I still have about 15 garden tomatoes that I should do something with and other various garden veggies from last season. I don't think there are any hidden treasures in there since I defrost it every few months and use anything that starts to show signs of freezer burn.

I have a vacuum sealer that really helps to increase shelf life (or is that freezer life?).

I have a signature dish I make for my parents. It does involve boneless skinless chicken thighs. Not a bad item to stock especially if anyone has limited fridge/freezer space. And if any food is left in your markets.

NYC TJ's is just about wiped out. I'm guessing some markets may close soon. Restaurants and bars are ordered closed today. Take-out and delivery only.

We shopped a couple weeks ago and have about 8 dozen chicken thighs in the freezer.

I'll post the recipe when I have some time in the next couple days.

I defrosted my standing freezer a month or so ago, made a list that now lives on a magnet on the door, and I resorted my pantry. Since DH and I are over 70 we are isolating. I did go early to the store today, gloved, and bought wine, cheese, cat food, and butter so we are set for at least 2 months with all the stuff already stocked in freezer and pantry. I make bread weekly but noticed - no eggs on the store shelves. Do people think the chickens will stop laying??? We have plenty of food but DH dislikes leftovers - too bad - he'll just have to get used to it or eat peanut butter and jelly.

For bragu_DSM 5 - Anything can be made into a meal with some starch - - potatoes, rice, pasta, bread, and not every meal needs to include meat. For proteins use milk products, eggs, nuts, seeds, quinoa, lentils, peanuts, peas, beans, broccoli, corn, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, avocado, and of course all kinds of fish and seafood.

Bragu, (dave), is a competent home chef. I'm guessing this is a good natured dialog to share possible creative uses for what we have on hand. Freezer/fridge/pantry ideas. Some of us are on lock-down in populated areas.

I did hope the nay-sayers early on would be correct. Blink and this is all over. NOT happening for some time.

Just a nice idea to internet what we have in our fridge/pantry/freezer.

I did an inventory and defrost a couple of months ago. We're in good shape. Steaks to grill, pot roasts, pork roast, chops, half dozen 1# pckgs ground beef, some great ribs. Vegetables. Should I admit - frozen waffles?

I have a Trader Joe's turkey. We have family living within walking distance. If it looks like everyone is behaving and following guidelines as I suspect all of us will, may have them over for turkey and rolls some afternoon (adults of our approximate age). Or, if everyone would be more comfortable I could cook and porch deliver ;0)

Yesterday I too did a full inventory of my upstairs and garage freezers. One revelation was that I had only 1lb of ground beef. That was all the beef. Fortunately I had shopped TJ's for the last week or two so I had a large half of turkey breast, one pork tenderloin and three cuts of lamb. I was shocked that there were no packages of chicken breasts, only two packs of drumsticks (used for chicken soup) and one pack of chicken thighs. For some unknown reason I have 3 bags of frozen raspberries and one of mixed berries. Ideas for use other than smoothies would be much appreciated.

Today I hit the market and was quite successful. another pound of ground beef, a steak, another pork tenderloin and 2 chicken breasts along with other pantry staples. Flour and sugar aren't to be found, but I do have some on hand. Besides I have rice flours, tigernut flour and almond flours along with gluten free flours. But if I bake too many sweets, I'll be rolling out of isolation by the time it is done!

I figure I have enough food to in my freezer to last at least a month. Hopefully some of this craziness will end before then. I think it would help if the news media would stop making an Everest out of The Virus every newscast. I think it is feeding the frenzy.

I usually keep a well-stocked freezer and pantry. But I got into one of my “we are eating all this stuff before we buy more” snits. It was really bad timing to have a snit.

bbstx, I too was set on trying to thin out my freezer before all of this happened. DH takes his lunch 5 days a week, so I'm often saving bits of this and that in the freezer to use for his lunches. Now I'm working through it and finding holes. With shopping yesterday and today, I'm pretty well stocked again.

Kate, I think you will find the end 8-10 weeks out .... we are 50 days behind china, so if you look at where they were at this time, the ramp up is just beginning.

My freezers are a constant surprise. Yesterday I thawed some bean soup that turned out to be potato soup. Delicious but a surprise!
I do have one package of pork loin small chops....I will likely simply grill them and have either a potato or some brown rice. and one or another packages of frozen vegetables. Sigh.

Today is my inventory day. I am ashamed to say that my kitchen freezer is quite a jumble and I am not sure what all is in there. My upright freezer is easy to see. I will take stock in the cabinets of cans and boxes. I shop tomorrow but expect poor results. My nearest store, which is fairly small, had the parking lot so full that folks were parked along the edges of the highway. Shelves are stripped. Walmart has no paper, eggs, bread, pasta, mac&cheese, butter, milk, flour and yeast etc.

There is a farm nearby that sells eggs. Maybe he has some for me?

I keep thinking of my Grandmother who lived through the depression and the rationing of WWII. I never thought I would scramble to get food. I always marveled at her basement shelves that were like a small grocery store in itself. I guess it is the old expression is true , "From want comes excess. "

Annie - you already started your tomatoes? I haven't even started mine yet but plan to do so this weekend. I don't like them to get too big before transplant.

I always stock up on charcoal in the winter when HD marks it down to get rid of it. I have 120 lbs. in the garage right now. I don't have a ton of beef at the moment though. Maybe 10 steaks and 5 lbs. of burger. I also have a 10 lb. turkey that my neighbor gave me after they won 8 of them at a casino back around Thanksgiving. I may smoke that this weekend and freeze part of it in portions to use in soups and such.

We are planning to take 2 steer and a cow down to the Amish butcher in May so I really don't want to buy much more beef before then.

I have some lettuce already planted in the garden that I need to harvest Friday in case the forecast of 24F Saturday morning takes it out. Not a big deal if it does since I just planted some of the plants that I had been growing under lights in my basement all winter. I have another 36 lettuce plants started in the basement to go out at the end of March. I'm anxious for my asparagus to start producing...it shouldn't be much longer.

I'm working from home for the foreseeable future. I'll probably make an early morning run to the grocery store in a few weeks to pick up what I need.

LoneJack, did your office equipment order arrive? I just talked with my husband and he is bringing home a desktop computer and two monitors today...all decided by the owners since early this morning. He is hoping it will run okay with our present internet. We recently changed and are using a phone hotspot. We'll see.

Jack, I'm going to start tomatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and eggplant in the next week or two, I only have hot peppers started, I have a couple of varieties that are 120 days to harvest, including Lars' chocolate habaneros, so I started those sooner. I was going to start tomatoes this week, but Township business took precedence. I also don't like to let tomatoes/etc. get too big, they "shock" when you plant them and I don't gain any time anyway when that happens.

I'm also anxious for asparagus, but it'll be 8-12 weeks here, I think, unless we get a really early spring.

Today we had homemade chicken chorizo over baked potatoes, the last of a batch of quacamole and some home canned salsa on top. It was a treat, we almost never eat potatoes. Elery says he's going to smoke that last package of salmon we have in the freezer, probably this weekend.

Annie