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Why do you rush out to the grocery store when it is about to snow?
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Anonymous
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I have enough food to last weeks in my house. We could open cans of Tuna and so on. I could even bake bread.
So tell me, WHY does everyone go out when we hear that it is about to snow? What are you buying? |
Anonymous
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I just posted a similar message--I'm sitting here at my desk worrying that I've forgotten something and we'll be SOL tomorrow, but I can't figure out what we need....
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Anonymous
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Wine and junk food!
Well, seriously, we're well-stocked as well, but I suspect people with kids who go through a lot of milk and bread might feel the need to get some to last through a few days, since you typically don't keep extra stores of those items on hand. I think it's ridiculous when people run out before we have a couple inches of snow, but for a predicted "big event" like this one, I can see it. I remember in 1996 when we got 20 inches, and it was several days before people could get out of their neighborhoods because there are not enough plows in this area to handle main roads and secondary roads. Almost EVERYTHING was closed for at least a couple days. |
Anonymous
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I don't keep a lot of extra food around and typically by the weekend we are running low.
Plus I want to make some cookies and fudge with the kids. |
Anonymous
| Fresh milk! |
Anonymous
| I do our grocery shopping every Friday morning - it's my work from home day and it's usually faster to go on a weekday morning. I had a lot of extra company today, though, including the man who was fully lying on the floor, madly grabbing at gallons of milk in the bottom of the cooler. |
Anonymous
| Yeah, I need my fresh veggies and some yogurts for the weekend. Some Diet Coke for me, some milk for the boy. Other than that, the house is pretty well-stocked with the staples. |
Anonymous
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I was wondering the same thing.
I usually have plenty of extra milk in the garage fridge, but even with 3 little kids, if we had to go a day or two with no milk, I think we'd survive. I look at is as a good opportunity to use up stuff in the freezer & pantry. I went to the grocery store at 7am today - ONLY b/c I told DH I would make a dish for his office potluck today, totally forgot about it, and this morning before getting in the shower, he asked if I had the dish ready for him to take (which I obviously did not)! Like a PP said, I had plenty of company and was thinking "who the hell does their grocery shopping at 7am?" until the woman in front of me said something like "we're getting prepared for the snow, huh?" which hadn't even crossed my mind! |
Anonymous
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Supplies to make Christmas cookies.
But I agree - it's ridiculous. You'd think we were all stranded in log cabins. |
Anonymous
| Ack - now I'm paranoid, I actually just need to pick up a few things ( yogurt for the baby, milk for the toddler ) and of course, cookie making supplies. But, now I am freaked out by the possibility of 8 million people being there in line. |
Anonymous
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If you know me in real life, you will have already heard this story: I went grocery shopping one Saturday to pick up supplies for a dinner party I was throwing that night. Yeah, there was snow in the forecast, but I'm from Ohio, and frankly, mid-Atlantic snow does not impress me. I wasn't even thinking about it.
I had planned to bake fresh bread for my dinner party, and while I was sort of contemptuously amused to see that there was nothing but crumbs left on the bread shelves, I was stunned to see that the store was sold out of yeast! That's right. Folks were expecting a Little House on the Prairie winter, and had bought up all the yeast in advance of our massive blizzard which ended up depositing, I think, somewhere around 8 inches. Was all the snow gone 24 hours later? Yes. Did anyone have to mill raw wheat in a hand-crank coffee grinder? No, and that's what's important. |
Anonymous
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For us, I like to have good food around when I'm stuck in the house. Yes, we totally have plenty of canned goods, cereal, and even that milk you don't have to refrigerate for this kind of emergency, but who wants to be stuck in eating tuna?
Nothing against tuna, but last night my mom (who is staying with us for a few days this week since DH is out of town) ran out to buy stuff we just wanted for the weekend - extra hot chocolate, wheat thins, some good cheese and a fun dessert, and yes, extra milk. We definitely have dinner already sorted out for the weekend so we weren't getting essentials, just - "well we're going to be stuck in, let's have stuff we want to eat." |
Anonymous
Oh my God, that's had me laughing for the last five minutes. 
(P.S. Also from Ohio - not lake-effect Ohio, but still accustomed to more snow on average than this.) |
Anonymous
| I go to join in the fun! Plus to have some yummy food around while we watch the snowfall and some hot chocolate and marshmellows. |
Anonymous
| The answer is simple, isnt it, to buy stuff that you do not have at home that you would like to have in case you get snowed in (not really likely in this area). In my case its yogurt, milk and apple cider. Also not everyone buys food in bulk. I go to the spuermarket every single day (its right outside my metro stop) because I do not plan meals and I hate to throw stuff put so i buy on demand. |