Fruit and veg prices soar - Some may disappear off the shelves

amcluesent

If we stuck to seasonal produce grown in the UK then £ exchange rates wouldn't matter. There's no need for imported tomatoes in January, when you have local parsnips, leeks, swedes, sprouts, etc. all of which can be home-grown too. Fair enough, no-one really likes root-veg...

MiserlyMartin

If something is reported in the Daily Mail it doesn't make it any less valid.

Kez100

Imagine everyone changing from booze cruises to frooz and veg cruises.

lincroft1710

We probably now spend about £30 pw on fresh fruit/veg - OH is a fruit nut. Buy most from market and she grows a few things as well. Lidl is good espec when they have half price offers, but certainly in 2008 noticed 20/25% increase in fruit/veg prices.

Zelie

You know, if she just cut the waste off her carrots she'd save 20% right there. Panic over folks.

Davesnave

amcluesent wrote: »

If we stuck to seasonal produce grown in the UK then £ exchange rates wouldn't matter. There's no need for imported tomatoes in January, when you have local parsnips, leeks, swedes, sprouts, etc. all of which can be home-grown too. Fair enough, no-one really likes root-veg...

Looking forward already to my grilled bacon & swede tomorrow morning!

carolt

Yes, I never figured out where this huge deflation in essentials was really going to come from with a falling pound..... of course not, all imported food/goods are going to go up by whatever value the pound's fallen, more or less, surely?

Surely this 'deflation' lark is just this fear we're being fed with to enable the MPC, pushed by the govt, to lower rates to ludicrous and historical levels, in a desperate attempt to prop up house prices etc?

Or am I just too cynical?

Lotus-eater

amcluesent wrote: »

If we stuck to seasonal produce grown in the UK then £ exchange rates wouldn't matter. There's no need for imported tomatoes in January, when you have local parsnips, leeks, swedes, sprouts, etc. all of which can be home-grown too. Fair enough, no-one really likes root-veg...

I love root veg. How can you say you don't like parsnips! Done with a drizzle of honey, roasted in the oven. Mmmm

Leeks, sprouts, lovely, grow your own and they taste even better. Try a flown in tomato next to a sprout you have grown yourself...... only one of them has any taste btw

Cleaver

I'm sure Generali will explain the simple economics to me, but it has always struck me as amazing that you can grow carrots in Spain, send them to Bulgaria to be packed, ship them to Britain to sell them and still make a profit.

Actually, I kinda get it already. But it's still nuts. Well, carrots.

mr.broderick

Generali wrote: »

There's a theory that people will tend towards employment that suits their names. It has been demonstrated statistically.

You in the army gen?