How much fonio does your family get through in a week and how much will the reduction in price help you?

[noblegiraffe]

The govt have released a list of 125 "everyday essentials" that they plan to cut tax on to help families with the cost of living.

It's a bit of a weird list. Beans, biscuits and chocolate yes, a bit more baffled by the fresh figs, gherkins and plantains. And I had to google fonio.

Aubergines
Avocados
Baked beans
Bananas (fresh and dried)
Biscuits
Boiled sweets
Bread
Buckwheat
Candied fruit
Chewing gum
Chocolate (bulk and retail)
Chocolate bars
Chocolate drink preparations
Chocolate spreads
Chocolate with fruit, nuts or cereal
Citrus fruits (various)
Cocoa paste
Cocoa powder
Couscous
Crispbread
Crisps
Dried apples
Dried apricots
Dried figs
Dried papaya
Dried peaches/nectarines
Dried pears
Fonio
Fresh figs
Frozen fruits
Garlic
Gherkins
Gingerbread
Green tea
Jams and marmalades
Limes
Liquorice products
Margarine
Marzipan and pastes
Mixed dried fruit
Mixed fats and oils
Mixed fruit and nuts
Mixed nuts
Mixed preserved fruit and nuts
Non-alcoholic beverages
Olive oil (extra virgin)
Olive oil (other)
Olive oil (virgin)
Olives (for oil production)
Olives (fresh/chilled)
Olives (frozen)
Other fresh fruits
Other peppers (capsicum/pimenta)
Pickled peppers
Pizzas and quiches
Plant-based drinks
Plantains (fresh and dried)
Prepared vegetables
Preserved beans
Preserved citrus fruits
Preserved tropical fruit
Preserved vegetables
Processed potatoes
Quinoa
Rusks
Soups and broths
Sugar confectionery
Sugar tablets
Sweet peppers
Throat pastilles
Toasted bread products
Toffees and caramels
Tomato ketchup
Tomato sauces
Vegetable oils
Waffles and wafers

Thank you, this makes a lot more sense now. I was looking at that list and genuinely baffled that they might all be considered everyday essentials.

Surprised to see chocolate on the list. What happened to the sugar tax to combat obesity?

Ocado do! And you can get it in many international food stores.

Dried fruit and nuts I assume and plant based milks maybe?

Can someone price check these items. I assume at Waitrose rather than Lidl.

The number of people on here who just dont understand tarrifs and why it might be a good idea to remove them makes me despair.

Any educated iriot knows what fonio is .....it what you make a callio with.

Think a lot would be cheaper in local international stores rather than the big supermarkets.

Sugar is not taxed. You can google stuff you dont know.

What's olive done this time popeye?

Agreed and also the lack of understanding about what VAT is applied to. It’s on the receipt!

Why is couscous on the list but pasta isn’t?

So much sugary crap & UPF - most of which is not necessary in a healthy diet.

Why not stick to the basics ?

They did pasta already apparently.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-cuts-price-of-everyday-items-and-summer-essentials

Why are they cutting tax on a whole raft of junk food (chocolate, crisps, chewing gum, confectionary, waffles, wafers, processed sauces full of sugar, sugar tablets (!), rusks, pizzas, biscuits, boiled sweets…)?!

This is nuts (one of the few health things on the list), if true.

Im dairy and gluten free so my list is small.
Plus loads of other stuff i can eat.

Pasta is generally imported from Italy, so no tariff

God damn! I returned home to get away from quinoa and fonio. First it was quinoa on every trendy food prog, and now fonio is on the up. Rats. 😎

Ummm...

Brexit?

If that’s the case you should probably review their diet as a large proportion of the items listed are extremely unhealthy and not remotely what should be categorised as “every day essentials”.

Under the UK–EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement, tariffs and quotas on goods (including food) are set at zero as long as the goods meet “rules of origin” (i.e. they are genuinely EU-produced and not just routed through the EU from elsewhere.

Yes. We made a post-Brexit deal, remember?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93UK_Trade_and_Cooperation_Agreement

They will stock it in areas where there is a large Afro-Caribbean community. Just as my local Sainsbury's has a large Polish section of food.

What's so bad about gherkins, preserved veg and fruit?

Also a lot of things that are absolutely fine.

And pretty much everything is fine in moderation anyway, unless it’s actively poisonous.