FOOD Shortages England

How many of us actually remember the war? How many were adults and had experience of shopping for a family duringbthe war, or justafterwards, very few I suggest.

I was nearly 2 when the war ended. I remember rationing, but have no memory of food being short in the home or going hungry. Many families were better fed as a result of rationing and price controls.

It could be argued that a return to wartime food rationing and choice of comestibles would do wonders for the obesity crisis.

"How many of us actually remember the war? How many were adults and had experience of shopping for a family duringbthe war, or justafterwards, very few I suggest."

Exactly M0nica. So when people say things like "a return to rationing would be ok" they really have no idea what that was like, do they?

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And I am happy for people to impose their own rationing on themselves, off you go if it's so appealing, but I will pass on that if possible.

I doubt we will be returning to wartime rationing! Oh the extreme comments of some posters who hate Brexit know no bounds.Oh well, what a shame, never mind.
A few food shortages won’t hurt anyone, or is the nation so soft now that they think it’s the end of the world??
Sorry (not) to inconvenience anyone by voting to leave the EU.The pandemic does play some part in this too, but that wasn’t actually voted for by anyone.

No matter where you live in the UK a poster can only say what they find, there seem to be regional differences on this.
The mere talking about it on SM will lead people to panic buy yet again.

Shush! Don't mention it! Don't frighten the horses!

It'll be fine, just wait, it will all sort itself out.

( Pass the turnip jelly )

Phew, I feel better now.

The pandemic does play some part in this too, but that wasn’t actually voted for by anyone. Oh I agree, but I didn't vote for Brexit either. So, thanks for that.

There was a news item this morning talking about Global shortages of many items. It is just not the U.K. that is experiencing shortages

I was 2 when the war started, so I do remember rationing and what food was like. We kept chickens and grew many kinds of vegetables and fruit so we were well fed. But I remember queueing at the fishmonger for fish heads to boil and feed to the cat, and hopefully a bit of salmon for us. He sold rabbits too and we ate lots of rabbit stews etc. We were lucky if we could get two sausages from the butcher.
I also remember the small cube of cheese which had to last the week.
We are a long way from that, and hopefully the present food shortage problem will gradually be resolved.

Cue the panic buying, esp turnips Doodledog ?

Yesterday, I spent the day with a friend who works in a supermarket. She has worked thoughout the pandemic keeping shelves replenished. She and her colleagues now have to wear bodycams to record the aggressive acts of customers who think it acceptible to shout at, swear at, and threaten shop staff when what they want is not on the shelves. She says abuse in the last few weeks is back to the levels staff experienced in the early days of the pandemic when shelves had been emptied by panic buyers. Brexit and Covid combined have created these supply chain problems not shop workers who can only put out for sale what is delivered. A sad indictment of our society.

eazybee

Are you trying to start a panic?

The media, and social media, are well ahead on that score

Growing0ldDisgracefully

Cue the panic buying, esp turnips Doodledog ?

Don't buy all the turnips?

If there is a shortage of turnips, my book won't sell, and I will have to cancel my Turnip Tour?

Noticed some empty shelves. I just look for other things instead. No point in stressing about it as we can't change things. There will, of course, be those extremely selfish people who will panic buy and hoard.

I am interested to read about shortages in shops. My son, a builder, reports difficulties in sourcing plastics, wood, blocks, glass, as well as big price rises (plastics have gone up almost 100%).
Warm winters in Scandinavia has made timber products more difficult as has increased demand from China.

However, my local supermarkets here in Central France have no empty shelves, prices have not increased. The French are not being told to stockpile ducks (Christmas dinner here rather than turkeys)
When we go to the builders merchants there are no huge price rises or empty racks (we are renovating so visit a lot!).

France is also subject to any world shortages and has also had Covid...

The only difference is Brexit.

Which part of the country are you in, please, grannygravy?

“Let’s take back control” Boris said, what a joker yes so we can be out of control with the conservatives running everything into the ground. It’s not just food shortages today on the news they said ALL blood test are cancelled because there is a shortage of blood bottles. Prices are going up on everything.
As a party that is supposed to be for business this government is doing a lot of harm to firms who are losing millions of pound due to lost exports and lack of stock to the shops and other outlets.

No problem in Lidl or Asda in N Wales and plenty of local produce at this time of year. I am veggie and don't buy things like meat or bottled water so maybe there are shortages there

There’s no problem around here with shortages in supermarkets. Maybe a little light in frozen veg compared to normal. And for the record there’s shortages of lorry drivers in some EU countries also so you can’t lay the blame on Brexit for that.

I usually shop in Asda, and there have been some gaps, eg this week no own-brand beans and gaps in the fruit and veg section. But nothing to make headline news.
Re stockpiling, not a thing I had deliberately done but prior to last year's lockdown I had started putting together the usual duplicate tinned and packet items to stock our caravan, and which was still at home as the caravan sites weren't allowed to open. Just as well, as the whole household later succumbed to covid, couldn't go out shopping, and we couldn't get any online shopping slots. Apart from some help from some good friends of my son getting in some fresh stuff for us, that's what we had to fall back on.

The shortage of blood bottles because of "supply chain issues" will cause patient care to suffer as GPs and hospitals have stopped doing some some blood tests. This concerns me more than the fact that I can only get carnaroli rice rather than arborio. I'm sure either one will make an excellent turnip risotto.

Lots of things missing here. Our neighbour is a trucker and he was off work for nearly 4 months because he needed his medical to renew his licence and couldn't get a doctor to see him face to face.

I agree with Monica. We didn’t starve during the war and just afterwards when rationing was stricter. My children were healthy and no one was obese. We didn’t have fridges or freezers to stock up anyway. Cats and dogs were fed scraps and bits from the fishmonger or butcher No supermarkets anyway. Life was so much more simple.

It's time we started thinking of what jobs are important, rather than how to keep existing jobs, like air travel and city centre jobs supported.
If the standing of jobs changed, and the essential jobs, like food suplies and caring, were given higher status, pay and conditions, more people would have better lives.