# So what shortages are you personally seeing? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [July 24, 2020, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268 "2020-07-24T23:28:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1139
**Author:** ![JaneDoe42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janedoe42/32/14104_2.png) [@JaneDoe42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaneDoe42)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2022, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268/1139 "2022-01-23T20:43:03Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > Don’t mean to hijack the thread. Should we open a thread for “recipes you’ve turned to since Covid?” Good thought! > [@Recipes you have turned to since the world ended](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recipes-you-have-turned-to-since-the-world-ended/958287): > > Over in the shortages thread folks were discussing recipes with substitutions or even just the substitutions in random places in the thread. Lets put them all in one place to make it easy for someone to go back to a substitution they had read about a while back. Due to COVID I’ve learned to make a few soft cheeses. Lately rennet has been easier to find than cream cheese. Culturing buttermilk is cheap and easier than going to five stores to find an almost out of date bottle. So, what have you f… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-what-shortages-are-you-personally-seeing/916268)._