Bread and Milk

In Western Pennsylvania, when a snow storm is predicted, everyone knows it's time to stock up on...
  

Bread and Milk

The instant I hear the prediction from the weather forecaster, my mom speed dials me: "Do you have bread and milk?  A storm's coming!!"

One trip to Walmart will confirm this survival tactic - the milk section will be empty (quite a feat at a Super Walmart) and the bread section will be decimated.  If you arrive too late to stock up on your basic snowstorm survival staples, you may have to settle for goat's milk and crackers instead.

Or tough it out with whatever you have in your pantry.  Canned beans, anyone?

Incidentally, what can you make with just bread and milk?  For bread pudding, you'd need sugar and a couple other ingredients.  If you have only bread and milk in the house you could have...bread with milk, toast with milk, bread without milk, or milk without bread. 

Why can't we just say oh - a snowstorm is coming!  Better stock up on groceries!

Maybe it is assumed that everyone's pantry is stocked at all times and bread and milk are the only fresh items that cannot be obtained should the roads be closed with a snow emergency.

Oh - and I would add one more item to the list - TP.  I once forgot to stock up on this and we were hit with 3 feet of snow.  I was pregnant with our second child while taking care of my toddler at home and discovered that we were out.  When a woman is expecting and needs to visit the restroom every 20 minutes, this is a bona fide emergency.  Thankfully, my husband was at work and I called out for help.  He arrived a half hour later and climbed over the snow drifts to deliver an emergency supply of toilet paper.  Bless him!

In case you forget, and a storm is in the forecast this evening, here it is:

Snowstorm Survival

Cut and dry.  No questions asked.  This the way to do it.

We have bread and milk, baby!  Bring on the storm!!

Hoorah, Pittsburghers!