Supply chain disruptions?

chic said:
Yes, I guess we'll have to try growing our food indoors. Who'd have thought? I'm up for but it will be a challenge. Always more stuff to buy. I would miss my daily salads too much though to go without them. You're right about that. 🤗
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Lettuce supply is already a bit iffy locally. What they are getting in often isn't staying fresh as long as it used to.

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AnnieA said:
Lettuce supply is already a bit iffy locally. What they are getting in often isn't staying fresh as long as it used to.
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So far lettuce is in good supply where I live but there are sometimes shortages of cucumbers. :oops: So far tomatoes are in good supply but if there is a food shortage, I might try to grow tomatoes inside.

I throw everything in a salad. Carrots, beets, cheese, slaw, whatever. Love em. :giggle: When or if I can't find lettuce I make a fresh pear salad topped with a spoonful of cottage cheese. It's very filling and very good. It helps to be flexible in this pandemic because you just never know what you will or will not find anymore.
 
Resourcefulness is the order of the day. Make do or do without. I believe that we have been spoiled for so long with all the bounty of choices in the stores and this is a wake up call not to take it for granted. Not a bad idea to keep the basics on hand and be creative.
 

The notion of a Victory garden is interesting to contemplate.

In a time of shortages and delays I’m not sure where we would get the seeds and other trappings needed to plant a garden.

IMO this blip in the supply chain will be short lived.

It is annoying that some things are not easy to find but there is still an enormous amount of food in the local markets and the trucks are still rolling.
 
chic said:
So far lettuce is in good supply where I live but there are sometimes shortages of cucumbers. :oops: So far tomatoes are in good supply but if there is a food shortage, I might try to grow tomatoes inside.

I throw everything in a salad. Carrots, beets, cheese, slaw, whatever. Love em. :giggle: When or if I can't find lettuce I make a fresh pear salad topped with a spoonful of cottage cheese. It's very filling and very good. It helps to be flexible in this pandemic because you just never know what you will or will not find anymore.
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Some varieties of tomatoes grow well indoors. Radishes do great if you like those. A great resource for indoor gardening is Ginger Booth's Indoor Salad. It's worth buying the physical book since Kindle's formating for a book like this with lots of visuals isn't the best.

I've also got micro green seed which grow very quickly. I love pineapple and canned chunks are good chilled ...adding fresh carrots and micro greens would be a good salad alternative.
 
Don M. said:
It's rare to go to our local grocery store, or a nearby Walmart, and Not see some empty shelves....the missing items seem to vary from week to week. The Only store which seems to be fully stocked is our local Dollar General....every time I go by there, they have a truck unloading.
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In the small town I live by in central U.S., they are building an enormous Dollar General warehouse. It is supposed to be completed in spring of 2022. It will be interesting to see if they have problems filling it and shortages of truck drivers to haul things if they do fill it.
 
If I were in a position of authority, I would look into the possibility of areas of the country in the U.S. or warm weather climates in the EU growing and producing more food than they need for themselves while selling the surplus to states/countries in greater need. In the Northern hemisphere we are all on the precipice of cold weather but there are areas that remain warm enough to grow food throughout this cold season.

This is an extraordinary situation and calls for abstract thinking to solve the problem. It might be a good solution. I just wish someone else with the proper authority would implement it.
 
chic said:
If I were in a position of authority, I would look into the possibility of areas of the country in the U.S. or warm weather climates in the EU growing and producing more food than they need for themselves while selling the surplus to states/countries in greater need. In the Northern hemisphere we are all on the precipice of cold weather but there are areas that remain warm enough to grow food throughout this cold season.

This is an extraordinary situation and calls for abstract thinking to solve the problem. It might be a good solution. I just wish someone else with the proper authority would implement it.
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What seems like common sense to us will always get tangled up in the process of trying to implement any kind of action.
That pretty much goes for everything that comes up.

Need some enterprising people of means who can take the reins and do some good.
 
chic said:
If I were in a position of authority, I would look into the possibility of areas of the country in the U.S. or warm weather climates in the EU growing and producing more food than they need for themselves while selling the surplus to states/countries in greater need. In the Northern hemisphere we are all on the precipice of cold weather but there are areas that remain warm enough to grow food throughout this cold season.

This is an extraordinary situation and calls for abstract thinking to solve the problem. It might be a good solution. I just wish someone else with the proper authority would implement it.
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How many in the US or other countries will follow what an authority decides - or even proves - will be for the greater good of everyone? People are terrorizing retail clerks and beating each other up on airplanes over mask mandates. They're literally killing each other over vaccine disputes.

Can you just picture how folks would react to a directive - or even a suggestion - to start farming? Or even to lend/sell/rent out their land for farming for the greater good?
 
StarSong said:
How many in the US or other countries will follow what an authority decides - or even proves - will be for the greater good of everyone? People are terrorizing retail clerks and beating each other up on airplanes over mask mandates. They're literally killing each other over vaccine disputes.

