Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
Powdered or canned milk should be fine.
Eggs are an issue.
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#22Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
Maybe it’s just my area but I’m not seeing any rational panic buying anywhere.
My stores have PLENTY of non-perishable items, but you know what’s missing for me?
Russet potatoes, bottled water (which will last you like a week without a means to make more), frozen pizzas, bananas, bread, milk, eggs.
I don’t get it.
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#23Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#24I hope this serves as a wake-up call for a lot more people to spend a modest amount of their income saving for a rainy day when this is all over. And not just in terms of cash, but in terms of enough staples and essentials for a few weeks of weeks of interrupted supply chains, a go-bag in case your residence needs to be evacuated suddenly, the ability to teach your own kids stuff. These sound paranoid to some. It's a burden for others. But look where we are right now. And as possible apocalyptic events go, this is minor.
The desperation and helplessness I hear from people after literally days of being affected by other people's panic and by public health orders is completely avoidable. It doesn't matter where you live, natural disasters, pandemics, job loss, closures of basic services and other not-THAT-impossible events are a thing. It doesn't even have to be real. If a handful of people THINK there will be a TP shortage, there will be. Things like hygiene supplies, rice, etc. won't go to waste if the world doesn't end. You'll use them eventually. Just buffer a little.
Be prepared.
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#26Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
Eggs don't need to be refrigerated. And they'll last a month or more after being laid.
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#27Good list. The problem, at least here in the UK, is that these cheap foods/ingredients are exactly what we're seeing empty on the shelves now. Unfortunately for those who live cheaply, expensive things go last.
In that case, expensive things won’t be expensive for very long.
I don't understand - something that is already expensive, that will get more essential over time if other stuff runs out... will get cheaper?
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#28Its worth clarifying that the article is specifically addressing the fallout from the pandemic: Unemployment and poverty due to failing economies and shuttered restaurants and bars. In the US, Despite our country having vast and endless supplies of food from megafarms and their accompanying subsidies, there is very little safety net in America to ensure anyone is fed at all once they are unemployed.
worth posting, a crash course on making sourdough bread:
https://github.com/hendricius/the-bread-code/blob/master/bas...
I also maintain a git repo for frugal living.
Re: Eat for $1.50 per Day – Layoffs, Coronavirus Quarantine, Food Shortages
#29Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
Maybe it’s just my area but I’m not seeing any rational panic buying anywhere. My stores have PLENTY of non-perishable items, but you know what’s missing for me? Russet potatoes, bottled water (which will last you like a week without a means to make more), frozen pizzas, bananas, bread, milk, eggs. I don’t get it.
That sounds like pretty rational panic buying to me. We can be confident at this point that the pandemic isn't going to sever the food supply; the threat model is that you might get a fever, and have to stay at home for a week or two without being able to re-up on pizza and milk and eggs.
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#30Excellent guide and very nutritious. On a side note I wonder how the pandemic will impact food service in the long run from the perspective that before the pandemic many people never prepared their own meals. Now in many areas people are for the first time limited to groceries and produce instead of restaurants and fast food. If people continue their own food preparation moving forward this will have interesting cons…
"New cars" is obviously poor decision making, but aren't cell phones cheaper than food nowadays? It should not be surprising that poor people have cell phones. The gadgets we once thought of as luxuries will continue to decrease in real cost.
They also take the place of a computer for many people. I know several people who no longer have a computer or laptop at home because their cell phone does everything they need.