Brexit grocery bill inflation

Slowly57

Doody wrote: »

Interesting. Thanks. My own grandfather was in the Merchant Navy then. Presumably bringing in some of Lord Woolton's deals.

My uncle was in the MN too and my Grandad worked on the Docks - must have been very difficult to be unloading food inside and to be on the ration outside.

basketcase

just_trying wrote: »

Kboss there's a great butcher in Strichen, Bert fowlie. They do 5 packs for £20 and have some great offers just now. Local meat and tastes brilliant. They have a Facebook page. Local veg to, priced okay. Think they might deliver if not only suitable if you drive.

There's Aberdeenshire larder in Ellon, they used to do a weekly pack think it was £35.

I prefer the butcher in Strichen. Might help.

Thanks for this just trying. Must look into it, as I'm also in Aberdeen and could have written Kboss' post (word for word, as I'm from Greater Manchester too!)

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bread isn't a problem for me as I gave up eating bread about two years ago and only eat crackers now anyway .They don't grow mould on them as bread does :):)My eldest DD does tend to overshop at christmas on the 'just in case' scenario, but I don't mind as her unwanted surplus normally ends up in my larder anyway bless her she knows I hate waste and always says when she pops in to visit after christmas 'Oh do you want these Mum ? Darned right I do and it all get used up

I have a pretty good store cupboard of staple stuff tinned tomato,beans chickpeas,and lentils,pearl barley etc so veggie stews or chilli,curries etc which are not only cheap but filling in the wintertime. I too wonder where folks store all the stuff they buy .My youngest DD has a very small kitchen but there are six of them at home during the Christmas holiday so she will shop for Christmas day and boxing day but if needed will wait until the day after boxing day before she shops again.She just doesn't have the room her tinned dog food for the two dogs usually end up on the decking outside the kitchen door.She does have a fridge freezer and a box type freezer though which helps.

I love getting the opened pickles etc after Christmas from my eldest DD as she is quite well off and her stuff is usually M&S's :):)

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I travel fairly often by train and only the very rare garden that I see as we pass actually has a veg patch. These are fair sized gardens and invariably just let go to grass with a couple of childrens toys laying there. I suspect that post Brexit if prices rise because of the exchange rate we might see a resurgence of people home growing from necessity, there certainly is the capacity for many more folks to take the initiative and dig a garden plot to supply some of their own food I feel at present though we as a nation lack the will!

Primrose

Slowly57 wrote: »

QUOTE Doody: In WW2 despite rationing and 'Dig for Victory' we still did not manage to supply enough food for the country. No way will farmers markets be able to replace all our imported goods.

Reading this excellent book - Eggs or Anarchy - :eek: all about Lord Woolton + rationing
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eggs-Anarchy-remarkable-tasked-impossible-ebook/dp/B0112O5FHU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
free sample from Amazon if you have a Kindle/Kindle reader

Slowly - Sounds a fascinating read. will try and order from the library. Of course it would be even more of an impossible nightmare trying to feed our nation today with a much larger population with its wider food tastes. If you want another interesting read - and it's a thick one, get "Austerity Britain" by David Kynaston, a detailed documentary account of how Britains survived the austerity measures of the war and immediate post war years. Some fascinating accounts in there of the innovative dodges people used to get round shortages. e.g. Did you know that you could mash up haricot beans and add a drop of almond essence to imitate unobtainable marzipan in cake making? Fine as long as you used it with 24 hours, otherwise you would need a pneumatic drill to break through its concrete-like capabilities! .

Butterfly_Brain

There is a plus side though, we can now trade freely with Commonwealth and other countries. Lamb is a prohibitive price now, but I remember when it was cheaper than chicken when we imported NZ lamb and butter in the 60's and 70's. A lot of these price increases are corporate greed and if they want to try and punish us then we can punish them by not buying their goods

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Six full weeks here in 2010, not a few days and we survived on what I had in store. I have included chocolate and things to do this year

Primrose

Yes Kittie, in certain parts of the country the period of bad weather isolation can be considerable and you are obviously used to being prepared. I suspect toward the end of that period thiugh younprobabky ended up eating some interesting food combinations.. Always a good idea to have a good dry store cupboard though. Freezers have been known to let people down in periods of prolonged power cuts. Modern houses don,t always have adequate food storage facilities for big stockpiles of dry goods.

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We've turned a very cold bedroom (over the garage) into a useful store room now there are just the two of us here regularly and we've lined the walls with shelving so it not only houses all the summer things, winter things, big pieces of equipment like the dehydrator etc. but also doubles up as a dry store too and is perfect to use as a 'pantry' for tins, packets etc. it enables me to keep a good enough store that would keep us going for 6 months plus in adverse situations.

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The only thing I personally wouldn't recommend was Woolton Pie My late Mum used to make it, and I thought it was revolting,but because of the problems with rationing we all had to eat it at least once a week.
I hated Lord Woolton with a vengeance that only a 8 year old can summon up:) I bet he never ate his flipping pie :):) I can remember lots of milk puddings though, rice,sago,tapioca & semolina which with a dab of jam(and it was a very small dab) in the middle would fill your tummy up and veg was always piled high on the plate (probably to cover the small amounts of meat that was there )