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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone found weird places with hand sanitizer? That’s the only think I didn’t get and I’d like to have one for my purse and car.

Bath and Body Works? Bed Bath & Beyond? Not weird places, but maybe not the first place people would think to go.

https://www.bathandbodyworks.com/c/hand-soaps/all-hand-sanitizers Some still in stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone found weird places with hand sanitizer? That’s the only think I didn’t get and I’d like to have one for my purse and car.

Bath and Body Works? Bed Bath & Beyond? Not weird places, but maybe not the first place people would think to go.

https://www.bathandbodyworks.com/c/hand-soaps/all-hand-sanitizers Some still in stock.

Thanks to my moms stocking stuffers, I have a very healthy supply of godawful smelling bath and body works hand sanitizer. Anyone want to know what a coral reef smells like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone found weird places with hand sanitizer? That’s the only think I didn’t get and I’d like to have one for my purse and car.

Bath and Body Works? Bed Bath & Beyond? Not weird places, but maybe not the first place people would think to go.

https://www.bathandbodyworks.com/c/hand-soaps/all-hand-sanitizers Some still in stock.

Thanks to my moms stocking stuffers, I have a very healthy supply of godawful smelling bath and body works hand sanitizer. Anyone want to know what a coral reef smells like?

Yuck. I'd rather get the corona.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying so hard to be calm about this, but I work in MoCo until last night felt like I had done a good job of being prepared.

Now I've spent the last 6 hours battling my rational self and the other side with OCD tendencies that keeps saying BUY MORE FOOD AND WATER.

If by some miracle, we end up being able to contain this and we don't end up on house arrest for a month (humor me, please) my family is going to be eating beans, pasta and PB sandwiches until summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying so hard to be calm about this, but I work in MoCo until last night felt like I had done a good job of being prepared.

Now I've spent the last 6 hours battling my rational self and the other side with OCD tendencies that keeps saying BUY MORE FOOD AND WATER.

If by some miracle, we end up being able to contain this and we don't end up on house arrest for a month (humor me, please) my family is going to be eating beans, pasta and PB sandwiches until summer.

This is me. My husband is very blasé about the whole thing and hasn't realized I've been stockpiling the pantry for several days now. I just bought another $200 in groceries to be delivered tonight, so no chance he won't notice now. If we end up quarantined, I'll be able to feed the family for a month. If not, I will never hear the end of it.

[Anonymous]

DH went out and bought 2 weeks' worth of food this morning. He said the stores were generally stocked well (this is in Gaithersburg). We bought stuff we knew we would eat anyway, in case a quarantine never happens.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying so hard to be calm about this, but I work in MoCo until last night felt like I had done a good job of being prepared.

Now I've spent the last 6 hours battling my rational self and the other side with OCD tendencies that keeps saying BUY MORE FOOD AND WATER.

If by some miracle, we end up being able to contain this and we don't end up on house arrest for a month (humor me, please) my family is going to be eating beans, pasta and PB sandwiches until summer.

I feel the same way. I'm in Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Are we on lockdown and I missed the memo?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are we on lockdown and I missed the memo?

I think PP is saying now that there are confirmed cases in Montgomery County, feels like $h!t just got real.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying so hard to be calm about this, but I work in MoCo until last night felt like I had done a good job of being prepared.

Now I've spent the last 6 hours battling my rational self and the other side with OCD tendencies that keeps saying BUY MORE FOOD AND WATER.

If by some miracle, we end up being able to contain this and we don't end up on house arrest for a month (humor me, please) my family is going to be eating beans, pasta and PB sandwiches until summer.

I feel the same way. I'm in Virginia.

Another moco resident and I feel the same way. I know its not completely logical. But it is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder how many of my coworkers would think I'm batshit crazy if they knew how much food I've bought this week. All foods we would normally eat anyway, just in quantities that probably means no one in my house will ever want to eat them again once we are on the other side of this whole mess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder how many of my coworkers would think I'm batshit crazy if they knew how much food I've bought this week. All foods we would normally eat anyway, just in quantities that probably means no one in my house will ever want to eat them again once we are on the other side of this whole mess.

Prepping doesn't work for me. Unless it's cleaning supplies/toiletries.

