The boxed milk really isn't bad for many things, including yogurt making, cereal, and coffee. Don't love it just plain but ymmv. It's basically all they have in Brazil so we have gotten used to it and buy it 15 liters at a time.

Bananas will keep much longer in the fridge - the skin turns black but the inside stays good.

Toddson, is there anyone out while you are walking up the hill? If not, leave the mask off.

I was so annoyed on my walk this morning -- I saw very few other people, but I was the ONLY one with a mask on! I wanted to take mine off too, but kept it on to be a good example. Feh. And yes, I'm always panting.

I don't quite get the sudden mass brainworm to jump from "I never make bread and now I'm going to do the big commitment version"

As a very occasional previous bread-maker, it's literally just the idea of being home to deal with start-up phase. I am resisting, because I will not stay a weekly bread maker, but I get the urge. I mean, I was also about to google how to make my own pastrami. Have I ever bought pastrami at the grocery store? Not in 10+ years.

Bananas will keep much longer in the fridge - the skin turns black but the inside stays good.

I just taught my mother that this week!

I was also about to google how to make my own pastrami.

Talk about avoiding the shallow end of the pool.

I forgot to buy apples at the store! And they were completely out of bacon, and mostly out of sausage -- I had to buy brautworst. This was my first trip to the "big" grocery store in my neighborhood in about a month, I think, and it was really stressful.

I think I'm just gonna keep going to the tiny one around the corner, and mostly give up on meat. They have produce, cheese, milk, and eggs; everything else I can get by without.

That said, I did buy Ben & Jerry's while I was at the store, although even there the selection was limited.

I slept so badly last night that I texted in that I was taking the morning off, and instead went for a run in the park. It was great, beautifully sunny, and I saw about a dozen turkeys and 8 rabbits. And only about 4 people.

I don't quite get the sudden mass brainworm to jump from "I never make bread and now I'm going to do the big commitment version"

I think at least some of that is "I can't find yeast anywhere so let's try capturing my own"?

I forgot I ordered wasabi with my lunch and just ate the whole wad of it in one bite thinking it was some other salad-y thing. Oops.

In regard to the sourdough thing, it could be that people are finding bread out of stock in the stores. Or, when I have a snow day, I have the urge to bake bread ... although (1) there hasn't been a snow day for over a year and (2) I used to bake a lot, but haven't for some time.

2 weeks ago I managed some fresh stuff in my Aldi delivery, but from what I am hearing the larger markets are just way more wiped out.

Mom's has had plenty of fresh produce when I go on Friday morning. And of course you know the Farmer's Market is up and running! Plus Charmington's is doing produce and other grocery sales. We're really fortunate here.

I bought a fair bit of yeast after I bought a bread bowl (a bowl in which you bake bread, not a mixing bowl). But if I hadn't, I'd be leaning toward sourdough. 'Cause I love the scent of baking bread and I definitely have the time at home to take care of it.

Yikes! Wasabi is not lettuce.

You guys made me hungry so I made soup & salad for lunch. I'm skipping breakfast because I have gained so much the past couple months and want to try and do 2 meals a day. Since I do so love my oatmeal that will be dinner. Bigger meal at lunch and breakfast for dinner the next few days and we'll see how it goes.

When I went out yesterday it was the 3rd pair of long pants I tried on that actually fit. Ugh.

Food doesn't seem to be an issue, although honestly I have only been to the store once in the past month. The family seems to be bringing home enough fresh items and I have frozen items already. SIL drove through a CSA type dealio that had boxes of mixed veggies and fruits and gave us a bunch of stuff from that too. She is sending us the info on where it is located. Flat rate $10 or $20 boxes. It was lovely. Yellow tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, berries - and that was just her rejected or excess stuff she dropped to us!

I have to say people I do see are quite compliant with the masks, although some not so much with distancing. But it is hard to know if the walkers/bikers/runners are family units.

I'm supposed to get my delivered vegetables today or tomorrow. That'll be exciting. I think I'm supposed to get eggs with that, as well, but who knows what will actually come - even the CSA is doing substitutions and running out of stuff. I'm on my last half a roll of toilet paper, so I guess I'll be going to a store in the next few days, maybe a couple of stores, I'm not sure what the probability of actually finding some is around here.