Bringing in reinforcements
The parking lot at Roche Bros. in West Roxbury was insane tonight. Oh, right, it's always like that. Inside, they had plenty of milk and eggs, but looks like they had to break out the emergency bread replacements.
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French Toast party tomorrow?
I avoided said parking lot and had milk, bread, and eggs delivered by a kid from Peapod who looked like he was 12 years old. In any event, we're French Toast Ready.
It was madness!
Down here, in N.E. PA it feels like our last days on earth are here! I spent two hours after work running a few errands. I had a line of cars behind me when I put air in my tires!! Forget getting gas. I drove home on empty!
As always, I did my shopping way in advance,
including stopping off at a small market for a gallon of milk this afternoon, so I'm all stocked up on food. Happily, I've avoided the pre-snowstorm mad rush for food.
It's unbelievable that so many people act like the end of the world's coming when a major snowstorm is predicted. I mean...seriously... I don't care what anybody says or thinks....it's ludicrous!
That's nice dear
I've had to work late every night this week, as has my husband. The kids don't drive yet.
Can you do mine for me next time? Or maybe I can perfect "sleep shopping".
Actually I was amazed at the
Actually I was amazed at the number of people who do shop late at these 24 hour stop and shops. Ive been a few times and was shocked that I had to stand in line at midnight, behind a woman buying all sorts of kiddy food to boot.
Im not saying its easy to be a parent who has to work late, but its not impossible to stop on the way home and pick up a few things either. My parents , both working two blue collar/working classjobs, always seemed to figure it out.
Keeping food in the house
We always manage to figure it out with two working parents - but it is harder now that neither adult commute involves a car and the consumption levels in the household are trending dramatically upward. We have to do $200 shopping runs fairly regularly, and can't just make time to do them every day, and sleep, and work a long day ...
I understand the exasperation with IM's tidy little pronouncments about how we must all be disorganized blah blah. Most of us don't have the kind of lives where we can just plan six days in advance for a snowstorm when our jobs are expanding to fill all free time, there are school events to attend for the kids, and the adolescent food disposal unit drank 3 quarts of milk and ate a loaf of bread in a single day.
Oh, thanks for reminding me
We're down to four slices of bread, not including heels, so I need to get to the store before we're shut in.
Ingredients
If you have flour, water, and yeast you can make your own bread with kidlet. If there is a special holiday treat bread involved, all the better.
Multiple super markets in
Multiple super markets in the Medford area (Ive concluded that must be where your from) must be at least one or two within walking distance? Depending on the age (if the kids are under 12 or over 12) they can be sent out to buy food as well. My brother was a milkaholic so my mother always had two jugs of milk in the house. One was the house milk and the second was my brothers milk. IF my mother happened to be in the store she would replace my brothers milk otherwise he was given the cash and told to go buy some more or he was cut off. Each older child was also enlisted to help with the younger children and with random things like stocking the essentials. You also find that milk is not needed for a weekend, and you can get along just fine with basic ingredients that last a long time (canned food, boxes of pasta, flour, sugar etc) that can easily be kept in stock all the time. My family was definitly working class so my mother always did her best to keep costs down so actually used alot of those basic ingredients to "do it herself" to drive down costs.
Yes its hard, and if a dance recital is missed because the rest of the brood needed to eat that week it will wash over.
Right on, ShadyMilkMan.
This;
says it all, in a nutshell, ShadyMilkMan.
My brother and sister-in-law, who have two young kids and both work, also manage to figure it out.
Mid-morning report: Gridlock in the aisles at Roche Bros.
Nancy reports the checkout lines at Rochie's were stacked up into the aisles and - you are sitting down, right? - they announced no carry-out service to cars to keep people working at the registers.
No room in Roche's parking lot @ 10:15 a.m. Friday...
....drove on to another store....we were scared foodless...
It's a good thing Shaw's doesn't sell ammo
Dave Alpert was amazed at the shopping insanity: