I did an audit at my parents*, they have about 6 weeks worth of flour, beans and pasta. Rice is a bit short and I will try and buy some tomorrow.
They managed to get enough prescription medication for 6 months.
I’ve probably got less than 2 weeks’ worth of food. But the longterm storable food like beans, pasta, etc. is nearly all gone from the store shelves by now.
I’m good on food for prolly 2 months or more (except for milk); my meds I’lll need to refill in about a month. When I refill, I’m gonna get a 180 day supply instead of a 90 day supply.
My only worry is insulin. I have enough for now. My DIL was able to get April’s insulin early.
I’m crossing my fingers that the supply line doesn’t break. I’m completely dependent. I’ll last about 3 horrible days w/o it.
I have a month or two worth of food, though I wasn’t able to get bread the last time I went shopping. I’m thinking of trying again tomorrow morning…
I’m not on any prescription medicines but earlier this month I made sure to buy another two months or more’s worth of the OTC meds I take for allergies and GERD, and bought another bottle of cough medicine and extra tissues for if/when I get this thing.
I have a decent supply of frozen food. But I expect I’ll be out of fresh food by Monday.
I think my 3 person household could go for 4 weeks on what we have. We’d probably be eating lots of beans and rice towards the end, though.
We didn’t have nearly as much food on hand two weeks ago. I made a week long trip to NY and when I came back I was a little surprised at how bare the fridge was. So I made a couple of shopping trip to stock up a bit, ( soups, chili, family sized frozen meals, pasta, rice, other canned goods).
I still need to run to the grocery every couple of days, our fridge space isn’t really sufficient for more than a few days worth of iced tea, milk and juice. Although I’ve also stocked up on self-stable juices.
And everytime I go to the grocery, I end up picking up an extra item or two. I bought a 3 pound freezer ready pack of hamburger meat yesterday just because it was there. Especially over this past week, as the store shelves have started to empty.
Last week, my brother and I would make the list of what we needed for our meals over the next few days. Then we would each go to a different store and buy as many of the items as we could find. Each store was always out of some items, but we ended up with at least one of everything. And when we bought duplicates, they went into the freezer or pantry.
As for prescriptions, I don’t have any. I advised my family members to refill everything as soon as eligible whether they were out or not ( some of them are “as needed” meds.
Probably 2.5-3 months’ worth of food here. Pantry and chest freezer are full. Prescriptions in good shape.
Get my diabetes, blood pressure and cholesterol drugs from Express Scripts, a mail order service, so as long as the post survives I’m good on that.
Did my monthly food shopping last Monday. Bought enough for our family of 5. Two of them left (DIL and grandson went to shelter with her elderly parents in PA) and then my son said he was feeling paranoid and did some more grocery shopping day before yesterday. We are set for quite some time. And just in time, too. NY is going full ‘shelter in place’ this Monday.
However, we may run out of beer in a week.
I usually keep no food in my house at all, so I did go and get a couple of weeks worth. I made sure to get the makings for a Bloody Mary or seven.
I don’t have any prescription meds, thankfully, but my back will be in bad shape if I can’t get Ibuprofen in a couple weeks.
Medicines aren’t a problem, and living in earthquake country it is only prudent to keep a couple of weeks worth of food and supplies on hand. I’d be more concerned about running low on cat fud or litter than I would be about people food.
Lock down means we burn fewer calories in a day as well, so that stretches supplies out to a month or so.
We’ve got 2-3 weeks worth of food, but we’re restocking as we go. I have 6 or 7 prescriptions, none of which renew at the same time. I have about 30 days worth on the low end to about 100 days for I refill I picked up yesterday. They’ve asked people here to only get 30 days if possible, my insurance company will pay for a 90 day supply at a time for chronic condition meds.
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Not sure where you are, but anecdotally I am having no problems here in Chicago finding groceries in the smaller neighborhood and ethnic groceries. The little Indo-Pak place a couple of blocks from my house has everything they normally carry, including just about every bean, lentil, grain, and variety of rice you could possibly imagine.
Due to the timing of a doctors’ appointment, I got a 6-month prescription renewal earlier than I needed it. They are only supposed to dispense 90 days’ worth at a time, which I thought I ought to fill right away given the current situation. With that, and what I already had, I have a 4-month supply.
Food I have much less of. Don’t really know how to handle that because I rarely consume canned goods. But I do have a bunch of canned stuff like beans and the sort of canned ravioli that kids eat or that we used to take camping, and many canned soups. Other than that, the freezer is full of mostly prepared foods – probably two weeks’ worth – and a couple of flattened marinated cornish game hens for the BBQ. The best stuff I have for the long term is tons of spaghettini, many jars of the world’s best pasta sauce store-made at a wonderful Italian boutique grocery, and a great many vac-packed freezer bags of equally wonderful meatballs from the same place, scattered throughout the freezer wherever they will fit.
Another essential at risk is liquor, since the government owned chain of liquor stores has cut their hours and appears to be seriously understaffed at times (the cashier said all staff had the option of staying home or coming in “if they wanted to take the risk”. Last time I was there they were limiting the number of people in the store at one time, and the only two employees there were one (1) cashier for the entire large store, plus a huge burly security guard with tattoos all over his arms which were the size of full-grown tree trunks, who was mostly managing the incoming queue. I drove by an hour later and the situation seemed to have improved, but I fear both supply and staffing shortages so I really stocked up. Mostly multiple large bottles of rum and vodka, as I already have a large wine supply in the cellar, but got four more bottles of wine anyway.
My major concern right now is keeping an eye on the expiry dates of the non-frozen refrigerated stuff, of which there is a lot. Most of it still has 5 -10 days to go or more. I have a large jar of delicious smoky corn and bacon chowder that technically expires April 2, but it’s a vac-sealed mason jar that the store kept refrigerated and so have I, so it may last longer. I will however strictly abide by the instructions to “consume within 4 days of opening”.
We are good for at least a couple of weeks of perishables, and much longer than that for pantry goods (probably months, even more for beans and lentils - we have probably 20+ pounds of them for 2 people), and that was with being out of town during all the panic shopping. My home garden this years is a) going to be insane and b) seeming like a very strategic decision.
May I take this moment to suggest that people who are having a hard time finding fresh veggies sign up for a CSA? We did it for the April - June timeframe, until our garden starts producing in earnest. You can search CSAs by zip code, among other variables, here. And there are CSAs for meat, dairy, eggs, etc. too.
You may or may not be able to do that, depending on store policies, rationing policies at the time if this crisis persists, and laws in your area.
I know that here, the maximum quantity of a newly prescribed medication that can be dispensed at one time is normally for 30 days. After that, it can be for 90 days at a time. Not sure how much of that is law and how much is store policy, but I suspect that both are a matter of law.
It’s not a big deal to me as I got a phone call from the pharmacy once asking if I wanted to be part of their “automatic refill” service, and I said, sure, why not. They are sometimes busy and take a long time to refill a prescription, so getting an automated phone call saying “your renewal is ready to picked up” is really quite handy.
Duplicate post due to – surprise! Servers not working.
I have enough food for a few weeks except for fruits and vegetables. I live in an apartment, so my storage space is very limited. I don’t have a car, so I couldn’t stock up. I did order shelf-stable milk, but the store was out. I wish stores had immediately put limits on food items purchased to prevent the hoarding that’s deprived some of us, but too late now. Sucks to be us, I guess.
I’m much more concerned about Rx meds, since most of the components for generics come from China. I tried to get an early refill on one of my scrips, but the insurance company said no, and I can’t afford to pay OOP prices.
ya think? you can go all day long and not even see anyone if you don’t want to in 11,000 sq feet.