Posted on 08/20/2022 5:42:10 AM PDT by DoodleBob
There is only one reason for this study. “...It helps us prepare for the next crisis...”, should tell you everything. I expect that a lot of these alternative means will soon go the way of food processing plants in this country.
We didn’t change our habits. If we wanted to eat out or dine in, we did. I did in-person shopping for groceries much the same way as I have for years. Only did curbside from places where I wasn’t allowed inside. As soon as they would let me in without a mask, I went in. One store was so rude to me, I have never returned. I had to find alternate sources for those items.
Meat and potatoes, eggs and all the staples in the baking aisle were the first to disappear here in rural MO during the Great Lockdown of 2020. Snack and soda aisles remained fairly untouched. I was impressed.
Within 2 weeks, not a freezer could be found in stores.
“As states restricted access to restaurants...”
Just my guess here. As The State forced restaurants to close, people went to restaurants less.
I saw a video of a farmer who had just gotten ramped up and fully operational selling to restaurants when covid hit. All the restaurants closed so he had to revamp his operation into mostly CSA. He did open shopping though instead of a box of whatever. It was points based. You could buy 15 points for a single share or 30 for a double share. All produce had points assigned and people could choose what they wanted so it was more like a shopping experience than the average CSA grab bag.
It started outdoors but he also built a farm store by converting a barn and designed it for a single direction flow of customers in a big U shape. Cooler doors were built into the wall and the backside was the walk in cooler room with doors on the other end. That way personnel could restock it from the back end instead of being up front where the customers were. The only employee in the front area was the cashier and the checkout counter was designed to keep a distance between the cashier and customer.
The outdoor booth didn’t take long to build and between that and people preferring it to going into a grocery store, he had a booming business very quickly. Helps that he chose his location well and had good exposure on a major road. By the time it got cold, the barn he started with was a farm store.
Video was almost an hour long and the guy was really impressive as a common sense farmer and businessman. Instead of hiring a construction company, he hired one knowledgeable guy full time and everything but the cooler doors was salvage or used. He also did a lot of the work himself.
I looked forward to shopping during the pandemic. It afforded me the chance to take a pulse on what was ACTUALLY happening vs the fearporn online.
What became incredibly scarce early on - aside from TP and paper towels and hand sanitizer - was kiddie food: fries and chicken tenders and burgers! There was plenty of meat in our stores, but the local farmer was our go-to choice for meat and chicken since they didn't treat me like plague.
The OTHER, very telling observation, was piles and piles of fake meat inventory. They tried to push that nonsense on us, and nobody fell for it. I was proud of my fellow Americans.
That's funny and I had forgotten that fakemeat showed up for the first time in our small town grocery store but it also remained untouched even when all the other meat was gone.
We're 80 miles from St Louis and this a recreational area due to a large river, canoeing kayaking, tubing etc, National Forest for hunting and lots of gravel roads. A lot of St Louis area people own land here and St Louis locked down pretty hard so most of them came here for the 2 week state lockdown and many came here every weekend after that. By the end of every weekend, the grocery stores were wiped out. I think a lot of them were going back to the city with coolers full.
“People like looking at the meat”
Yes, because it brings back good memories of the days Before Brandon when people could afford meat.
Found it which is tough to do on youtube now. Their search really sucks these days; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksf6KBymnLo
37 minutes.
"As a result of western governments’ taking collective action under the auspices of a ‘climate change’ agenda, we are on the cusp of something happening with ramifications that no one has ever seen before".
“The OTHER, very telling observation, was piles and piles of fake meat inventory. They tried to push that nonsense on us, and nobody fell for it. I was proud of my fellow Americans.”
Same here in SW Wisconsin. Fake meat, Tofu, Kale and anything ‘Vegan’ were always the last items to go...if at all!
Don’t need a study to know that during The pandemic, dry goods and canned food completely sold out, and meat was near non existent unless you were right there when they were offloading it from the trucks and into the counters. Noodles, rice, pastas, tuna fish, soups both dry and wet, e5c were all very hard to Get during that time.
Bookmarked that video!
One acre doesn’t seem like much land, but my old farm only had an acre-worth of tillable land and I got a TON of food off of that place through the years - which helped because I had three teen boys to feed!
Even now, at my ‘new’ 1900’s farm, I have much less than an acre, including the greenhouse, but with 16 raised beds, I can still grow a ton of food for just the two of us - with plenty to put up and share, too.
Only five minutes in, but this is pretty cool so far. Thanks.
Well all I know is my habits are about to change... Inflation drove up fast food about $2 a meal, and has anyone else noticed the simultaneous reduction bof the size of burgers?? McMuffin and a Wendy’s double is a little bigger round than a tennis ball!! The size a kiddy burger was years ago. Truly truly pathetic!!
Lots of Blueberry Muffins until there was a mention in the news of people turning to ‘comfort food’ during ‘lockdown’
comfort food AKA FAT
so I weened myself of them
:)
I’ve got it open in a tab to watch again. I just found it impressive how he was able to make a u-turn in Spring 2020 from restaurant sales to individuals in 2-3 months and then have his farm store done for before it got cold. Very driven and smart.
I’ve got an acre of good soil but some of it still has trees on it and it has a 30 foot x 300 foot swath down the middle that’s electric easement. Guess I could grow amaranth or something there.
I learned how to make decent oil-free blueberry muffins a year ago. It helps fulfill that craving for muffins that I get from time to time, but isn’t full of fat. The recipe can be adjusted to whatever you might want to add instead of blueberries.
Thanks for the link. Need to read soon.
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