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I went in the grocery store this morning to buy drinks to take to work this coming week. Plenty of sodas, water, etc. but the eggs and milk were wiped out.

There was a lady ( wearing a surgical mask too) in  the check out line in front of me bought 27 dozen eggs and 10 gallons of milk.  I guess she got all they had left in stock.  Why try to stockpile/hoard eggs and milk?  They won't keep long term.

This grab/hoard behavior beats anything I have ever seen.

easy to freeze the milk
eggs.... naw...

Eggs will keep for up to 6 months if you coat them with oil. At least that is what I have been told. I think that is even unrefrigerated. We have laying hens, if you don’t wash them and remove the coating until you are ready to use them, they last for quite some time.

I think the main effect of Corona is that it induces panic and hysteria.

That is exactly right. Use some common sense things to avoid the sickness but this going apeshit is totally unecessary.

A freshly laid egg, unwashed, will keep a month sitting on the kitchen counter. The hen leaves a bacteria resistant coating on the shell that's been washed off of grocery store eggs. Oil might keep bacteria out but how about the bacteria that are already on them when you buy them?

i went yesterday about 1\4 of the shelf were bare.ththe people were filling there carts up like it were the last day to shop .the check out girl was suprised that i only had a few things .

We picked up a few groceries yesterday, the store had lots of signs up limiting how much customers could buy per day. Limits included 2 cartons of milk any style/size, 2 packages of bread products of any style/size, 4 cans of soup of any brand/size, 2 packages of pasta any style/size, 1 package of TP. I'm pretty sure eggs and butter were limited too but didn't look to see what they were. My wife talked a gal she knows who works there who looked frazzled, lots of folks in the check out lines were being rude when they were told they were over their limit. She said someone had just thrown a package of butter at a cashier when they were told they were over their daily limit.

Now that is just plain rude. It is a good thing Woodrow Call did not see that.

My grandmother used to keep eggs in a crock with lime water. They would last until the new chickens would start laying again.

Grocery stores need to implement strict limits per person during this emergency. The time to stock up was BEFORE the emergency. During the emergency, the main danger is stores with empty shelves because people who didn't already maintain a back supply of essentials are hoarding during the emergency.

Actually, milk will freeze, just fine. I have a couple gallons in the freezer right now.

I'm glad I don't depend on grocery stores for my supply of eggs. I get them fresh from the hen. Sadly, due to recent predation on them, though, I'm only getting just enough for my own needs, and just barely that. Ordinarily, this would be the time where I go pick up some chicks, but I've sort of battened down the hatches here, and don't want to go into the public for that. Hopefully, I don't lose anymore hens. If not, I'm good with eggs till next October, when my hens usually go into dormancy and stop laying till late December, early January. Ordinarily, I will have stockpiled enough to get me through that period, but (absent a new supply of hens), this year I likely will be consuming them as I get them.

I was in town Friday, picked up 5 pullet chicks to augment my flock...was in the plans before the COVID.

Can the regular home user take some eggs out of the shell, put them in a freezer bag & freeze them?
I know in the food service industry they can buy pails of eggs either fresh or frozen.
My wife used to work for Au Bon Pain and they bought the pails of fresh eggs because they did not want to deal with having to thaw pails of eggs in a cooler.
I don't know if they do anything different in food service to the eggs they freeze.

How to preserve eggs. I've never frozen milk, but I know people who do. I've got cows I can milk right now if the store runs out of milk.

Maybe she is making frozen breakfast burritos...

Glad the liberals, hippies, and potheads here aren't hoarders. Went to the store yesterday and there was maybe six people there and not one thing I couldn't find. TP isle was loaded, but they did have a limit of five packs per person. Could've bought five 24-roll mega-packs if I wanted. Several brands were even on sale. Milk, cheese, eggs, bread were business as usual.

Maybe buying for others?

Bingo!