What are you picking up in your next grocery store run/delivery?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My list and strategy for next grocery shopping run is still taking shape. Last major grocery run was 4 weeks ago and I have still fresh veggis and fruits that will see me through another week easily and plenty of pantry staples. I want to be set for complete quarantine for 4 more weeks, so figuring out quantities.

Have to figure out the space in freezer and fridge, think of the menu, do another inventory of ingredients, and plan what to cook so that I can freeze most of it. We are not buying or consuming juice, cola, desserts, chips, cookies. We are eating a lot of fresh fruits and veggies instead of desserts and fries etc, but on the flip side our entrees have become more elaborate, gourmet, phenomenal, spicy, with tons of variety.

Trying not to get processed foods and pre-made foods to the minimum. I am not in the mood to even deal with the frozen food packaging...also where is the world you recycle all the plastic bags??? They are piling up in my garage because I have not had the chance to go to the grocery store to recycle that Jhit! I have become super efficient in reusing the ziplock freezer bags, and I am freezing in glassware or baking dishes to the best of my abilities.

I need to make sure that I can at least do some curb-side pickups, some stuff from online. Probably the run will happen tomorrow. I normally shopped 4 times a week for ingredients so I did not have to have a stockpile of everything...

Milk, Mexican blend shredded cheese, paneer, feta, parmesan, mozzarella, ricotta, sour cream, cream cheese ranch dressing,

Bread, Tortilla, Basmati Rice, Arborio Rice (small packet), All purpose flour, Multi-grain atta, Cream of Wheat, Cereal

Ground Chicken, Chicken thighs, Bacon, Eggs, Italian Sausage, Smoked salmon, any white fish.

Can - Coconut Milk, Pinto Beans, Jalapeno cans, baby corn, maple syrup, Ghee, Artichoke hearts, Olives, Green Jackfruit, Tuna, stewed tomato.

Cilantro, Mint, Basil, Green Chillies, Curry leaves.

Salt. Instant coffee. Yeast(?), Planter Roasted peanuts(?), Jif peanut butter, Ovaltine.

Onions, Okra, Mushroom, Spinach, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Lemons, Eggplant, Red potatoes, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Tomatoes, Garlic, Ginger,

Bananas, Oranges, Papaya, Water Melon, Cantaloupes, apples.

Orange blossom water, Taco Seasoning, Oregano, Chaat Masala, Parsley, Italian seasoning, Coriander seeds.

Intriguing list! What’s on your menu?

I am getting ingredients (and have a lot already at hand) for the following dishes and some more. For next 6 weeks and maybe more. I just want to make sure that if I want to make something, I am not without spices and ingredients.

Italian -
Lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, spinach and cheese ravioli with artichoke hearts in sauce of choice, Mushroom risotto, copy cat OG soup- Tuppa toscana, Eggplant parmigiana, rosemary focaccia, olive tapenade, veggi pizza. I plan to include salads. My garlic bread is basically - a slice of bread, buttered, with minced garlic and pan-roasted.

Latin -
Burritos, chicken fajitas, spanish rice bowls, tacos, Mexican lasagna (using tortillas and layering with beans, salsa, cheese, rice, corn etc). I have already got home made tamales (10 pieces) so that can be dinner one night. I also make guacamole, salsa verde and pico de gallo at home. Plus have a jar of salsa and sour cream.

Thai -
Pad thai, roasted and braised salads, vegetable curries, seafood and chicken curries with rice, chicken satay with peanut and cucumber sauce, fish cakes, coconut and sour soups, papaya salad.

Indian-
Lots of North Indian and South Indian, curries, breads, vegetable sabjis, daals, raitas, biryanis...

