Frozen Canuck
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jun 10, 2015
no Basmati brown rice (the kind DD wants.....she may just have to go to plain brown)
I have been looking for brown basmati since this started about 2 months ago. I finally found some at Trader Joe's first thing Tuesday morning. They had about 10-12 small bags on the shelf. I didn't expect that would be in stock long though. So, hold hope!!! It might be coming back slowly to different places.
I am still waiting on Barilla pasta to come back in all of its many varieties. I think when things started going crazy, they quit making the more specialty shapes and switched to just the ones they thought people would use most...spaghetti, macaroni, penne, ditalini, and lasagna. Those are the only ones I can find in stores and online. I tend to prefer many of the other shapes/sizes, and I can't find them, especially things like mini penne and mini farfalle, which my kids have found easier to eat.
Chicken breasts have been very hard to find. I don't usually purchase meat at Trader Joe's, but I have been able to find chicken breasts there for $2.99 during much of this quarantine when it was out of stock everywhere else. However, as of Tuesday, the price had jumped to $4.99/lb. That is a crazy increase from two weeks prior.
The strange thing that I haven't been able to get my hands on is capers. They have been non-existent in the stores I have shopped. In fact, I was shocked at how limited the pickle selection in general was at Wegman's when I went the other day and they were pretty much out of relish.
Funny story...When we went out for a big shop right before things started locking down, we dragged all of the bags into the house, feeling like we had enough to get us through for awhile. But then, my 11 year-old said, "Did you buy pickles???" And then his sister backed him up!!! First of all, we only buy pickles about once a year for a treat, and second of all, I didn't get the memo that pickles were a necessity during a pandemic, so no, I didn't pick any up. Tuesday, I finally found some when I was out, so I grabbed a jar and brought them home. As soon as my son saw them, he cheered and then said, "Sister is going to be so excited too!!!!" It's all in the little things, I guess.