Because I am diabetic and do a keto type diet to keep my blood sugar levels down.

Trump wants the diabetic people to die the POS.

Normally, I only have to inject 5-6 ml Humalog after every meal. Now it's up to 12-14 because I've had to start eating rice as a staple. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to get by on low levels before now. I've stretched the shelf life by keeping Humalog and Levamir vials in prescription bottles in the fridge. They stay active for about 8 weeks for me that way. I really hope we don't see insulin shortages.

I’ve been looking for rice everywhere for two weeks. Costco, Target, Vons, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods, and our local health food store. Everything is sold out except the “minute” varieties—even the bulk bins are empty. Same with dried beans.
It’s not even available online.
Seems to be scarcer than toilet paper ‘round these parts.

While so many people were freaking out and buying toilet paper and bottled water, I bought 20 pounds of rice, 20 pounds of chicken, and 10 pounds of stewing beef. Then I got online and bought 2 pounds of powdered butter, 4 pounds of powdered milk, and 5 pounds of powdered eggs. I did that right when I remembered that Trump had gotten rid of the pandemic response team.

I would talk to your grocery store manager and see when s/he thinks the next shipment is coming in, and then be there early.

At one grocery last week in line another customer one lane over was asking what days for what deliveries. My cashier told her the days.

I've been getting canned fish, though that has a tinny taste I don't like. Frozen patties too, I saw those in my local.

Canned anything, pretty much. The freezers in the supermarket I went to on Friday looked pretty empty too (the vegetable section, anyway; I didn't see the rest of it). The OP's meat seems to vary - some there was plenty of (bacon, for instance, which surprised me, since it has a long shelf life), some was sold out.

There was a shelf of canned food, most pretty awful like canned spaghetti, but also tuna and soup. And a bottle of bleach!

you'll have a better chance of getting meat there.

which was shut down two weeks ago. Then I tried Wednesday and there were two slots for today. Half my order out of stuff, meat I ordered two consecutive times, then today shopper said we got ribeyes. They're going back. I called them for a heads up. She said ribeye has fat so it's tender. BS.
They each are half and half chunks of fat and meat here and there. One was $15+ the other $16+. I don't need shi**y meat for this price.

They know us been loyal since 1985. I looked at them again and no way I'm keeping them.

The fella who shopped I told very little fat. He sent them anyway. Nobody gives a crap lately.

I just let loose and I'm sorry y'all.

Yah, it's the stupid disease and other prevailing 'stupidity', but this far reaching peripheral sh*t is what's magnifying it.

rib eyes are not shitty meat! best cut of steak, broil or cook on the grill, hot and fast to med rare

no, it isn't lean so if you ordered lean they should have given you some (actually shitty) cut like round but still, please don't call ribeye shitty!

It’s tender and tasty. I don’t eat red meat much anymore but when I do it’s ribeye.

but us 'seasoned' ones mostly need way less fat in or on our steaks. Well, me anyways. 😉

All growing up, I was told eating fat would be stored as fat, rather than unused carbs, and most of the time low fat products were augmented by sugar and/or salt.

The flavour from a rib eye is made all the better with, what my mother used to call "marbling". Worth a try ! I'm lucky here in Ireland that it's grass fed beef, and there's plenty of it ! Even Lidl and Aldi here source their beef from local farmers, and that has brought a big buy in from consumers.

Especially $34 for two of them. I don't mind shelling out for quality even if expensive, but these were gross.

I said not a lot of fat, and they put them in my order anyway. They know me and should've called before and prevented this me having to trot off to the store again.

steak, even selling beef dripping !

https://www.jameswhelanbutchers.com/

They were extremely poor quality. And for the ridiculous price.

Like half fat and half beef.

They went back to the store today and I got six filet mignon.

I been cookin' for 47 years and I am particular about quality of the stuff I'll cook. These were brutal.

These were half chunks of fat and half beef.

I looked at them again and said, nah.

Got back $34. for the 2.

Then I found six filet mignon. Happy camper!

I know the fattier cuts are supposed to be more flavorful, but I just have an aversion to any kind of visible animal fat. It literally makes me gag. If I have Prime Rib or a roast or anything like that, I will only cut out the lean pieces and eat those and discard the rest. I know people who love the fat and I can't understand it.

It also has to be very tender and cut like butter. I do occasionally cook w/ cheaper cuts like a London Broil or something like that for a stew or a Beef Bourguignon or a Stroganoff, where you just cook over low, slow heat so it gets tenderized and flavored by other ingredients, but I have to cut off every single bit of visible fat off first.

have shut them down for the time being and they are only putting out the prepackaged meats.

into today. Packaged meat bins sparse.

doing my walk this afternoon, and their meat section was completely filled! No gaps with missing items anywhere.

This grocery store is popular and be getting run on more so than others.