Lots of random one-off dishes and snacks that kids like -
Moroccan tagine chicken with couscous
Grilled chicken sandwich with fixing.
Tuna kebabs, Kathi rolls, tandoori chicken with mint chutney, kubdeh kebab.
Copy cat - Chick-fil-A spicy chicken sandwich with honey mustard sauce
Copy cat - Taco bell nacho grande
Hot dogs with homemade coleslaw
Roasted corn on the cob with chaat masala and lemon juice
Cornish hen with smashed potatoes, corn pudding and glazed green beans w/ almonds
Paneer and potato dosas with coconut chutney (they are ambivalent about Sambhar, but DH and I like so that gets cooked)
Chaat, Aloo tikkis, grilled paneer (marinated in green chutney)
Breakfast quiche
Smoked salmon on crackers, smoked salmon roll with cucumber salad.
Scotch eggs.
Shepherd's pie

Desserts are getting made too, but infrequently. We are doing very small batches of gourmet stuff, real and expensive ingredients and aiming for variety. We are making the calories and the effort be extremely worth it.

[Anonymous]

Just went this morning after 8 days. Ground beef, fruits, frozen veg, bread ( yay), garlic powder, bread flour, just my usual perishables. We are eating well like the other poster, exploring new recipes and generally using up everything we buy, so zero food waste.

[Anonymous]

Fresh fruit and veggies, sandwich bread (haven't had problems getting any), pita bread, hummus or stuff to make it, milk and some form of alternative milk, cheese,yogurt, eggs, bacon, and probably some other perishables.

We are well stocked with meat and pantry items. We've pretty much been eating as we normally would.

[Anonymous]

Today I ordered (from Safeway via Instacart):
Butter
sugar
brown sugar
olive oil
ginger
broccoli
asparagus
lettuce
potatoes
sweet potatoes
milk
half and half
sparkling water
trash bags
toilet paper (crossing my fingers)
dish detergent

plus multiples of canned soup, tuna fish and peanut butter for a food pantry

plus fish, steak and pork chops from Union Market (via Mercado)

[Anonymous]

I found flour and yeast today. Thrilled!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just went this morning after 8 days. Ground beef, fruits, frozen veg, bread ( yay), garlic powder, bread flour, just my usual perishables. We are eating well like the other poster, exploring new recipes and generally using up everything we buy, so zero food waste.

+ 1

The only thing I have thrown away is a packet of salad kit early in March. The lettuce was looking sketchy. Moratorium on all salad kits and lettuce for the time being. I am making my own salad combos, and also am easily growing my own sprouts and microgreens from seeds, right in the kitchen. Just to have a tiny sprig of green on the top of the finished plate..OMG!

I am looking for seeds of summer savory. I have a killer georgian beet salad recipe that I made (copycat-ting from taste and visual memory and reading up online recioes) after I had it at a Georgian restaurant in DC. I have made it several times already (pre-COVID) but have substituted the greens with cilantro, radish and sunflower sprouts...but it needs summer savory!! Was not able to find that anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won't pick up pimentto cheese. I just ate/finished half a container. I've been eating this since we started the social distancing and have gone through several containers. Can't seem to get enough of the stuff.... have to stop now.

Isn't that grated cheese mixed with mayonnaise?

[Anonymous]

Speaking of not wasting food... here is a new recipe, I came up with yesterday...

I was making a recipe yesterday that called for boiled, peeled, riced potato. In a hurry, I washed the potatoes, sliced it in 1 inch thick rounds, dunked it in water in a pyrex dish and microwaved it for 13 minutes. I fished out the boiled rounds of potato in a sieve spoon and it was too hot to try and peel off the skin. I was in too much of a hurry to wait, so I just used my hand ricer, putting the potatoes in and ricing it, and then using a spoon to scoop out all the skin and potato that was left in the ricer. After I finished making whatever I was making...I eyed the big messy pile of boiled potato peels and mushed up potato sticking to it...and did not throw it in my compost bin.

Here is what I made instead . Finely minced a few cloves of garlic and 1/4 of an onion, sauteed it with some butter, threw in the whole pile of the potato peels and smushed up bits of boiled potatoes...added a generous 2 tsp of paprika and some salt. Mix well and spread the entire mixture evenly on the pan and let it brown some. It was heavenly.

Next time, I may add some bacon and pan-fried green peas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of not wasting food... here is a new recipe, I came up with yesterday...

