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possible lengthy food, supply shortages coming to the US? Latest: start hiding Sriracha (1 Viewer)

On a scale of 1-10 how concerned are you about a food/supply shortage?

  • 1-Not concerned at all. Business as usual.

    Votes: 48 23.1%

  • 2

    Votes: 35 16.8%

  • 3

    Votes: 30 14.4%

  • 4

    Votes: 25 12.0%

  • 5-Mildly concerned, but not panicking. Stocking up on some non-perishable essentials.

    Votes: 45 21.6%

  • 6

    Votes: 8 3.8%

  • 7

    Votes: 9 4.3%

  • 8

    Votes: 4 1.9%

  • 9

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 10-Stocking up on everything.

    Votes: 4 1.9%
  • Total voters
    208
Kroger was out of cubed hash browns, but that is typical for week before Thanksgiving or Christmas.  I was able to snag one of the last bags of shredded.  Meijer had unlimited cream cheese yesterday.  

Based on all the fear-mongering, I think we're doing ok.

 
Now my local stores are out of melba toast. I've been eating that stuff since being a preschooler at my grandparents' house. Where is the America I once knew?

 
shuke said:
Kroger was out of cubed hash browns, but that is typical for week before Thanksgiving or Christmas.  I was able to snag one of the last bags of shredded.  Meijer had unlimited cream cheese yesterday.  

Based on all the fear-mongering, I think we're doing ok.
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We generally hit Sam's club for a few things, Costco for a few things and Super Kroger for the non-bulk item things (stuff like Milk, butter, etc.) and I've noticed it's been impossible to find cubed hash browns for about 2 months now but that's been about it.

I noticed, about the time this thread was created, I did see a run on TP, paper towels and some meat for a little while there but it seems like the hoarding kind of died down, maybe it's the high prices now?  I don't pay close attention (most of the time) but the $110 beef roasts and $15 for a pound of roast beef (lunch meat) did make stop and look around for cheaper options.

 
Our local grocery store was out of  bunch of stuff today. Went over to Walmart and found all of it. I think it just the fact that local stores can't afford to order ahead far enough to make sure they have stock. They can't afford to have a warehouse full of unsold stuff like a Walmart can.

 
Sullie said:
We generally hit Sam's club for a few things, Costco for a few things and Super Kroger for the non-bulk item things (stuff like Milk, butter, etc.) and I've noticed it's been impossible to find cubed hash browns for about 2 months now but that's been about it.

I noticed, about the time this thread was created, I did see a run on TP, paper towels and some meat for a little while there but it seems like the hoarding kind of died down, maybe it's the high prices now?  I don't pay close attention (most of the time) but the $110 beef roasts and $15 for a pound of roast beef (lunch meat) did make stop and look around for cheaper options.
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What matters are staples and actual core essentials not fringe items and luxury items and convenience items.

If people can't get milk, salt, flour, vinegar, rice, etc, etc, then there is a massive problem.

Try this experiment, everyone here, and then you'll find out quickly what matters and what does not - Turn off your fridge in 12 hours. In those 12 hours you can strategize how to use and extend and preserve that food as best you can. Don't turn it back on for three months. Don't go to the grocery store and don't buy food in the normal manner. Don't eat out. Simply use what you have in your pantry and what you have in your fridge and garage for three months.

People then will understand the raw value of something like salt and something like vinegar and why generations and nations in previously recorded human history were willing to go to war over spices.

The average American household has about 3 weeks of food in reserve.

Does that sound like hardship? Three months? Because everyone here has an insulated home or apartment and regular access to clean drinking water. Imagine if you had to protect and preserve and ration your food as well as processing potable water at the same time.

Empty shelves for toilet paper for a year is not a crisis. Use some newspaper and suck it up. Empty shelves with no salt for a year is a crisis.

 
GordonGekko said:
What matters are staples and actual core essentials not fringe items and luxury items and convenience items.

If people can't get milk, salt, flour, vinegar, rice, etc, etc, then there is a massive problem.

Try this experiment, everyone here, and then you'll find out quickly what matters and what does not - Turn off your fridge in 12 hours. In those 12 hours you can strategize how to use and extend and preserve that food as best you can. Don't turn it back on for three months. Don't go to the grocery store and don't buy food in the normal manner. Don't eat out. Simply use what you have in your pantry and what you have in your fridge and garage for three months.

People then will understand the raw value of something like salt and something like vinegar and why generations and nations in previously recorded human history were willing to go to war over spices.

The average American household has about 3 weeks of food in reserve.

Does that sound like hardship? Three months? Because everyone here has an insulated home or apartment and regular access to clean drinking water. Imagine if you had to protect and preserve and ration your food as well as processing potable water at the same time.

Empty shelves for toilet paper for a year is not a crisis. Use some newspaper and suck it up. Empty shelves with no salt for a year is a crisis.
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No

 
GordonGekko said:
What matters are staples and actual core essentials not fringe items and luxury items and convenience items.

If people can't get milk, salt, flour, vinegar, rice, etc, etc, then there is a massive problem.

Try this experiment, everyone here, and then you'll find out quickly what matters and what does not - Turn off your fridge in 12 hours. In those 12 hours you can strategize how to use and extend and preserve that food as best you can. 
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Why? I live in a hurricane state. I already have that t-shirt.

 
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