I'll drag my butt around Wednesday to try Publix again. I did pretty good there.

I read somewhere that a comment from a Home Depot associate [?] that someone bought 4 freezers.

At least, in our experience.
Having said that, there's still no toilet paper there.

items, produce, dairy...all looked good. Paper towels and tissues were in stock as well.

A restaurant supply shop. A case was 12 large rolls of 2-ply (1000 ft each) for $42, that included shipping. Ordered it last week and it arrived today.

I need to get some more cuisine prep gloves eventually.

I can get salon grade ones at the beauty supply. I had enuff already. So that's an option if you need gloves but not for food prep and handling.

We were there today. Prices are considerably lower than most stores and they ahve quality food (including a good selection of gluten free, low carb, and organic).

The choices are limited, so we have to supplement - we had to go to a second store to get 3 items on our list But I often find that the handful of specialty items we buy from somewhere else cost as much as the full shopping cart at ALDIs.

ETA: ALDI's was better stocked than the traditional grocery store I went to to top off the list.

in some things others don't have.

I've never been disappointed in Aldi's quality, and you can indeed find some super bargains there.

I may try some day for the heck of it.

Just used to shopping at our regular place. BOGOs, fuel points, specials. Mb those hidden $$ perks somewhere.

from the family-owned Aldi in Germany (it was my go-to grocer when I lived there in the 70's). The brothers had a falling out and the divided the company into two entities - one operating in Northern Germany the other in Southern. Then they each brought their grocery to the US - one as Aldi and one as TJ's but there is no ownership in common.

shortages of milk/dairy.

I wonder what's up with central processing and where those places are located and if those general workers are sick.

I think thousands of those workers are prisoner workers. Makes me wonder if they're sick with corona & can't work near the food supply.

And another explanation was 'distribution '.

More likely undocumented.

I worked near a major meat processing plant for a while, so I got to see who was going in and out of there: Undocumented Hispanics.

The only people who weren't Hispanic were the white guys who ran the place and one poor woman who I guess was a secretary.

How did you know they were undocumented?

Periodically and would have to hire more people.

Don’t assume racist intent when people might just be not blind.

even being marked down as it approached expiration... so are ppl hoarding it?
with restaurants selling less (not everyone does takeout) you'd think there'd be
a glut of chicken...
there must be massive buying at another level (hoarding)
🤔

✌🏼

Hoarding. Meee first, screw y'all everbody else.

Cashier said quietly the other day, you should hear some of them.

and the power goes out for 5 days. Not.

And prices are normal, just no sales

He says he is grinding fresh hamburger every three hours to keep up with demand. I bought three pounds at 2.99 a pound.

Very fresh, melt in your mouth texture. He mixes round and chuck for an 83% lean mix.

they want us to be cannibals, jk

Whole Foods. They had plenty of meat. Costco also had lots of eggs. No paper towels or sanitary products though. My local grocery store even had plenty of meat.

and sales of small yard sheds to store toilet paper.........

I'll know how things are here in Derby City in a bit when my son returns from Kroger.......

Plenty of TP, plenty of food. Not a fan of red meat, but bought two lobster tails and a pound of scallops to cook a feast for a friend’s birthday.

I grow my own veggies and my sweet chickens keep me supplied with eggs, so all good on that front.

Usually, panic buying that clearsout grocery stores is highly localized over things like a hurricane. Every single time we have one of those headed for Texas, our stores get wiped out. But I doubt that someone in Chicago or Spokane even felt a blip. This was a nationwide panic that hammered the entire supply chain. So everyone is feeling it.

However, the supply lines are already starting to show signs of recovering. For instance, today was the first time since the Black Friday hoarding day that my husband mentioned his risers. Risers are that very top shelf where grocers store product that they have too many of to fit on the shelves, but not enough to stay in a box in the wareroom. Before Black Friday, my husband's #1 thing he griped about were the risers, because they were often a sign of flaws in the inventory system. That he was silent about them for so long told me how empty his store was. Yet now he's mentioning those damned risers again, which means there's plenty of certain things. You don't have products on the risers if your supply chain is FUBAR or dead.

We also got a great laugh today when he showed me a picture of his store's "replacement" order for Spam Lite. Can we say a 4X4X4 pallet of the stuff? There were hundreds of them! And he had another pallet of of the regular stuff and some of the other flavors. Which I knew nothing about, because I thought Spam was Spam. I never look at it on the shelf, so how would I know there are umpteen versions of the stuff?

Look, the supply chain has taken a hard hit, but food grows back, fish get caught and meat can be replaced as long as you don't wipe out herds to get everybody some now. It will take a bit to get stuff processed into Spam and tuna and Spaghetti-Os and Mexicorn again, but we'll get there, eventually.

