Re: Ingredient Cycling and Pandemics
Mar. 3rd, 2020 03:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
contrarianarchonI have obtained 16x 400g tins of tomatos, and 4kg of dry pasta, which is like a week or two of eating nothing else; also some tins of fruit and garlic which I can flavour pasta with if I run out of tomatos. I expect this to last maybe a month of normal eating since these are very staple ingredients for my cooking.
(This (along with the normal "don't starve for the next day" purchases) has proven to be more than I can carry home from my nearest (and fortunately, cheapest) supermarket without trouble - it was both painful and resulted in dropped tins - with better equipment than my normal shopping bags and the box the tomatoes were shipped in this could be avoided - maybe my large ikea bags would do? The only other item-moving containers I have are my suitcases, which I guess are also a possibility if I don't mind looking like a weirdo. thus are the perils of living on foot).
Also in coronavirus local news: my classmate with doctors in her family says that she doesn't think it's an issue here yet, honestly I don't believe her; the hospital is apparently also losing capacity from an entire department getting quarantined and there are ~30 confirmed cases in surrounding cities.
I worry that self-isolation to my apartment would be largely ineffective since I have to share food-prep area with seven people, several of whom I can't reliably even talk to, let alone co-ordinate on "we're not leaving the apartment to not catch the virus" (One of whom has spent large sections of the last week bedridden with non-coronavirus flu - which she has had blood-tests for, and which I wasn't told about until she was already on her feet again). Self-isolation to just my room is, I think, a non-starter (it would be theoretically possible; I have a bathroom and water-source, but even I would go stir-crazy, and living off tins of fruit stacked in my closet and muesli bars would be miserable)
(This (along with the normal "don't starve for the next day" purchases) has proven to be more than I can carry home from my nearest (and fortunately, cheapest) supermarket without trouble - it was both painful and resulted in dropped tins - with better equipment than my normal shopping bags and the box the tomatoes were shipped in this could be avoided - maybe my large ikea bags would do? The only other item-moving containers I have are my suitcases, which I guess are also a possibility if I don't mind looking like a weirdo. thus are the perils of living on foot).
Also in coronavirus local news: my classmate with doctors in her family says that she doesn't think it's an issue here yet, honestly I don't believe her; the hospital is apparently also losing capacity from an entire department getting quarantined and there are ~30 confirmed cases in surrounding cities.
I worry that self-isolation to my apartment would be largely ineffective since I have to share food-prep area with seven people, several of whom I can't reliably even talk to, let alone co-ordinate on "we're not leaving the apartment to not catch the virus" (One of whom has spent large sections of the last week bedridden with non-coronavirus flu - which she has had blood-tests for, and which I wasn't told about until she was already on her feet again). Self-isolation to just my room is, I think, a non-starter (it would be theoretically possible; I have a bathroom and water-source, but even I would go stir-crazy, and living off tins of fruit stacked in my closet and muesli bars would be miserable)
