Grocery shopping tips during Coronavirus quarantine #2

[BetteDavisEyes]

Seems apt for the entire year. I was going to go for a lovely fall drive today. Instead, I have to work at my 2nd job. The Covid rate is zooming towards alarming levels here. One case becomes 20, literally, overnight.

So, shop, and stock up people. Just saying.

This Jaws exchange could easily refer to COVID:

Mayor Larry Vaughn: I don't think either one of you are familiar with our problems!

Matt Hooper: I'm familiar with the fact that you are going to ignore this particular problem until it swims up and bites you in the !

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

I keep meaning to thank the peeps who promoted Duke's mayo. I bought a second squeeze bottle yesterday because the first bottle I got is nearly empty. I doubt that we would switch completely to Duke's from Hellmann's, but DH and I both like the tangy flavor of Duke's. We buy a 64oz jar of Hellmann's at Costco that lasts several months.

 

[JrzyGirl70]

Today I learned that Kirkland Albacore Tuna (Costco) is supplied by Bumble Bee and Kirkland Cranberry Juice is actually made by Ocean Spray.

 

[mickey2942]

Today I learned that Kirkland Albacore Tuna (Costco) is supplied by Bumble Bee and Kirkland Cranberry Juice is actually made by Ocean Spray.

The Kirkland canned salmon is delicious. Just a bit of dill, mayo, lemon. We eat it on crackers. I love the salmon.

 

[MimosaMornings]

The Kirkland canned salmon is delicious. Just a bit of dill, mayo, lemon. We eat it on crackers. I love the salmon.

I will have to put that on my list!

 

[LadyL]

well I try to stock up a little each grocery trip but right now am having to buy/make extra food for my Mom, and sister & brother who are both caring for her right now so those meals are more important than stocking up - but all my other siblings help out as well

also, we haven't yet ordered a freezer (shoulda done it when I first started researching them and we would have it by now - they're all on backorder at Home Depot) and if I had one I could be batch cooking for us and them

we still order online and do curbside pickup

 

[PayrollNerd]

Even the grocery stores are stockpiling.

Worried about more shortages, grocery stores are stockpiling goods
Grocery stores are stockpiling to prepare for a second coronavirus wave - CNN

 

[Midwestmom2019]

Even the grocery stores are stockpiling.

Worried about more shortages, grocery stores are stockpiling goods
Grocery stores are stockpiling to prepare for a second coronavirus wave - CNN

Keeping an inventory in any business leads to higher prices for the end user:
groceries? It’s us. Most businesses finance inventory purchase, then build buildings or rent space to keep it, store it and then retrieve it as needed. Insure it. One of the first changes implemented when a business is floundering is cost cutting. One of the easiest changes uses reduction in personnel and reduction of inventory. The reverse will add costs to the products sold. The acquisition cost might be the same for a gallon of milk, or a Thanksgiving Turkey, but to keep them fresh for extra months will take extra refrigeration or freezer space and the power to run the space.
A family buys a freezer to keep items needed in the future. Inventory purchase plus holding costs include the freezer, power to run the freezer, purchase price finance charges to pay for it. Extended warranty if you buy it. If you add it all up, maybe a pizza for Thanksgiving is a better idea.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

Keeping an inventory in any business leads to higher prices for the end user:
groceries? It’s us. Most businesses finance inventory purchase, then build buildings or rent space to keep it, store it and then retrieve it as needed. Insure it. One of the first changes implemented when a business is floundering is cost cutting. One of the easiest changes uses reduction in personnel and reduction of inventory. The reverse will add costs to the products sold. The acquisition cost might be the same for a gallon of milk, or a Thanksgiving Turkey, but to keep them fresh for extra months will take extra refrigeration or freezer space and the power to run the space.
A family buys a freezer to keep items needed in the future. Inventory purchase plus holding costs include the freezer, power to run the freezer, purchase price finance charges to pay for it. Extended warranty if you buy it. If you add it all up, maybe a pizza for Thanksgiving is a better idea.

Whenever I see your posts on the food/grocery threads, I wonder if you are familiar with this cookbook by Amy Thielen. Her cooking show on Food Network was short-lived, but I enjoyed it enough to purchase this beautiful cookbook. The recipes are fabulous, but I also love reading about the history and stories about midwestern foods and cooking.

