What produce/ingredients did you buy or obtain today? (2018-2022)

[rascal]

Yep, just the two of us. Initially, most of what I was buying was just produce, but when the meat case was fairly well stocked, I bought a few extra things. We've got enough meat now for probably two months.

The coming shortage here is because a couple of our meat producers had to close some processing plants due to workers coming down with the virus. I think Smithfield (pork) and Tyson (chicken, beef, and pork) have been affected. Wendy's (fast food giant) had to take hamburgers off their menu in about 20% of their restaurants.

I doubt it'll last long, it'll be like the toilet paper and flour shortages, it'll pass after a couple of months.

Flour here was short only because our flour millers supply flour in bulk 20 kg minimum bags. This is 80% of sales to bakeries etc. the other was 20% for local,supply, but they ran out of .5kg bags. The wait was the bag supplier making more bags for domestic use. No bags means no flour for small guy.

Russ

 

[TastyReuben]

Today's Produce

• TastyReuben
• 13 May 2020

That's the produce I bought today. The full list to follow.

 

[TastyReuben]

The full list:

Cucumber
Bananas
Red onion
Lemons
Pineapple
Apples
Grapes
Strawberries
Bell peppers
Corn on the cob
Butter
Yogurt
Milk
Half-and-half
Buttermilk
Bread flour (Yes! Last bag!)
Champagne
Beer
Cereal
Honey
Canned tomatoes
Marshmallow fluff
Variety pack filled crackers
Olive oil
Pistachios
Potato chips/crisps
Bread

 

[Morning Glory]

Today's Produce

• TastyReuben
• 13 May 2020

That's the produce I bought today. The full list to follow.

I'm always envious of the multi coloured sweetcorn you get in the US. I'm not really a fan of corn but I'm thinking of food photography appeal.
Your list and the photo all seem very 'healthy' choices apart from the marshmallow fluff and potato crisps.

 

[TastyReuben]

Your list and the photo all seem very 'healthy' choices apart from the marshmallow fluff and potato crisps.

Kroger has an app called OptUp that tracks your cumulative purchases and reports on how healthy or unhealthy your shopping habits are. It comes out like an overall credit score.

According to the app, anything over 600 is good, and I'm at 668 after today's trip. It furthers breaks down what you bought into green, yellow, and red categories, from good to bad. My green items are over the recommended percentage of my purchases, but so are my bad ones!

 

[TastyReuben]

So...looking at my purchases over the last eight weeks, Kroger says the least healthy thing I bought was a bag of white sugar. That scored an 18/100. The most consistent bad thing I bought, meaning I buy it almost every trip, is butter. That gets a 31/100. We go through a lot of butter here.

I'm glad to point out that I got bread flour for the first time since this all started, and it's not some whackadoodle off-brand, either. It's Gold Medal. Not my regular brand (King Arthur), but I'm more than happy with it. It was the last bag.

 

[caseydog]

My trip contained a lot more meat than usual. We're starting to see meat shortages here, so since it was available, I picked some up.

The only meat area I saw half empty was pork.

CD

 

[Morning Glory]

So...looking at my purchases over the last eight weeks, Kroger says the least healthy thing I bought was a bag of white sugar. That scored an 18/100. The most consistent bad thing I bought, meaning I buy it almost every trip, is butter. That gets a 31/100. We go through a lot of butter here.

I'm glad to point out that I got bread flour for the first time since this all started, and it's not some whackadoodle off-brand, either. It's Gold Medal. Not my regular brand (King Arthur), but I'm more than happy with it. It was the last bag.

Well the last list looks pretty good to me. Very low in fat, no meat. I just noticed this:

Champagne

And also you have beer - maybe that, together with butter ups the score.

Are you celebrating something with the champagne?

 

[TastyReuben]

The only meat area I saw half empty was pork.

CD

I didn't even bother to check the meat this week. I bought more than enough last week. I meant to check, just out of curiosity, but I forgot.

And also you have beer - maybe that, together with butter ups the score.

Are you celebrating something with the champagne?

I just checked my purchases through the app, and lo and behold, they don't count alcohol at all, apparently. How enlightened!

The champagne is destined for Maibowle I'm making this weekend, kind of like German sangria. Funny you should ask, though, as Tuesday will be our 30th anniversary.

 

[Morning Glory]

Maibowle

Never heard of that before...

 

[TastyReuben]

Never heard of that before...

Have you had German Maiwein (May wine) before? It's a semi-sweet white wine flavored with woodruff. For the punch, just add champagne, brandy, some sugar, and some strawberries.

 

[TastyReuben]

I must say I'm impressed with the strawberries from Kroger today. It's early for berries here, and what we usually get at the best of times are ones that are whiter than snow inside. These are fairly ripe:

Supermarket Strawberry

• TastyReuben
• 13 May 2020

 

[rascal]

I'm always envious of the multi coloured sweetcorn you get in the US. I'm not really a fan of corn but I'm thinking of food photography appeal.
Your list and the photo all seem very 'healthy' choices apart from the marshmallow fluff and potato crisps.

I'm going to grow that corn this summer, if I can get seeds.

Russ

 

[rascal]

I must say I'm impressed with the strawberries from Kroger today. It's early for berries here, and what we usually get at the best of times are ones that are whiter than snow inside. These are fairly ripe:

Supermarket Strawberry

• TastyReuben
• 13 May 2020

I'm still picking a few every day, won't last long now, nearly winter here. Unusually warm autumn here.

Russ

 

[rascal]

TastyReuben just walked outside and picked this, size for comparison. There's more but I'll,leave for mr7 to find. Lol.

Russ