No Sunflower /Vegetable oil / tomatoes in shops...!!

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We have bought 4 bottles a few weeks ago...yesterday and today went to 5 different supermarkets to get bits....and no oils at all...just some expensive Olive oil left on shelves....also no tomatoes for a few days now....!

Ffs, I've been cooking everything in overpriced organic extra virgin olive oil under the misapprehension that it was the healthiest option for the DC (and us). Now I gather from this thread that it's carcinogenic?! I thought sunflower oil was supposed to be really bad for your health so was trying to avoid it. So what IS the healthiest oil overall for everyday cooking then? Seems like a minefield.

Olive oil is best if you are eating it raw.
Rape seed is best when cooked.

@maddiemookins16mum

I’ve gone back to Lard.

Should we be getting worried about whales now?

I've been to Asda, Sainsbury's and Tesco over the past few days and all have had plenty of stock of both oil and tomatoes.

No noticeable gaps in stock, plenty of everything (inc. alternatives if normal brand is out of stock.)

I got oil twice this week ( once for dds pre school) both asda and tesco plenty of stock

I like sunflower oil. I avoid rapeseed oil more from hate for the plant than anything else - it started me with hay fever at the age of 14, a summer when it was suddenly planted everywhere. plus it's a bloody ugly colour flower

I don't keep count of how much oil we get through, but maybe a medium-sized sunflower oil each month for frying along with butter, and a bottle of olive oil evey couple of months (dressings etc).

MIL on the other had has never fried anything in the 30 years I've known her. Everything is microwaved or boiled, yes including onions.

well this post went a bit wobbly....me and the 4 friends are in a Whattsapp group....we compare prices etc....and also with our friends in Spain and Portugal....hence we pick up items for each other...its not panic buying !!...anyway....today, Tesco, Asda, waitrose, lidl....still all out of stock of the oils....!!

Because selfish arseholes greedy panic buy. I served a woman on wed who had eight bottles of sunflower oil

I haven't RTFT but the issues with ferry crossings as P&O aren't operating are bound to be part of the issue here.

Lard has nothing to do with whales.

My Lidl was the same, not just oil and tomatoes but huge gaps in shelves. I asked the manager if they were short staffed or didn’t have supply and he said actually the pickers at the distribution centre had walked out. Think it’s a Lidl issue rather than a general supply problem.

Should we be getting worried about whales now? is Lard made of whales? I thought it was pigs.

For your friends, my arse.

For fucks sake.

@knittingaddict

Lard has nothing to do with whales.

No but it was an indirect substitute connection. Until relatively recently whale oil was used to run tractors and a component of margarine that was replaced by sunflower oil.

I still don't understand your original post about whales though. Whale oil is no longer used in the production of margarine etc and has never had anything to do with lard.

@knittingaddict

I still don't understand your original post about whales though. Whale oil is no longer used in the production of margarine etc and has never had anything to do with lard.

Oh thank goodness for that! I was genuinely concerned then.

@knittingaddict

I still don't understand your original post about whales though. Whale oil is no longer used in the production of margarine etc and has never had anything to do with lard.

I think the poster just meant that we'll have to expand the fat sources we use, including going back to use of whale oil.

But I do think that margarine has contained lard or other animal fat in the past. I'm sure I remember ingredients lists stating 'animal and vegetable fats' and I've definitely seen margarine and products made with margarine such as cakes or biscuits being labelled as 'does not contain pig fat' to indicate that it is suitable for people who don't consume lard/pig fat for religious reasons as well as vegetarians. This is decades ago though.

I think the poster just meant that we'll have to expand the fat sources we use, including going back to use of whale oil as a joke that is.

Margarine was made with whale oil until the 1940s.

@greenlynx

I wonder if it’s Lidl’s issue. We started doing shopping at our local Lidl on the evening while DD’s at the club (used to pop in the afternoon before) and their evening choice’s very poor.

Lidl and aldi both have crap availability here, I don't bother anymore its a waste of petrol.

Haven't noticed a shortage of tomatoes or oils here, but sunflower oil makes sense as Ukraine and Russia export so much of it, and the other oils are invariably as people who would normally buy sunflower are having to buy those ones. I use an airfryer sorts out the oil issue.

@BarbaraofSeville

I think the poster just meant that we'll have to expand the fat sources we use, including going back to use of whale oil as a joke that is.

Yes exactly. It was my dry humour.

"People are panic-buying all the sunflower oil"
"They are sticking it in their cars"
"There won't be any left!"
"We will all be left with cupboards bare"
"They are going to smelt the pigs down"

So I simply commented dryly "Should we be getting worried about whales now?" Tongue in cheek. If I used emojis then I would have put an eye-roll afterwards.

By the way there was plenty of sunflower oil in our local store this morning at 6am. Why I even saw a young couple carrying two 5l bottles of it out to their car.

Ok, it's sometimes hard to read tone on a forum.

I doubt whales will be endangered it some people go back to using lard as a cooking fat. Not that I'm a fan. I made lardy cake at school and couldn't bring myself to eat it. My mum loved it.

All the shelves full here. Plenty of everything available.

Probably because people like you bought them all up?