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bladesparkWe just did our normal shopping trip, basically. But we had to visit two extra stores to get everything, and we did buy a little bit more than usual of a couple of things. (We already have TP. Good god, the TP thing is so dumb. We bought our usual Costco multi-pack about two months ago, and that's easily a six month supply. WTF are these idiots buying multiple packs even doing? Normally I roll my eyes at the snobbery of going "sheeple" at people, but... Fucking sheeple!)
And speaking of sheeple... Costco is our normal first stop, but though we got there over half an hour after it opened, the line to get in still wrapped around the entire building. We said screw that and kept driving. We mostly go there for milk, and for all we knew they'd be out, anyway.
Market of Choice, our locally owned kinda crunchy-granola store was about like normal, and largely stocked like normal, but were out of ground beef, which we'd gone there pretty much for that and coffee, so that was annoying. We didn't get much else there, and in retrospect we should have... Oh well! But I did get a bottle of my favorite stupidly expensive strawberry beer, and a six pack of an interesting looking guava cider by Ace, whose ciders I've always liked pretty well. (We have enough booze to definitely last the apocalypse, given JJ cellars wine. We could drink a bottle or two every day for weeks and weeks. Also I have mead! Though the latest batch is still too raw, probably, it needs another 3 months before I'd want to get into it.)
Winco was only a bit more crowded than normal (it's a 24 hour store, which spreads things out) but the shelves were startlingly barren, and the produce section was reduced entirely to the weird things. No apples, no oranges, no potatoes, no onions. I could have gotten artichokes, but I already have some, so I passed. We got pasta there, (they were getting low, but they'd just restocked cavatappi when we turned up, and that's one of my favorites anyway!) and we found everything else we needed there except chili, because they had some, but not the specific kind JJ wanted, and onions, because see above about produce.
So then we tried a place we don't usually go, which is an actual wholesale/restaurant supply store. Fun little place! It was more crowded than normal, but nearly everything was fully stocked and there weren't lines or anything, it's just usually basically empty. We got milk there, two gallons for us, two gallons for the goober, who'd live on milk if I let her. I couldn't get onions unless I wanted a 40lb bag, though. Oops! And they also didn't have the right kind of chili and were out of ground beef.
So we tried one more stop, Whole Foods, which we don't usually visit, but they have the brand of beer JJ likes, so we do an occasional beer run, and they had onions! They also had ground beef, but only the 20% fat kind. We noticed they had chuck roast on a good deal, though, and decided to try grinding our own. Got some of that and some lean sirloin to bring the fat content down. So that'll be a fun experiment!
Other than chili we got everything we needed, and in only one more stop than normal, since we skipped Costco. I call that a success.
JJ is working from home next week, the goob hasn't got school, everything I might do is cancelled, so we may not need to set foot out the door for the next two weeks. We hadn't really *intended* to aggressively self-quarantine, but hey, might as well, right?
And speaking of sheeple... Costco is our normal first stop, but though we got there over half an hour after it opened, the line to get in still wrapped around the entire building. We said screw that and kept driving. We mostly go there for milk, and for all we knew they'd be out, anyway.
Market of Choice, our locally owned kinda crunchy-granola store was about like normal, and largely stocked like normal, but were out of ground beef, which we'd gone there pretty much for that and coffee, so that was annoying. We didn't get much else there, and in retrospect we should have... Oh well! But I did get a bottle of my favorite stupidly expensive strawberry beer, and a six pack of an interesting looking guava cider by Ace, whose ciders I've always liked pretty well. (We have enough booze to definitely last the apocalypse, given JJ cellars wine. We could drink a bottle or two every day for weeks and weeks. Also I have mead! Though the latest batch is still too raw, probably, it needs another 3 months before I'd want to get into it.)
Winco was only a bit more crowded than normal (it's a 24 hour store, which spreads things out) but the shelves were startlingly barren, and the produce section was reduced entirely to the weird things. No apples, no oranges, no potatoes, no onions. I could have gotten artichokes, but I already have some, so I passed. We got pasta there, (they were getting low, but they'd just restocked cavatappi when we turned up, and that's one of my favorites anyway!) and we found everything else we needed there except chili, because they had some, but not the specific kind JJ wanted, and onions, because see above about produce.
So then we tried a place we don't usually go, which is an actual wholesale/restaurant supply store. Fun little place! It was more crowded than normal, but nearly everything was fully stocked and there weren't lines or anything, it's just usually basically empty. We got milk there, two gallons for us, two gallons for the goober, who'd live on milk if I let her. I couldn't get onions unless I wanted a 40lb bag, though. Oops! And they also didn't have the right kind of chili and were out of ground beef.
So we tried one more stop, Whole Foods, which we don't usually visit, but they have the brand of beer JJ likes, so we do an occasional beer run, and they had onions! They also had ground beef, but only the 20% fat kind. We noticed they had chuck roast on a good deal, though, and decided to try grinding our own. Got some of that and some lean sirloin to bring the fat content down. So that'll be a fun experiment!
Other than chili we got everything we needed, and in only one more stop than normal, since we skipped Costco. I call that a success.
JJ is working from home next week, the goob hasn't got school, everything I might do is cancelled, so we may not need to set foot out the door for the next two weeks. We hadn't really *intended* to aggressively self-quarantine, but hey, might as well, right?
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