January Prepping 2021

I bought some seeds yesterday.  Wa went to the grocery store today. To , they were out of a lot, fresh spinach,  lettuce,  bananas,  potatoes. 

Bag End wasn't so small!   I'd say go for it.     

I would like to build a buried root cellar away from the house, but the granite rock comes too close to the surface in the garden (at least 1/3 rd of the space is exposed rock)

Thanks for the tip on the book.  

In the end I might go with taking out an old oil tank which is at the end of the garage. As the house is built into a sloping hill the area is almost totally underground.  This will not be the best root cellar, but it is where they planned one according to the original plans of the house (which were modified a bit while the place was being built).

May be just a strange coincidence, but several stores I’ve went too have been out of corn startch or had 1-2 more containers of expensive name brands.  Finally had to concede to purchasing the name brand as I have tried 3 different stores over the past week before locating any. 

There is only two places I get my nutrition shake from at a relatively decent price, and they have been buying that out like crazy, but since I have severe GP, I am going to ask my dietician to switch my nutrition shake to something I can get by prescription so that I am not without for those days I can't really tolerate solid food.

Isn't cornstarch a thickener, Hoosiermom? Maybe that's what they are using it for and hopefully not just playing around with oobleck. I'm not into TikTok so no idea if that is a trend. It's also an egg substitute, milk bath (good for photography purposes), natural dry shampoo, etc. I've seen some pretty empty shelves at Whole Foods when I do go lately. 

I bought a few cases of Gatorade for my POTS - took weeks for that to come back to Costco and will probably disappear again soon enough.

I think people may just be doing over all stocking up so they can save money. We pretty much know there are higher prices coming with Biden signing to stop the XL pipeline. Which I'm ok with, I don't mind paying higher prices for gas if it means having a cleaner environment. But everyone knows it will have a trickle down effect to everything else. So I think people are just buying what they can.