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I got both of ours at the Goodwill. They are often only $5 and are virtually brand new.
ECON Report food and grocery price increases/shortages here - UPDATE, new runs on the stores
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SouthernBreeze
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Ok, thanks. I'm not going any where for the time being. I need the practice, anyway, lol!
Profit of Doom
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Bought 2 pounds over 10 years ago. Kept frozen, still works great.
SouthernBreeze
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I store mine in the freezer. I have two year old yeast that I've pulled out, and am using now. Still good.
A friend advised adding a TBS or 2 of Vital Wheat Gluten to the recipe. I have some on order, and will try it out. I've always used bread flour, but these days there isn't a puff of it to be found in any store - not around here, anyway.
Deanne
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I didn't have it in the freezer.
ginnie6
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made a trip out to walmart this morning for my weekly shopping trip. They had some toilet paper, bread, and cleaning supplies. They had signs up limiting you to one of each. Of course people were ignoring it but they were policing the checkouts for those people. The shelves are very bare. Plenty of potato chips though. I got ds the junk canned stuff he asked for (ravioli and mac and cheese). No flour or yeast. Aldi up the road had NO milk. They had eggs and some toilet paper with no limit. everything else looked well stocked.
In the freezer, years. Room temp... not all that long. About all you can do is try some... put 1/2 cup lukewarm (110-115 degrees) water in a cup, add 1 tsp sugar and mix. Sprinkle a bit of yeast on top and wait a few minutes. You should get some nice active bubbling going on pretty quickly.
If it bubbles, but doesn't seem very active, you can still use it. You'll just need to make a bread "sponge" first. Google it... it's really simple, and can stretch a limited supply of yeast.
Summerthyme
SouthernBreeze
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Do you know how to test it to see if it's still good?
SouthernBreeze
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Oops. Didn't see Summerthyme's post.
That was covered way back days ago. Keep it in the freezer if you can, but yeast doesn't HAVE to be 100% to work just fine. Simply give it time to proof (grow) when you start your bread. (Warm water, a little sugar and your yeast. Let it sit somewhere warm and become bubbly, foamy and active before you add other stuff).
And agree with what others have said...you sure don't need bread flour to bake bread. All Purpose, or anything else will do in a pinch.
SouthernBreeze
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I've even used self-rising flour in some of my bread. I just omit the salt and baking soda that the recipe calls for. Works just fine.
H-E-B instituted a unique system for dealing with folks trying to buy over the limits. The computer scanners won’t allow the items to be scanned. I watched this first hand as a woman in the checkout line in front of me tried to buy too many canned goods. The checker had to explain it to her. The woman was pissed.
mzkitty
I give up.
Well, there goes "prepping" and "hoarding" if they all start doing it.
Freeholder
This too shall pass.
Our Walmart - small town, south-central KY - just changed hours to 8 am - 8 pm. Used to be 7-11.
Kathleen
Kathleen
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Can they do this for the 20 items checkout lines..... basta*ds get 100 items and then use the quick check out line...
20Gauge
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You would have to shop more often.... not doubt. Then split it between you and the wife.
N. MN report from this morning...did my 40 mile round trip pony check. Jeepers..what we girls won't do for beloved old ponies...
Anyway, traffic was light to normal. Went past the 4 corner grocery, and the lot had about a dozen cars, a truck backed into the loading dock, and another waiting to get in. I took that as a positive sign. Every place else looked normal. Liquor store, gas station, gunz & bait shop, etc. The county tool house had only three cars in the lot. Those guys know how to take downtime. Haha.
On the way back, got a cell call from a friend who's dad died a couple weeks ago. As his place was on the way home, I broke quarantine protocol and stopped in for a cup of coffee and a yak. Living on the edge, I know. Then the gas station - trying to keep everything topped off. That place was buzzing as always...a Kwik-Trip, so they have everything from decent baked goods to essential and very cheap groceries, meat, etc.
So that's the deal. Not much different, maybe activity a little lighter, but people sure don't seem freaked or very compliant out in the countryside.
Anyway, traffic was light to normal. Went past the 4 corner grocery, and the lot had about a dozen cars, a truck backed into the loading dock, and another waiting to get in. I took that as a positive sign. Every place else looked normal. Liquor store, gas station, gunz & bait shop, etc. The county tool house had only three cars in the lot. Those guys know how to take downtime. Haha.
On the way back, got a cell call from a friend who's dad died a couple weeks ago. As his place was on the way home, I broke quarantine protocol and stopped in for a cup of coffee and a yak. Living on the edge, I know. Then the gas station - trying to keep everything topped off. That place was buzzing as always...a Kwik-Trip, so they have everything from decent baked goods to essential and very cheap groceries, meat, etc.
So that's the deal. Not much different, maybe activity a little lighter, but people sure don't seem freaked or very compliant out in the countryside.
von Koehler
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Scheduled food delivery to home for tomorrow is going fine without any problems.
However shortages, if any, typically are not reported until just before actual delivery starts.
All bars are closed until 1 April.
von Koehler
However shortages, if any, typically are not reported until just before actual delivery starts.
