How's your quarantine stockpile holding up?

[WinniWoman]

Another question on this topic. What did you stockpile in March and really didn't use?
For me it was canned soup and canned tuna. Not sure why as they are typical staples in our house anyway....just never ended up eating it.

I use canned tuna a lot and there have been no sales in it. I used to buy like 20 of them when in NY and Price Chopper had the 10 for $10 sales.

I do need to get more canned soup.

I guess what I haven’t used as much of is my baking stuff because the weather got nice and I lost interest. For me, that is something I would rather do when it’s cold out and I’m stuck inside more.

 

[BJRSanDiego]

We had plenty of wine when this started and are still in good shape. If we run low our neighbor, who has something like 700 CASES of wine in his wine cellar can come to the rescue.

Luanne, your neighbor must be a collector and a financial trader in wines. Some (probably a minority) red wines get better with age, but often only to a certain point. Also, wines that are kept at room temp (70-80F} will typically age much more quickly. Storing (not to be confused with the slightly higher temp for consuming) is best around 56 F. My own experience with white wines is that they are best consumed before they get to a few years old.

During the beginning of the pandemic I went through our old (room temp stored) red and white wines (we used to belong to two wine of the month clubs. 100% of the whites that were over 8 years old had turned. Perhaps they could have been saved for cooking? The reds did a little better, but not by much.

If you go to your neighbor to restock some wines, tell the neighbor to save the older wines for himself and that you would be happy to settle for something less "dear" and important - - like 5 or 6 year old wines. Ha ha.

 

[controller1]

Luanne, your neighbor must be a collector and a financial trader in wines. Some (probably a minority) red wines get better with age, but often only to a certain point. Also, wines that are kept at room temp (70-80F} will typically age much more quickly. Storing (not to be confused with the slightly higher temp for consuming) is best around 56 F. My own experience with white wines is that they are best consumed before they get to a few years old.

During the beginning of the pandemic I went through our old (room temp stored) red and white wines (we used to belong to two wine of the month clubs. 100% of the whites that were over 8 years old had turned. Perhaps they could have been saved for cooking? The reds did a little better, but not by much.

If you go to your neighbor to restock some wines, tell the neighbor to save the older wines for himself and that you would be happy to settle for something less "dear" and important - - like 5 or 6 year old wines. Ha ha.

I will say the pandemic has been good for wine drinking. We've had several excellent 2007 and 2009 vintage reds taken from our temperature controlled storage that we were "saving" for something.

 

[clifffaith]

I'm riding the fence between wanting to make sure we have a food stockpile to not have to deal with EVER having to go to five grocery stores in one day to find everything we need, and realizing that shortly dinner will be cooked for us every night and I need to come to terms with an empty pantry. Earlier this week we polished off the burger tower from the guesthouse fridge ( it was the only thing in that freezer when we were without power for eleven hours over Labor Day weekend). When we get through the remains of the tower in the inside kitchen, I'll only buy burger by the pound as needed for lasagna, etc., -- no more big towers of pre-made patties. Trying to eat up the pasta and rice stockpiles, but again don't know when we'll move to the old folks home and want to be sure we have enough to avoid ever having a stress buying situation again.

 

[DeniseM]

If you are interested in stocking up, I thought this video was very helpful and practical, without going overboard:

This Vlog is about cooking from scratch, using whole food ingredients, and it's interesting if you are getting back into home cooking. We have noticed that people seem to be stocking up on holiday mainstays already - so that's something to keep an eye on, if you are hosting a holiday meal. On our last 2 grocery orders, they were out of stock on spiral hams. If you have the freezer space, things like hams and turkey breasts/rolls are often sold at a very low price around the holidays as "lost leaders."

 

[easyrider]

We are almost out of canned chicken breast and totally out of canned ground beef. The canned ground beef was really popular this year for outings. All of the ground beef and chicken breast in the freezer since last spring will get canned soon and then the freezer will get restocked. I think I will can some round steaks too.

Propane tanks and gas cans need to be filled. Oil changes on the vehicles. Start the snow blower before it snows. Winterize is what happens next.

So reports in our area are that there is more covid 19 showing up but not too many serious cases. Many people I know that tested positive didn't know they had covid 19 but a few did. Our area never really beat the first round and reports are there is a second round coming with the cold weather. We only recently entered phase 2 of the covid plan in our county.

Bill

 

[rickandcindy23]

Luanne, your neighbor must be a collector and a financial trader in wines. Some (probably a minority) red wines get better with age, but often only to a certain point. Also, wines that are kept at room temp (70-80F} will typically age much more quickly. Storing (not to be confused with the slightly higher temp for consuming) is best around 56 F. My own experience with white wines is that they are best consumed before they get to a few years old.

During the beginning of the pandemic I went through our old (room temp stored) red and white wines (we used to belong to two wine of the month clubs. 100% of the whites that were over 8 years old had turned. Perhaps they could have been saved for cooking? The reds did a little better, but not by much.

If you go to your neighbor to restock some wines, tell the neighbor to save the older wines for himself and that you would be happy to settle for something less "dear" and important - - like 5 or 6 year old wines. Ha ha.

