Cost Of Food Set To Soar

hummingfridge

Tinned potatoes are still 19p in Al*I, I was expecting them to have gone up in price by now.

steerpike

Ken Dodd is fantastic! I have had the pleasure of seeig him many years ago in Blackpool - what a lovely, funny bloke. I love that his sense of humour - hilarious but never nasty, cruel or cheap - just good fun! :rotfl:

Hope you have had a fab eveing Popperwell! :T

Popperwell

gt568 wrote: »

The point is some of the people who whinge the most about poverty are the ones who have the latest iphones, ipads, tellys, always have a fag, and eat loads of takeaways and have branded clothing. They get no sympathy IMO.

People on here, having the odd treat are a totally different kettle of fish.

Thank you for being understanding GT568...I don't do a lot of the above but what I do own was purchased before times got really tough and a lot of what I have is second hand or not designer/branded stuff...the main worry is whether anything that may need repairing/replacing can be...I found a fairly new pair of trainers has been scuffed and I hoped they'd last a while now we'll have to see. Perhaps some typing fluid might work and seal it.

hummingfridge wrote: »

Tinned potatoes are still 19p in Al*I, I was expecting them to have gone up in price by now.

Tesco's tinned pots are back to 18p HF:rotfl:

steerpike wrote: »

Ken Dodd is fantastic! I have had the pleasure of seeing him many years ago in Blackpool - what a lovely, funny bloke. I love that his sense of humour - hilarious but never nasty, cruel or cheap - just good fun! :rotfl:

Hope you have had a fab eveing Popperwell! :T

It was great Steerpike! I reckon Ken did approx 4 hours...20 minute interval(two other acts did roughly 40 minutes between them)

Started approx 19.30 finished 00.30. I wasn't going to leave and miss a special night. I think I have seen him twice before but not for years. He was given a standing ovation. Nothing blue and 99% of his act was new(or I had not heard before):)

More stamina than most of today's performers...probably funnier than most.

Last bus went at 23.15...

Unfortuantely, not a taxi in sight so at 1am I gave in and booked one from my town to get me so was alone in a town centre untill it arrived at almost 1.30am so did not get home until nearly 2am. Taxi driver refused to take a tip...

So lovely and warm there too...

He made a joke about bringing your own food with you so you could last(I did take some with me:p)and something to drink.

No doubt we'll be back on about food again soon;) Nice to have something happy to discuss...

ginger_tony

lm gonna stock up on tinned potatoes, l normally hate them but one day l had run out of potatoes n found them in the food larder and l drizzled a little olive oil with some sea salt and some pepper and roasted them and my kids thought they were lovely. l gonna try them with s salt n chilli flakes next time. And if potatoes are about to soar its a cheap alternative.

fuddle

thank you ginger tony I shall try it too.

The instant potato didn't go down too well so I'm hoping for better results with the tinned ones.

lilmisskitkat

Tinned potatoes are also nice sliced up and fried and used in a Spanish Omelette. I make huge ones (10 eggs) and the leftovers get sliced up and put in packed lunches.

K xx

Butterfly_Brain

If you feed your pets tinned food the prices of that are set to soar as well.
We also have an added variant to prices, the fact that the greedy fat cat utility companies have just raised their prices way above inflation just before winter AGAIN :mad: :mad: :mad:
This means that the cost to heat shops etc will go up and guess who will end up paying for it with higher prices.

[Deleted User]

:eek: apologies, I got something very important wrong in an earlier post.

Yesterday, I had a long talk with the local farmer who owns quite a lot of arable land. He has NOT been able to drill his winter wheat and that bodes very badly for next year. He is very down about the terrible conditions and says that every farmer he knows is feeling the same. I had thought that drilling had taken place so that bit of news was unexpected. He also says that his yields are well down

No-one he knows has taken hay off the field and any silage has just been grabbed when they can. The sweetcorn field that I see daily is still standing and they are going to be lucky to get a feed crop off that. So yes things will be serious in a few months onwards. We are warm SW by the way and I am no longer optimistic when it comes to the arable crops :eek:

D&DD

Kittie judging by my little plot at home this year I think its the root crops such as parsnips,carrots and potatoes from the fields that'll be the things which go up the most as its been the worst year I've ever known for growing such stuff..on top of that the pea crop was rather thin as was most stuff really..the hungry gap will be the worst time I think pricewise so I'm blanching and freezing and dehydrating lots when I see a good deal.

I've been finding shopbought and my homegrown veg is going over much faster too I presume thats something to do with the additional water whereas last year it was the opposite!

The Anyas however are storing beautifully..go figure lol

I think most of us will be ok as we tend to work around stuff and tweaking the mealplan etc is second nature hopefully it won't be too bad if we can still get special offers

Popperwell

ginger_tony wrote: »

lm gonna stock up on tinned potatoes, l normally hate them but one day l had run out of potatoes n found them in the food larder and l drizzled a little olive oil with some sea salt and some pepper and roasted them and my kids thought they were lovely. l gonna try them with s salt n chilli flakes next time. And if potatoes are about to soar its a cheap alternative.

Tinned toms at 15p at present in Tesco's, Tinned pots 18p and dried soup broth 500g 59p.