Phew, the place I get the basket order updated their instructions, so now I have "activated" my delivery time slot for Tuesday. I have picked out most of the stuff I want. I set an alarm on my phone to check the supermarket website at 23:55.
People were making sourdough bread long before King Arthur Flour existed ; I've been using Kroger brand flour for most of my bread-making and it works fine. I occasionally buy KA bread flour, but that's for specialty breads.
Btw, look online for recipes you can make with the discard - I've seen people making crackers and other types of flatbreads with it.
Like many others, our supermarket chain has established special early hours for older customers.
Yup, saw the governor on TV earlier. I hope people take it more seriously than many have been so far.VA now on lock down.
I saw that too. RIP Mr. Pickup Man.
While I don't have to travel 100 miles to get somewhere, our small town of 11,000 had four confirmed cases and once rumored death earlier this week.3 confirmed cases in my rather isolated town of 30,000. It's roughly a hundred miles from anywhere. Ugh.
I walked to Kroger early this morning, .8 mi one way. The plan was to carry the groceries home. Bad plan. Went armed with a small bottle of homemade hand sanitizer; rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide, a small bottle of surface sanitizer; tap water and bleach, and a plastic bag with a 6 x 6" paper towels. Considered wearing a mask, but decided against it so as not to encourage anyone else to seek out medical masks that are desperately needed by others at higher at risk.
I've mentioned here elsewhere that I have two N-95 masks that I've owned and used at home very occasionally for several years. I saw a few people at the store with medical masks but more people with what looked like homemade cloth masks or plain bandanas. Most of the faces were bare.
So I shopped the whole store, hitting produce last because that's what takes up most of the room in my cart. Several times after handling refrigerator freezer doors I paused to sanitize my hands, all the while being very conscious of not touching my face. The first thing I do entering the produce department is to grab one of those thin plastic produce bags and touch thumb and forefinger to tongue to help get it open.
If I'd been wearing a mask, at least I wouldn't be able to mindlessly stick fingers in my mouth! Before I leave the apartment again I'm going to make one of those YouTube, DIY, no sewing required, homemade, old tee shirt masks. I'll wear it over an N-95.
By the time I got to the check-out line, I had over 100 lbs. of groceries including half a ham and a 14 lb. turkey, way too much to carry home so had to call Lyft. Took me two hours to puzzle it all into the little apartment-sized icebox so the doors would stay closed.
The first thing I do entering the produce department is to grab one of those thin plastic produce bags and touch thumb and forefinger to tongue to help get it open.