Cost Of Food Set To Soar

oldtractor

in our village shop 6 free range eggs are now £1.35 and milk is £1.59

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The bigger branches of Sainsbugs still do packets of 'Cooking Bacon' for 99p. You have to look through all the packs for them but often there are whole packs of streaky or back bacon good enough to use as they are, Mr.T also does 'Cooking Bacon' but not sure of the price as our smaller branch has stopped stocking them now. Hope that's useful, Cheers Lyn.

westcoastscot

just posted on another thread - my greengrocer told me today his wholesaler had wanted £25 for a sack of golden wonder tatties!

mama67

I thought it was bad last week when I noticed the farmshop wanted £9 for a 25kg sack of Maris Piper.

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I decided that I would somehow squeeze a small chest freezer into the garage, it is a small garage and contains everything except a car. I justified it wrt my allotment produce, particularly soft fruits and also the 12 small squashes `ripening` in my little greenhouse doh they will not keep, so will have to be turned into soup. I cannot get another thing into my upright indoor freezer and tbh I am looking forward to batch baking for the freezer

I have done the research and gone for a small beko, which is guaranteed down to -15 in a shed or garage. I have a sm order coming next week so just extended the date to 2 days after freezer delivery and added some frozen foods to my list. Dh is fine about it even he can see the benefits of getting food put by

Popperwell

MrsLurcherwalker wrote: »

The bigger branches of Sainsbugs still do packets of 'Cooking Bacon' for 99p. You have to look through all the packs for them but often there are whole packs of streaky or back bacon good enough to use as they are, Mr.T also does 'Cooking Bacon' but not sure of the price as our smaller branch has stopped stocking them now. Hope that's useful, Cheers Lyn.

Think the cooking bacon in Tesco's is around 78p...I have started using it even in sandwiches.

kittie wrote: »

I decided that I would somehow squeeze a small chest freezer into the garage. I cannot get another thing into my upright indoor freezer and tbh am looking forward to batch baking for the freezer

My fridge/freezer has disappointed me due to having less space than I realised and the advantage of I could have had in batch cooking and then freezing. I am tempted by aquiring a small freezer but two things stop me...one:the additional cost of electric and two:if I have to move and the new property is smaller...the possibility of downsizing stops me doing some of what I would like to do...but all I see is two, three and four bedroom properties(social and private)

For now I try to cook small portions or split a meal and put the unused portion in the fridge and eat it a couple of days later.

ALIBOBSY

We are lucky in that we have 2 very good local farm shops as well as being in driving distance of aldi/lidl/in store/b&m/tesco/morrisons/asda/sainsburys so can shop around for bargains, but we expect prices to go up like ev1 else so have stocked up and will keep doing so. Watching approved foods for any stuff and poucing when the price is right lol.

A bit shocked by the previous poster saying about a sack of spuds. At the farm shop yesterday the full sacks were around £3 depending on variety and all were from the local area (some from the field next door). Spoke to the farmer who said yields were down a bit, but for farm shop customer because we will take the muddy, miss shaped stuff he hopes to keep prices down on local stuff. He is worried about storage though and thinks more harvests of various types will be lost over winter. I got a box of stuff-2 big pieces of locally produced cheese (about a pound in total weight), bag of carrots, bag of parsnips, big floret of brocolli, bag of local "bobby" green beans, 2 peppers, tub of farm double cream, 2 lemons, 6 satsumas, a big swede, a few shallots, 3 huge sweet potatos, bag of seedless grapes, and 4 corn on the cobs (still in their natural leafy covers) for just over £14.

Then went to the meat farm shop and got 5lb (well just over, but they always give you extra lol) of best steak mince, 6 huge FR skinless chicken breasts, 2 locally produced pork pies (OH's lunch lol), 1lb of chopped stewing steak, 2 of their "spicy" steaks, and 6 pork and apple burgers for £30. All the meat is local and alot is their own, it higher welfare and serious well hung, they do award winning sausages and dry cure bacon mmmmmmmmm.
Its a fab place, was drooling yesterday over a huge peice of well hung beef rib he was trimming for a customer . The end was almost black it had matured for so long. They do rabbits, pheasents, quail, and the local goosnargh ducks etc.

They also do a christmas club, so will place the order now and get a card to pay a bit each time i go in and pick up christmas week.

I think the supermarkets are using any excuse to bang prices up even before the issues that will push prices up feed through and they already rip us off. TBH I think we will stick to the better quality stuff from the farm shops, plus extras from aldi and the odd trip to lidl etc. Doubt we will go to any of the big supermarkets this crimbo.

The real worry is if the food supply is hit two or three years on a run. Say a big volcano in Iceland goes up and effects weather/air imports which effects the supply chain for any length of time, or just 3 of these horrid summers on a run with hard snowy winters in between.
Investments in food/warm clothing/blankets will be money well spent now I reckon.

Ali x

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I get the 'chopped bacon bits ' from Tescos and last time I paid 78p for a 500 gm packet.As I live alone I tend to split it into three and freeze it in three seperate packets.Great for making quiches or chucking into pasta or soups with.I like to fry it to a crisp and then drain it off.The fat make a nice bit of fried bread with an egg on top as an occasional treat as well,or I will put it in an old handless cup to use when I need a bit of fat.Nothing gets wasted in my house not even the fat from the bacon :):)

Butterfly_Brain

Prices have already started to rise and the worst shortages haven't hit yet, so I will get some money from the building society and buy as much flour, pasta, meat and veg as I can now then, at least it will save us in the long run.

westcoastscot

Alibobsy your farm shop sounds excellent - we don't have any of the big supermarkets, just a smallish co-op but our shops in the main street are pretty good, if a little expensive. So far as I know most produce has to be brought in here it's so wet on the west coast, and the ground is shallow, sandy and stoney. I think my greengrocer gets his supplies in Glasgow.
WCS