Food in the time of a pandemic

[Anna N]

31 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Spam

Oh hell! This is getting serious. Thank heaven I have four more cans in the cupboard.

[Shelby]

Just now, Anna N said:

Oh hell! This is getting serious. Thank heaven I have four more cans in the cupboard.

I know right??!!  Spam!  I couldn't believe it.

[rotuts]

never thought to get some SPAM  a month ago or so when i started using

 

target.Com

 

rats.

[heidih]

29 minutes ago, Shelby said:

I know right??!!  Spam!  I couldn't believe it.

 

I always thought it was historically a wartime food - seems appropriate now,

[Jacksoup]

I sent my son shopping about two weeks ago after I finally convinced him that we needed to stock up, he came home with a can of Spam that was not on my,list.

[BeeZee]

Another adventure in food shopping, as DH brings home groceries with varying success (at the store just after 6am). Got the last good chunk of fresh ginger. No scallions. No peanut butter. Very little yogurt (I asked for the big tub of Fage 2% plain, he bought the little cup of 0% plain...sigh). Thankfully, I found that Target had peanut butter and some other canned goods I can use...so I hit that up for delivery. Grocery delivery time slots are impossible at this point.

[heidih]

I am out of coconut, raisins, craisins, dates and the like. Eyeballing the masses of citrus on my trees and I still have sugar - so - using the peels seems like a fun project. 

[Shelby]

16 minutes ago, heidih said:

I am out of coconut, raisins, craisins, dates and the like. Eyeballing the masses of citrus on my trees and I still have sugar - so - using the peels seems like a fun project. 

I'm glad you have so much citrus   I know it's a nice feeling to "have"  extras of things right now.....if that makes sense.

[kayb]

5 hours ago, Shelby said:

Edited to say I would have gone in and shopped myself, but we took me off the Sam's card years ago ...really regretting that now because Ronnie is in the high risk category and I'm keeping him out of public places during this.  My friend's husband went Friday night and he scored some Clorox wipes.

 

 

You ought to be able to go in and shop with it anyway. No one ever looks at mine to see if my photo is, in fact, me.

[Shelby]

2 minutes ago, kayb said:

 

You ought to be able to go in and shop with it anyway. No one ever looks at mine to see if my photo is, in fact, me.

Really?  My Sam's has a person at the door that you have to show your card to.  

[kayb]

13 minutes ago, Shelby said:

Really?  My Sam's has a person at the door that you have to show your card to.  

 

Mine does periodically, but they never look at it closely. They just want to see that you have one.

 

[Jacksoup]

Same here, although I go to Costco.  They are never even close enough to look at the picture.  Now that they should be 6 feet away, you should be fine.

[Shelby]

13 minutes ago, Jacksoup said:

Same here, although I go to Costco.  They are never even close enough to look at the picture.  Now that they should be 6 feet away, you should be fine.

Smaaaaart point.  Thanks  

[robirdstx]

I am no longer a Costco member, but when I was, my husband also had a card at no extra charge.

 

PS: They did check identity at checkout.

Edited April 14, 2020 by robirdstx (log)

[Martin Fisher]

Unless there's a drastic turn around very soon.

The house-of-cards north American culture is headed for catastrophic crisis.

This domino effect will be difficult to reverse once it starts.

Nearly every facet of life is at risk of upheaval, not the least of which is food security.

[andiesenji]

12 hours ago, heidih said:

I am out of coconut, raisins, craisins, dates and the like. Eyeballing the masses of citrus on my trees and I still have sugar - so - using the peels seems like a fun project. 

Nuts.com now has limited hours. They "open" at 9:00 a.m. EDT.

They haven't raised their prices like some. 

Their sweetened macaroon coconut has great flavor. I use a lot of the unsweetened coconut chips. 

I just used the last of the Royal raisins I got last fall to try. They are dark and intensely flavored.  

[Anna N]

The pandemic and weight gain. We are getting fat according to this.

 

You've seen the endless images of homemade bread, the sourdough-saturated social media. You've read about friends who are eschewing fitted attire for the the elastic freedom of sweat pants. You've heeded the siren call of local restaurants offering comfort food to go in a time of crisis.

If COVID-19 is the front line, then there's a slowly expanding flank at the rear. Call it the "COVID-19 pounds."

 

 

Covid-19 Pounds.

[liamsaunt]

19 hours ago, Shelby said:

I know right??!!  Spam!  I couldn't believe it.

 

Yesterday I searched for kosher salt on Amazon pantry and they suggested Spam as an alternative.

 

I got a delivery from a local farm yesterday.  They have a store that sells both things they grow (which right now is basically only greens and herbs), and vegetables brought in from elsewhere.  I got everything I asked for except for watermelon radishes, and they only gave me one package of pirogies instead of the two I requested.  Conversely, I asked for one hand sanitizer produced by a local distillery as that was the limit, and they gave me two for some reason.

[heidih]

4 hours ago, Anna N said:

The pandemic and weight gain. We are getting fat according to this.

 

You've seen the endless images of homemade bread, the sourdough-saturated social media. You've read about friends who are eschewing fitted attire for the the elastic freedom of sweat pants. You've heeded the siren call of local restaurants offering comfort food to go in a time of crisis.

If COVID-19 is the front line, then there's a slowly expanding flank at the rear. Call it the "COVID-19 pounds."

 

 

Covid-19 Pounds.

 

This is now a common discussion. "take off the pajamas and wear real clothes for a reality check". I am not finding eating a thing but  am used to working from home. Speaking with others newly working from home I do hear they eat more because the damper of others judging what you eat is lifted. ??? 1st world problems?

[Anna N]

3 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

Yesterday I searched for kosher salt on Amazon pantry and they suggested Spam as an alternative.

😂

[chromedome]

3 hours ago, liamsaunt said:

 

Yesterday I searched for kosher salt on Amazon pantry and they suggested Spam as an alternative.

 

 

LOL The "salt" part, I get. Kosher? Not so much...

[Orbit]

Toilet paper seems to have returned to the shelves here, though eggs are hit and miss. My husband says we're saving a lot of money by cooking at home, but he hasn't seen my wine.com order....

[Shelby]

Well, I like this curbside Sam's thing.  Easy peasy.  Got everything I ordered.  I noted, though, that people were coming out of the store right and left with huge packs of TP.  Sooooo......I guess they don't sell online because it's going so fast, but maybe there is some to be had if I can go in without getting arrested because I'm personally not a member, just married to one lol.

[Martin Fisher]

I wonder how the take-out/deliver container supply is holding up!? 

[liamsaunt]

Here is today’s vegetable share. The bag is pea shoots. I am getting overrun with potatoes! Pierogis are on the menu on Friday so that should help a bit.

 

i do not know what kind of beans they gave me. Can anyone ID them for me? I do not really cook with dried beans other than the black and cannellini varieties.