Sugar and Eggs

Hello anyone and everyone that might be reading this.  I'm taking a different approached to my post today and sharing some insight on what I have been seeing here in China of late.

Yesterday I went into the store - grocery store - to buy a few items.  Two of those items were sugar and eggs.  This was the second time in as many days I went shopping for sugar.  I was luck this time in that I was able to grab one bag of sugar before the lady in front of me had grabbed them all.  Well, actually I reached into her cart and grab one she had already taken.  She already had about 20 in her cart.  I just smiled and walked away; an advantage of not understanding everything some is saying.

Next on the list was eggs.  I walked to the area of the market where they sell eggs and I found I was in luck in that a shipment of eggs had just come in.  That is until I looked at the line to buy the few eggs they had.  I am not kidding when I say the line wrapped around the store.  No way I was going to get any eggs today.  So I made plans to go to the "open market" to see if they had eggs.  When I got there about 4 hours later they did indeed have eggs - they were just selling them for 5x what I had paid for them just two weeks ago.

I  share this little tidbit of information only because I have been reading from various news sources of what many are saying will be an impending food shortage worldwide.  I don't know how true or whether it will actually affect the USA but I've already tried to live in a manner of being safer than not.  If you don't have any sort of food supply in your home I'd suggest at least buying a larger quantity of the staples and grains.  Again, better safe than sorry and those items will store almost forever.

Anyway, my few words of warning.  Save some food for me too since I really can't store food here.

Till next time stay safe and stay warm.