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A Run On Groceries

grip said:
Are you afraid of running out of food?


I just got back from the Grocery store and the shoppers are in full out panic mode. The parking lot was full, shelves empty, cashiers lanes full, and stockers going balls to the walls. I went for a few items and came back completely loaded. Mostly canned goods and frozen food. I imagine the stores will start to be emptied soon. If you're running low, I'd suggest a trip for safety's sake.

I wasn't too worried about the whole mishegoss, now I am!
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I've got 1,200 pounds of moose standing in my driveway nibbling on the black spruce as I post this. I go "shopping" during the months of May to September. By mid-August I'm smoking 250 pounds of salmon which has to last me until May the following year when the salmon return to the rivers again. I can also manage for about a year on ~150 pounds of caribou that I also obtain in August. So as long as this Coronavirus pandemic is over by mid-May I should be okay.

On the plus side, our mosquitoes (Culiseta Alaskaensis, the "Alaskan Snow Mosquito") are incapable of transmitting any virus, including the Coronavirus.
 
grip said:
I, personally, don't think the virus is worth all this fear but the reaction to it is what's scary. Peeps is nuts nowadays.
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Just noting that we have a worry, a grocery and a tp version on preparedness threads. We need one for booze. Make sure you got enough booze.
 
Tanngrisnir said:
LOL! I don't even eat rice (wasn't there for it, in any case) but it's one entire wall of this place and it was just empty shelves. That's a LOT of damned rice. Should have taken a picture, but I was too busy shooting the outside of the store.

Hey, it's Stockton. They roll pretty hard.

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Liquor Seafood? How disgusting. :lol:

I flipped out during Y2K and said, never again will I do that looney ****. Took me years to use up all the crap I bought.
 
I went back to the grocery store to see if the large bags of potting soil for $2.50 had been replaced outside, but because a great parking space popped open, I took it. (Every space in this huge parking lot was taken, and dozens of vehicles were doing the buzzard dance in the hopes of scoring a slot.)

A delivery truck arrived while I was there, and employees couldn't even put it on the shelf. No paper towels and no Kleenex. This store is multi-ethnic and has a huge rice and beans aisle that was empty. No ramen and no pasta. No eggs and no milk. No onions. No potatoes. No flour and no sugar. I didn't look in the frozen aisles, but there were guys with dozens of frozen dinners in their carts. I think people took off work today to hit the stores.
 
Just got back from my local Kroger

I spent about 30 years in the DC beltway, and 3 years up in North Dakota... when DC was going to get hit with a huge east coast storm, people would stock up on the basics...and the same for Minot when a blizzard was coming through

That was nothing compared to what i just witnessed....the produce section was almost completely gone. Not a potato or an onion in the place, all the salad fixins were out, and the only vegetables left were the ones no one wanted....

I got to the meat as they put out 12 more packs of ground beef...it was empty before that....i got one, others were gone in 60 secs....pork all gone, steaks all gone, chicken all gone....there was a lot of the prepared stuff, but most of the raw was empty

Dairy was insane....2% gone, whole gone, skim and 1% were all there was left....and just a few of the 1%....then it was the almond milks, and soys. Butter all gone, and even the yogurts were scarce

Bread aisle was barren....as was the frozen foods sections for pizzas, prepared foods like lasagnas, etc.

Plenty of ice cream, beer, and wine

Not one roll of toilet paper in the store....

The zombie apocalypse is upon us.....
 
Walmart was going to do a promo for disinfectant wipes. It was cancelled because the manufacturer ran out.

Odd things that are selling out: vinegar, magazines, ramen noodles.
 
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Lovebug said:
Just noting that we have a worry, a grocery and a tp version on preparedness threads. We need one for booze. Make sure you got enough booze.
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That's all I need, to end up in Las Vegas, slooshed outta my gourd, screaming, I got da the virus and my name is Miley Cyrus!
 
grip said:
That's all I need, to end up in Las Vegas, slooshed outta my gourd, screaming, I got dad the virus and my name is Miley Cyrus!
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at least you'll be happy
 
nota bene said:
I went back to the grocery store to see if the large bags of potting soil for $2.50 had been replaced outside, but because a great parking space popped open, I took it. (Every space in this huge parking lot was taken, and dozens of vehicles were doing the buzzard dance in the hopes of scoring a slot.)

A delivery truck arrived while I was there, and employees couldn't even put it on the shelf. No paper towels and no Kleenex. This store is multi-ethnic and has a huge rice and beans aisle that was empty. No ramen and no pasta. No eggs and no milk. No onions. No potatoes. No flour and no sugar. I didn't look in the frozen aisles, but there were guys with dozens of frozen dinners in their carts. I think people took off work today to hit the stores.
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Holy crap, I'm going back to the store...lol
 
grip said:
Liquor Seafood? How disgusting. :lol:

I flipped out during Y2K and said, never again will I do that looney ****. Took me years to use up all the crap I bought.
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This particular store makes everything plain and takes all the guesswork out of shopping.

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gdgyva said:
Just got back from my local Kroger

I spent about 30 years in the DC beltway, and 3 years up in North Dakota... when DC was going to get hit with a huge east coast storm, people would stock up on the basics...and the same for Minot when a blizzard was coming through

That was nothing compared to what i just witnessed....the produce section was almost completely gone. Not a potato or an onion in the place, all the salad fixins were out, and the only vegetables left were the ones no one wanted....