Our local supermarket chain thinks that everything will be back to normal, or close to it, by Easter. It usually takes a week or so to bounce back from a hurricane run. So taking until Easter to get back on their feet sounds about right.

What I'm hoping that grocers and other retailers will have learned from this experience to clamp down early on panic buying if there's another disaster. As soon as they know something is coming, start rationing early--each customer gets one pack each of TP and paper towels, one bottle of hand sanitizer, two loaves of bread, one jug of milk, one carton of eggs, and so on. If the grocery stores had limited what people could buy, we wouldn't be in this mess now.

And if grocers won't or can't control their inventories voluntarily, the government might need to look at a rationing card/ID type thing, that must be presented when an emergency or disaster is declared. That way, people won't be able to abuse the supply chain by overbuying at a store multiple times a day or multiple days in a row, or going from store to store to clear out product. You get your rations one day a week. And that's it. Try to abuse the system, and go to jail.

Works for me.

And yes, store managers limiting quantities early on could have alleviated some of the pandemonium.

Except for ground turkey. It's spread to take up the vacated beef space.

Fair amount of pork, not much fresh/unfrozen chicken.

More expensive cuts of beef in abundance. And frozen stuff like chicken (but again, not burger). N. of Houston.

There was plenty of meat. Wieners and canned meat were scarce. Turkey breasts were cheap.

Wolf

addition to my girl's wet dog food. I can eat anything. But I been doing this for her for four years and she's important to me.

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They were waiting for me in the meat bin calling my name.

No ground anything. Some other odds 'n' ends. I did pretty well earlier. Paper products aisle wiped out.

I think I posted--I scored six filet mignon Tuesday afternoon. Tonite she had a small amount mixed in with dogga wet food. She mah bébé. I'll eat only cereal if need be, but making sure she has what I been providing for four years now. Haw!

Doc somewhere online said not healthy to smooch yer pooch. Yah, RIGHT. 🤣 😙 🐶

It took 23 posts before the veggie people showed up on this thread?

I'm also not someone who complains about the lack of meat in the middle of a *bleeping* pandemic. I stocked up on a variety of non-perishables (beans, lentils, grains, canned tuna and salmon, etc.) and hope not to be anywhere near a grocery store for quite a while. People around the world are living in dire conditions and I'm finding I have zero patience for pampered Americans complaining about items lacking from their grocery stores... MAKE DO.

We eat meat, but there's no shortage of that. One day there was one avocado in the bin. One. Only reason I noticed that was because all the other bins were literally empty. Weirdest thing I've ever seen. That was actually about a week ago. I haven't been to the store since so not sure how it is now

but meat was VERY sparse. Mb some tripe and smoked turkey legs. I kid! Well turkey legs anyway. Seafood showcase had crab legs and I dint pay attention to what else. No meat in the showcase.

I'm just getting weary trolloping
around to numerous stores.

Oh my.

I floozied my way around two adjoining counties in the hopes of procuring vittles.
🤣

Thank you!

“Floozied” is even better!!

So glad to see some have kept their sense of humor! I intend to steal your choice of words in the coming days

I also rely on the kindness of strangers. 😉

I run a gamut of emotions currently.

Last nite some bad words came out in a tirade that surprised even myself. 😇

"A lank, hobbledehoy gooseherd who came trolloping along a path,..yawning."
"We'll go very slow and he can trollop behind."

Oxford English Dictionary

I love words, and am acquainted with the word “trollop’” just not in that sense.

Maybe we'll run into each other ...

the little hispanic market had a full case. You got to go mom and pop. Better selection, better prices and service, few shoppers, help support small business. For eggs check FB marketplace in your area I got a flat of 30 today for $4. Time to think outside the box!

But there is some left usually. Last time it was so expensive compared to wf. I get some for me but most to make my kitties’ food, one can only eat that and it is stressful worrying about it. I told him he has to eat less, he is on a diet. I froze some but I want to save that for just in case. I am not going out at all now but eventually I will need to get more. I call wf ahead to see if they have my usual first, the delivery is backed up and not working well which I would prefer.

were clogged up.

I'm getting a tad more concerned about this food situation rather than the stinkin' disease.

I'll eat soup, frozen breaded shrimp, frozen foods, but I like to make some hooman food mixed with wet food for my dogga daughter. I can also scramble an egg, add sweet potato, green beans or canned carrots and shredded cheese. Sometimes.

Be safe, be well.

Dogs are a bit more flexible on diet but cats need high amounts of protein etc. I don't put any carbs in except some pumpkin for one. My other guy can’t eat any commercial food and I spent 5 months getting him to where he is now. For me I eat lower carb and became very ill on vegan/ veggie, also gluten and grain free.

I am concerned too, it is all so scary 😿

The furbabes eat better sometimes lol

You too, be safe

... or was it your neighbors who were clogged up?

Just wondering if it was a comment on Whole Foods safety and/or freshness.

