Flour is getting hard to come by, I am hoping its just preppers buying it all up, not an ongoing issue. We started out with a good about here, but Jen keeps baking bread for friends and family. I'd like to get another 150lbs.
Talking to my seniors in recent days has been stressful.
"How's your food supply?"
"I have enough for now"
"How's your dry goods?"
"What do you mean?"
"Oatmeal, beans, rice"
"I have a box of instant oatmeal, a couple of cans of beans, about two cups of rice."
(that was my mother)
I want each of their houses to have enough for three months, they just aren't thinking like that. My Dad and his wife keep turning down help.
Yesterday was all about getting food and distributing it to elders -- it took all day. First stop was to the Asian grocery store. I bought 130lb of rice, they wanted to stop me at 100lb but I told them that I'm buying for three households and that they were all seniors. After that I went to my mother's, dropped off 50lb of rice and some frozen veggies. Then went to a scheduled pickup at a supermarket two towns away, got a good haul there. Then we went to the in-laws and dropped off 80lb of rice and a bunch of other stuff. Four hours later we're home and dividing up the rest with our neighbor. Our neighbor is in her 70s and takes care of her mother.
Finally, after all that we take time to sort the goods we're keeping into the let it sit in the garage pile and the disinfect pile before putting them away.
