How has the pandemic changed your shopping and cooking habits?

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15. I was getting curbside pickup groceries

until finding out the local Giant is virtually empty on Sunday nights when I get off work. Popped in for some milk and coffee about six weeks ago and it was a ghost town. So, now I shop on Sunday nights at about 8:30. I go in like a special forces operator on a mission: fully geared up, map-like list, moving quick and silent, in the door and back out in record time.

The curbside was nice, but there were always missing/out of stock items (which you don’t know about until you check over your order), and they were not great at choosing substitutions. I use the full-sized self checkout lane and transfer items directly from my cart, above the scanner, and into plastic bags.

Normally, I avoid self checkout like the plague and use my own cloth bags.
The only big change in my diet is no freshly sliced deli meats or delicious rotisserie chicken salad from the deli dept, which were pretty much staples of my pre-pandemic diet. Even though it is probably safe, the extra handling by strangers makes me twitchy. I now get the Hillshire Farm prepackaged deli meat. It ain’t Boar’s Head, but it’s decent- and the tupperware package container is handy.