Maybe one or two extra boxes of cereal. Seems a pretty meager insurance plan, but for this, highly effective.
Oh no! Buy an extra box of cereal? You’re a paranoid nut!
IOW, your SIL’s family will starve the first week she loses her job. The kids don’t have milk for their breakfast if she gets sick on Sunday and can’t get out of bed, or there’s a flood, snow storm or other natural disaster or the car won’t start. There’s a reason pantries and freezers were invented.
Unfortunately, there are many out there with the same mind set.
How sad to know you have to shop so often. All that time wasted on the road (an hour here), and all that time pushing a cart going up and down the same aisles week in and week out. Granted, I’ve been going weekly during this virus thing but normally it is once a month or six weeks. Saves so much time and effort.