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I was wondering, has there been a pasta shortage where you live?
I have noticed it has been much more difficult to find thinner cuts of spaghetti, especially the name brands (Barilla and American Beauty around here). I was recently able to score some American Beauty thin spaghetti, but I think I simply lucked out that day.
Pasta was one of the first things to sell out in my area. We don't eat a lot of pasta, and I had been stocking up on grains and beans. When I was coming up with pantry based meals like tuna casserole I tried to pick some up.... but no more. My neighbor found me some when she was shopping at a different grocery store a few weeks later (we trade off picking stuff up for each other.)
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Not even from the start here in rural central Georgia. Rice and Beans were thin once at the beginning (I've only been shopping 3 times in the past 2 months, including today), but there's always been pasta, even fresh pasta. I didn't notice any of the particular items being out as it takes a year or more for us to go through a "box" of thin spaghetti (maybe 6 meals?)
If you're finding yourself facing a shortage and you eat a LOT of pasta, might be time to invest $30 in a pasta roller/cutter set and make your own. If you can't buy, make.
If you're finding yourself facing a shortage and you eat a LOT of pasta, might be time to invest $30 in a pasta roller/cutter set and make your own. If you can't buy, make.
In my area, stores have had trouble keeping flour on the shelves.
I think probably it is back on the shelves. When the hoarding first started, pasta and rice disappeared immediately. But even then, I was able to buy a 5 pound box of elbow macaroni, which works just fine. It might look different but it all tastes just the same. I've served Seafood Alfredo on elbow mac and it is not glamorous but tasted delicious.
As for making your own pasta, flour was the next thing to disappear off the shelves. I can make pasta but not without flour.
One of the markets had an amazing sale on lasagna noodles just before Covid struck and I bought a couple of boxes. Purely nothing but good luck; I only make lasagna about once a year but I couldn't resist the price.
Because I don't normally cook pasta and I have 5 pound of elbow mac to get through, I have not looked at the noodles shelves in the market. I know that rice is hard to come by and the sugar seems to be nearly sold out.
Now, again, I am seeing gaps in the meat counter. I suspect that people are panicking because a few meat processing plants have closed temporarily.
Toilet paper was back on the shelves but seems to be getting scarce again. You'd think that every household in America already has 2 years worth of tp, but apparently, they need more.
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No, rice and beans, meat, chicken and yeast. Pasta is still in plentiful supply as of yesterday. Naturally, the one thing that's easy to make from scratch is still available. I can't make meat.
I haven't noticed, but we already had plenty of dry pasta in the pantry, so I don't look, we only eat it every few months. Still no tp in my main grocers, maybe I need to go earlier, but we have a good supply so I am not worried.
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