"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>> I placed an order on Amazon Fresh to replace stuff.
>> Amounted to around $150 but I did forget to order a few things. And I'm
>> not
>> counting all the single slices of bread that were in there.
>
> Julie! >:-|
>
> Use this power outage and food loss as an education and don't repeat
> your mistake. After this, why in the world would you order so much
> food again? Shop weekly and don't stock up more than 2-3 weeks worth
> of food that needs to be kept cold. If you want to stockpile food, buy
> lots of pantry food.
>
> If you insist on mega fridge and freezer food onhand, buy a generator
> to protect it. I live in hurricane area. I use up most of my freezer
> food in July and early August each year and replace the space with
> large containers of ice. Prime H season here is late August, all of
> September, and a bit of October.
>
I only got so much because I was unable to get to the store. I overdid it
today having gone to Costco and Target which are both pretty big. I
realized upon approaching the checkout that I forgot the bacon at Costco but
was too weak and sore to go back. Thankfully, SIL is going there this week
and will pick up some for me.

I don't normally put bread in the freezer at all but with my not being able
to get out and get food myself, I was attempting to save every little bit of
it that I could.

I would not use a generator here. Just too many problems with them and they
advise us not to.

The main problem was me being out of commission for almost two months. If
not in the hospital, then stuck on the couch. I was depending on my SIL to
shop for me or food deliveries and I had no real way of getting into the
kitchen to see what we had or needed. Yes, the other two should have been
able to tell me but since I wasn't putting the food away, there was no
organization to it whatever and they had no clue of what we had or needed.

Plus, I was ordering unfamiliar foods. For instance, I ordered chicken and
discovered that I had gotten twice as much as I really needed. So I cooked
it all and put it in the freezer. Plus, in the middle of all this, daughter
decided not to be a vegetarian any more. And much of what was in the
freezer was food that I had specially bought for her, like vegan corndogs.
Those went bad because I had packaged them two per bag. Just makes it
easier for her to get her own meal that way and she won't overeat.

I'm not really bothered by losing the vegetarian stuff as it likely wouldn't
have been eaten anyway. I had ordered myself some Amy's burritos with
aren't really bad but since I can actually cook now, it's unlikely that I
would eat them now. But when I was stuck on the couch, I could get someone
to heat one for me or if home alone I could hobble in there and nuke one.