> My guess is mostly stocking up on food, which I've planned to do for a long time - sounds like a good motivation to finally prepare a list and get shopping.

> My guess is mostly stocking up on food, which I've planned to do for a long time - sounds like a good motivation to finally prepare a list and get shopping. If you're going to stock up on food, allow me to suggest cans of whole San Marzano tomatoes. San Marzanos (and other close relatives) tend to last really well in a can -- almost as good as fresh! Keep some extra onions or shallots and a few celery roots in your fridge, and perhaps some Calabrian chili flakes in your pantry, and you can make delicious pasta sauces or soups from them. Also, this works just as well on a random Tuesday night as during a pandemic. Or just slice the tomatoes and put them on a sandwich. And if there's no real crisis in your area, then you're still in luck, as you've got a good supply of tomatoes for next winter. Probably you should pick up some beans to go with them too, from a dietary standpoint, but I'm a tomato lover, not a bean lover, so I don't know what the right type is there. Mmm. Now I'm hungry.