The hoarding thread

[Conor Dary]

So this morning I went to my local Whole Foods wannabee (Market of Choice - a fine small chain). Turns out my favorite peanut butter, veggie juice and pasta sauce were cleared out, as were all canned soups and beans (except kidney - no respect!), almost all bread, most of the meat market, paper and cleaning products. The Rite-Aid next door didn't help. Not much of a shopper and can live for weeks without going out again.

Went to a local country bakery and stocked up on bread and our farmer friends for eggs - we're set.

Which one did you go to? The one on 29th ..I was there Monday...still fairly well stocked then..

[highjumpfan]

The beauty of living in a very poor country, where the average person earns $1.50 a day, is that no one can afford to hoard, and for the most part those who could, have left

[bad hammy]

Went to a local country bakery and stocked up on bread and our farmer friends for eggs - we're set.

The problem with that is that fresh bread goes stale really quickly (even refrigerated/frozen), so it's hard to buy and save.

Wrong, Fermented Yeast Breath - if you're having problems with frozen bread then you need to stop buying Wonder Bread!

Every few weeks I take three or four artisan loaves from Camas, cut them into four and put them in the freezer. Each quadrant lasts us about three or four days with pastas and soups. And our regular sandwhich loaf is Dave's Killer Bread, which lives in the freezer for the life of a loaf without degradation.

Related note: Best thing we did last year without knowing how valuable it would be right now is buying a dedicated standup freezer. I have no idea what half the stuff in there is but we can last a while without a grocery store.

[Atticus]

Wrong, Fermented Yeast Breath - if you're having problems with frozen bread then you need to stop buying Wonder Bread!

Ha! Spoken like a man who obviously does not have a palate sophisticated enough to taste the nuances of Wonder Bread and Ding Dongs!

[gh]

so this morning I bought a 3.5lb slab of baby backs..... but it's 15 bones, which doesn't split evenly 4 ways. Oh, the drama as i mix and match big ones with little ones!....

[jazzcyclist]

Wrong, Fermented Yeast Breath - if you're having problems with frozen bread then you need to stop buying Wonder Bread!

Every few weeks I take three or four artisan loaves from Camas, cut them into four and put them in the freezer. Each quadrant lasts us about three or four days with pastas and soups. And our regular sandwhich loaf is Dave's Killer Bread, which lives in the freezer for the life of a loaf without degradation.

Related note: Best thing we did last year without knowing how valuable it would be right now is buying a dedicated standup freezer. I have no idea what half the stuff in there is but we can last a while without a grocery store.

What's the longest you have even frozen bread? Every time I've done it, the bread tastes like crap when I take it out of the freezer.

[gh]

my take is that frozen bread gets kinda cardboardish, but if you toast it (and bury it in butter and peanut butter!) you can't tell the difference.

[lonewolf]

I seem to remember that 65 years ago, as an economy measure, my wife routinely bought day old bread and froze it... I never knew the difference..

[gm]

my take is that frozen bread gets kinda cardboardish, but if you toast it (and bury it in butter and peanut butter!) you can't tell the difference.

French toast is even better in that case!

[jc203]

Lonewolf, my Oklahoma relatives used to be happy to have anything at all to eat. And resourceful. My great aunt in Skiatok made something called mock Apple pie entirely from Ritz crackers, pie crust and some seasonings.

[lonewolf]

Lonewolf, my Oklahoma relatives used to be happy to have anything at all to eat. And resourceful. My great aunt in Skiatok made something called mock Apple pie entirely from Ritz crackers, pie crust and some seasonings.

My recollection is that Eastern Oklahoma was harder hit by the Great Depression than we were in SW Oklahoma but some of my close relatives emigrated to So Cal pre WWII.. and never came home.

[Conor Dary]

Meanwhile...

No need to hoard: There’s plenty of food in the system

Industries adjust to pared-back hours and shoppers cause unexpected surges, but numbers point to plenty of supply.

https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/03/18/food-supply-coronavirus-135481?__twitter_impression=true

[gh]

so my question is, once this passes, how many of the hoarders will stay in hunker-down mode and not use their stuff, and how many will simply go back to normal and munch their way through everything until their pantry is at a pre-C19 level?

[bad hammy]

Personally I'm taking this virus as a wakeup call, sort of like Katrina in 2005. Katrina prompted a number of long-term disaster-preparedness changes around hammy house. Many of those changes didn't have expiration dates.

The problem with food goods, even freeze-dried, frozen and canned goods, is that they need to used in a relatively short period of time. There are a few camping/survivalist food items from 2005 in a emergency preparedness kit out in the barn I wouldn't want to have to eat.

One thing this virus will do is make me much more interested in new viruses when they hit the news. Like the slightly-dated cartoon below, I got a bit complacent about early virus warnings.



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[jazzcyclist]

Bad hammy, where were you living when Katrina hit?