Stocking the cupboards in the event of a pandemic in the USA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:lol

This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

Nice catch!

Lol, good point

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol

This title made me laugh. Of course the most obese nation in the world is worried about running out of food.

We ain't alone in being fat. I assume you are one of the skinny ones pp?

https://moneyinc.com/most-obese-countries-in-the-world/

[Anonymous]

I am delaying the purchase of frozen vegetables. We eat fresh vegetables because I hate canned and frozen. I don’t want to stock up, then end up throwing it out if we don’t get an outbreak here.

I did stock up on meats, paper products and personal care items. I need to go to the pharmacy and refill some things.

We don’t buy bottled water, and I don’t plan to start now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am delaying the purchase of frozen vegetables. We eat fresh vegetables because I hate canned and frozen. I don’t want to stock up, then end up throwing it out if we don’t get an outbreak here.

I did stock up on meats, paper products and personal care items. I need to go to the pharmacy and refill some things.

We don’t buy bottled water, and I don’t plan to start now.

I’m the quoted PP.

Not to start a panic, but toilet paper supplies at target were low today.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

My mom used to buy this in the 1980s because, she claimed, she didn't want us to drink milk from "Chernobyl" cows. But really, she was just CHEAP. Yes. You mix it like Koolaid. Its nasty.

Its probably more for adding to baked goods or upping the caloric content of other foods rather than drinking...

I vaguely recall tv ads in the 60s for carnation powdered milk as in drinking it. My parents went thru a stretch where they bought it in bulk and would mix it half and half with regular milk so it would taste better, has a kind of cooked milk flavor otherwise. I've used it to make homemade hot cocoa/chocolate milk mix, once on a long train trip to the west coast where I was too broke to buy food on the train for myself and my 5 yo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indian-American household. We have so much rice, beans, lentils, various kinds of flour, various kinds of cooking oils, spices, salt, sugar, canned and frozen goods as a matter of routine that we can probably survive for months.

We are also cook-from-scratch kind of people - so that helps.

People who cook their own food are likely the ones the outlive all of us!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

Yes, you can use it to drink. I use it for bread making. Good item to have on hand just in case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

Yes, you can use it to drink. I use it for bread making. Good item to have on hand just in case.

Why that over a shelf-stable milk like Parmalat?

[Anonymous]

I’m in CA and not as prepped for earthquake as I’d like, but we have on hand about 14 gallons of water, some canned staples, diapers, wipes, toilet paper, and a non-electric can opener. I assume many of the preparations to avoid crowded places are similar to those needed for earthquake prep.

I like the powdered milk idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am delaying the purchase of frozen vegetables. We eat fresh vegetables because I hate canned and frozen. I don’t want to stock up, then end up throwing it out if we don’t get an outbreak here.

I did stock up on meats, paper products and personal care items. I need to go to the pharmacy and refill some things.

We don’t buy bottled water, and I don’t plan to start now.

I’m the quoted PP.

Not to start a panic, but toilet paper supplies at target were low today.

Save your panic, was at Target just now for regular grocery shopping not stockpiling and they were low on lots of things from tortillas to cookies to snapple iced tea. I don't imagine those are the #1 things anyone stockpiles. Guess what -- it's a Monday, Targets near most metro areas totally get picked over and sold out of things on the weekend and then it takes them a day or so to restock. While I was there, the bread guy was running around stocking the aisle with every imaginable bread and the lady in produce brought out approximately 1000+ bananas. So don't act like OMG people are panic buying and things are sold out. IRL most people I know just haven't even gotten around to thinking about doing that yet -- which makes it a good time to buy if you want to. Me OTOH -- laziest grocery shopper ever; all I've done so far is get a few extra boxes of pasta . . . . I have a list of the things I should/want to get like rice, lentils etc. and yet it somehow never happens when I'm just running for regular groceries. Maybe I'll make a separate trip to get this done.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

My mom used to buy this in the 1980s because, she claimed, she didn't want us to drink milk from "Chernobyl" cows. But really, she was just CHEAP. Yes. You mix it like Koolaid. Its nasty.

Its probably more for adding to baked goods or upping the caloric content of other foods rather than drinking...

I vaguely recall tv ads in the 60s for carnation powdered milk as in drinking it. My parents went thru a stretch where they bought it in bulk and would mix it half and half with regular milk so it would taste better, has a kind of cooked milk flavor otherwise. I've used it to make homemade hot cocoa/chocolate milk mix, once on a long train trip to the west coast where I was too broke to buy food on the train for myself and my 5 yo.

My mom went on a powered milk/budget kick in the 1970s, it was awful! We also had a goat for a while, maybe that's an option?

[Anonymous]

There is shelf stable milk. No one needs to deal with powdered milk.

[Anonymous]

Popped 2 dozen eggs into ice cube trays to freeze.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain powdered milk? Is it for drinking - just add water?

- not a prepper but need lattes to survive

My mom used to buy this in the 1980s because, she claimed, she didn't want us to drink milk from "Chernobyl" cows. But really, she was just CHEAP. Yes. You mix it like Koolaid. Its nasty.

I grew up in a place without fresh milk. You had a choice of powdered or frozen milk. The frozen type is way more palatable but I don't know if they sell it here. In some places outside the US (maybe inside) they sell shelf stable milk that isn't bad.

[Anonymous]

Anyone worried about water but does t want to stockpile water in their home, just buy a Sawyer Water Filtration System. It makes water drinkable even if it’s full of disease and bugs...and even poop. It’s like the life straw but makes a bag of potable water. No need to get an entire stockpile of water.