I am so fed up of a lack of food in shops.

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This has been going on for a few years but is only getting worse. I had to go to 3 supermarkets before I found some eggs. No lettuce at all, a few packs of salad tomatoes available in one supermarket, loads of empty spaces in the fruit and veg section, and in ASDA even the freezers had loads of empty spaces.

Before anyone says yes I know we will not starve, there is enough actual food. But a visit to a supermarket now is a lottery about what will be available and what is missing. And more and more I am having to visit multiple shops to get absolute basics.

😂😂😂

Eh? There's no apostrophe in tomatoes in the conext of multiples... Maybe I don't get the joke?

Forgot we have 17 chickens as well, spring summer and part of autumn are covered for eggs (so much we can supply the neighbours too) but during the darkest months chickens dont lat so we end up buying from costco.

could not deal with this level of whinging and entitlement in real life!
People recounting their lived experiences is not "whinging."
I literally just said what it was like here

Are you actually for real people????
Last time I looked, yes I am 😁
Are you? As you seem awfully worked up

Ah - we need a protest. A rally to save these poor souls from occasional tinned tomatoes. That should perk us all up - save our souls 🤨

Zebedee55
It does only seem to be the UK, not the rest of the EU

How do you explain my links to Ireland and the Netherlands just above yours?

‘Lived experience’ is actually trauma based

New levels of lunacy!!

They don’t want to see your links, they prefer the old brexit trope.

In the east not the west, ukraine is a massive country life in the west is as usual and have none of the problems “ukranian war” is supposedly causing just in the UK.

Ah Brexit is working I guess.
No lack of food in the shops in my Northern EU country, even when we've had strikes recently affecting warehouse workers and transportation and the news warned we might have shortages in the supermarkets because of the strikes, in my small town the supermarket shelves are full.

Plenty of tomatoes at Pret a Manger it seems:

www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/20402000/dominic-raab-accused-of-chucking-tomatoes/

A few years ago I was growing Little Gem lettuce in the kitchen window, they grow pretty fast.

Oh that’s okay then!!! The bodies mount in just one half - great - I am sure that makes all the difference

This has nothing to do with „weather“ or war. There are no shortages in Europe at all so why gaslight people in the UK?

Sure!! 😂

You were lucky, the snails ate mine all in one night...

I am assuming that the threat of a cruise missile being launched at their city is a bit more of a problem than no tomatoes in Tesco.

Less food in the shops should be one of Rees-Mogg's Brexit benefits- "you will eat less and you will be happy". Less food air miles as well so saving the planet all good on Planet Tory.

This clarifies where the " missing" apostrophes have gone....

www.8020comms.com/express-yourself-grocers-tomatoes-and-apostrophes/

Is this a just in England thing? Shops are having no issues with fruit and veg or empty shelves where I am.

I noticed that this week. Wales has been badly hit. But all the shops in Belsize Park were full of fruit and veg

DeLaLune2022
This has nothing to do with „weather“ or war. There are no shortages in Europe at all so why gaslight people in the UK?

Ireland is in Europe;

www.irishtimes.com/food/2023/02/21/supply-of-vegetables-to-ireland-disrupted-by-poor-weather-and-energy-costs/

www.breakingnews.ie/business/fruit-and-vegetable-shortage-due-to-poor-weather-in-spain-irish-retailers-say-1436373.html

This supermarket in the Netherlands has a shortage of bell peppers, cauliflower, broccoli and iceberg lettuce due to bad weather in Spain (16 Feb 2023);

www.freshplaza.com/europe/article/9503487/no-end-to-cauliflower-shortage-in-sight-yet/

I stand corrected, had people visit from Ireland a few months ago (we’re in England) and they were genuinely surprised at shortages. It wasn’t just food either. Asked them this week if they notice shortages and they said no. Maybe it just doesn’t seem as bad?

Everyone in Kiev and Lviv know russians will be targetting infrastructure or train stations used by the nato countries and to stay away from them, kiev hasnt had air sirens for weeks it was for some reason turned on briefly when biden was doing his walk. Otherwise, my family members in kiev today are having meetings as usual, work lunch/dinner as usual etc. in the eastern ukraine which is about 20 pcnt of it is a different matter of course. Nightclubs are open,restaurants,cinemas etc. Some ukranians (3 just on the weekend) who i know have returned back home even they were cleared to be refugees in an european country.

Because the Emperor's dignity must be protected at all costs?!