Posted on 03/19/2020 8:03:21 PM PDT by EinNYC
I cannot fathom why the grocery store would allow $1500 orders.
They could have put a one cartload per person limit on it.
I liked the reports of stores where the manager was letting in only the locals he knew who were regular shoppers.
We started stocking up as soon as this coronavirus was in the news. We’re doing all right for now, and avoiding grocery stores altogether for as long as possible.
We always keep our pantry full, though.
Excellent. I also ordered and received some seeds for summer squash, cucumbers and bush beans.
Wow! That’s great!
I hate it.
I suspect in a total meltdown you could go past November...
I stopped in at the local Walmart this morning.
It wasn’t all that crowded, seemed like there were more stockers than shoppers.
Milk, eggs, TP, paper towels, paper plates, canned soup, and frozen pizza were non-existent. Most other canned and frozen goods were sparse, as was dry cereal, bottled water, toothpaste, floss, and mouthwash.
A small quantity of hand wipes magically appeared, and they were gone instantly. Most went directly from stockers to shopping carts, and never made it to the shelf.
Fresh produce was in abundant supply.
There was some unhappiness at the entrance where the store people tried unsuccessfully to limit customers to a single hand wipe each. Apart from that, most shoppers were friendlier than normal, all realizing that everyone was going through the same thing they were.
I like Texas Roadhouse, but it’s about a half-hour away from me, and I usually only go there for take-out when I have a late afternoon doctor’s appointment in the same area.
Smallish town in MO, the stores are pretty well stocked. I already had a lot of clorox wipes because I use them a lot in normal times. Probably have enough food and supplies for 45 days not counting the years worth of venison.
Parts of our cellar’s floor was dirt. It was that way in the root cellar area. It was a partitioned off area, crudely built, but it did the trick. I was just a kid at the time, with a vivid imagination. Across from the root cellar, where the fuse box was, there was a large, black cauldron. I know now it was probably used for pickling or some other food production, but to a kid, it meant something different. We had a big coal furnace, and across from that were two good-sized coal bins. We used to love look out the window, when the guy came to deliver the coal, and watch it go down the chute into the cellar. No kid today would ever think that something like that could be entertaining.
I actually bought some spinach seeds and lettuce seeds and got them in yesterday.
They should be up next week and are ~50 days to maturity. That would be early to mid May.
The asparagus should be in, too.
Hmm. I have used Instacart to order online from Lowe’s foods (I have one over near me). Problem was on the items I wanted, they all said “sold out”.
So I went there - to Lowe’s Foods today - and there was PLENTY of chicken and bread and milk but no paper goods.
Plant your garden this year.
How nice of your husband to want to do that for you...sounds like he’s as happy as you to settle in your new home.
I grew up in an older victorian house that had a dark/cool pantry in the rear of an unfinished basement. As kids we hated going down there, when mom asked us to fetch a jar of preserves, because there were yucky cob webs and spiders hanging out. Oddly enough when a teenager I would go down their periodically and sweep it clean to surprise her! LOL
I go to Texas Roadhouse about once or twice a year when family comes to visit. The food is always excellent and they don’t have any in their area.
I am sure she appreciated that.
Not only that it was clean, but that as a teen you would do something so thoughtful for her.
It is called a generator.
Yes prices on firearms are jacked up. Never wait for a crisis to buy.
Nope.. St Cloudastain is no place to raise kids..
even 45 minutes away from there is to close. I am on 169 on the way up to the lake though..
Yesterday, Vallarta had normal amount of beef & chicken & vegetables, water, milk. No eggs, much of the canned food like soup gone, no toilet paper.
I was at Target and the clerk told us that between 8am and 9am in the mornings there is toilet paper but senors get first dibs. At the time I was there 3:30pm there was no paper period.
Excellent.
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