Anyone notice food quality declining really badly?

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Just had a block of cheese go off that would have normally lasted a lot longer. Didn't do anything different. But might have to change supermarkets now.

I discovered Carbzone low carb bread. Higher protein. Weird but filling.

I had an issue a while back with President cheese going mouldy before it was even opened, After the second pack I stopped buying it.

I've have had a couple of peppers delivered last their best, but still fine.

You can't really call it on cheese though, because cheese is made years in advance. It's cheese. The only thing that will affect it is your own storage.

I do get pissed off cutting into a pack of 3 onions, to find rot on the inside. So when I can, I queue on a Sunday closing to buy a sack for 10p. Massive lifetime. Proper onions, tiny, misshapen, take your eyes out!

I've got pots, and pots, and pots of lettuce growing at the moment. So easy. Tomorrow, I'll sow some more. Seeds are a quid. Keep you in lettuce all summer. Mixed leaves, baby gems and Romaine.

Spring onions too, sweetcorn - so easy. Tomatoes .. okay...

It's so easy to keep yourself in salad veg - £3 for the entire summer.

Note I said pots. No garden needed.

Raspberry canes! Next door gave me 3. They just multiply rampantly! Yes like raspberry rabbits! So you've got some easy fruit too.

I just carrot seeds in a load of - not mud, compost? Fill up and old recycling box .. ignore. Carrots.

I'm trying to preach, but I am just so passionate about how easy it is xx

I was in the UK for the last week and the vegetable availability was woeful. Turnips we’re the most abundant thing in M&S (!) then carrots so I ended up resorting to frozen peas… LIDL was much better supplied.
This time of the year is famine season for British farmers, even more now with greenhouse costs rising and ridiculous import procedures.

To answer the PP’s question about EU availability: In Italy I’ve found noticeably smaller packets to keep the shelf price down, I now scrutinise the contents and still find dud onions etc. Tomatoes are dearer, worse quality and fewer varieties. A tiny punnet of raspberries was €3
But now with better weather we’ve got strawberries, all sorts of beans and cabbage, fennel etc. all cheap and abundant. So now we’re detoxing!

Despair when i go shopping here in the UK, soooo much isn't available, obviously don't starve but especially on the own brand things, empty shelves and they stay empty for weeks.

Supermarkets also seem to have extended the shelf life of meats veg fruit.

We are past the Covid supply issues, so the only explanation is Brexit, i just don't see these shortages in France.