Coronavirus, Covid 19 Discussion and How It Has Affected Your Daily Life Chat Thread

[ChocolateMouse]

Longer than I expected, but still if you're getting things through standard shipping should be safe.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Everyone who goes there knows what they're ordering most have been customers for 15+ years. They have order sheets and salesmen that deal with sales.

My husband runs the warehouse. He's just leaving their orders outside then they back their truck up and he loads it with his machinery then they leave.

Oh wow that’s awesome!! Must be a good business if they’re that loyal.

And that sounds efficient!

I think a lot of stores are doing the pick up thing.

My feed store had a sign to please not spend too long in the store lol and mentioned curbside pickup.

 

[21hens-incharge]

https://kfor.com/health/coronavirus/how-long-does-coronavirus-live-on-certain-surfaces/
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Thank you Mo. That is important information.

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Good news, Trader Joes just announced special "Senior Shopping" hour from 9 am to 10 am. Thank goodness. Their store is nearly an hour drive from me but I love their soy coffee creamer. Also buy my heavy cream to make butter from there. I had hoped to go tomorrow, however Mother Nature is being naughty and it is currently snowing. The updated forecast for my area is 5 to 8 inches. Ugh! One of the Boston newspapers messed up and announced that our governor will shut down all non-essential businesses and ordered a "shelter in place" for all. Actually, he said he is encouraging people to shelter in place, acknowledging that there are still people going to work every day. He is shutting down non-essential businesses, but that was pretty much done already.
Cooking tip / menu idea: fried rice. You can use up leftovers of meat and vegetables and throw in a scrambled egg or 2.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

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@BDutch
See, this is what I meant a few pages back.
I've been hearing this for over a week now, hence my mail and package caution.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

For curries calling for coconut milk you can substitute with almond milk. I'm allergic to coconut so I had to adjust my recipes. I prefer lentils (Dal) to chick peas. But they are still good. Also have used a pork vindaloo recipe and swapped out the pork with fried tofu. Very tasty.
In response to the sourdough starter. If you go to the King Arthur Flour website they should have the directions for making and caring for your own sourdough starter. My starter is 13 years old now and very nice.

I also prefer lentils (Dal) and I've taken quite a liking to red lentils lately. They seem to be the gentlest on my system of all the lentils.
I'll use chickpeas but lately my system hasn't been overly appreciative for many of those nor anything else in the bean category. Which is sad because I like black beans a lot.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Thank you Mo. That is important information.

Yes, Thank you Mo!

 

[FortCluck]

Good news, Trader Joes just announced special "Senior Shopping" hour from 9 am to 10 am. Thank goodness. Their store is nearly an hour drive from me but I love their soy coffee creamer. Also buy my heavy cream to make butter from there. I had hoped to go tomorrow, however Mother Nature is being naughty and it is currently snowing. The updated forecast for my area is 5 to 8 inches. Ugh! One of the Boston newspapers messed up and announced that our governor will shut down all non-essential businesses and ordered a "shelter in place" for all. Actually, he said he is encouraging people to shelter in place, acknowledging that there are still people going to work every day. He is shutting down non-essential businesses, but that was pretty much done already.
Cooking tip / menu idea: fried rice. You can use up leftovers of meat and vegetables and throw in a scrambled egg or 2.

We do lots of fried rice here but we do coconut aminos instead of soy sauce

 

[IamRainey]

That's good to know. Thank you. I thought it took a lot longer than that! I need to do some research, I suppose.

https://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/sourdough-starter-recipe I should have sent you this link before but I was rushing to make an appointment this morning. A local sewing machine shop allowed me to drop 2 machines off. They're closed but when I said I needed them to make surgical masks they agreed to take them by appointment.

LOTS of people are really stepping up to the needs of this medical and social crisis!

Adding: When you get your sourdough starter going, take some of it and spread it out very thinly on something like parchment paper (I use a flexible Silpat mat). Let it air dry. It will begin to shrink and curl up. When it's fully dried, just crunch up the paper turning the starter into a powder. Put that in a jar or a vacuum sealer and keep it in your freezer.

If your starter ever fails, you can use that to get a new one going. Just reconstitute it with water and then start feeding it slowly at first and then with larger quantities of flour and water to create enough for your dough and a new starter.

Meanwhile, PROPS to Wee Farmer Sarah for keeping one going for 13 years!

 

[IamRainey]

He's going to be ok but I'm more concerned about the staff at the school. Most people who work there, including more than half of the training staff, are 60+ Some people are refusing to work.

That's one of the issues my daughter is facing at work. Some of the janitors, respiratory techs, the folks who collect blood, etc. are refusing to go into the ICU patient rooms. That means the nurses who should be providing specialize care for double and triple their case loads are having to do some of these less skilled functions too.

It's not that I can't understand why someone making low wages wouldn't want to put themselves at risk but none of the medical personnel want to be at risk either. And yet that's the job they trained for and signed on for and they're doing it in battle zone conditions.