Lilsia
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What does the dehydrated food taste like?
You add the water back to it when you heat it up to eat. So it tastes pretty much exactly as it did before you took the water out.
What does the dehydrated food taste like?
The increased demand, due to people eating at home all the time & grocery stores not adjusting to that demand has created empty shelves. I thought it may be due to a shortage, until I see stories about managers claiming a 2 to 3 day meat supply disappearing in a few hours was due to hoarding. It's clear many of them simply can't see what's really happening. There are many people having to buy significantly more food from grocery stores now. We're purchasing about 70% more food per week than we did pre-Covid 19. We're not hoarding. We're eating it, because we're now feeding all of us strictly from home. We used to cook 3 or 4 nights a week & make breakfast on Saturday & Sunday. That was normally only for DH & me. DS is now eating all his meals here too. There are many more families like us. It's common sense that the grocery stores need to be ordering a whole lot more than they previously did. Blaming hoarding & being unwilling to adapt to different needs is inexcusable. If they simply can't get what they order, that's another story. They can't help that, but they should be trying instead of blaming customers for shortages in the stores.
Our DS eats about 3 times more than DH, but he also works out daily. When our area started seeing a significant rise in Covid 19 cases, so we stopped eating out. Even if we were eating out on occasion, we'd still need a lot more food.We normally get something fast to eat 2-3 times a week and still do. Other then that, we are eating about the same as we always do. And that is with my husband and kids home all day now. But we are not big eaters and are happy with a sandwich or can of soup for lunch. We also don't make full meals every night for dinner and will make something easy like a frozen pizza.
Well a portion of Costco's marketing is to smaller stores who resell those items. The mini-market I buy lottery tickets at sells a major brand of dairy products in the pint jugs, but their pints of half and half are all Kirkland. The pints of milk, 2%, 1% , non-fat and chocolate milk are $2.50 each. The half and half is $1.99. Usually the higher the butter fat in milk, the higher the price
When you have the OP talking about keeping a 3 MONTH food supply - that's hoarding.
I’m a manager at a grocery store and trust me it’s due to both short supply and hoarding. We are getting our trucks in but one to two days late and with only about 50-75% of what we are ordering depending on department. So say we order 100 cases of toilet paper and we recieve 10 cases, normally those 10 cases might last a week but now people see we have it back in stock and buy it all.The increased demand, due to people eating at home all the time & grocery stores not adjusting to that demand has created empty shelves. I thought it may be due to a shortage, until I see stories about managers claiming a 2 to 3 day meat supply disappearing in a few hours was due to hoarding. It's clear many of them simply can't see what's really happening. There are many people having to buy significantly more food from grocery stores now. We're purchasing about 70% more food per week than we did pre-Covid 19. We're not hoarding. We're eating it, because we're now feeding all of us strictly from home. We used to cook 3 or 4 nights a week & make breakfast on Saturday & Sunday. That was normally only for DH & me. DS is now eating all his meals here too. There are many more families like us. It's common sense that the grocery stores need to be ordering a whole lot more than they previously did. Blaming hoarding & being unwilling to adapt to different needs is inexcusable. If they simply can't get what they order, that's another story. They can't help that, but they should be trying instead of blaming customers for shortages in the stores.
When you have the OP talking about keeping a 3 MONTH food supply - that's hoarding.
You previously noted that you are doing everything you can, but the supply isn't coming in. Obviously, I wasn't referring to you. Your post was the reason I mentioned that managers who can't get stock in, can't help that. I'm referring to managers who blame hoarding for the shortage & hesitate to take the risk of ordering additional stock. If they can get additional stock, they need to. Common sense says people will be buying more groceries now.I’m a manager at a grocery store and trust me it’s due to both short supply and hoarding. We are getting our trucks in but one to two days late and with only about 50-75% of what we are ordering depending on department. So say we order 100 cases of toilet paper and we recieve 10 cases, normally those 10 cases might last a week but now people see we have it back in stock and buy it all.
Plus some things are just not coming in at all or just sporadic, like pasta, beans, canned and frozen fruit and veg ect. Haven’t had Lysol wipes or hand sanitizer in over a month now.
We are selling more then double the normal volumes and that’s with the shortages. We don’t have any more staff, we have less then normal because we lost several people due to fear of the virus. Plus we need to clean and sanitize everything more often and have someone counting customers at the front door and sanitizing the carts. It’s often hard to find enough staff to get the products out there and you just think we should be doing more. We try and schedule staff when we anticipate orders but we don’t know when they are coming now so we have to have extra people there just in case and we are all working harder and longer hours then before and it’s not just as simple as order more.
