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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA COVID Dilemma...
1. You cannot buy a bread machine (earliest delivery I can get is June)
2. If you want to bake bread on your own, you cannot buy flour.
3. If you have flour, you cannot buy yeast.
4. If you want to try to make your own yeast you need sugar and.....flour (see 2)
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A COVID Dilemma... (Original Post)
brooklynite
Apr 2020
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I was able to buy a big bag of flour from my grocery store from their bakery. None on the shelves
flying_wahini
Apr 2020
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I think it depends on location. In the rural areas where I live the shelves are well stocked.
totodeinhere
Apr 2020
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flying_wahini
(8,254 posts)1. I was able to buy a big bag of flour from my grocery store from their bakery. None on the shelves
But plenty at the bakery. Maybe call first?
GemDigger
(4,380 posts)2. I bought 6 loaves of frozen bread dough.
Thaw it, let it rise, bake it then eat it.
totodeinhere
(13,688 posts)3. I think it depends on location. In the rural areas where I live the shelves are well stocked.
There were a few shortages a few weeks ago but the stores in my area seem to have caught up.