Part 1: Quarantine eating

Methodology:

Search date: March 27, 2020

Search terms: quarantine AND (eating OR food OR breakfast OR brunch OR lunch OR dinner OR dessert OR meal OR snack OR cooking OR baking) (-Filter:links) (-Filter:retweets)

Note: We removed Tweets with links to avoid promotional articles, and we removed retweets to stop celebrity posts from dominating the data set.

Here’s what rose to the surface:

Personal finances

Learning to cook

Cheese

Cookies

Ice cream

Junk food

Body image

Bunch Mimosas

Personal Finances

Some people are realizing how much money they can save by eating at home. Others, unfortunately, are worried about how long they can continue putting food on the table without working.

Some people are gaining a new perspective on dining out

Quarantine has taught me that I would have saved a lot of money if I just stayed the fuck home and cook This quarantine making me want to save my money instead of eating out all the time. Quarantine mentality when this over 😭 this quarantine has proven to me how much money i waste on eating out AKA the only thing i do AKA the only thing i live for :’(

Other people are trapped in a serious, evolving tragedy

idk how we’re gonna get through this quarantine shit man, food’s running out and all the money i have currently is already going into paying bills @adifishman I badly need this one. I’m from Philippines and my family are really broke right now. Jobs are cancelled till I don’t when. We are in community quarantine and we have no money left to buy food for us. Please help us. Thank you. @tanamongeau we weren’t able to leave the house for 2 weeks because my mom was under quarantine while waiting for test results for corona, she missed a whole 2 weeks of work and now we don’t have money for food :( she’s a single mom of 3 kids, we would really appreciate it ($sugabbyari)

(Income and food security are major consequences of this crisis, and at the end of this article we’ve included a list of vetted charities for anyone interested in helping.)

For those with an income, the experience of eating in quarantine is a lot different …