Maybe it was a poor quality brand I bought, but once was enough and never again. I thought it was mushy and nasty, as if you boiled fresh broccoli for something like 15 minutes. I even tried frying it straight from the packet, and it was still mushy.
mbh, same here, the soup aisle at Krogers (N. Alabama) was pretty much bare, but there were several cases of Cream of Mushroom available.
Yeah, while I do like a lot of frozen vegetables (peas and corn for example), I’ve never had broccoli come out with a texture I like from frozen. Same with frozen green beans (that said, better than canned for most of my purposes.)
My rule of thumb: Any food that someone has to say “But you never had it cooked right.” is suspect.
I find okra to be a reasonably common food aversion, such that I generally shy away from making okra dishes for dinner parties or potlucks. But my favorite okra dishes are the various South Asian ones, like the simple bhindi masala or bhinda nu shaak. I just love the stuff and is the first thing I look for at the various Indian functions I work at.
In my town, they are sold out of all paper towels except that blue stuff that you used to see in gas station restrooms.
AHHHH!!! Chef Borardee in a can!!! The stuff of memories…
Just wait till you open the can, and discover…that you aren’t twelve any more. 
(I liked it, too,… when I was a kid.)
No eggs, except the expensive ones from the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve (Entlebuch) They are approximately 1 CHF per egg.
Otherwise the shelves are mostly full, but the panic buying was on March 13th, when they closed the schools, so we’ve recovered, mostly. It really depends on where you are, because I live in a small town, with 3 other grocery stores, which are all discount stores. Probably the discount stores are a bit emptier, but I’m lazy and prefer to go to the one that’s closest to me.
My cousin in Texas mentioned there were still Vienna sausages on the shelves. I would also leave them there.
Chef Boyardee isn’t too bad–you’ll just likely need to add something to it to counter the sweetness.
I am loving that gluten free stuff is less likely to be sold out. I snagged some cereal from Amazon, for about the same price as the normal name brands. (Though not as cheap as the store brands.)
BTW, anyone got any recipes for a huge deal of xanthan gum? Got it for $7 well before all this started to thicken up those dairy-free egg nogs, but now it’s taking up space.
Nobody’s making lasagna. Last time I was at the local Safeway, the pasta section was stripped bare - every box of spaghetti, linguini, penne, elbows, rotini, and even the weird ones like fusilli and orzo were gone. But dozens of boxes of lasagna noodles were still there.
Huh. And the thing is, even if you don’t want to make lasagna, just break up those noodles and use them that way!
Then you should try it freeze dried. It makes a great tasting crunchy snack. And much healthier than Cheetos.
Around here, the gluten-free stuff went really early. One of my friends is celiac (and severely lactose and soy intolerant) and has been pretty stuck… I mean, it’s normally bad enough for her finding stuff to eat.
The meat alternatives seem to be going at about the same rate as the meat round here. Though it all got a bit insane for a while, it’s reputedly calming down and now almost everything bar toilet paper is back in stock. I’ve not been out this week, so I haven’t checked.
I wonder if that may have just been a random restock. This is definitely one time when everybody actually has the time to make lasagna.
You’re assuming people have the know-how or desire to make lasagna. With most shapes, it’s just dump in some some sauce to cooked pasta and you’re done with it. Lasagna takes a lot more steps (though, as I mention, you can break it up into pieces and achieve the same result as with the “throw a bunch of noodles and sauce together” method.)
I’ve noticed at a few different stores this week that the ‘classic hummus’ is all sold out, or close to it, but if you want one of the funky flavored kinds of hummus, they’re there in abundance.
Re paper towels: this morning, I was able to buy TP (Charmin ultra-soft), Kleenex, and napkins, but didn’t see paper towels anywhere. (That’s no big deal: we use them mostly for kitchen cleanup, and dish towels can be used for most of those jobs. I would kinda like to pick up another 6-pack, though.)
Interestingly enough I like Chef Boyardee and when I make pasta now I always add sugar to the tomato sauce to make it sweeter. Different strokes fot different folks, I guess
I love chocolate, and I love hummus, but those probably do not go together the way chocolate and peanut butter do.
In my corner of Brooklyn, the local Trader Joe’s had a block-long line to get in the other day. There’s a Key Food a block away, no line, no problem.
It’s pretty well stocked, but very low on canned vegetables. Otherwise, shelves were stocked and they were actually packing out a bunch of stuff that had been delivered that morning.
Can’t remember what their toilet paper situation was – I wasn’t looking for any.
A friend posted on Facebook the most North Carolina picture I’ve ever seen. It was of a grocery store shelf full of mayonnaise: plenty of Hellman’s, Kraft, store brand, even Miracle Whip.
The largest section–reserved for Dukes–was empty.