New Year salad shortage

I bought a huge lettuce a fortnight ago and we're still eating it. I wash it, pull leaves apart and dry on a towel, the put in a large plastic bag in the salad box at the base of the fridge. Keeps fresh for ages.
I do the same with fresh herbs.
I didn't notice yesterday if there's a shortage here - probably not because most fruit and veg come from local growers, and we certainly haven't had floods.

There's always frozen sprouts or try the farm shops!! As I'm recovering from a week long spell of Ill health I won't be having Christmas lunch...just rice pudding...
Happy Christmas everyone x

No sign today of a shortage of salads at our local Tesco today, however the Cash Machines had run out of money.
By the way, raw brussel sprouts are delicious. I know that this may sound odd, but if you have never tried one, give it a go.

A very Merry Christmas to all Gransnetters

Well funnily enough I was amazed to find hardly any green salad available in the shops here this morning. We didn't know about the shortage - thought they'd simply run out. We do actually eat it!

I remember reading there was going to be a plastic glove shortage some years ago[I kid you not].
I happened to be about to need some more, so went and bought some.
Then I kept an eye on supplies in shops[nothing better to do ]. Was there a shortage? Of course there wasn't! [though having written all that, I realise just how priviliged we are].

That's because Violette has bought them all up.

one of my hens is called Violette

Grow my own except sprouts. Just been around all the stalls in the market and three supermarkets and not a sprout in sight. There' s a Sprout Weevil apparently. I am nt unhappy but was hoping to do full on English Christmas for German friends. Heyho.

Plenty here so far ....both brussles (shame !) and salad ...good ! Just had a lovely fresh salad and boursin for lunch ....have to eat it when it is fresh as other half hates salad ! Also make coleslaw fresh cabbage, carrots, etc etc ...did try a recipe in Robert Carrier's cookbook using red cabbage and lots of other things ...but prefer the white cabbage version I eat bowlfuls of it ...and make himself bubble n squeak with the rest of the cabbage so he stays happy (well, as happy as he ever is ......hates Christmas, hasn't spoken to me for three days ! looking good for a quiet Christmas ...just me in the dining room with my Christmas dinner, Carols and tree lit ..him in the conservatory with his dinner on his lap ...!) LOVELY ! Might even go mad and have a glass of wine !

Merry Christmas everyone !

yesss jo46
prefer salad to cooked veges...

Bulk buy now and CREATE the New Year shortage!

You'll all have to eat extra sprouts. I think the resulting increase in atmospheric methane may well contribute to global warming!
Re the Brexit problems. As far as I am aware, there has been no mass return of immigrant workers to their own countries - they are still out there slaving away in the fields on starvation wages. However, I wouldn't be surprised at all if we are told that British workers are now being employed at very high wages and that consequently our veg will cost at least ten times more.

Yes, sprouts everywhere... after I took a family census that they are just as happy with broccoli and cauliflower cheese this year. Maybe it was a cauli-conspiracy about the sprouts shortage!

How did this light hearted comment become another whinge about Brexit? Grow up and move on!

BTW, what happened to the predicted sprout shortage? There are still mountains of them in the shops round here!

Winter salad then- cabbage, carrot, etc etc lots of other things to put in salad.

Nelliemoser Just wait until we no longer have EU labour to pick the salad & vegetable crops. The brits don't seem to want the work.

The Brits DO want the work but they need more money to survive than many eu immigrants will accept. If there is cheap labour available the growers will use it as it increases their profits and sales.

Let me rephrase that 'Grow your own, Nellie.'

Grow your own Nellie

Sorry Kitty it's all mine

I usually put salad out for appearance, as it rarely gets eaten. I shall look out for some plastic lettuce.

As a fat girl the salad crisis will not affect me.now if pies were in short supply....................

I'll wait and see, panic buying will be a waste of money in my opinion as it doesn't last long.
I'm sure there will be plenty to go around despite the gloom and doom ?

Just wait until we no longer have EU labour to pick the salad & vegetable crops. The brits don't seem to want the work.

I love my salads but it is no use stock piling them anyway as they have a very short shelf life.

'Let them eat cake'!

I'm seriously worried - not!