Rationing introduced for fruit and veg.

[Fair Hill]

Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons are having big problems sourcing fruit and veg and have had to introduce rationing.

Grim times, especially for the vegetarians and vegans. I wonder will there be a black market develop?

Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables

Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather in Spain and north Africa for shortages that the UK government warned could last a month.

www.cnn.com

 

[Morkai]

Tesco, Aldi, Asda and Morrisons are having big problems sourcing fruit and veg and have had to introduce rationing.

Grim times, especially for the vegetarians and vegans. I wonder will there be a black market develop?

Why UK supermarkets are rationing fruit and vegetables

Major UK supermarkets have started rationing the sale of some staple fruits and salad vegetables, blaming poor weather in Spain and north Africa for shortages that the UK government warned could last a month.

www.cnn.com

I had it with eggs the other week....they wouldnt let me buy 24 eggs split over 4 boxes but they would let me buy 2 boxes of 12.......

 

[Morkai]

Only 2 boxes per customer, its ze rules.

 

[JSW]

I really don't get it maybe because I'm nearly 70 and grumpy but I never expect to get tomato's and the like in the winter we never had them when I was young we just ate seasonal veg , and just to add to my moan if they are blaming global warming maybe shipping the said salad from abroad does not help. I feel better now

 

[Fair Hill]

Lidl launched a great scheme here in Ireland last week, 5kg of perfectly good fruit and veg for 3 euro.

Lidl Ireland announces nationwide roll out of ‘Waste Not’ Fruit and Veg Boxes

The food waste initiative set to save more than 950,000kg of food waste per year whilst offering even more savings to shoppers.

www.fm104.ie

 

[Freeforester]

Joking apart, when the next mini ice age gets going properly, it’ll really be a thing…

 

[Fair Hill]

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Joking apart, when the next mini ice age gets going properly, it’ll really be a thing…


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Is his ass on the wrong side of his body?

 

[lochty]

I forsee the Atkins diet becoming more popular

 

[Freeforester]

I forsee the Atkins diet becoming more popular

I dinna think he’s the new pony boy at Forest Lodge…

 

[timbrayford]

Grow your own, eat what is in season, no problem

 

[GLR]

Sign of the times, if this war carries on I fear it’s only going to get worse.

 

[Alces Alces]

Sign of the times, if this war carries on I fear it’s only going to get worse.

I was not aware that it had anything to do with the war in Ukraine; more to do with bad weather in Europe and Africa?

 

[shakey jake]

fuel price limiting some grows

 

[MAH]

I was not aware that it had anything to do with the war in Ukraine; more to do with bad weather in Europe and Africa?

You're right about the weather, but it's both barrels so to speak.

The fuel prices has stopped UK heated green house production.

M

 

[Fair Hill]

Maybe a big elephant got into the UK's store room and ate the lot?

 

[finnbear270]

Sainsbury's this AM no limits & fully stocked shelves.

 

[Drum123]

Maybe a big elephant got into the UK's store room and ate the lot?

The same elephant must have broken into the Irish store rooms then has it? Your press are reporting the same on you're island . Not just a UK problem really is it?

 

[bogtrotter]

I was not aware that it had anything to do with the war in Ukraine; more to do with bad weather in Europe and Africa?

No it's to do with the cold weather and the shortage /price of gas to heat poly tunnels
Apparently a particular cold snap in Potugal
where much of the veg comes from.

 

[Spix]

Not sure that these huge developments have just dried up and blown off in the wind:

STEP Associates project manage Nestlé £120m hydroponics glasshouse development

BWS corporate partner, STEP Associates, featured on BBC Radio 4 Farming Today - Director, Mark Dykes, on his role as Project Manager for the Low Carbon Farming glasshouse projects in East Anglia.

bwsnetwork.org.uk

‘More glass than The Shard’ – Huge tomato greenhouses are nearing completion

A huge tomato greenhouse is nearing completion outside Norwich – part of a £120m project using more glass than The Shard skyscraper in London.

www.edp24.co.uk

and geothermal in the Netherlands:

This Dutch tomato farm might just solve the global food crisis | Agritech Future

On a dull morning in April, with chilly drizzle falling from a grey sky, it is possible to think of more promising places to grow tomatoes than the fields outside Delft, in south-west Holland. The headquarters of Duijvestijn Tomaten – in English, Duijvestijn Tomatoes – is an unprepossessing...

www.agritechfuture.com

 

[Fair Hill]

The same elephant must have broken into the Irish store rooms then has it? Your press are reporting the same on you're island . Not just a UK problem really is it?

I live on the island and there's no shortage here mate.

This week alone Lidl have the following heavily discounted... Peppers, carrots, blueberries, potatoes, lemons, oranges, apples, easy peelers, cabbage, chillies and cucumbers.

That's just Lidl, no shortage in any other shops either and plenty discounts.

I was in a major fish wholesale market in the UK a few days ago and there was a big shortage of fish unless you wanted farmed stuff from the Faroe Islands.

Do elephants eat fish?