We’re so prepared . . until we’re not! 🙂
The last time we were at Walmart, which was about 10 days ago, I asked Vince if he needed cream for his coffee. “No, I have plenty!” He uses heavy cream and I also use heavy cream for tomato soup. I told him I might want to have extra so we could make soup. “No. We really have plenty. It’s going to go bad before we use it.”
Last night he went over to the shop fridge to get more cream. He came back and said “This is the last container of cream.” That’s not good! We have evaporated milk we can use for coffee and probably for the soup – maybe a little evaporated milk and a little cream cheese and it will be just fine.
And then . . there are carrots! Most of the time, a 2 pound bag of carrots lasts forever. In fact, usually the last few get gross and get thrown out. I’ve made soup a couple of times and used carrots in the corned beef and now we’re down to two or three carrots. I can live without carrots but watch . . every recipe I want to make now will need carrots. I have probably half a dozen cans of carrots (storebought) because I sometimes use those in Rita’s food. I need to save those for her. Probably in a month, carrots will be ready in the garden.
My celery isn’t going to last long either. It’s the fresh veggies I’m going to miss. I have enough onions, between the fresh ones I have from the store, and the freeze dried onions, to make it til the onions are ready in the garden.
Fresh veggies aren’t going to last for months but I could have done better with the celery, carrots and for sure, the cream.
We’re not going to go hungry but we may be doing lots of substituting.
pat says
just buy the fresh celery, carrots and etc. and freeze them. when they are availalbe again. I have those in my freezer.
Heidi says
I’m having the same feelings, am I prepared enough for my family? What have I forgotten, can’t get any longer, might run out of. Life is changing really fast right now and it’s difficult keeping the anxiety down. The scary part is you don’t know if anyone that you’ve been around for the last two or three weeks might have been infected. I keep wondering if myself or someone in the family accidentally got exposed to it.
Liz says
Check with your local stores for online shopping & pickup options. I have fresh stuff, but I also see that I’ll eventually run out and will have to the canned & freeze-dried foods. The last time I was at Walmart, they were still picking orders for pickup. Also, I’ve read that some stores are considering having special morning hours for seniors and disabled to go shop. Since the stores are closing for cleaning and restocking the shelves, getting the highest risk people in first makes sense.
Judy Laquidara says
No. We don’t want to have any interaction with people now. There are things we could use but unless we’re going hungry, we’re not risking going out. BTW, Walmart, United and Brookshires do have curbside pickup still.
Karen says
Here in Georgetown the stores seem to have plenty of produce and dairy. However, don’t look for chicken!
Judy Laquidara says
That’s interesting that different places have different things and are short on different things. Last time I was in the store, pretty much everything was in the stores but things went crazy after that.
Nelle Coursey says
I went to Brookshire’s today and there is no milk, eggs, bread, fruit, vegetables, bread, TP, paper towels, cheese and a few other things. I went to Sliger’s and he has potatoes, fruit and vegetables. He also had a parking lot full of cars and people were standing in line to buy potatoes, fruit and vegetables!!
Susan Nixon says
Substituting is good! I need to check my yeast, and if it isn’t good any more, I looked up substitutions, because I think most people will just stop if they can’t buy yeast, but it’s easy to substitute, even if you do get a little different texture.