So, while it's easy to bitch about everything going on right now, and there's more than enough people deserving of your wrath... Have you found any positives with this situation. Better/improved relationships with loved ones? Taking up a hobby/craft/etc? Learn an Instrument?
I think the biggest one I've found has to do with cooking. When we realized that we should be avoiding large groups, and assuming a shelter in place was eventually going to happen, we took inventory of all the stuff we have in the freezer in the garage, like literally wrote it down so we know what we have/don't have. So much stuff that we end up throwing in there and forget about and being "oh that chicken is frozen, we'll just go buy some fresh" etc. Over the past two weeks we've taken the proteins, veggies, etc that we have out there and planned ahead and made some really nice meals out of them. For example.
At Thanksgiving, I cook all the various sections of the turkey at different temps/times so we can have breasts that aren't dry as hell, and thighs that aren't going to kill us. And, for whatever reason, we never eat the legs the day of, and always seem to end up freezing the legs, thinking we'll use them "some time". Well, now is "some time" with all that stuff. So yesterday morning I took 4 legs from the past 2 years of Thanksgiving, threw them in the sous vide for 24 hours, shredded them up, roasted the bones under the broiler over lunch, and am now making a stock as we speak for turkey rice soup tonight using up whatever veggies we close done with...
So, doing a better job on tracking what we have and using it, instead of defaulting to the easy "meh, I'll just go to the store and find something" or "let's just go out" Better use of what we have, better meal planning, and I love cooking, so it's been really nice.
Have there been any unexpected side benefits of this for you?
