Food During Covid

Because of my family's financial situation, our food situation did not change much during Covid. My mom never stopped working so we still had money to pay for groceries and other household items before my dad's unemployment money started coming through. Thankfully, because my family only consists of four people, the limitations on items like milk and bread did not impact us. We were still able to access the store and get the items we are used to eating. However, sometimes the shelfs were bare and not because stores couldn't get shipments in, but because there were more people in my town than the stores were used to handling. Living at the beach, the majority of houses are only occupied during the summer so stores in the area carry surplus stock then. Because so many people were out of work, they decided to come to their beach houses early in the spring when our stores are not carrying enough for a summer population- just local. Regardless of this inconvenience, my family was still able to get groceries without much hassle unlike people who were more financially impacted by this pandemic. 

If anything, Covid helped broaden my family's diet. Before the pandemic, my parents both worked a lot so we got into a rhythm of what we ate and very rarely tried something new. Now that we were all stuck in the house, we took turns looking through the cookbooks that collected dust for years and we each picked out recipes to try. This was fun, not only to try something new but to spend quality time with my family in the kitchen. We seldom spent time in there all together and it was nice to have the opportunity to do that.