Being retired gave me more time to bake, even before the Pandemic, but my high cholesterol issue pushed me into baking fewer cookies. My cracker output increased, because we banned commercial crackers and tortilla chips (sob!) from the house, and my husband is a Snackasaurus. While the Pandemic did not increase my baking, it spurred more experimentation, particularly with my sourdough starter. The latter may be in part because Aaron's experimentation with sourdough made me reallize that I needed to use mine for more than crackers and the rare loaf of bread. My husband also stopped looking suspiciously at breads made with sourdough and happily consumed them.
I'm Pantry Paranoid these days about running out of basic supplies--or what I consider basic supplies. I was happy that Bob's Red Mill had their free shipping option back and that they had enough of what I needed that I could stock up, even with some limits in place. I wish that they would get their milk powder back in stock, as I use it for making yogurt, my Sourdough crackers, and for my granola (another food the Snackasaurus likes). I've started holding back on using it for calcium enrichment in baked goods.