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I guess. They deliver thru Amazon?

Actually, I haven't looked into them.

Come to think of this entire dilemma, neighbors have Schwann deliveries we've seen. I forgot about them.

Grocery shopping is now hit or miss.

We Amerikanskis are spoilt. Take it from this voice of authority. 👸 😁

I know the numbers are still not reassuring and I don't know why I say this, but in my spirit I feel like 'something' is in the process of breaking mb soon. Peak then wane. Good riddance.

And this has nothing relative to the baboon like orange butt emitting daily stupidous forecasts about loaded Easter churches. That is for the ones who drink his koolade. [Baboon butts are cute, but he's revoltingly ugly in all respects.]

another out.

I'd go there in a heartbeat

but the huge number of cats might be overwhelming, lol!

Free to swamp me like a blanket made of cats. I love cats and more to cuddle is better. I have 1 cat, Othello and I love him, he's my heart.

I just may do dat!

And there were even some beef items on sale. I saw nothing missing except some of the cleaning supplies were sparse..must be a local thing for you.

it.😠

Prices are a bit higher,and their selection is smaller, but they have senior parking spots and I don't like the mega stores anyway

Instacart. Wednesday I was able to pick up rib eye and hamburger. I have not seen any shorten in meat at all, not even a little. I can't get paper towels for anything. Minute Rice was out too.

I am in Oregon. What state are you?

i buy lots of staples from them and they show up on mydoorstep..

Sorry but I just had to with day after day being crappy.

I went to the store monday after not having been since 2/18..I have baked my own bread, but I really needed produce and milk. Have you tried a small independent store?. That's what I did and there were no shortages..they even had an end display of tp and paper towels

Do y'all take pity on me?

Down here spreading truth and light.

Bloom where yer planted they say.

I may wait some days b4 heading out again. Prolly for milk, arf and arf [half 'n' half!].
I bought some rye bread for Saint Patrick's day and froze it.

There's just my doggy daughter and her mommie now so we can improvise. I think of our parents who no doubt rationed food and made do. Us'uns today are spoilt. 😇

Bobby Caldwell - 'What You Won't Do for Love'

Whole grain breads, all tortillas, and all fresh veggies where I am are wiped out before my queue, but there's tons of meat which I don't need because I have it in my freezer.

I'm experimenting with stir frying iceberg lettuce. It's not terrible, but it's definitely not bok choy.

has been very disappointing in services and inventory lately. Behold! Publix had much, especially beautiful fresh appealing produce! And plenty of it. And this was later in the day around 5:00.

I mentioned upthread I think, it's hit or miss lately.

But you need several. Just a thought.

We do have TV and DVDs plus my guitars, but there is a family of red squirrels, the kind with the tufted ears, that springs around outside our small lawn in back of the house, and we'd miss them.

Besides, we don't own anything we could shoot them with. We'll stick with fish and eggplant.

We'll leave the planet to the squirrels. They probably won't mess it up.

but humans could not survive without the critters et al.

Similar to dark meat turkey, maybe a bit sweeter.

that I've heard of.

I’ve been calling it the Hoard Of The Day, here. One day, zero dairy. Another day, no onions. Another, no cold cuts. (It has gotten so weird that one local store seems to be selling counterfeit cold cuts. Same label as a famous brand, but black packaging vs. clear, and no expiration date... and it’s not in the slots for that brand. Hmmm...) The only thing consistently out is hand sanitizer and TP, but only in that one store chain. I’ve been able to get TP from another chain, no problem. So I treat shopping like the Soviets did - hit different stores at different times, go early, etc.

Instacart is swamped with no delivery slots available for any stores.

Fred’s had no pickup slot available at my local store but the one 2 miles further down the road had some on Friday mid-morning. There were zero slots until I woke up at 4:15 am today and looked blearily at my phone. I created the shopping list yesterday and was able to check out today at 4:30 am for pickup around 11 am Friday. It’s just my weekly shopping list so I don’t have any sort of weird quantities of stuff.

Having been to the closer store in person last weekend, I know that the meats I chose aren’t particularly hit- things like chicken sausages and some Italian pork sausage. I ordered four different kinds, and while that’s a lot of sausage it also freezes well.

Next week I’ll order a couple of salmon fillets. The local Fred Meyers isn’t having butchers provide meat over their counter- everything is pre wrapped, which is fine. I’ll take a look at their ad for this week and see about adding a few other items but in general unless you’re looking for TP or flour they seem to have most stuff.

which I never had before.

I usually have cod filets in the freezer year round. In lieu of a meat meal for doggie, I make her a cod filet. She goes to town! I was surprised the first time.

Not "back to normal" levels -- they closed off part of the section so they could shut off its refrigeration unit and consolidated what had been there into the parts they kept running -- but it was a meat section again.

But I live out in a semi-rural area.