Is food rationing imminent?

[KS55]

Apparently Spanish and Morroccon producers are just prioritising their contracts with EU customers because they're so much bigger and older, and UK supermarkets that had to change suppliers post-Brexit are getting the short straw. Walked past my local market today and the guy had stacks of tomatoes. Waitrose has boarded up the whole section.

The really worrying this is that Brexit doesn't really start to affect the import of fruit and veg until January 2024. That's when things are going to really spiral.

Two industry spokesmen were quoted today as saying Brexit was unlikely to have been a factor.
The new factor, apart from weather, apparently was the price of electricity causing both Dutch and UK producers to reduce greenhouse heating.

 

[ancoats]

Muffins and barmcakes will be next

 

[KS55]

We have been waiting 5 weeks for a fridge. Fuck8ng Currys.

My local independent shop could supply you PDQ. Perhaps a bit more expensive than Curry’s.

 

[domalino]

Two industry spokesmen were quoted today as saying Brexit was unlikely to have been a factor.
The new factor apparently was the price of electricity causing both Dutch and UK producers to reduce greenhouse heating.

Yes that’s what I read. This has been caused by the weather in N Europe a few months ago and the weather in N Africa and Spain now, but there will likely be worse when the January 2024 comes around and the old EU import rules on fruit and veg expire.

M&S were saying they’re unaffected because they’ve prioritised diversifying sourcing, but I don’t love the idea of getting a bell pepper flown in from Chile

 

[KS55]

i miss cake but i can walk on by right now , all or nothing is me , a year on all and now nothing , i have a switch , on or off

just done an asda interweb order , peppers out of stock but they seem to have cucumber and toms , we will see when it gets here tomorrow

Asda on line have not been able to supply my eggs for about 4 weeks now. But the butcher and the corner shop have plenty. There is even a notice on the shelf in the corner shop saying the supply is from free range hens which have been kept indoors due to bird flu. What gives at Asda?

 

[KS55]

Yes that’s what I read. This has been caused by the weather in N Europe a few months ago and the weather in N Africa and Spain now, but there will likely be worse when the January 2024 comes around and the old EU import rules on fruit and veg expire.

M&S were saying they’re unaffected because they’ve prioritised diversifying sourcing, but I don’t love the idea of getting a bell pepper flown in from Chile

We normally get plenty from Morocco which are subject to border checks as they are outside EU, but there is rarely a problem. So next year when the import regime changes, it may be ok too. The new spirit of post Brexit co-operation which I detect (E.g. N.I. protocol talks) may be in play on fruit and veg.

 

[KS55]

I try to keep the carbs down as much as possible, so avoid foods like pasta and bread. Not overly keen on veg or fruit either so my diet is mainly protein and fats. Works well for me.

That’s like keto lite. I did similar plus one day a week on minimal food and lost 51 lbs in 5 months. Put it all back since!

 

[Two Gun Bob]

After reading this thread I can see it's caused a lot of argumentitive angst and worriment amongst our community. Thank the good Lord that we are both confirmed salad dodgers, so remain immune to this off season rationing debacle.

Its not like they taste good or anything and I've yet to see a grown man salivate over an iceburg lettunce or a cress buttie. Blandness of the third kind that has little place in a modern day civilised setting.

Eggs however are a different matter as no eggs equals no cake and that just will not do. They say the egg shortage is down to an unprecedented outbreak of highly induced pathogenic bird flue, that's wiped out tens of millions of egg-laying chicks nationwide, which bring me nicely on to my next worry.

Having decided to eat more healthily, we cut out chocolate (not dark) and our biscuit snacks, replacing them with night time cup o soup with Heinz cream of chicken being our go to. This explains why their are no chicken flavour cup o soups on the shop shelves, as they have all been taken out with the flu. Loads of tomatoe and basil but no chicken. Yesterday we checked asda, tesco, lidl, aldi and B an M bargains, but no chicken flavour anywhere. Difficult times for sure.

 

[Pell]

I hope you'll all looking forward to eating bugs.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

I've got a fresh green bell pepper in my fridge, £9.99 ono.