The New Midwestern Table

“The roots of our cooking remain behind closed doors, where the old ways of preparing food – gardening, preserving, fishing, hunting, and otherwise plucking good things from the woods or the fields – are not only still alive, but enjoying a transformative, active present tense (…) The fact is, without the atmosphere-the daily drive past corn fields and pine plantations, felted green pastures dotted with cattle, and others scraped down to the nub, beautiful lakes and even prettier sloughs-this wouldn’t have been the same book. The endless road pointed the way and led me on through countless cultural influences, many state lines, through city and countryside, meals of pure discovery and those ridden with teachable moments, haute cuisine, deer camp cooking, soup potlucks, and butter and lard, the facts of our land.” — From the introduction

 

[mickey2942]

Went to two stores today, prices are rising significantly on items. Either that, or I just have not been to the store much this summer. Lots of items gone. Paper towels, canning supplies.

 

[Midwestmom2019]

Whenever I see your posts on the food/grocery threads, I wonder if you are familiar with this cookbook by Amy Thielen. Her cooking show on Food Network was short-lived, but I enjoyed it enough to purchase this beautiful cookbook. The recipes are fabulous, but I also love reading about the history and stories about midwestern foods and cooking.

The New Midwestern Table

“The roots of our cooking remain behind closed doors, where the old ways of preparing food – gardening, preserving, fishing, hunting, and otherwise plucking good things from the woods or the fields – are not only still alive, but enjoying a transformative, active present tense (…) The fact is, without the atmosphere-the daily drive past corn fields and pine plantations, felted green pastures dotted with cattle, and others scraped down to the nub, beautiful lakes and even prettier sloughs-this wouldn’t have been the same book. The endless road pointed the way and led me on through countless cultural influences, many state lines, through city and countryside, meals of pure discovery and those ridden with teachable moments, haute cuisine, deer camp cooking, soup potlucks, and butter and lard, the facts of our land.” — From the introduction

I’ll certainly check it out. I lost hundreds of cookbooks during Harvey. But this was not one of them.
I’m excited about this book bc it might be right up my alley! Thank you!

ETA: Looks like her recipes are on foodnetwork. But I’ll search for the book.

 

[Midwestmom2019]

Went to two stores today, prices are rising significantly on items. Either that, or I just have not been to the store much this summer. Lots of items gone. Paper towels, canning supplies.

I’m big on estate sales, garage sales and resale shops. All my jars are from those sources. It takes some patience, but eventually, you’ll find what you need. Pennies on the dollars. Vintage, too, which is much better than recent production.
I check grocery shelves when I go into the store, for lids, certo, canning salt. And purchase what I’m missing as I find items needed.

 

[BetteDavisEyes]

The Kirkland canned salmon is delicious. Just a bit of dill, mayo, lemon. We eat it on crackers. I love the salmon.

If you eat salmon, does this mean that you are pescatarian? For much of her childhood, DD did not want to eat meat. I think her aversion to meat/poultry started after we went on a family "field trip" to Detroit's Eastern Market when she was about five. I'll spare the gruesome details about some of the meat/poultry displays, but I'm sure that our very intelligent child was not entirely impressed with the Eastern Market experience.

Thankfully, we love fish/seafood and were able to enjoy them frequently even though there were not a lot of gourmet markets at the time. DH and or I made weekly trips to a seafood purveyor in a nearby community because fish/seafood selections at local supermarkets were mostly frozen items. I bought a couple of vegetarian cookbooks, and we frequented the two vegetarian restaurants in the area at the time ('70s/'80s). One of the restaurants is still open Inn Season Cafe | Vegan and Vegetarian Gourmet Cuisine I frequently cooked with tofu having learned that it is a good source of protein that was very important to DD's pediatrician who was concerned about DD getting enough nutrients on a meatless diet. DD didn't object to dairy and eggs.

DH and I could easily be pescatarians as we eat twice as much fish/seafood as we do meat and/or poultry. We also enjoy dairy and eggs in moderation. Now in her 40s, DD is primarily vegan, but her dietary choices have constantly evolved. While attending an arts high school, she realized that many of her colleagues were more culinarily adventurous than she, so DD started eating foods that she hadn't been exposed to previously. While in college, DD was a hostess in a high-end steak restaurant and determined that she had really missed out on eating prime steaks. When she relocated to the west coast after college, she delved into the sushi craze before settling on staunch veganism. DH and I did our best to accommodate our daughter's ever-changing dietary preferences - always keeping her health and well-being in mind.