Can you just picture how folks would react to a directive - or even a suggestion - to start farming? Or even to lend/sell/rent out their land for farming for the greater good?
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That's communism! yikes.jpg
 
Not too long ago belonging to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) or a food Coop was all the rage, getting your food from local producers. What happened to that? I still belong to the Nebraska Food Coop and might start ordering my food online from them again. I quit ordering for a long time because orders were getting messed up. Might be time to reassess that. I can get beef, pork, chicken, produce and lot of other items from the coop. They are a little pricier than the grocery stores, but most of the meat and produce is organically grown on pastures and tastes great. I'm sure most states in the U.S. have something similar. I think with a little common sense and effort, the supply issue shouldn't be that bad.

As long as I can buy the basic food items I need, meat, milk, eggs, bread, etc. I will be fine. I don't mind cooking. :)
 
Our produce is expensive and limited in the winter. It mostly comes from California and Mexico. Lettuce and tomatoes aren’t worth buying. For a salad I slice up cucumbers, onions and carrots and top with vinaigrette. We can buy micro greens now. In my back to the land years I sprouted seeds in a quart jar sitting on a sunny window ledge. Coleslaw is a staple in the winter. Autumn vegetables are reasonable. In the summer I feast on the veggies from the Farmers Markets.

We have lots of skiers shopping in the grocery stores here. The most interesting is to watch their reaction to the quality and prices of avocados.

Like @Uptosnuff as long as I have the basics, I’ll be fine.
 
Uptosnuff said:
Not too long ago belonging to a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) or a food Coop was all the rage, getting your food from local producers. What happened to that? I still belong to the Nebraska Food Coop and might start ordering my food online from them again. I quit ordering for a long time because orders were getting messed up. Might be time to reassess that. I can get beef, pork, chicken, produce and lot of other items from the coop. They are a little pricier than the grocery stores, but most of the meat and produce is organically grown on pastures and tastes great. I'm sure most states in the U.S. have something similar. I think with a little common sense and effort, the supply issue shouldn't be that bad.

As long as I can buy the basic food items I need, meat, milk, eggs, bread, etc. I will be fine. I don't mind cooking. :)
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We still have local farmer's markets on a weekly basis during the season of course.
 
Irwin said:
That's communism! View attachment 188715
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You're right. What was I thinking? We'll go on as we always do allowing the 1% to survive and thrive with their "let them eat cake" attitude and "the rules apply the rules apply to thee, not to me" while the poor and starving club each other to death over an apple core in the street.

Besides. it isn't communism for states to trade with each other. It's free enterprise.
 
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This morning during our weekly meeting at the grocery store, the manager told us that getting turkeys and hams this holiday season will be an adventure due to shortages of people to process the birds and pigs., not to mention packaging materials.

He also said that due to the backup of ships not being unloaded due to a shortage of dock workers and longshoremen, along with a lack of packaging materials and truck drivers, the system is going to wind down even further and more shortages of most everything is expected.
 
chic said:
The store was depleted of baked goods. Very little bread, pies and cakes. Looks grim. :confused:
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The store I work in is still able to get pastries. Many of them come in frozen and then thawed before putting them out for display and selling.
 
chic said:
You're right. What was I thinking? We'll go on as we always do allowing the 1% to survive and thrive with their "let them eat cake" attitude and "the rules apply the rules apply to thee, not to me" while the poor and starving club each other to death over an apple core in the street.

Besides. it isn't communism for states to trade with each other. It's free enterprise.
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Don't disagree with your thinking at all. Just considering how it would spin out.
 
Well, today on the way back from an appointment I stopped off at the supermarket in a different town... just thought I'd better top up a little bit particularly with meat , dairy, and a few other bits given the photos of all the empty shelves pictures in the media.. ..no problem..All shelves aside from the aisles with water, were fully stocked..

Dunno why people have bought so much water, our water is very good clean water to drink out of the tap so I dunno why people around here panic , and buy up so much water.. 🤷‍♀️...anyway..there was a little less variety of things in the freezer cabinets.. but overall everything was well stocked, but unfortunately more expensive...
 
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hollydolly said:
Dunno why people have bought so much water,
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I don't get that either. If people are buying water for emergencies, why not buy it once and leave it? As long the bottles aren't stored on a concrete floor they'll keep almost indefinitely. If they wind up using some of the water, why not keep the containers and refill them when the emergency has passed?

Glad you were able to get what you wanted, albeit at higher prices. That 💰seems to be happening everywhere.
 
StarSong said:
I don't get that either. If people are buying water for emergencies, why not buy it once and leave it? As long the bottles aren't stored on a concrete floor they'll keep almost indefinitely. If they wind up using some of the water, why not keep the containers and refill them when the emergency has passed?
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Yes I have always thought the same thing, and certainly in the past when we've neded to buy water for any reason, then we've done exactly that...

It's very odd that people tend not to do this, and you can see it happening every time there's any kind of panic buying, people are coming out with trolleys stacked hight with TP and water... .
 
StarSong said:
I don't get that either. If people are buying water for emergencies, why not buy it once and leave it? As long the bottles aren't stored on a concrete floor they'll keep almost indefinitely. If they wind up using some of the water, why not keep the containers and refill them when the emergency has passed?

Glad you were able to get what you wanted, albeit at higher prices. That 💰seems to be happening everywhere.
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Why does storing water on a concrete floor make a difference?
 
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