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Powdered or canned milk should be fine. Eggs are an issue.
Eggs are only a problem in the US. In Europe they aren't cooled as they weren't washed after collecting.
Eggs can also be frozen if you remove the shells.
A significant portion of the population will be reduced to poverty, but at least we can keep as many elderly alive as possible.
Eggs 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.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/should-you-refrigerate-...
Eggs and milk are still perishables, especially if electricity is rationed.
It's a quarantine not an apocalypse.
Two things could make this situation a lot worse.
1. A worker strike because of panic, or overwork, or opportunity, or inequality, or whatever. I hope everyone has realized the truck drivers and shelf stockers are way more important than Hollywood celebs. But I wouldn’t “rely” on shelves just being magically stocked as panic increases. There is unfortunately a smug level of “well of course they’re going to drive the trucks and stock the shelves! They need to because they’re poor, they wouldn’t do these jobs if they weren’t”, wether people have that as a conscious realization or not.
2. Terrorist attack (terries getting froggy). Obviously this is a bad time to try and blow up a car at Times Square, but, what do you think the reaction would be if 5 people across the country went and shot up three or four grocery stores each? It would be BAD with let’s say compared to 9/11 it would take extremely little effort.
All that’s needed to make this worse is more panic, and the media is trying their hardest on that.
...or how to get fat and sick on 1.50 per day.
Eggs 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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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.
Excellent 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…
Cell phones have a regressive indicator. When you have less time (single parent, multiple jobs) coordinating with that caregiver or a backup caregiver (bus, grandparent, friend) is important (and in a world without pay phones). In addition, a phone serves as "cheap" entertainment (games, social networks).
Someone had mentioned (can't remember where) that watching the television show "Chopped" might be useful while dealing with all the odd ingredients that haven't been hoarded.
We also have Jack Monroe doing a thing on Twitter. #JackMonroesLockdownLarder https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1241045501090332679