There’s been a noticeable change in grocery store stock in our community over the past two weeks. There weren’t shortages. Now there are. And it’s not just meat, milk, eggs. It’s frozen items, cookies and snacks, etc.
We consciously made a decision to purchase extra food back in early March, and I’m glad we did. I would be nervous if I only had a week or two supply of food at this point.
The world isn’t going back to “normal” anytime soon. Normal as we knew it isn’t going to exist for a long time.
You previously noted that you are doing everything you can, but the supply isn't coming in. Obviously, I wasn't referring to you. Your post was the reason I mentioned that managers who can't get stock in, can't help that. I'm referring to managers who blame hoarding for the shortage & hesitate to take the risk of ordering additional stock. If they can get additional stock, they need to. Common sense says people will be buying more groceries now.
We live in different countries. Many areas in the US are reporting little to no shortages. Yet, some of us have to go to several stores to have a chance at finding any kind of chicken, pork & beef (other than ground beef). One of our grocery stores has much better stock than the others. They're all less than 2 miles apart. The only explanation is better management most likely on a regional level.
PS: I'm getting burned out on everyone talking about people hoarding groceries. Many people are staying home 24/7 with older children that were away at school or working now back home. They need more groceries. How is that so hard for many to understand?
ETA: I'm very grateful for the grocery store workers who are putting their lives at risk to make sure we're fed. I'm just not happy to hear managers are afraid to order additional stock, when it's obviously needed.
I just bought what I saw in the stores for around $70 (or 7 Mountain House meals, lol.) I think I have a Nesco, which seems to be the common popular basic dehydrator. Works fine. If I camped more, I would buy a more expensive one.I was thinking about buying a dehydrator do you recommend a certain brand/Model?
You previously noted that you are doing everything you can, but the supply isn't coming in. Obviously, I wasn't referring to you. Your post was the reason I mentioned that managers who can't get stock in, can't help that. I'm referring to managers who blame hoarding for the shortage & hesitate to take the risk of ordering additional stock. If they can get additional stock, they need to. Common sense says people will be buying more groceries now.
We live in different countries. Many areas in the US are reporting little to no shortages. Yet, some of us have to go to several stores to have a chance at finding any kind of chicken, pork & beef (other than ground beef). One of our grocery stores has much better stock than the others. They're all less than 2 miles apart. The only explanation is better management most likely on a regional level.
PS: I'm getting burned out on everyone talking about people hoarding groceries. Many people are staying home 24/7 with older children that were away at school or working that are now back home. They need more groceries. How is that so hard for many to understand?
ETA: I'm very grateful for the grocery store workers who are putting their lives at risk to make sure we're fed. I'm just not happy to hear managers are afraid to order additional stock, when it's obviously needed.
For me with my spaghetti and stuffed pepper soup (I have 2 tray liners for liquids) it tasted like I just pulled it off the stove at home after dehydrating in the middle of the woods.What does the dehydrated food taste like?
No, but every time you cook something you can toss a serving or two in the dehydrator, or cook double and put one batch in a dehydrator. Spagheti, soups, stews, so much you can dehydrate. 3 Mountain House meals will pay for a cheap dehydrator. What I've read is good for 6 months to a year on a shelf and indefinitely in a freezer. I have a weeks worth still left in the freezer for my camping this year.
I did that prepping for an 11 day camping trip. I've eaten plenty of Mountain House on weekend trips. I pulled 3 off the shelf and realized that was a cheap dehydrator so I bought one. The result in the middle of the woods around a campfire is I thought someone brought the whole kitchen and cooked dinner right then. I dried spaghetti with meat sauce and stuffed pepper soup. Both were just made 2 minutes ago in the kitchen quality. You just can't dehydrate milk products. I read that as I had steak, alfredo, and noodles going already. I tried to re-hydrate one and it did NOT work out.
I know that. Freeze drying your own foods would be fabulous if you had the equipment. The freeze drying isn't the problem with commercially available freeze dried foods. It's the ingredients and added chemical preservatives themselves.Freeze dried is actually quite different than dehydrated. Nearly all the water is removed, while a dehydrator might remove about 80-90% of the water.
Freeze drying is an industrial process and requires expensive equipment. It requires a vacuum to reduce the pressure such that the the ice turns straight into water vapor, like how dry ice turns straight into CO2 gas at normal atmospheric pressure.
But freeze drying is generally far better for taste and for something that reconstitutes closer to the original. But it's expensive. I remember my kid always wanted freeze dried ice cream, although it's not meant to be reconstituted.