I got to the meat as they put out 12 more packs of ground beef...it was empty before that....i got one, others were gone in 60 secs....pork all gone, steaks all gone, chicken all gone....there was a lot of the prepared stuff, but most of the raw was empty

Dairy was insane....2% gone, whole gone, skim and 1% were all there was left....and just a few of the 1%....then it was the almond milks, and soys. Butter all gone, and even the yogurts were scarce

Bread aisle was barren....as was the frozen foods sections for pizzas, prepared foods like lasagnas, etc.

Plenty of ice cream, beer, and wine

Not one roll of toilet paper in the store....

The zombie apocalypse is upon us.....
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Buying salad fixings is something that makes no sense. How do you clean lettuce ready for consumption?
 
grip said:
Are you afraid of running out of food?


I just got back from the Grocery store and the shoppers are in full out panic mode. The parking lot was full, shelves empty, cashiers lanes full, and stockers going balls to the walls. I went for a few items and came back completely loaded. Mostly canned goods and frozen food. I imagine the stores will start to be emptied soon. If you're running low, I'd suggest a trip for safety's sake.

I wasn't too worried about the whole mishegoss, now I am!
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Just go in the morning, 6:30 should do it. Today I found bread, milk and toilet paper no problem. I had gone the night before and it was a madhouse. I expect this to die down in about a week or two as people start to slowly realize there aren't any dead bodies in the streets.
 
Kreton said:
I don't keep a months worth of food on hand. I prefer fresh foods. I don't freeze a ton of stuff. I try to avoid processed when I can. I mean, we have ramen and mac n cheese ect in the pantry. I have a deep freezer with some meat in it. I had stuff here. We wouldn't starve or be hungry for a few weeks. Now I could make it 2 months if I had to. $5 worth of ramen can go a long way lol.
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I have three freezers:
  • A 46 cu. ft. industrial upright freezer in my garage for moose, caribou, and other game;
  • A 10 cu. ft. chest freezer in my arctic entrance/mud room/foyer for my salmon and any other fish I happen to catch; and
  • A 2.5 cu. ft. freezer with my refrigerator for everything else.

I spend a great deal of time foraging in early May for fiddle-head ferns, beach greens, and other edibles that I can either freeze, dry, or otherwise preserve, and again in September and October for berries and fungi. Somewhere between 20% and 25% of my food comes from the land, the rest I buy.

The nice thing about living in Alaska during the Winter is that it is already self-quarantined because few want to visit the place during the Winter. ;)
 
Rickeroo said:
Just go in the morning, 6:30 should do it. Today I found bread, milk and toilet paper no problem. I had gone the night before and it was a madhouse. I expect this to die down in about a week or two as people start to slowly realize there aren't any dead bodies in the streets.
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I agree this whole 'end of the world' nonsense will die down in a few weeks. But it'll get weird before that happens.
 
grip said:
Are you afraid of running out of food?


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Nope. I live within walking distance to a mall with a supermarket and tons of restaurants. Last Thursday night though there was a panic buy at the grocery but when I came in on Friday most of the items were restocked (except the lentils). Im not gonna change my shopping habits since I buy toilet paper once every six months using the 50-100 rolls packs, so my house is reasonably well supplied.
 
Glitch said:
I've got 1,200 pounds of moose standing in my driveway nibbling on the black spruce as I post this. I go "shopping" during the months of May to September. By mid-August I'm smoking 250 pounds of salmon which has to last me until May the following year when the salmon return to the rivers again. I can also manage for about a year on ~150 pounds of caribou that I also obtain in August. So as long as this Coronavirus pandemic is over by mid-May I should be okay.

On the plus side, our mosquitoes (Culiseta Alaskaensis, the "Alaskan Snow Mosquito") are incapable of transmitting any virus, including the Coronavirus.
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Is that a fact, about corona virus? "This" corona virus? Because stomach acids kill alot of microbes.
 
grip said:
Liquor Seafood? How disgusting. :lol:

I flipped out during Y2K and said, never again will I do that looney ****. Took me years to use up all the crap I bought.
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??? Sauvignon blanc and a nice halibut filet? mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
 
it's getting bad here, too. this week has been surreal, as only an essential portion of the Pinnochios are left at work. walking around a mostly empty facility doing my usual thing feels like everyone escaped the tidal wave but you, and your instincts are telling you to ****ing hide. now. i stopped at the grocery store to pick up a couple additional things, and there's still some stuff there, but i didn't let myself walk past the toilet paper aisle. still saw a number of empty shelves, and that was unnerving enough.
 
Glitch said:
I have three freezers:
  • A 46 cu. ft. industrial upright freezer in my garage for moose, caribou, and other game;
  • A 10 cu. ft. chest freezer in my arctic entrance/mud room/foyer for my salmon and any other fish I happen to catch; and
  • A 2.5 cu. ft. freezer with my refrigerator for everything else.

I spend a great deal of time foraging in early May for fiddle-head ferns, beach greens, and other edibles that I can either freeze, dry, or otherwise preserve, and again in September and October for berries and fungi. Somewhere between 20% and 25% of my food comes from the land, the rest I buy.

The nice thing about living in Alaska during the Winter is that it is already self-quarantined because few want to visit the place during the Winter. ;)
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I hope you have alot of fuel for your genny(s).
 
grip said:
Are you afraid of running out of food?


I just got back from the Grocery store and the shoppers are in full out panic mode. The parking lot was full, shelves empty, cashiers lanes full, and stockers going balls to the walls. I went for a few items and came back completely loaded. Mostly canned goods and frozen food. I imagine the stores will start to be emptied soon. If you're running low, I'd suggest a trip for safety's sake.

I wasn't too worried about the whole mishegoss, now I am!
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Yeah, it's been pretty crazy out there with all of the folks stocking up. We did our usual shopping and a little extra last week so we're covered.
 
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