As families in isolation get baking ahead of Anzac Day, empty oat shelves have seen many stumble upon a local alternative.
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Coolamon's Brushwoods Australia has seen a major surge in online orders for its fresh oat varieties.
Owner Kendra Kerrisk said they had been forced to focus all their efforts on oats after the drought saw production of their olive oil and skincare products cancelled with no harvest.
However, while their usual orders from cafes, restaurants and retailers had fallen dramatically leading into the usually busy winter season, Ms Kerrisk said their online store had "gone absolutely gangbusters."
She said she believed with more people at home with more time to focus on cooking, baking and preparing porridge for breakfast was becoming more popular.
Having previously invested in their online store, she said they had been able to quickly adapt to the new demand.
"Literally overnight ... we went from processing five online orders to 45 or 55," she said.
"It just meant that product that would otherwise be going out to retail stores and other small businesses was going straight into a box and going in the mail."
Ms Kerrisk said this had also allowed them to put money back into the local post office.
She said with panic buying still affecting the supply chain to many regional supermarkets there was still a market for people trying something new, such as their wholegrain groats, which can be used in salads or as a substitute for rice.
"We've seen a real increase in demand for those, so I don't know if people got sick of rice and pasta because they bought so much of it or whether they couldn't buy it and so they were looking to alternatives," she said.
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Ms Kerrisk said she believed the dramatic uptick in online sales was due to a recent push to buy from local Australian businesses.
"We saw a real increase in sales leading up to Christmas and I think that was from all the social media and all the pushing for shop regional, buy from the bush and support farmers through the drought and the fires," she said.
She said before the coronavirus outbreak they had seen sales double.
"But then with COVID we've probably doubled again," she said.
"I think with the coronavirus a lot of people are really taking note of where things come from; where they're produced, how they're produced, not just food but also manufactured products as well so we've seen a real increase in customers through that."
