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I was shopping today at the local Wegmans grocery store.

The store was MOBBED at about 11 AM on a school day.

They were completely out of:
toilet paper
rubbing alcohol
hydrogen peroxide
chicken

They were mostly out of:

paper towels
water
hand soap
pasta
flour

There was one turkey left and a turkey breast.

I grabbed the turkey.

It’s food. People are so conditioned to think that turkey is only for the holidays, they obviously were passing it up.

Not me.

I expect the big blitz will happen this weekend.

I hear that there are still many smaller stores that are fine with supplies of almost everything as they have their loyal customer base and other people don’t think to go there.

I did find plenty of chicken at another store and picked up that, some pork roasts, bacon, sausages, lard, some misc spices that we were low on.

I noticed that most of what’s missing is the prepared food. If you want to make your own or even know how to do it, those supplies are still around.

I will be vacuum sealing and freezing a bunch of the meat and pressure canning the chicken. I have a local farm stand that I can go to for veggies. We can basically avoid almost all human contact for quite a while.

Mr mm has often questioned my quantity buying asking constantly *Do we really need that?*.

Now he’s the one almost panicking about it. Considering he’s always been a *go to church come hell or high water* person, he’s absolutely dead set against going at this point.

I have been vindicated........

Some Dollar General stores have groceries too. Some of those have ‘fresh food’ as well.

Might not hurt to try those if you can’t find anything in the local big box grocery stores.

Dollar Generals are usually NOT located in big metro areas so perhaps, at this point, less chance of being in line behind some infected asymptomatic 20yr old.

I had kind of backed off of buying because our stores are all full, even walmart and we only have one case in St Louis but I’m going to have to step it up again. Pretty soon other States are going to have an affect on what our stores have. We have about a month supplies but I think I’m going to double that. We’ve got 32 mega rolls of TP which should be fine for two months. We’ll get a couple more 8 packs just in case. Might be able to do some barter with it. LOL One more good shopping trip for food ought to do us.

It’s all those non-food items that we’ll need fairly soon. We need a new push mower, weed wacker, tires, brake pads and a bunch of other stuff for me to work. To Get List time.

Now he’s the one almost panicking about it. Considering he’s always been a *go to church come hell or high water* person, he’s absolutely dead set against going at this point. I have been vindicated........

lol...my wife was kind of the same way. I started a couple of months ago and wife was kind of like "Ok really?". And then earlier this week I told her the prez was going to address the nation and that was going to start the panic...and she's like...well let's go to Sam's before it starts and get some more food!