7 Types of Vegetarianism

 

[JDG]

If you eat salmon, does this mean that you are pescatarian? For much of her childhood, DD did not want to eat meat. I think her aversion to meat/poultry started after we went on a family "field trip" to Detroit's Eastern Market when she was about five. I'll spare the gruesome details about some of the meat/poultry displays, but I'm sure that our very intelligent child was not entirely impressed with the Eastern Market experience.

Thankfully, we love fish/seafood and were able to enjoy them frequently even though there were not a lot of gourmet markets at the time. DH and or I made weekly trips to a seafood purveyor in a nearby community because fish/seafood selections at local supermarkets were mostly frozen items. I bought a couple of vegetarian cookbooks, and we frequented the two vegetarian restaurants in the area at the time ('70s/'80s). One of the restaurants is still open Inn Season Cafe | Vegan and Vegetarian Gourmet Cuisine I frequently cooked with tofu having learned that it is a good source of protein that was very important to DD's pediatrician who was concerned about DD getting enough nutrients on a meatless diet. DD didn't object to dairy and eggs.

DH and I could easily be pescatarians as we eat twice as much fish/seafood as we do meat and/or poultry. We also enjoy dairy and eggs in moderation. Now in her 40s, DD is primarily vegan, but her dietary choices have constantly evolved. While attending an arts high school, she realized that many of her colleagues were more culinarily adventurous than she, so DD started eating foods that she hadn't been exposed to previously. While in college, DD was a hostess in a high-end steak restaurant and determined that she had really missed out on eating prime steaks. When she relocated to the west coast after college, she delved into the sushi craze before settling on staunch veganism. DH and I did our best to accommodate our daughter's ever-changing dietary preferences - always keeping her health and well-being in mind.

7 Types of Vegetarianism

Just watch out for the mercury levels. Its in all fish but salmon and Skip Jack tuna are considered to be low mercury; still have to not overdo the pescatarianism.

I got a great bargain, in July, on canned tuna and salmon but the company customer service rep. called to alert me to the mercury situation. One also has to be aware of the Omega 3 oils being a blood thinner, if you eat a lot of fatty fish.

Other than those issues, knock yourself out; fish is a very healthy food and terribly nutritious. Bon appetit!

 

[LadyL]

picked up a grocery order today
Walmart was out of paper towels!

 

[MimosaMornings]

My cousin in SC went to Walmart and no paper towels or toilet paper and limited meat selection but an entire row - both sides - was full of Halloween candy.

 

[momrids6]

My cousin in SC went to Walmart and no paper towels or toilet paper and limited meat selection but an entire row - both sides - was full of Halloween candy.

Walmart in GA. Candy everywhere- out of many things.. looks like a Venezuelan market again

 

[mickey2942]

My cousin in SC went to Walmart and no paper towels or toilet paper and limited meat selection but an entire row - both sides - was full of Halloween candy.

I SAW that TOO!!! WTH?! Sure, we all need big bags of candy to eat, at home, while binge watching Netflix.

Halloween, 2020..."No, you can't touch your candy until it has been wiped down with disinfectant wipes.". Yum, yum...

 

[MimosaMornings]

I SAW that TOO!!! WTH?! Sure, we all need big bags of candy to eat, at home, while binge watching Netflix.

Halloween, 2020..."No, you can't touch your candy until it has been wiped down with disinfectant wipes.". Yum, yum...

Hold on, let me spray it with Lysol. All good now.

 

[JDG]

Walmart in GA. Candy everywhere- out of many things.. looks like a Venezuelan market again

Do you think everyone is panicking again, second wave theory happening?
I find it fascinating (perhaps worrying) that suddenly, most countries are going back into various forms of lockdown even though the death rates have dropped dramatically.
Wales has been divided up and people not only cannot mingle amongst households, they cannot leave their geographical areas without due cause.
Parts of Britain are under severe lockdown and in very small 'bubbles' as well.

In Toronto, we are possibly looking at a second version of lockdown but the powers that be seem to be torn between letting the economy uprighted and this 'scary' second wave. We didnt even have a proper first wave.
Yes, many people in nursing homes died but not the elderly in their own homes, they were fine.

Wish I knew what was behind all of this; I remember polio before there was a vaccine and how worried my parents were about the kids but it was nothing like this COVID thing.

Rant over.