Food Shortages: Will they happen, and are you prepared?

[Bob]

So as Covid supply line issues, inflation, sending food to Ukraine, and general government foolishness all collide...

1. Will there be definitive food shortages? Like no gorund beef for 3-5 days, no chicken available for longer than 48 hours and worse.
- We have already seen the great Cream Cheese depression, if you are a Bagel fan

2. How do you get through it, if it happens?
- Just eat something else?
- Break out preps?
- Drive a really long way for some Bacon?

[Mac66]

Food will become more expensive and it make take longer to get to market occasionaly but I don't think there will be shortages. The food industry is massive in this country.

[tom mac]

Thinking more of supply / demand sort of thing with prices going up ( to where others will buy something diff )
If you want it, you pay the price.

Most stocked supplies is for when nothing is available ( mostly freeze dry items ), tho 20% is in the rotated pantry such as lentils, flour, home made canned items.

[David]

1. Will there be definitive food shortages? Like no gorund beef for 3-5 days, no chicken available for longer than 48 hours and worse.
- We have already seen the great Cream Cheese depression, if you are a Bagel fan

Haven't been to Costco for over a week but was told by a family member that you can buy only two items in an aisle? Don't know about that personally and I don't know how it would be enforced if you do self check out? Or how a cashier would know what aisle something came from? Maybe it was just certain items like meat and such? Don't know but I'll see next time I go.

2. How do you get through it, if it happens?
- Just eat something else?
- Break out preps?
- Drive a really long way for some Bacon?

I could see the great TP-shortage 2.0 but overall not too concerned. Between preps and normal inventory we don't really need to rush out and stock up on anything. Someone that has zero preps or inventory may feel it on certain items though.

[Bob]

I have a Freezer/fridge and a storage freezer in the garage. Been casually stocking chicken, beef etc.

If nothing happens, no problem.
If meat trays go low, still no problem.

[tom mac]

A second freezer is always a blessing... buy when on sale and stock up

[Bmyers]

Gardens is doing well. Tomatoes and cumbers are going crazy. Carrots are growing well, looking forward to some fresh ones. Potatoes did bad this year, but so far everything else is doing as good or better than normal.

Planted some additional carrots and beans to have them for late season harvest.

Wife has been getting her canning stuff ready and has been buying extra meat on sale and making sure the freezer is full.

[Bmyers]

Started harvesting carrots and they grew really well this year. Going to get them all out this weekend and work on getting more planted and we should be able to get a third round of carrots harvested this fall.

Beans are coming up and looking well. The peppers this year failed big time. Not a single plant survived, so I don't know what went wrong. Last year they did well.

[Bmyers]

We pulled out all our carrots and this has been the best carrot crop we have ever had. We have more carrots planted and hoping to get a late fall crop. So, we had one crop of carrots that we planted at the start of the season and harvested. We planted another crop of carrots about three weeks ago and we have a third crop that we are pushing our luck with, but that is the one we are hoping for a late crop.

Tomatoes are still growing like crazy, except I would say we a losing a little over third of them to splitting due to all the rain we have been having.

Cucumbers, I'm picking about five a day and we have gotten to the point we are trying to give them away because we have so many.

We planted beans late, but the plants are really growing, guessing we should see a harvest on them in September.

[tom mac]

With all the veggies, it's time to can some
Or make pickles