Posted on 10/22/2020 12:33:47 AM PDT by be-baw
Remember those great early-pandemic days last spring when bags of flour and yeast suddenly became precious items? Wasn’t that fun? Well, great news, everybody: we’re going to get to experience them all over again. As we’ve noted before, grocers are a little more prepared this time around and have been stocking “pandemic pallets” of food they can reorder quickly, but some things will still be hard to find. Mashed has thoughtfully prepared a list:
Baking supplies. It’s now chilly enough to turn the oven on again, plus the spectre of holiday baking looms
Canned soups. Both General Mills and Campbell’s are still behind in production after the increased demand during the first wave of the pandemic (because what is an easier meal for people who don’t know how to cook than heating up a can of soup?). Officials say they hope to be back to full capacity again in January, but just in case... maybe try making your own soup?
Soda pop. Remember the aluminum can shortage? We’re still feeling its repercussions. In order to make sure there’s enough aluminum to accommodate its best-sellers like Coke and Dr. Pepper, Coca-Cola has been rejiggering its production so that niche favorites like Fresca and Caffeine-Free Diet Coke have been getting short shrift . Snacks. Frito-Lay, Pepperidge Farm, and other snack producers have been letting the public know, via Twitter, about the products they’ve paused or cut off completely. A moment of silence, please, for Tostitos Black Beans and Garlic, Kickin’ Chicken Taco Pringles, and Geneva cookies. . Spam. Hormel CEO Jim Snee reported that the company has 24% less inventory of all its products than it did at this time last year, and production may be slowed again if there are any more cases of COVID-19 among workers.
SPAM = acronym for Spoiled & Putrefied Animal Meat
Shortages are a myth if you plan ahead. Been prepping for decades now and am ready as ever.
BUT do not forget how you are going to prepare these feasts. You must have ways of cooking and baking
The problem with home grown is the long line in processing Our beef appointment was 3 months out so make it t as soon as you get the piglet
Hormel, a Minnesota Corporation, must now be managed by a “progressive collective,” imposed by their Red Chinese
overlords.
“In 2011, Hormel Foods announced a two-for-one stock split.[42] In 2013, Hormel Foods purchased Skippy—the best-selling brand of peanut butter in China and the second-best-selling brand in the world—from Unilever for $700 million; the sale included Skippy’s American and Chinese factories.[43]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormel
Trouble finding diet caffeine free coke here
We also have a food service store that's open to the public.
Where I live we are allowed to process our own as long it is not for commercial sale for personal use.
And if we have to wait anytime at all, we can make do with deer and moose.
Flour, eggs, rolling device. Total cost about $1.
The swine flu in China is sucking up all of the pork. The floods in China have ruined the grain crops. The Chinese gov is stockpiling years of grains.
The US is now just waking up to the problem.
Good thing all “they” want to talk about it racism. Because your color doesn’t matter if your belly is empty.
Actually was speaking with a conservative friend...
People have started stocking up in anticipation of a Trump win in November. We are all fully expecting riots, not just protests like last time, but full on riots that just might look like war.
And I hate to even think like this, but some of the things Trump has authorized: extra UE $$$, Food Boxes, etc. all might be in anticipation of severe disruptions caused by the crazy democrats...not because of Covid.
I blew off this CV19 thing at first, but when I saw the politically motivated response, my wife and I purchased 20 baby chickens. 19 survived and two are roosters. They should start laying in about a week. They average roughly one egg per day per hen.
It was a “just in case” sort of thing.
The local butchers are swamped. If you want a beef slaughtered you need to schedule it about the time you pick it up as a calf.
I drove a scion FR-S 150 miles round trip every day to work until work from home. I bought it new in 2013 and put 195k miles on it. Since April 1st (WFH began), I’ve put less than 50 on it. I’ve also learned that the battery will go a month without being hooked up. Meanwhile, my 2004 Z71 silverado will go dead after a week.
I've learned to make so many things in bulk...and freeze. It's awesome to take Chicken French from the freezer and have it 10 minutes later. OMG...I'm hungry now.
Stew, meatloaf, pea soup, chicken soup, chili....all freeze well. I leave the potatoes out of the stew and add fresh.
I see signs of shortages every week at our local stores. What is odd is for example, Meier has had no ramen noodles for months. They now put pasta where Ramen used to be. Go a couple miles to the Wal-Mart and they have pallets full of Ramen.
We have a grandson who loves mac and cheese. You can’t find those microwave cups anywhere in a store around here. So far, I have maintained supply from Amazon.
Are different grocers hoarding different foods?
Did someone say “spam”?
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2hwqlw
Spirit of Liberty wrote: “One thing I found in short supply is canned pumpkin! I had decided to start getting stocked for the holidays in case it took a couple weeks to locate items. I assume it’s due to the aluminum shortage.”
Can’t stand pumpkin. One can would be a lifetime supply for me. I could pass it on to the kids, unopened.
Supply chains are still disrupted from the switch to a much higher percentage of meals eaten at home, vs. restaurants.
I adopted some of the prepper strategies from 2009-2010, mostly about adjusting quantities of stored food. When Controllavirus food shortages hit I was prepared and, beyond some isolated outages, made out just fine.
Likewise I’ve been anticipating civil unrest at election time and am ready.
Hope for the best - plan for the worst
I bought a couple of the cheap solar battery tenders from Harbor Freight for the occasional-use vehicles. They won’t charge a dead battery but will keep a charged one topped off.
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