10 Grocery Items That Disappeared Almost Immediately When an Emergency Was Declared
Planning and preparing an emergency food pantry now will help you keep popular food items stocked and ready for the next crisis.
Large-scale events can quickly cause significant economic, social, and political disruption in its wake. Studies have shown most households are not prepared for a two-week disruption, let alone a month-long ordeal such as what we are enduring with COVID-19. As a result, the public quickly sees how vulnerable they are to an emergency. An unprecedented strain has been put on our food system as a result of the initial food grab at the beginning of the health crisis.
With grocery items flying off the shelves and a huge demand on food banks, its no wonder that vegetable and garden seeds have been in high demand because of interest in sustainable food production. We now see that when a large population is hit with a rapid, far from equilibrium event, the system itself cannot keep up with the demand. The result, at best, shows how thin the protections of society are when this type of event happens and we must learn from this.
In the wake of the COVID-19 food panic, certain food staples disappeared almost immediately; almost all of which are listed in our 25 must-have survival foods. While toilet paper seems to be the one item that is ingrained in our memories as the grocery item that initially incited the run on the grocery stores, the items listed below have been in short supply if not out of stock for weeks on end.
10 Food Items That Disappeared Almost Immediately in the COVID-19 Health Crisis
- Pasta and tomato sauce
- Yeast
- Flour
- Sugar
- Milk
- Eggs
- Butter
- Rice
- Beans
- Peanut butter
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