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Cost Of Food Set To Soar
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Yesterday I read that the cost of food is predicted to soar and today on the news, on the way home from the garden centre, they have said that bacon and pork products are set to go through the roof cost wise. Reason being is that welfare standards are being increased, (rightly so) but that it is no longer cost productive to produce and rear pigs.
If you have room in your freezer it may be worth getting bacon and sinking it in there because from the sounds of things that bacon buttie may become a luxury item!
What is really worrying is that wholesale cost of grains, which is a staple for many of our foods and also used to feed animals, is going soar as well; low yields due to serious flooding and in Russia droughts affecting exports to us. That means everything from a loaf of bread through to a chicken is going to increase in price as the producers will have to pass the increase on. The UK imports 40% of it's food quota!
What is in short supply at the moment and is set to go up in price is root vegetables such as carrot, potatoes, swede, parnsips, leeks, onions, broccoli, cabbage etc. If things are not bad enough for some of us financially we are going to be noticing gradual increases in the price of food and cutting corners now is going to be a necessity for some as the money we have to spend gets less and less each time.
If you have the ability to stock up now I suggest you do so.
If you have room in your freezer it may be worth getting bacon and sinking it in there because from the sounds of things that bacon buttie may become a luxury item!
What is really worrying is that wholesale cost of grains, which is a staple for many of our foods and also used to feed animals, is going soar as well; low yields due to serious flooding and in Russia droughts affecting exports to us. That means everything from a loaf of bread through to a chicken is going to increase in price as the producers will have to pass the increase on. The UK imports 40% of it's food quota!
What is in short supply at the moment and is set to go up in price is root vegetables such as carrot, potatoes, swede, parnsips, leeks, onions, broccoli, cabbage etc. If things are not bad enough for some of us financially we are going to be noticing gradual increases in the price of food and cutting corners now is going to be a necessity for some as the money we have to spend gets less and less each time.
If you have the ability to stock up now I suggest you do so.
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Have to say I wouldn't waste space in the freezer for bacon. Think it tastes awful after it's been frozen.
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I do freeze bacon and it seems ok to me, although perhaps I am less discerning. The welfare standards are why I always buy British meat though: I think on the whole we are conscientious about the way we treat our livestock.
Thinking of the root vegetables, however, there has never been a better time to grow your own. The seeds for my potential crops next year cost me £20 in the 'sale' at the garden centre a few weeks ago, the garden came with the house and the compost is all our peelings, paper and the ashes from the fire. I'd urge those that can to dig up the end of the lawn and have a go.0 -
I always freeze bacon and it tastes fine to me.
i am stocking up on tinned goods, pasta and meat.0 -
Agree with stocking up on tinned goods, pasta and meats, but bacon for me is definitely a no-no - the fat seems to go rancid very quickly.
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I get a pack of 60-80 rashes at makro for around £6 and pack in 8's and take out a pack at a time., they are thick too.
I always freeze mine and I can't taste the difference?Ds2 born 3/4/12 8lbs 8.5:j
Ds1 born 28/4/07 9lb 8 :j
Frugal, thrifty, tight mum & wife and proud of it lol
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camNolliesMUMMY wrote: »I get a pack of 60-80 rashes at makro for around £6 and pack in 8's and take out a pack at a time., they are thick too.
I always freeze mine and I can't taste the difference?
I do the same from Costco - always tastes normal to me."Save £12k in 2019" #120 - £100,699.57/£100,0000 -
Bacon is a weekend luxury for us now any way. Not being able to access bacon doesn't worry me, it's the grain and root veg difficulties that are deeply concerning me. These are what I use to make sure we can eat low cost and healthy. The prospect of paying so much more for the very basics is very worrying.
I too will be trying to grow my own. I'm not at all confident or hopeful though.0 -
The price of meat will drop for a while - as farmers get rid of the stock they can't afford to feed - and THEN will rocket.
Any veg you can grow will help; also if you're a novice then it makes no difference if you learn about potatoes or about alternatives e.g. oca - another tuber from South America, no blight trouble, etc.0 -
Any idea on the time frame this will be happening in?Save, save, save, save.0
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I put these links elseswhere on MSE but in case they are missed here they are again...the first will help you kizzie_nikita
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/uk-families-face-sharp-rise-food-costs-043743755.html
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/money-down-the-drain-%E2%80%93-the-cost-of-lazing-in-the-shower.html
http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/families-face-sharp-rise-winter-215018394.html"A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!" ~Thomas Jefferson
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in" ~ Alan Alda0
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