that's true old bay - but sometimes you're just stuck between a rock and a hard place! you try to stock because grocery stores are so far away - let's face it - the mom and pop stores are all gone and the so -called convenient stores are for gas, coffee, cigs and newspapers - it's hard in the bad weather - we get a lot of travel bans - and when its really bad - we can't even get deliveries to begin with!

if I would have had a gas powered power generator I would not have had a problem - but in hurricane areas I am not sure if they can rely on natural gas generators or not - a regular generator would not have done any good - we had no way of getting gasoline to make it run

you try to help yourself and you just can't get ahead at times!

this last one was the worst one of them all - the amount of devastation made it impossible for crews to get all the service back on and we didn't have anything at all - phone, electric, heat, water - it was a rare one and one I never want to go through again

Wow...that would be terrible...My mom always tell me I should buy a whole cow to freeze but I never have...maybe when I tell her this story she will agree with me now.

I go shopping about 2 times a month....major shopping...but since we live 2 blocks from the store it seems I am always sending the kids up for something.

I'd go crazy without my big chest freezer. It just makes sense for us to have a larger freezer on hand. We also butcher (well, my parents do and they use some of the space in our large freezer, along with 2 of their own).

When we live about 40 miles from the nearest decent grocery store and shop once a month, the extra space of a stand-alone freezer is much needed. There's no way I could store everything in the fridge/freezer.


Thankfully the worst of our ice storm has passed now and we're left with just a whole lot of cold. The cold front got here before the rain (which is VERY good), so the power lines aren't covered in too much ice and it's not looking like we'll lose power - thank goodness! Areas just SE of here are a whole other story. At least 40K people without power and it might take a week to get it back on! no good.

I go shopping at least once a week..The only time I really make gourmet dinners is when I have visitors...

We shop for groceries twice a month, once a week for wet market items such as meat, pork, vegetables and other spices.Of course, a list helps a lot so i make sure that I have one before rushing to the store.