How's everyone doing with grocery shopping these days?
I live in an NYC neighborhood with one store that carries vegan products (tofu, tempeh, veggie burgers, vegan ice cream, etc). They're often out of things. Two weeks ago, I got tempeh and flavored baked tofu. This week, it was just Tofu Pups and plain tofu. There are also a few stores that sell vegan ice cream, and beans are easy to find.
I've been looking into ordering things like baked tofu online, but the options are dwindling and everything is getting more expensive.
I stocked up on nuts, fruit juice, garlic, rice and millet. I'm growing tomatoes, kale, collard greens, arugula, Swiss chard, spinach, carrots, basil and thyme. I have some canteloupe and watermelon seeds that haven't sprouted yet. I keep buying things in bulk online when it's not too expensive.
The press coverage of the current situation in the US is insufficient. There is a lot that's being left out. A lot of our news these days either under-reports or unsensationalizes or hyperfocuses on details, sometimes veering into conspiracy theory territory.
The fact is that New York grocery stores are experiencing product shortages. Prices are going up.
There's plenty of fresh produce, but since it's out in the open, being handled and brushed against by so many shoppers, how safe is it to eat? We don't know. This is a new virus, so we don't have, say, multiple peer-reviewed studies about how long it can remain viable and transmissable on the surface of an eggplant.
A lot of people in my part of the city seem to have a false sense of security right now because things are improving. The media is focusing on the declining death toll and medical advances. But we don't have a vaccine or a cure, and we don't know the extent to which past exposure protects us from reinfection. So it's still a dangerous situation.
I'll have vegetables to harvest before long. I also need to get a bag of beans and plant some of them. So much is unknown right now.
I hope things turn around. But I believe in preparing for the worst, and my plan is to become as self-sufficient as possible. I've been working on that for a long time pre-pandemic, but I believe it is even more important right now.
I live in an NYC neighborhood with one store that carries vegan products (tofu, tempeh, veggie burgers, vegan ice cream, etc). They're often out of things. Two weeks ago, I got tempeh and flavored baked tofu. This week, it was just Tofu Pups and plain tofu. There are also a few stores that sell vegan ice cream, and beans are easy to find.
I've been looking into ordering things like baked tofu online, but the options are dwindling and everything is getting more expensive.
I stocked up on nuts, fruit juice, garlic, rice and millet. I'm growing tomatoes, kale, collard greens, arugula, Swiss chard, spinach, carrots, basil and thyme. I have some canteloupe and watermelon seeds that haven't sprouted yet. I keep buying things in bulk online when it's not too expensive.
The press coverage of the current situation in the US is insufficient. There is a lot that's being left out. A lot of our news these days either under-reports or unsensationalizes or hyperfocuses on details, sometimes veering into conspiracy theory territory.
The fact is that New York grocery stores are experiencing product shortages. Prices are going up.
There's plenty of fresh produce, but since it's out in the open, being handled and brushed against by so many shoppers, how safe is it to eat? We don't know. This is a new virus, so we don't have, say, multiple peer-reviewed studies about how long it can remain viable and transmissable on the surface of an eggplant.
A lot of people in my part of the city seem to have a false sense of security right now because things are improving. The media is focusing on the declining death toll and medical advances. But we don't have a vaccine or a cure, and we don't know the extent to which past exposure protects us from reinfection. So it's still a dangerous situation.
I'll have vegetables to harvest before long. I also need to get a bag of beans and plant some of them. So much is unknown right now.
I hope things turn around. But I believe in preparing for the worst, and my plan is to become as self-sufficient as possible. I've been working on that for a long time pre-pandemic, but I believe it is even more important right now.
. Celery that had brown kinda yuck up the stems. Corn that was ....not good. All in all wasn't bad-most was just fine, but the bad really took away the value
