It's getting tough out there. Feeling the pinch?

tooldle

pumpkin89 said:

I'm a bit late to the thread but thought you might be interested to know that the shortage of salad cream is down to a poor harvest of mustard seeds.  Likewise, most mustard condiments (especially Dijon) will be in short supply this year.

We visited France in June. We noticed Dijon mustard was being rationed, two jars per customer. Dijon mayonnaise was not restricted although that is all some Lidls had, no regular mayo. 

Jellytotts

I’ve not been able to get Dijon for months round here. Can’t have English mustard as I’m coeliac and they always have some nasty bits in for me but Dijon is 99% of the time, gluten free.  

Salad cream is hit and miss here too, I did manage to grab one last month but it was the last one on the shelf in Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi have all been out of stock ever since.  

euronorris

Well Morrisons here had fully stocked shelf of salad cream, branded and otherwise. But the mayo was completely empty!

ladyholly

My daughter works in a certain well known restaurant chain ( not We*********s) and they are constantly having shortages on their deliveries so if you go to a restaurant and they dont have what you want dont blame the waiting staff. They are doing their best.

Shirl62

Jellytotts said:

I’ve not been able to get Dijon for months round here. Can’t have English mustard as I’m coeliac and they always have some nasty bits in for me but Dijon is 99% of the time, gluten free.  

Salad cream is hit and miss here too, I did manage to grab one last month but it was the last one on the shelf in Asda, Morrisons, Lidl and Aldi have all been out of stock ever since.  

Hi Jellytotts M&S English mustard is gf if you are wanting English 

JIL

We took my inlaws out for Friday lunch to a well known chain b33feater and they didnt have any fish due to supply problems. 
It included all the fish dishes on the menu. 

ladyholly

JIL said:

We took my inlaws out for Friday lunch to a well known chain b33feater and they didnt have any fish due to supply problems. 
It included all the fish dishes on the menu. 

The difficulty they have is that they wont know what they are getting until the delivery arrives and it cannot be rectified until the following delivery - hopefully. The staff are constantly being abused for it just the same as they were during lockdown over mask wearing.

London_1

We had a problem in a pub on holiday on the IoW earlier this month with no fish available at all, but DD went sea fishing the next day and caught some beautiful bream which my son-in-law cooked and it was free and couldn't have got it fresher than that

Not a great deal of choice in the supermarkets for fish at the moment ,but later next month I shall go to my local wet fish shop and restock with so of their delicious stuff. not very cheap but well worth the extra I think and its a local business 
I'm all in favour of supporting local shops if I can

JackieO xx

Jellytotts

Shirl62 said:

Hi Jellytotts M&S English mustard is gf if you are wanting English 

Thank you!!! Will go grab some next time I’m passing. 

CKhalvashi

I noticed yesterday actually that Tesco didn't have too much in stock of many things.

I eat quite a lot of fruit and veg and no green bananas doesn't make CK happy. Lettuce has increased in price although that was offset by parsnips for 26p .

Meat has also noticeably increased again in price, so came away with some Polish ham (which is still £1.50 for 100g but much nicer than the cheaper Tesco stuff) but other than this going vegetarian for most of the next 2 weeks once the little meat in the freezer has been used.

A lot of fish products were also out of stock. This was in the Harlow store as I was passing through and it has some ranges we like that aren't in my local one.