Bawdy, I have to agree with Arielle. Whenever one of you goes out, unless that person is super super careful to remove all clothing worn out in public and shower thoroughly before touching anything else in the house OR the other partner, then the stay-at-home partner is getting almost as much exposure as the one who went shopping. Might be better to relieve him of shopping duties....

We took a bit of a drive out along our country roads in our county on Sunday. Didn't leave the car... just wanted to enjoy some of the springtime roadside flowers. We noticed a LOT of rural homes with anywhere from 6 to a dozen or more vehicles parked in the driveways. And occasionally we'd large groups of children out playing... almost none of them wearing any sort of mask. I'm afraid that a lot of families in our county decided that holding their traditional family gatherings for Easter was more important than following the ban on gatherings of more than 10 people. If what I observed in our in our county is indicative of Easter in other areas, I fear that in about 7 to 10 days we're going to start seeing another upsurge in new cases.

I appreciate your thoughts and ideas. Pick-up grocery ordering is very limited where I live. My entire County has just 13 people who tested positive, 7 of which have recovered, only 1 hospitalization (and no need of a ventilator), with no deaths. Since it doesn't matter who goes out in terms of the one who goes out exposes the one who stays home, there's no way I can keep him from going to the store.

He'll go to the dump, and swing by a convenience store to buy some donuts and milk. Or swing by the grocery store to see if they have toilet paper, and buy cookies.

Whoever goes carries along a couple Clorox wipes (one in hand and one in a baggie) and wipes down everything before touching it.

All I can reasonably do is to continually remind him that I can't and don't want to eat those things and to please not buy them. Mostly, I can resist, but sometimes I cave. I suppose that's better than totally caving and giving up.

DH made a run to Costco during Senior hours this morning. Eggs were the main thing we needed, as quantities have been limited in previous grocery orders. The "price of eggs" was $300. That's Costco for you! "While you're there..." turned into a goodly supply of meat and fish, fresh veggies, pork rinds, and Happy Hour beverages. And eggs. They had plenty, but DH got only what we needed.

He used a mask, hand washing, and other sanitizing procedures, but not the "strip search" when he got home. He said Costco was observing safety precautions and the customers were, too.

One of my favorite occupations while at home has been cooking. Tonight is leftover night--a feast of variety!

Everyone be wise. Be safe.

I wish I could share our excess eggs with you! The hens have gone into overdrive - I have 3 dozen in the fridge right now. We know only one family close to us that doesn’t have chickens, so they get as much excess as they can handle.

I love eggs & could eat them 3 times a day - husband not so much. So I need to get creative to use them up. Lunch will be scrambled eggs (which he loves) & chaffles.

Canned green beans are not a veggie I would normally choose to have. However I made my last trip to Costco on March 4 before all the craziness started and I bought a lot of TP and paper towels, canned tuna, and a 12-pack of canned green beans, for my "emergency" stash,

However I did have my DiL and grandkids over for Easter dinner since they have all been self-isolating. I cooked, a mixture of LC and non-LC food since none of them are LC. They got the mac and cheese, and homemade biscuilts for example. I made a big meat loaf and since I made it there were no carby additives like bread crumbs - just ground beef, riced cauliflower, salt, pepper, eggs, a bit of salsa. I heated up the green beans with a vinaigrette dressing and some sesame seeds sprinkled on top. A small red velvet cake for the kids.

Anyway, when they went home I sent them with the rest of the mac and cheese, biscuits, and cake, and kept the meatloaf and beans for myself.

Last night I had less that a 1/4 cup of beans left and I diced them up small, mixed with 1 egg and 1/2 cup shredded cheese, and cooked two chaffles with that mixture, they came out great. I had a couple smallish slices of the meatloaf left so layered them on a chaffle, added some mayo, put the second chaffle on top, and had me a meatloaf sandwich. I have to say it was pretty darn tasty.

Me too - I have a couple of cans in the pantry. I know they won't get eaten until we actually run out of other vegetables. Kind of like the pickled pigs feet Mom kept in her pantry.

When I do heat up a can, I doctor it a la James Beard with butter and almonds. Not bad that way.

My DiL made a run to Costco yesrterday and bought me a carton of 2 dozen eggs, 4 packages of bacon (all sold together wrapped up in platic wrap) and 2 quarts of heavy cream. She goes through a lot more food than I do since she has the three kids to feed as well as herself, so bought 7 dozen eggs for herself! They were not being limited and she goes through a minimum of 8-10 eggs a day she says. Seven dozen eggs will barely get her through a week. There was also no limit on milk so she bought a bunch of milk. I don't know if there were meat limits or limits on other things. But if you can get plenty of eggs that's a good thing.

After an 18-hour fast I had a 2-egg omelet with cheddar cheese, and 6 slices of bacon, for my lunch.

Yup, just do the best you can. Personally I grump at my husband if he brings home junk... I cant resist either. Been hard to get him to reduce the carbs....

Right now asking kids to go low carb to help me.

My husband must work restocking shelves at WM....he wears a mask, gets checked for a temp before a shift..... and shops a the end of his shift when most items are not available. He comes home and showers.

We are eating down the freezer. Fridge is pretty empty. Have three freezers.....trying to see the extra space as a good thing rather than how it really makes me feel: worried and stressed. Full is normal. So to reduce stress, focusing on emptying one freezer do it can be shut off and cleaned. Just writing this my heart is pounding.

I feel for those without food stored and thise that dont have cooking skills.

When DH was sick and we waited for civid test results ONLY I brought him food and he stayed behind a closed door, and vented a window to the outside. He was careful to not contaminate us. Fortunately it was not a flu or covid.

Eggs. Normally April eggs are cheaper than usual as the hens are in overdrive. This year the demand for eggs is abnormally high.

Extra eggs can be frozen. I mix beaten eggs with salt and freeze. In one cup freezer safe containets. And use in baking, not scrambled eggs as the texture is off.

( my incubator is full, no nothing going into freezee this year,)

The egg rush should lessen as people are no longer buying them to make Easter eggs.

Yes, Dodger. All those Easter eggs are now being turned into egg salad, deviled eggs, and egg casseroles. Demand will dip!

As to face masks: I can't imagine being ridiculed and hassled for wearing a face mask. What a strange experience. A lot of people in my community are wearing masks, especially colorful homemade ones.

On the other hand, I know that people of color are sometimes afraid to wear them because of existing prejudiced assumptions. That's yet another of the cultural underpinnings that will be transformed, we can only hope, by the realizations of the pandemic.

Be safe everybody.

All those eggs...both Ivor Cummins and Dr. Paul Mason only eat the yolks. 8 yolk omelets! You can read the Transcript, the recommended diet to protect against virus, reduce inflammation (meat, fish and eggs) is right at the end.

https://thefatemperor.com/ep68-dr-p...s-crucial-info/

And there is a transcript for fellow talking-head phobes, though some of the mis-transcribed words are pretty funny, like "Sadik Khan stone" for "cytokine storm" and "fades" for "foods".

Love the transcript and its related spelling-challenged humor, but it afforded a quick read.

Ivor's comments about medical practitioners who continue to embrace the lipid hypothesis accurately reflects my own feelings:


I strongly believe those who have achieved a healthy metabolism through diet have a very strong resistance to viruses and infections in general, and it bodes well for those of us in these times. Nice to hear Paul Mason weigh in on this, as he echoes the recent thoughts of many others.

Thank you! I hate watching videos so unless there is a written transcript I just don’t bother. I’ve seen some funny transcribed words too though. It makes me wonder who does the transcribing. And apparently the video participants don’t do any proof reading.