Cooking during COVID-19

[StateDawg44]

If you can find Ramen, stir fry is a good way to go. Had a couple days of different types of stir fry. You can always mix with rice to to make it go further and give it a different texture. And obviously meat or tofu (better chance of finding tofu right now) is your protein if you want to add that.

I've also noticed that the forgotten meat during this time have been frozen meatballs. You can do a lot with those and they haven't been hard to get. Tater tot bake with meatballs, pasta bake, Swedish meatballs, bunch of different things you can pair with any pasta you've got in the house.

We've actually had an ok time finding meat here in Central Alabama. Bought a whole chicken yesterday. Other things people forget about during this time are canned tuna and chicken. Normally I don't do canned chicken, but when you run out of fresh chicken and really want chicken, you just modify. I went to Publix in my city two days ago and the canned meats section was completely full. I was shocked.

Shew I have purposely not eaten Ramen since college. I swore it off but you know desperate times and all... I should probably keep an eye out for some but that will truly be me raising the alarms if I dip into a Ramen supply lulz. I'm sure mixing in actual stuff besides the powder they provide makes things much better though.

I'll keep an eye out for meatballs, because like you said, they are pretty versatile.

Got a recipe for that tater tot bake? That sounds good and like it can feed for a while.

Certain stores in Chattanooga have meat, (at least last Thursday they did) others don't. I have avoided stores since then so I'm not sure what the state of most of the are currently. I'm pretty sure it's luck of the draw and timing with items like meat.

The Publix near my house is a madhouse and has been busier than it was the day before Thanksgiving this past year when I popped in for 2 weeks now. I just skip that one altogether because I struck out so many times on stuff and never seemed to change.