Gosh, that reminds me of the Columbo episode, when a wine collector's giant wine cooler got too warm and ruined the wine. I believe there was a dead body in there too.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

I want to eat out, but it seems unconscionable with so much food in the fridge and freezer at home!

My reasoning is quite different. Served food has other people in the production/delivery china, after cooking. I am eating only thing that are 1. cooked by me, 2. fruit than can be washed and then peeled (Apples, bananas. pears, ect. 3. preserved foods, such as preserves, honey, canned fish.

I do bend the rules for bread.

 

[Ralph Sir Edward]

Luanne, your neighbor must be a collector and a financial trader in wines. Some (probably a minority) red wines get better with age, but often only to a certain point. Also, wines that are kept at room temp (70-80F} will typically age much more quickly. Storing (not to be confused with the slightly higher temp for consuming) is best around 56 F. My own experience with white wines is that they are best consumed before they get to a few years old.

During the beginning of the pandemic I went through our old (room temp stored) red and white wines (we used to belong to two wine of the month clubs. 100% of the whites that were over 8 years old had turned. Perhaps they could have been saved for cooking? The reds did a little better, but not by much.

If you go to your neighbor to restock some wines, tell the neighbor to save the older wines for himself and that you would be happy to settle for something less "dear" and important - - like 5 or 6 year old wines. Ha ha.

I only keep around 20 cases in my temperature controlled cabinet (bought in 2000). I (and my brother) consume about a case a month. So I "top off the cellar" when I go to buy meat at Costco. If I'm geared up anyways. . . .

The size of the bottle matters also. The larger the bottle, the slower it ages.

 

[geist1223]

I think I mentioned in a different thread we are mini-preppers. So we have a lot stocked up on shelves in the garage to include a lot of dehydrated stuff. Some of the best is made in Albany Oregon. Just 20 minutes south. Each vehicle has emergency supplies. Then a double hall closet is our normal Costco storage. There is a very large room upstairs that with prior owners was a TV/Playroom. We use it for temperature controlled storage. We also store paper and cleaning supplies in that room. We have an upright freezer and the old side by side Frig in the garage that we keep stocked. The Frig part is for beer and the freezer side for liqour.

 

[WVBaker]

I will say the pandemic has been good for wine drinking. We've had several excellent 2007 and 2009 vintage reds taken from our temperature controlled storage that we were "saving" for something.

 

[Glynda]

Another question on this topic. What did you stockpile in March and really didn't use?
For me it was canned soup and canned tuna. Not sure why as they are typical staples in our house anyway....just never ended up eating it.

Canned tomatoes, tomato sauce and beans. Boxed pasta. Huge bottle of Dawn detergent. Clorox wipes. Hand sanitizer. Peanut butter. Still have some extra toilet paper and paper towels though they are brands I don't prefer.

 

[DaveNV]

Canned tomatoes, tomato sauce and beans. Boxed pasta. Huge bottle of Dawn detergent. Clorox wipes. Hand sanitizer. Peanut butter. Still have some extra toilet paper and paper towels though they are brands I don't prefer.

Sounds like a typical shopping day at Costco.

Dave

 

[VacationForever]

We are currently into using up all our food and household supplies because we are selling our home with no place to go for a little more than 2 months. It is certainly hard to plan for a potential shortage on the grocery store shelves when we we are in a "burn" mode.

 

[pedro47]

Another question on this topic. What did you stockpile in March and really didn't use?
For me it was canned soup and canned tuna. Not sure why as they are typical staples in our house anyway....just never ended up eating it.

A box of green peas and green beans. They are staples in our home. I also, do
not know why they were not touch . We have been eaten frozen veggies from Traders Joe’s that are really good the last several months.

 

[pedro47]

We're still in "moving mode," so haven't really been stocking up. I did restock our freezer after we moved form Washington to Nevada in June. (Gave my nephew, sister, and friends everything that was in the freezer up there before we moved.) Now that we're finally located in our permanent home here, I can take stock of what we have, and get things back to normal. Yesterday they moved the chest freezer from the rental house here to our permanent house, and I boxed up what was in the freezer. It helped me see that there is plenty of food in there already. Not much to add.

The same will happen with the kitchen cupboards. We've been living in a temporary situation for the last few months, so food and such was pretty much what we knew we'd use in a short time. Now that we're going to finally be settled, we can work toward getting together the regular things we like and use.

Whoever said moving during a pandemic was easy? Oh wait - that was me. Oops!

Dave

DaveNV, you are one organized individual.

 

[Tia]

just leave the rest of us some tp tx

 

[DaveNV]

DaveNV, you are one organized individual.

Thanks. A lot of my family would say the same thing, but with a slightly different tone. LOL!

Dave

 

[WinniWoman]

The experts in this are the Mormons. Lots of information on line about this. It is part of their religion actually.

 

[Brett]

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[mav]

We actually never stockpiled anything, and it was never a problem, even, believe it or not with toilet paper. In my area the workers at our local Walmart told me the toilet paper was unloaded and out by 10am every day, and whenever we needed it sure enough that was the truth. My son in law said even Cosco didn't have it, so when they needed it I got some for them too. I always have plenty of chocolate on hand and I eat so much of it the dates are always way in advance. never ran out of it either. Never had any problem getting more when I went to Aldi or Lidl either, thank heavens.