Groceries you want but can't get

JustBuggin

Plenty of hand soap to buy around here but no wipes or sprays. Makes me wonder if people are washing everything but their hands...

You guys looking for TP might check some of the local restaurants and meat markets. A couple local restaurant chains and my local butcher are both selling TP, veggies and meats curbside.

I started stocking up on most everything early in the year so I've got about 3 more weeks until I start running short on general supplies. Hopefully by then some of these manufacturers will get caught up.

1voyager

Canned tomatoes, vinegar, Skyline chili and whole chickens.

Boileregger

For those having TP challenges, I was just on Costco.com and they claim to have it in stock.

Carolina Q

Found SAF Instant yeast. Never heard of the store, but price isn't terrible.

https://www.wafflepantry.com/lesaffre-saf-instant-yeast-red-label.html

pgprescott

1voyager said:

Canned tomatoes, vinegar, Skyline chili and whole chickens.

The skyline chili not being available belongs in the “ good things that have come outta the Covid crisis” thread. 😂

TideEggHead

Wanting to make gyros but Naan is out and I can’t find yeast, eggs, chorizo, tortillas, and a special milk that our kid needs. @nolaegghead I would have mailed our box of N95s to you but I just gave it to the wife to use at their medical office. Apparently they only had one box of 10ct for the whole office as of Thursday this week. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

SciAggie said:

Haven’t found TP in a MONTH. Can’t get bread flour - how many folks have suddenly learned to make bread?????? 

Bread makers are up 700% on Amazon. Only 2nd to nitrile gloves. This is an interesting chart. 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

Photo Egg said:

Clorox Wipes of any kind and of course face masks, no luck.

I can send you some face masks if you need them. 

Botch

Oddly our local farm/ranch stores are reporting a run on baby chicks, brooding stations, and chickenfeed; apparently everyone's planning on raising their own chickens/eggs (and the guys who do it for a living are getting scared).  
 
Went to the commissary earlier this week (first time in a month) and they had hand sanitizer/wipes, but no TP.  
 
Also odd, on the news last night the dairy farmers are pouring milk down the drain, no sales (do the schools give our kids more milk than parents do at home?  I don't get that).  The veg farmers are also leaving produce to rot in the fields, partially because they don't have the immigrant workers to harvest (this could get much worse before it gets better).  
 

dmourati

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

SciAggie said:

Haven’t found TP in a MONTH. Can’t get bread flour - how many folks have suddenly learned to make bread?????? 

Bread makers are up 700% on Amazon. Only 2nd to nitrile gloves. This is an interesting chart. 

This is interesting. Just before this all broke, I bought a box of nitrile gloves ostensibly to allow me to handle and slice brisket and other meats. I also bought some cotton glove liners. Quickly, I realized I could repurpose the gloves for household safety for example when handling packages we have had delivered. I bought another box. Yesterday when I went to reorder a third box on amazon, they were all marked as held for covid 19 frontline workers. Fine. That makes sense. I was able to snag one box that looked to be severely marked up. One reviewer called it price gouging. I'm so price insensitive on these types of items I didn't notice until I had already paid.

The Cen-Tex Smoker

FYI- Sam’s sells a Members Mark brand food safe commercial sanitizer Concentrate that we have used for 10 years. It’s bleach free and we use it on everything. You can put some on paper towels and put in a ziploc and you have bleach free sanitizing wipes. One gallon of the concentrate makes like 128 gallons of spray. It’s like $5.00 a  gallon. 

1voyager

pgprescott said:

The skyline chili not being available belongs in the “ good things that have come outta the Covid crisis” thread. 😂

Ouch! 

NCSmoky

pgprescott said:

1voyager said:

Canned tomatoes, vinegar, Skyline chili and whole chickens.

The skyline chili not being available belongs in the “ good things that have come outta the Covid crisis” thread. 😂

I flagged you because only a Troll would sh!t talk Skyline chili. 

SciAggie

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

SciAggie said:

Haven’t found TP in a MONTH. Can’t get bread flour - how many folks have suddenly learned to make bread?????? 

Bread makers are up 700% on Amazon. Only 2nd to nitrile gloves. This is an interesting chart. 

That’s fascinating 

The Cen-Tex Smoker

NCSmoky said:

pgprescott said:

1voyager said:

Canned tomatoes, vinegar, Skyline chili and whole chickens.

The skyline chili not being available belongs in the “ good things that have come outta the Covid crisis” thread. 😂

I flagged you because only a Troll would sh!t talk Skyline chili. 

That stuff is so nasty. 

JohnInCarolina

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

NCSmoky said:

pgprescott said:

1voyager said:

Canned tomatoes, vinegar, Skyline chili and whole chickens.

The skyline chili not being available belongs in the “ good things that have come outta the Covid crisis” thread. 😂

I flagged you because only a Troll would sh!t talk Skyline chili. 

