Stocking up

It's ironic that as we come towards what we hope to be the end of our COVID period of disciplined social and physical distancing, I continue to get so much joy out of the bounty in our cupboards. The feeling of fullness and warmth I get from gazing on them is really a little silly, harking as it does back to the by now clearly somewhat irrational fears of food scarcity that we had back in March and April when food supply chains had small buckles because everyone was panic-buying rice, flour, pasta, meat, frozen spinach, toilet paper... you remember that.

Right now we are chock full of food goodness. We just took delivery of 5 boxes of girl scout cookies, on top of a couple of boxes of cookies that were already there, some chocolate chips I could use to make some if I wasn't doing other things, half a Trader Joe's pecan kringle (the absolute bomb which we must not by any means forget to eat) in the freezer, and maybe something else. And that's just our desserts. We also have non-sweet food.

The fact is, right now we could probably make it a couple of weeks without going to the grocery store except for milk, orange juice, etc. But I am going to the office nonetheless and will have something delicious for lunch there, just because.