You can use bread machine yeast without the bread machine. It's designed to not need incorporating with water before making the dough and is quicker to rise. Works the same otherwise.I managed to grab 10 lbs of flour at the store today. I go out a infrequently as possible right now, and when I do get out it seems like the shelves are empty. The only reason I got the flour was because the put a pallet out in a main isle. The baking aisle actually had no flour except a few small packages of fancy stuff (coconut, semolina, almond etc.). They were out of baking powder, which I'm also out of, and the only had bread machine yeast, which I probably could have worked with. I'm really hoping that the sourdough starter shows up in the mail tomorrow @ronott1. At this point, I'm counting on it to be able to bake anything leavened even though I am inexperienced with sourdough.