That stuff is so nasty. 

Battleborn

For those that are new to wearing gloves.

FarmingPhD

Botch said:

Oddly our local farm/ranch stores are reporting a run on baby chicks, brooding stations, and chickenfeed; apparently everyone's planning on raising their own chickens/eggs (and the guys who do it for a living are getting scared).  
 
Went to the commissary earlier this week (first time in a month) and they had hand sanitizer/wipes, but no TP.  
 
Also odd, on the news last night the dairy farmers are pouring milk down the drain, no sales (do the schools give our kids more milk than parents do at home?  I don't get that).  The veg farmers are also leaving produce to rot in the fields, partially because they don't have the immigrant workers to harvest (this could get much worse before it gets better).  
 

Bunch of stores were limiting purchase volumes on dairy products even though there was no shortage because they were limiting everything else.  Led to surplus and processors quit taking milk or rationed what they would buy from farmers.  

sumoconnell

I was at Brookshire's in Malakoff TX yesterday, they are back in stock at the butcher, but eggs and toilet paper are still out.  I'd really like to sit and eat a meal at Chuys, Santa Catarina, Los Pinos or Polvos... Will be awesome once we get on the other side!

 Heard this joke - 

” Where’s your husband?”

”He’s in the garden..

“Oh - didn’t see him when I came in”

You gotta dig a little..

lkapigian

Not bad here in CA at least where I am, even TP you can get bit our madness hit early March , was only bad again on the first....thank God most people think Costco is the only store and want to line up while all the other stores have mist everything 

Legume

sumoconnell said:

I was at Brookshire's in Malakoff TX yesterday, they are back in stock at the butcher, but eggs and toilet paper are still out.  I'd really like to sit and eat a meal at Chuys, Santa Catarina, Los Pinos or Polvos... Will be awesome once we get on the other side!

 Heard this joke - 

” Where’s your husband?”

”He’s in the garden..

“Oh - didn’t see him when I came in”

You gotta dig a little..

I read somewhere that if you’ve eaten at Polvos at least twice, you’re pretty much immune to COVID, or really just about anything.

caliking

@botch , @Eoin it’s apparently a distribution issue. Since commercial demand for things like flour and dairy products is drastically reduced now, distribution channels can’t quite get those items to retail.

I was saddened to see that dairy farmers are having to dump milk straight from milking to manure pits. So many kids and people don’t get enough of the nutrients that milk can provide. 

Re: flour, it’s a packaging issue (at least in the UK, per a BBC article). Commercial customers buy flour in large packages, retail customers buy it 5lbs or less at a time. There’s lots of flour, but not enough retail packaging to get it into stores. 

Eoin

caliking said:

@botch , @Eoin it’s apparently a distribution issue. Since commercial demand for things like flour and dairy products is drastically reduced now, distribution channels can’t quite get those items to retail.

I was saddened to see that dairy farmers are having to dump milk straight from milking to manure pits. So many kids and people don’t get enough of the nutrients that milk can provide. 

Re: flour, it’s a packaging issue (at least in the UK, per a BBC article). Commercial customers buy flour in large packages, retail customers buy it 5lbs or less at a time. There’s lots of flour, but not enough retail packaging to get it into stores. 

We buy mail order from a mill in 25 kg sacks - they have been sold out for weeks.

Lit

Costco had everything I went for Friday except eggs. 

Foghorn

Yeast.  Finally found some toilet paper.

Photo Egg

The Cen-Tex Smoker said:

Photo Egg said:

Clorox Wipes of any kind and of course face masks, no luck.

I can send you some face masks if you need them. 

That’s super nice to offer. For now, I’m benched at work. Using vacation time to keep getting paid for now. So I’m safe at home except for quick store runs.
Awesome to offer.
Be safe buddy!

SandyHookEgger

In late Mid March I ordered a box(36 rolls) of Quilted Northern TP on Amazon with a promised delivery of April 22nd. It came a week ago. If you are TP deprived you might try that. Be patient as I hsd to scroll forever. 

loco_engr

Midwest Mex is waiting on their supplier for the rub
Can't find a site that will ship Renee's to the states

    on both accounts

LetsEat

Dolin vermouth.

ColbyLang

Eoin said:

caliking said:

@botch , @Eoin it’s apparently a distribution issue. Since commercial demand for things like flour and dairy products is drastically reduced now, distribution channels can’t quite get those items to retail.

I was saddened to see that dairy farmers are having to dump milk straight from milking to manure pits. So many kids and people don’t get enough of the nutrients that milk can provide. 

Re: flour, it’s a packaging issue (at least in the UK, per a BBC article). Commercial customers buy flour in large packages, retail customers buy it 5lbs or less at a time. There’s lots of flour, but not enough retail packaging to get it into stores. 

We buy mail order from a mill in 25 kg sacks - they have been sold out for weeks.

We buy in 50,000# trucks