Fritos

All Fritos in stock here (East Coast)...I had to talk myself out of buying them as I've been gaining weight since January 1, not losing it.

I don't know if there is a shortage around here or not as I rarely buy them. I find them too salty, so like them in small amounts. I do buy them for DS when I make taco meat. He likes them for that, a grade-school fave (walking tacos) that stuck with him. LOL

I bought an off brand within the last week or two when I made tacos.  Kwik Trip's brand.  Surprisingly, DS liked them a lot.  I actually tried them and liked them better.  Tasted more like the corn part, less like the salt and a nice crunch.

Long winded way of asking, have you tried (or saw) any off-brand?  Might want to give it a try. Or are you a Fritos loyalist? 

I’ve read this: It’s a huge shortage with Frito lay and Dr Pepper. Covid, employees, and stock shortages. It blows

We are local to their plant.

I work in food manufacturing. We are having issues getting so many different raw materials, mainly due to transportation (not enough rail cars in the right places, not enough truckers to drive loads) but also due to Covid-related absences at some of our suppliers. We have one supplier who is only at 50% production for the foreseeable future due to not having enough employees to run at 100%. Many are out for Covid (which is the reason they gave us) but I suspect they also are losing employees to other companies. The competition for employees is vicious right now - companies are upping pay in order to attract employees, almost like a bidding war. I suspect we'll continue to see shortages of various types of food for the next several months.

We had curbside grocery shopping today so I ordered frozen fries to see what would happen. They substituted the regular for crinkle, which is fine, though I always check “no substitutions.” But I did notice quite a few varieties were sold out.

It looked like they have plenty of Fritos, which are on sale, but since I didn’t order any can’t be sure. Sometimes inventory hasn’t caught up and items are really out of stock.

what? now we are running out of Fritos? first it was cream cheese, diet drinks, and now fritos?

I went to the grocery store this morning. It doesn’t help that we are under a warning and may possibly get anywhere from 3 to 12 inches of snow. People around here always go bad shit crazy whenever they say it’s going to snow and it affects the groceries but still…..

There were a lot of “no” and “almost no”. Lots and lots of empty shelves. Absolutely no frozen potatoes of any kind. Absolutely no frozen chicken. Almost no eggs, milk, sour cream, yogurt. I bought the very last of the Activa yogurt. While there were lots of potato chips and taco chips, but there were No Fritos corn chips. There where no wheat thins and I picked up one of the last boxes of Cheezits. I also bought the last whole chicken.

I finally found caffeine free diet Coke. But there were only 5 of the 8 packs of the small bottles. I bought three of them because they were three for $13. The best looking aisles were bread, produce and cheese. Otherwise as you walked up and down the aisles there were big empty spaces for a heck of a lot of the canned goods. The one that really struck me odd was ketchup. There was almost absolutely no ketchup. I bought a super expensive bottle of organic Heinz ketchup because I was almost out. Otherwise I would’ve just let it pass.

The frozen food aisles are in really bad shape. There were almost no frozen vegetables along with the missing frozen chicken. Ice cream was down to only a few random flavors. A lot of the frozen pasta entrées and frozen pizzas were pretty low in stock.

I am beginning to really dislike going to the grocery store. I make a list with meal plans in mind and end up having to switch gears. It takes me twice as long to go anymore.

I bought Fritos Friday, but they only had original. I wanted the scoops. The Frito section was sparse. I shop at a commissary.

So I've used it for a few days now. It works great as a microwave (Panasonic countertop 4-in-one). It also works great as a convection oven. I've never used an air fryer before -- it doesn't seem much different than the convection oven other than putting the food in a basket. The fries weren't very good, probably because they were frozen french fries? I don't usually buy them, but had a hankering. Perdue chicken patties came out great, but they also used to come out great in my toaster oven's convection oven. I am a little worried that the air frying will make it difficult to clean up the interior of the microwave. So that's my review! 

So Cal checking in. Lots of Fritos (and in different flavors) and Saltine crackers in stock at my local grocery store.