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

[OutofEverything]

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.

Jesus the world is actually ending folks!!!!!

@Blessedwithsunshine We need a National helpline to deal with this crisis, and maybe a tomato minister to ensure it never ever happens again 🧐

If rumour is to be believed a Minister already stands accused of throwing tomatoes at staff -* so *will they be punished appropriately for such wastage? Maybe having the Whip removed ? (or possibly judiciously applied ?)

@Frenchfancy ·
So why has the rest of Europe got plenty of lettuce, tomatoes and eggs?
I've just asked the same question on another thread - exactly, surely if it was weather related therefore lack of crops it would affect not just the UK?!

We are all going to hell in a tomato handcart 😂😂🍅

Very little in tesco/aldi/Waitrose/M&S/Lidl last night yes I went to all these bloody supermarkets

Haven’t managed to get a full shop for weeks, it’s so bloody frustrating. Even the local shops have been pretty dire lately.

Im debating on getting my own chickens for eggs seems a lot easier than trying to find some in a supermarket!

Also tempted to see if any of the local farmers will let me buy directly from them, happy to pay extra ££

Also looking at a veg patch in the garden and maybe getting a greenhouse to start growing my own

Maybe read the thread! Growers have posted the reason. Yay.

Charlize43
Interesting how pre-Brexit we didn't encounter food shortages, isn't it?

We did - January/February 2017

2017 Losing the plot: courgette crisis spreads to other vegetables
British shoppers have been told that shortages of courgettes, aubergines and many salad ingredients, including lettuce and celery, will continue until spring –and that if they manage to find stock in their local supermarket they can expect to pay substantially higher prices.

www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/20/losing-the-plot-courgette-crisis-spreads-to-other-vegetables

2017 - Retailers have blamed empty shelves on bad weather in Spain and Italy
Mr Vorderman said some supermarkets were not prepared to buy courgettes at such high prices and would rather leave their shelves empty.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-38666752

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4206296/Minister-insists-no-lettuce-crisis.html

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/762616/vege

The uk is a boiled frog country. The situation is not normal. Castigating people for pointing it out just normalises it. You are being so fucked over by the government.

I agree with this. Especially when it comes to the NHS/A&E. People are supposed to be able to use it. People shame others for using it instead of directing their anger at the fact that the healthcare system is broken.

At the very least he needs a dressing down, preferably one without tomato overtones!

I cant seem to see the shortages everyone's talking about...

on a loop as we said 🥱🥱🥱

Nope, wrong answer. The country does not contain a single tomato anywhere!

This is a tomato free zone folks.

Because food is more expensive in Europe?
Or maybe they haven’t built houses over all their farmland.

Eggs come from the U.K. not Europe, so easy to see how a bit of adversity really
kicks in down the line. Bird flu has been a problem for a year now and supermarkets insisting eggs are still too cheap has a knock on effect.

The right wing are almost Stalinist now praising the five year plans and march towards their twisted progress whilst crops rot in the fields for lack of labour and every day the country gets worse wherever you look in almost any context. Meanwhile the corpulent bloated twatter that is Johnson pops up to declare Brexit betrayed when it's his dogmatic , indolent , toxic laziness that he fell asleep drunkenly at the wheel whilst simultaneously raiding the coffers and enriching his mates. We see you.

Well, perhaps you can't eat massive amounts of cucumbers for a while. If you have a garden I suggest saving the 5 a day you would normally spend on cucumber and buying some pots and seeds.

And France in particular wholly supports its farmers.

Really hard to find tomatoes here, weren't any in Aldi or a few of the other big supermarkets when needed some for cooking lesson the other day.
When I say hard to find, I don't just mean not many left.
I mean as in actual rows of empty crates where they'd usually be - noticeable enough for usually obliviously unobservant me to be like "WTF?!" 😬

You can not say it is bird flu even if it’s the truth. You can only bash away at brexit or the government preferably both on here.

Op seems to have disappeared. No surprise there. Au revoir op thanks for the thread 🙄

Poor, poor you. A crisis line is being set up I believe.

Absolute nonsense. There’s no emergency. No ‘crisis’. Sea levels are not rising at the rates predicted by ‘models’ nor are temps rising enough to be an issue. Instead the climate crisis mob can only use ‘weather’ now to terrify everyone. As though weather events equal a long term climate crisis. Keep your eyes open to every single weather event being interpreted as an indicator of apocalypse. You’ll soon see it daily.

Great interview by the original co-founder of Greenpeace on why climate crisis activism is a sham.

On European subsidies…

As they always have across Africa, while we want the goods they produce as cheap as possible. We take what water and arable land they have to grow our farm animal feeds. The richest, in terms of what is produced/grown areas of the world are the poorest. The people who starved to death in Ethiopia produced coffee. We still demanded cheap coffee. Coffee and chocolate should be expensive. Have you just noticed that wars happen?
As said other countries have good supplies. Energy etc companies are making record profits, wake up to how shit our government is. All those growing their own and having chickens, I don't see how that will work in my street if two-up-two-down with tiny yards and a lot of families overcrowded. Likewise up the road in Liverpool, were people are stretched to the limit. MN loves a cause, except for the WC at the lowest rungs. If there's a rise in the cheap pizzas (eggs and tomatoes) etc then there's going to be more children going hungry and cold in the UK. Let's care about them.

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Um ..
I was just pointing out what it's like here.
Why are you being so bizarre lol