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Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by learc83 »

nefitty wrote: post #42
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

"There are some issues with out-of-stocks, but it tends to be a situation where if you go to a store on a Tuesday night, maybe something's out of stock, but by Wednesday sometime it's back in store," Rose told NPR. This describes about the “worst” i’ve seen, in new england. I had no trouble getting some fairly fussy ingredients for holiday cooking or my annual winter anti-depression baking spasms. Still, march 2020 d…

What do you like to bake? I have never attempted. I would like to surprise my wife one of these cold winter evenings.

Start with something easy like cookies.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by throwaway984393 »

cableshaft wrote: post #7
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

"There are some issues with out-of-stocks, but it tends to be a situation where if you go to a store on a Tuesday night, maybe something's out of stock, but by Wednesday sometime it's back in store," Rose told NPR. This describes about the “worst” i’ve seen, in new england. I had no trouble getting some fairly fussy ingredients for holiday cooking or my annual winter anti-depression baking spasms. Still, march 2020 d…

Yeah I did the pantry thing after March 2020 (in the basement, the kitchen doesn't have a proper pantry) and wasn't careful enough about protecting it. It was fine for a year, but this winter we got mice in the house and now we have to toss what wasn't in cans or plastic containers already. We set some live traps and I've caught and released (several miles away) four mice already. Still a good idea, we just can't hav…

Good on you for the live traps! I've found that the green plastic live traps on homedepot.com work well (though quite annoying to clean).

Since my last winter with mice I went and got a ton of big thick plastic containers of all shapes and sizes. Helps organize, and keeps out other pests like moths, weevils, ants.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by stevenwoo »

nefitty wrote: post #42
hprotagonist wrote: post #3

"There are some issues with out-of-stocks, but it tends to be a situation where if you go to a store on a Tuesday night, maybe something's out of stock, but by Wednesday sometime it's back in store," Rose told NPR. This describes about the “worst” i’ve seen, in new england. I had no trouble getting some fairly fussy ingredients for holiday cooking or my annual winter anti-depression baking spasms. Still, march 2020 d…

What do you like to bake? I have never attempted. I would like to surprise my wife one of these cold winter evenings.

Brownies, and banana bread are pretty easy (especially if one does not have allergies to chocolate and nuts as add-ins). Bread and pizza crust might require a bit of experimentation for perfect texture with your flour/water/yeast mix, kitchen temperature, humidity affecting outcome ( if you have central a/c or heat probably not as big a concern but I do not).

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Post by Melting_Harps »

justinator wrote: post #4
jonnycomputer wrote: post #2

I haven't seen any, myself. And my anecdote is as good as theirs. It'd be nice if they actually pointed to, you know, data, for these kinds of stories. My pizza place was closed though. Everyone out with covid. And it wasn't the usual cashiers over at the grocery; I think they may have been temps, because they didn't know how to do anything.

I certainly have. We literally LOST a place to buy groceries, as a good part of a town just burnt to the ground after (it seems to be coming to light[0]), a local cult decided to burn a railroad tie and left it smoldering while 100mph+ winds were being recorded. My King Soopers closed for renovations because of a domestic terrorist shot and killed a few people last year[1], And today, workers at King Soopers are star…

> Affording to eat is getting more and more difficult.

Boulder was never exactly a cheap place to eat, but you do have other choices: several Whole Foods, Safeways Lucky's and a Trader Joe's etc... I'm told Alfalfas went under during covid.

Also, the Farmer's Markets Downtown when in season.

Personally speaking, food costs have been artificially suppressed for far too long in the US; it has led to a situation in which food waste is abhorrently common. If this is what creates a paradigm shift, then so be it.

Moreover, Boulder's community garden space is always an option if you can get in--right now you'd be limited on options with anything other than brassicas outside of a greenhouse.

This is a much needed reset for Boulder in my opinion. It should live up to the values it supposedly promotes.

Sidenote: I used to shop at that King Soopers in Table Mesa when visiting, too. Scary stuff...

And that cult owns the Yellow Deli on Pearl street mall, right?

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Post by JPKab »

paxys wrote: post #45

> "We're really seeing the perfect storm," If these "perfect storms" happen six times a year maybe it's not the storm but their own logistics to blame?

Nobody exists in a vacuum when it comes to supply chains.

It's a supply chain, not a supply pipe.

There's only so much that can be done. Their logistics didn't suddenly get incompetent between 2019 and now.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by rossdavidh »

In line with what a few other people here have said, I should mention that where I am (Austin, TX, USA), I literally just came from the grocery store before reading this, and everything seemed to be in stock. I'm not saying there were zero issues, but nothing we were looking for, and certainly no bare shelves. Maybe it's more weather-related? We certainly have no shortage of Omicron in Texas, but the grocery stores (and the supply chains that provide them) seem to be doing fine.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by esyir »

reaperducer wrote: post #24
hprotagonist wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it’s advertised as a kibble container but we all know it holds 25 pounds of flour juuust fine. (and we use it quickly enough, which is kind of shocking but also, pie crust is easy!)

pie crust is easy So is pizza dough! I make it about once a week, and every time I'm reminded of my younger generation boss who didn't know that pizza dough is just flour, water, salt, and yeast. She though it was some kind of magic plastic or something and refused to eat pizza because of it. People really are getting too far away from their food sources.

>She though it was some kind of magic plastic

This is a first for me.

Pizza dough is one of those things I make regularly, and boy does it freeze well. Make one batch, then eat it over a few weeks. Hell, I'd do daily, but my scale would never forgive me for that.

Re: Grocery store shortages are back

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Post by dognotdog »

syntheweave wrote: post #68

California mostly seems to be doing OK on its supplies. I have noticed that fresh milk in single-serving quantities(which I'll pick up on walks) has basically disappeared though.

Seeing the same in PA, quarts of many brands are out of stock at various stores, but half gallon and up are available.
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