For example, a couple weeks ago I "prepped" -- I got frozen pizzas & burritos, canned goods/sauces, etc. Well, since then, I've eaten a lot of the stuff I bought! I've been to the store every few days to get odds & ends..and I use that stuff up too! So. If and when I do get Coronavirus, I will have likely gone through all of my extra food. At this point, I'm just doing regular shopping.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying so hard to be calm about this, but I work in MoCo until last night felt like I had done a good job of being prepared.

Now I've spent the last 6 hours battling my rational self and the other side with OCD tendencies that keeps saying BUY MORE FOOD AND WATER.

If by some miracle, we end up being able to contain this and we don't end up on house arrest for a month (humor me, please) my family is going to be eating beans, pasta and PB sandwiches until summer.

I feel the same way. I'm in Virginia.

Another moco resident and I feel the same way. I know its not completely logical. But it is what it is.

+1 and my buying is getting increasingly scattered. Why did I buy a giant tub of Gochujang? No one knows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder how many of my coworkers would think I'm batshit crazy if they knew how much food I've bought this week. All foods we would normally eat anyway, just in quantities that probably means no one in my house will ever want to eat them again once we are on the other side of this whole mess.

Prepping doesn't work for me. Unless it's cleaning supplies/toiletries.

For example, a couple weeks ago I "prepped" -- I got frozen pizzas & burritos, canned goods/sauces, etc. Well, since then, I've eaten a lot of the stuff I bought! I've been to the store every few days to get odds & ends..and I use that stuff up too! So. If and when I do get Coronavirus, I will have likely gone through all of my extra food. At this point, I'm just doing regular shopping.

So you aren't prepping? You're just eating frozen/canned/dried foods instead of normal groceries. And not to sound judgy, just trying to help you out a bit - frozen pizzas isn't prepping. That is 1, maybe 2 meals depending on your family size, taking up a bunch of freezer space. You should be thinking about getting items that get you high-calorie bang for your freezer space (you could fit a week's worth of chicken breast in approx the same space as a pizza). You should also be thinking about what you can keep on hand that doesn't require fridge/freezer space. so dried beans, rice, pasta, grains, canned goods. Can you not resist eating those things for a few weeks? I mean, unless you're in a dorm room with 3 square feet for storing food, come on. Eating that frozen burrito now cannot be worth risking a trip to the supermarket when things get really crazy. And when you get there and find all they have is chewing gum and fruit snacks, you're going to wish you'd held off on eating all the frozen burritos a few weeks ago... Okay, now I am being judgy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Glad I'm not the only one. I wonder how many of my coworkers would think I'm batshit crazy if they knew how much food I've bought this week. All foods we would normally eat anyway, just in quantities that probably means no one in my house will ever want to eat them again once we are on the other side of this whole mess.

Prepping doesn't work for me. Unless it's cleaning supplies/toiletries.

For example, a couple weeks ago I "prepped" -- I got frozen pizzas & burritos, canned goods/sauces, etc. Well, since then, I've eaten a lot of the stuff I bought! I've been to the store every few days to get odds & ends..and I use that stuff up too! So. If and when I do get Coronavirus, I will have likely gone through all of my extra food. At this point, I'm just doing regular shopping.

So you aren't prepping? You're just eating frozen/canned/dried foods instead of normal groceries. And not to sound judgy, just trying to help you out a bit - frozen pizzas isn't prepping. That is 1, maybe 2 meals depending on your family size, taking up a bunch of freezer space. You should be thinking about getting items that get you high-calorie bang for your freezer space (you could fit a week's worth of chicken breast in approx the same space as a pizza). You should also be thinking about what you can keep on hand that doesn't require fridge/freezer space. so dried beans, rice, pasta, grains, canned goods. Can you not resist eating those things for a few weeks? I mean, unless you're in a dorm room with 3 square feet for storing food, come on. Eating that frozen burrito now cannot be worth risking a trip to the supermarket when things get really crazy. And when you get there and find all they have is chewing gum and fruit snacks, you're going to wish you'd held off on eating all the frozen burritos a few weeks ago... Okay, now I am being judgy.

Haha, that’s ok, I’m not sensitive to judginess!

So if there’s a run on groceries, then YES, I would go stock up again. I’m at the store practically every day (sadly) and the food supply appears completely normal. And yes, I admit we ate the frozen pizzas. It was a moment of weakness. I was tired and didn’t feel like cooking, and thought, my why have these frozen pizzas....