I was making a recipe yesterday that called for boiled, peeled, riced potato. In a hurry, I washed the potatoes, sliced it in 1 inch thick rounds, dunked it in water in a pyrex dish and microwaved it for 13 minutes. I fished out the boiled rounds of potato in a sieve spoon and it was too hot to try and peel off the skin. I was in too much of a hurry to wait, so I just used my hand ricer, putting the potatoes in and ricing it, and then using a spoon to scoop out all the skin and potato that was left in the ricer. After I finished making whatever I was making...I eyed the big messy pile of boiled potato peels and mushed up potato sticking to it...and did not throw it in my compost bin.

Here is what I made instead . Finely minced a few cloves of garlic and 1/4 of an onion, sauteed it with some butter, threw in the whole pile of the potato peels and smushed up bits of boiled potatoes...added a generous 2 tsp of paprika and some salt. Mix well and spread the entire mixture evenly on the pan and let it brown some. It was heavenly.

Next time, I may add some bacon and pan-fried green peas.

That sounds delicious!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Speaking of not wasting food... here is a new recipe, I came up with yesterday...

I was making a recipe yesterday that called for boiled, peeled, riced potato. In a hurry, I washed the potatoes, sliced it in 1 inch thick rounds, dunked it in water in a pyrex dish and microwaved it for 13 minutes. I fished out the boiled rounds of potato in a sieve spoon and it was too hot to try and peel off the skin. I was in too much of a hurry to wait, so I just used my hand ricer, putting the potatoes in and ricing it, and then using a spoon to scoop out all the skin and potato that was left in the ricer. After I finished making whatever I was making...I eyed the big messy pile of boiled potato peels and mushed up potato sticking to it...and did not throw it in my compost bin.

Here is what I made instead . Finely minced a few cloves of garlic and 1/4 of an onion, sauteed it with some butter, threw in the whole pile of the potato peels and smushed up bits of boiled potatoes...added a generous 2 tsp of paprika and some salt. Mix well and spread the entire mixture evenly on the pan and let it brown some. It was heavenly.

Next time, I may add some bacon and pan-fried green peas.

That sounds delicious!

It was. This one is a keeper for me. The slight bitterness of the potatoes reminded me of cheesy potato skins during happy hour of my single days. And there was enough potato stuck to the skin to make it feel substantial and not just peels. It was a taste explosion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought several large tins of whole milk powder. That has saved us from heading out just to restock milk.

It would have to be the complete end of the world for my family to drink that. Or maybe starving and I found that and a natural spring.

The pandemic is not an excuse to be gross! No milk is better than that trash!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bought several large tins of whole milk powder. That has saved us from heading out just to restock milk.

Doesn’t the milk powder taste bad?

[Anonymous]

Just basically double what I get in a usual week, minus meat. I have a lot of frozen meat and we can get curbside pickup of meat from our local butcher in between Instacart deliveries.

The only thing I overbuy is milk and cereal because my kid lives on Cheerios and I'm in terror of running out.

For fun extras, I'm going to get some dutch process cocoa, lemon oil, and orange oil on Amazon to do some new baking projects, like biscotti and dark chocolate mousse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My list and strategy for next grocery shopping run is still taking shape. Last major grocery run was 4 weeks ago and I have still fresh veggis and fruits that will see me through another week easily and plenty of pantry staples. I want to be set for complete quarantine for 4 more weeks, so figuring out quantities.

Have to figure out the space in freezer and fridge, think of the menu, do another inventory of ingredients, and plan what to cook so that I can freeze most of it. We are not buying or consuming juice, cola, desserts, chips, cookies. We are eating a lot of fresh fruits and veggies instead of desserts and fries etc, but on the flip side our entrees have become more elaborate, gourmet, phenomenal, spicy, with tons of variety.

Trying not to get processed foods and pre-made foods to the minimum. I am not in the mood to even deal with the frozen food packaging...also where is the world you recycle all the plastic bags??? They are piling up in my garage because I have not had the chance to go to the grocery store to recycle that Jhit! I have become super efficient in reusing the ziplock freezer bags, and I am freezing in glassware or baking dishes to the best of my abilities.

