Thanks so much. :-)

Sadly, it’s really perishables that are most routinely in short supply, things you can’t mail. I made a lovely Christmas Eve breakfast this morning of homemade biscuits with bacon (a once or twice year treat, bacon) and perfectly scrambled eggs, which I ran down to an Amish farm to buy, albeit at three times the price of store eggs. And I had eggnog with a nip of rum last night.

But no orange juice with breakfast. Sigh. Just can’t find any. I guess it makes me appreciate it more when I do have it. The restaurant in the village always has some, so breakfast out is an option. Not everyone can afford that, of course.

And speaking of affordability, lots of people in this comment section suggest going to farms for certain foods. They don’t seem to appreciate that local farmers charge a lot more for foods in short supply than grocery stores charge. And milk, of course, is illegal for farmers to sell at retail. They must sell to commercial dairies, which then sell to distributors.