I foolishly went to the food store during the coronavirus panic. I go food shopping at least once a week, but mostly more on a normal basis. I food shop and cook for 5 adults in my household. Food shopping and cooking put me in my happy place. Unfortunately, Saturday morning I forgot to take something out for dinner so I have to make the dreaded trip to the cleared out food store.

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As I browsed up and down the aisles, like I normally do, I noticed some odd things were sold out. I understand the fear is there that food stores won’t be restocked as quickly or that we could end up being requested to self-quarantine. However, as someone who cooks and bakes constantly and cooks and bakes some off the wall things, I’ve learned the ingredients I usually overstock up on is not a normal occurrence for the average household. Well, that was until coronavirus.

I only have less than half of a bag of sugar in my cabinet, for me, this is a terrifying situation. I always have two bags of flour and sugar because on any given day I could go through half of a bag. Most people take much longer to go through a single bag. However, now that coronavirus is here, people have bought out all of the sugar and flour. I thought maybe I only find this weird, but nope.

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Some of the things that did not shock me to be sold out were chicken, rice, toilet paper, and cleaning products. Makes sense right?

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Signs were placed around the store concerning the lack of products.

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However, the thing that shocked me the most was the lack of canola and vegetable oil. Remember how I said that I spend most of my time cooking and baking for 5 adults? I never reach for either one of those oils on a weekly basis. What are people making they need to stock up on these?

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Other odd things that were in short supply included ricotta cheese and oatmeal. I am still so very confused.

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