All bars are closed until 1 April.
von Koehler
Grouchy Granny
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Need to go down to the excess cookbook shelves in the basement, but I believe I have some Depression Era cookbooks which I kept when I cleaned out some of the cookbook collection. I also have some Hillbilly cooking cookbooks that are extremely interesting in their shortcuts and make-do's for hard to find foodstuffs.
BTW - you can make a type of sauerkraut out of turnips - turnip kraut. I tried it one year and it was really really yummy, plus only takes 3 days to ferment to a usable state. Then can as normal.
I know for sure I have knitting patterns that my greatgrandmother had from WW1 as well as sewing needles that were sold as part of the war bond drives (still in unopened packages).
Went on a total rant on NextDoor Neighborhood yesterday about the "entitled" generation. Figured I'd get kicked off the site after that, but I've had 4 people respond and say Thank You. Pointed out cloth diapers, the old Karo syrup condensed milk type baby formula (if Dr approves). Told them if they didn't know how to cook to learn, after all they can read can't they? And not to diss people unless they'd walked a mile in their shoes because they had no clue about what the other person was up against. Also pointed out that our grocery stores, even as low as our stocks are, are better than those in Venezuela and other third world countries.
I'd just had it with the crap I had been reading on that site,
So you have that "Next Door" web thing in your neighborhood, too? Somebody started it up out here over the winter. Pretty much covers the two adjacent townships, and I dunno....maybe 10% of the households are on it.
It's been quiet. Not even a lost dog since the blizzard over the Holidays. And I mean - zero activity. People here are pretty stoic and independent. But I logged in the other day and figure to keep tabs because if there is any hooligan activity close around, I'm sure it will hit the wires.
Grouchy Granny
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I'm in Denver CO. Starting to think that this is Rocky Mountain snowflake country, plus the area I live in is about 80% Regis college kids who are rich, entitled, and spoiled little bratz. The long time neighbors hate them with a passion.
Speaking of snowflakes - we got big un's coming down now and it's blowing sideways. Bliz time for the first day of spring.
Wouldn't you know it; no yeast on hand. Will have to make fry bread or tortillas.
AlaskaSue
North to the Future
Then there are the couples who can double up...some of the things I've seen this week. Sigh, I'd like to stay home but after my brother's son cleaned us out I'd better hie me to the store early early tomorrow and see what I can get. Really glad my step-mom is way out on Kodiak - wish my sons were as isolated. (btw, HEB was my favorite store in Corpus).
questionable1
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I bought a new one in january. I couldnt find any locally. I got it off amazon.
SouthernBreeze
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That's good to know, thanks! I need to get over there, and check them out. Hopefully, they won't be too expensive. Money is a little tight right now. Keeping what we have close to the vest at the moment.
Grouchy Granny
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Make sure you use LARD! Otherwise they just don't taste right. Ok, I'm spoiled. Shortening just doesn't work right, unless that's all you have on hand. I always keep 5lbs or a bucket of lard for tortillas and tamales. Can't do without.
Perfect your biscuit-making. Or try soda bread. Or cornbread. Sometimes, I'll make it in a loaf so it can be sliced like sandwich bread. Then you can go nutz and do a re-fry thing, too. Insanely good.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
It takes a heck of a long time to clean a grocery store... just saying.
MaisieD
1984 is not fiction.
That makes sense, we're not a metropolis that's for sure. I forgot to get flour, so we went to Aldi's today. It wasn't super busy. There was a half of a flat of flour and no sugar. Still no paper products except paper plates.
I just heard Publix is going to open the store from eight a.m. to nine a.m. for seniors only. That's a good thing, I forgot celery.
SouthernBreeze
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Perfect your biscuit-making. Or try soda bread. Or cornbread. Sometimes, I'll make it in a loaf so it can be sliced like sandwich bread. Then you can go nutz and do a re-fry thing, too. Insanely good.
Oh yes! My grandmother used to make a large pan of biscuits each morning for breakfast. We always had left over biscuits that were used for sandwich bread for lunch. I make lots of cornbread. Mexican cornbread is good with Mexican type dishes. Cheddar cheese cornbread is also good. Corn fritters are great, too. Also, the sweet bread recipes I have use no yeast.
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xtreme_right
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Do you have an instapot? I’ve seen bread recipes for them.
packyderms_wife
Neither here nor there.
This^^^ You can bake bread, cakes, etc., in the IP.
SouthernBreeze
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No, I don't. I have a crock pot that works well for me. I have several cookbooks for the crock pot, but no recipes for bread. Really, the only problem with making bread by hand is that I never knead it right or something. It never turns out exactly the way it's suppose to. All I need is more practice, but a bread machine would solve the problem for me.
Marseydoats
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I had to walk off from some of the WLGI's at work this morning to keep from busting out laughing. They were whining over no TP and one of them said she had no sugar for her coffee. These are the women who BRAG that they keep no food in the house. I shared with my best friend who is in a wheel chair and would help my Dad and his girl friend in a minute, but they both have more preps than I do. The women at work will get nothing from me.
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