Cost Of Food Set To Soar

gt568

roddydogs wrote: »

Terrible news, people will be dying of starvation in the streets.

Hardly, thats a slight exageration. Perhaps if those starving people didn't buy fags or booze....

OrkneyStar

gt568 wrote: »

Hardly, thats a slight exageration. Perhaps if those starving people didn't buy fags or booze....

That is an extreme view surely, though I do think a lot of people don't understand how to budget, and thus compound the food price rise problem.

Butterfly_Brain

OrkneyStar wrote: »

That is an extreme view surely, though I do think a lot of people don't understand how to budget, and thus compound the food price rise problem.

Well said Orkney :T We were taught proper home economics at school in the 70's which included planning, budgeting and cooking cheap healthy meals. In the 60's pupils were taught gardening, farming, woodwork, cookery, needlework etc, which prepared them for all aspects in adult life.

Butterfly_Brain

We went shopping in Aldi this morning and it was packed solid, you couldn't move for people. At the beginning of this year it was lovely and quiet, it shows that people are waking up to the big four supermarkups. And the amount of posh cars in the car park is a true eye opener

gt568

OrkneyStar wrote: »

That is an extreme view surely, though I do think a lot of people don't understand how to budget, and thus compound the food price rise problem.

Be that as it may, we are a long way from starving hoardes on the streets regardless of how much food shoots up in price.

gt568

OrkneyStar wrote: »

a lot of people don't understand how to budget, and thus compound the food price rise problem.

And a lot of people make sure they can budget for their fags and cheap lager and LED TV etc, etc, etc...

I_luv_cats

It's time now for the supermarkets to take all the farmers ugly goods!!

How many times have we heard that ugly fruit/veg etc. is left to rot etc. as the Supermarkets demand perfection. (good looking, certain size etc.)

At least with Sainsbury Basics they tell you there are all shapes n sizes and not necessarily good lookers.



I go shopping with an open mind, so if a particular product I am after is on offer, that will be my choice. (i.e. Morrisons had some 40p new variety trial soups so I went for them instead of the 59p ones. When Scampi is on offer I'll have that for tea otherwise not!)

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Don`t for goodness sake go down the road of thinking that next year will be bad too. Local farmers have managed to drill their wheat and my overwintering onions are already growing well in root trainers. My curly kale is strong dark and healthy and so is winter spinach and chard. The foliage on my autumn king carrots is lush, green and healthy. My cabbages are thriving

It is all too easy to get swept along on doom and gloom but it is important to look from outside the box. Potatoes and summer carrots have suffered but parsnips and swedes are good, so substitute. Re fresh greens in winter, then get sprouting, it is so easy and you need just basic equipment. There is a seed sprouting thread somewhere

Yes meat will be more expensive for various reasons but just learn to pad with pulses, oser`s have been doing this for years. Get the meat taste right and no-one will moan

OrkneyStar

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Well said Orkney :T We were taught proper home economics at school in the 70's which included planning, budgeting and cooking cheap healthy meals. In the 60's pupils were taught gardening, farming, woodwork, cookery, needlework etc, which prepared them for all aspects in adult life.

Yes . I was at school in the 1980's/1990's, we were taught some of the basics you mention, but not really to any useful level (eg they taught us how to make cheese on toast, when perhaps basic pastry might have been a more sensible thing to learn, they also taught us how to use iron on crayons when perhaps basic sewing/darning skills would have been more useful, and so on). I picked up some skills from my mum, but she was of the generation where 'boil in the bag' was encouraged more than home cooking. I did get lots of gardening know how from my dad, but sadly my dodgy back coupled with the Orkney climate mean limited success there!
The rest I have picked up along the way. I have always budgetted, largely through having to, but did learn a little more about it when I worked as a money adviser for a couple of years.

gt568 wrote: »

And a lot of people make sure they can budget for their fags and cheap lager and LED TV etc, etc, etc...

But that is not actually budgetting, that is splashing out on what you want, without thinking about what you will need for other essentials, surely?

roddydogs

People took my post seriously? (post91).