I need to make sure that I can at least do some curb-side pickups, some stuff from online. Probably the run will happen tomorrow. I normally shopped 4 times a week for ingredients so I did not have to have a stockpile of everything...

Milk, Mexican blend shredded cheese, paneer, feta, parmesan, mozzarella, ricotta, sour cream, cream cheese ranch dressing,

Bread, Tortilla, Basmati Rice, Arborio Rice (small packet), All purpose flour, Multi-grain atta, Cream of Wheat, Cereal

Ground Chicken, Chicken thighs, Bacon, Eggs, Italian Sausage, Smoked salmon, any white fish.

Can - Coconut Milk, Pinto Beans, Jalapeno cans, baby corn, maple syrup, Ghee, Artichoke hearts, Olives, Green Jackfruit, Tuna, stewed tomato.

Cilantro, Mint, Basil, Green Chillies, Curry leaves.

Salt. Instant coffee. Yeast(?), Planter Roasted peanuts(?), Jif peanut butter, Ovaltine.

Onions, Okra, Mushroom, Spinach, Bell Peppers, Cucumbers, Lemons, Eggplant, Red potatoes, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Tomatoes, Garlic, Ginger,

Bananas, Oranges, Papaya, Water Melon, Cantaloupes, apples.

Orange blossom water, Taco Seasoning, Oregano, Chaat Masala, Parsley, Italian seasoning, Coriander seeds.

Intriguing list! What’s on your menu?

I am getting ingredients (and have a lot already at hand) for the following dishes and some more. For next 6 weeks and maybe more. I just want to make sure that if I want to make something, I am not without spices and ingredients.

Italian -
Lasagna, spaghetti and meatballs, spinach and cheese ravioli with artichoke hearts in sauce of choice, Mushroom risotto, copy cat OG soup- Tuppa toscana, Eggplant parmigiana, rosemary focaccia, olive tapenade, veggi pizza. I plan to include salads. My garlic bread is basically - a slice of bread, buttered, with minced garlic and pan-roasted.

Latin -
Burritos, chicken fajitas, spanish rice bowls, tacos, Mexican lasagna (using tortillas and layering with beans, salsa, cheese, rice, corn etc). I have already got home made tamales (10 pieces) so that can be dinner one night. I also make guacamole, salsa verde and pico de gallo at home. Plus have a jar of salsa and sour cream.

Thai -
Pad thai, roasted and braised salads, vegetable curries, seafood and chicken curries with rice, chicken satay with peanut and cucumber sauce, fish cakes, coconut and sour soups, papaya salad.

Indian-
Lots of North Indian and South Indian, curries, breads, vegetable sabjis, daals, raitas, biryanis...

Lots of random one-off dishes and snacks that kids like -
Moroccan tagine chicken with couscous
Grilled chicken sandwich with fixing.
Tuna kebabs, Kathi rolls, tandoori chicken with mint chutney, kubdeh kebab.
Copy cat - Chick-fil-A spicy chicken sandwich with honey mustard sauce
Copy cat - Taco bell nacho grande
Hot dogs with homemade coleslaw
Roasted corn on the cob with chaat masala and lemon juice
Cornish hen with smashed potatoes, corn pudding and glazed green beans w/ almonds
Paneer and potato dosas with coconut chutney (they are ambivalent about Sambhar, but DH and I like so that gets cooked)
Chaat, Aloo tikkis, grilled paneer (marinated in green chutney)
Breakfast quiche
Smoked salmon on crackers, smoked salmon roll with cucumber salad.
Scotch eggs.
Shepherd's pie

Desserts are getting made too, but infrequently. We are doing very small batches of gourmet stuff, real and expensive ingredients and aiming for variety. We are making the calories and the effort be extremely worth it.

Incredible! Very impressive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I bought several large tins of whole milk powder. That has saved us from heading out just to restock milk.

Doesn’t the milk powder taste bad?

It tastes fine.