Prepping for Brexit thread

[Deleted User]

Just had the delivery and all else is here, a few subs but nothing that wasn't better quality or larger quantity than I'd ordered in.  The jar doesn't specify country of manufacture but just flags up Tesco Stores Welwyn Garden City UK and Tesco Ireland Ltd. Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin on the label and no information on country of origin for any of the ingredients.  I guess they might just have run out? Choc Hazelnut spread is very popular and the Tesco own one as opposed to Nutella is nice in it's own right  and quite a lot cheaper than the branded one.  I'll try again on the next order and see if it's back in stock or if it's just off the order books.

Barny1979

I would presume the stocks of chocolate spread haven't run out nationwide, I doubt ingredients being delayed would be impacting finished products like jars of food yet, as they are made months in advance.

tooldle

I’m not sure if Ferrero manufacture own brands as well as Nutella. If they do, they have manufacturing lines in Italy and France. 

[Deleted User]

Well, I don't suppose the world is going to grind to a sudden halt any time soon just because I didn't get my jar of chocolate and hazelnut spread, I bought a jar for Christmas and we enjoyed it so I thought I'd get one in store for the future and it was showing as not available when I topped the order to Tesco up yesterday afternoon.  It's just such an odd thing for them not to have, I've expected gaps in the fruit and veg order because of imports and seasonal fluctuations but I just got to wondering where the ingredients in all the things we take for granted will always be on the shelves for us to buy actually come from.  I know the supermarkets run on a 'just in time' basis for stocks nowadays and just had it as a thought.

tooldle

Its much the same with food in can’s (just in time). The product is filled, cooked and shipped. Nothing is stored or made months in advance. I can’t say for certain if products in jars are the same as i have never worked with a manufacturer using glass. On the balance of probabilities there is unlikely to be a difference.

Hard_Up_Hester

Recipe for home made chocolate spread.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/how-to-make-your-own-chocolate-spread/

greenbee

Hard_Up_Hester said:

Recipe for home made chocolate spread.
https://www.jamieoliver.com/features/how-to-make-your-own-chocolate-spread/

That looks MUCH nice the the palm-oil versions Hester!

GaleSF63

I've been getting groceries delivered from Tesco and Waitrose for several years, and there have often been items unavailable when ordering or missing from final delivery, sometimes for several orders in a row.  They do run out of things sometimes, and we don't know the reason, so we probably put a bit too much importance on some missing items now because of all the possible new reasons.  

Except for the first part of the first lockdown when shoppers were panicking and creating artificial shortages, I haven't seen any real difference in the percentage of my order which doesn't arrive (including last weeks which had one substitution and one unavailable).  

Sometimes it's probably just luck; if you shop regularly in the shop, and something isn't there, you probably get it in the next few days instead and don't really register the delay. With delivery, if it doesn't come, you are stuck without it till the next delivery but by then they may have had more stock come into the shop,  but all gone again by your next delivery!

[Deleted User]

I am putting together a list for our next Tesco order and when I looked at the Choc Hazelnut options all they are now offering is varying sizes of Nutella so maybe there is a delivery glitch with their own brand product for some reason.  I'm finding that what is available to order online is changing from day to day and if something isn't there one day it might be there the next day but it doesn't always arrive in the order no matter what is ordered in advance.  Sometimes there are subs but sometimes there is just a missing item.  It is however not as bad as was envisaged over the past few years although I know that could change in the future.

VJsmum

Looks like the fishing industry is in trouble - quelle surprise!  But, according to JRM, the fish are happy (because they are now British fish) - so that's something.