I have started to use Morrison again, I hate the thought of driving the car unnecessarily but they sell all the wonky veg range, it’s cheaper and what’s the difference? Alison not a plastic bag to be seen. unfortunately they don’t deliver, so it’s the choice of pollution or wonky veg.
I also use Morrisons.Get as much of my veg loose,I have reusable nets bags for them. Morrisons here do deliver,something which may come your way sometime!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
My daughter used to use a local vegetable box company which specifically delivered anything which had been rejected by supermarkets which seemed a very good thing. She's moved now and can't find anything similar locally.
A friend of mine ordered "less than perfect" apples from Waitrose and joked that he should send them back when they arrived as he couldn't see anything wrong with them!
In the immediate post Brexit famine I plan to live off asparagus and rhubarb from the garden....
Our local "incredible edible" group has just run an "Intercepted Food Boutique" using edible leftover food diverted from landfill. It was a "pay as you feel" shop, designed to help the many local residents strapped for cash at the moment - part of "The Real Junk Food Project", which has saved over a million kilos of food from being thrown away since it was set up in 2013. The local shop included stuff donated by Lidl, seasonal things like stollen bites which, apparently, nobody wants to buy in January.
To grow fruit and veg all year round have to have a lot of glass houses, where will they go?
And where will we get the glass/polycarbonate/steel/aluminium to make them? Import or grow our own industry? Neither option is cheap or quick
When i said glass houses, i meant polytunnels. That's right, people think that it's not going to last for long, but it will. It's not like when the war was on. We depend on a lot more from abroad now.
We've stocked up with tinned tomatoes, corned beef, instant coffee. Need to look at the labels and see where they've been packed or made in which country.
As I understand it, for two years now, French supermarkets have been legally required to donate unsold and unspoiled food to charities or food banks. They are not allowed to spoil it deliberately either.
Logan - I don't think coffee is an EU crop. Grown in mostly 3rd world countries then processed in the UK, unless you have a thing about Italian roast beans........
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Logan - I don't think coffee is an EU crop. Grown in mostly 3rd world countries then processed in the UK, unless you have a thing about Italian roast beans........
No but all the lorries will be at the ports, so stocking up just in case i run out.
Logan - I don't think coffee is an EU crop. Grown in mostly 3rd world countries then processed in the UK, unless you have a thing about Italian roast beans........
All of the trade deals we have are necessarily actually trade deals with the EU and not bilateral. So if we crash out with no deal, we will have no deal with any country, whether or not they are in the EU. The question then will be how good the civil servants have been at setting up 'in principle' agreements with other countries that can be signed very quickly to keep things moving or if they are going to issue a blanket decision to wave in all incoming goods from anywhere. And for us as consumers, there's no way for us to know the answer to that. We'll find out only if we run out of stuff. It could be anything from anywhere.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
You are right RG. If it is No Deal and they waive all checks the Chinese will have a field day with inappropriate materials and lack of safety compliance and knock-offs.
As for hoarding, no border problems here but I like a well stocked pantry so lots of different rices, pastas, flours, sugars, beans and lentils both dried and in tins, home-made jams and chutneys, spices and pastes and vinegars and oils, coffees, chocolate for baking and so on. Freezers full of fish and meat bought in season or on offer. The only thing I'd need is fresh veggies as we've eaten nearly all our veggie plot goodies altho we have a few pumpkins left and there are still fartichokes and a bit of cavolo nero left to harvest and celeriac just starting to swell.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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Morrisons here do deliver,something which may come your way sometime!
A friend of mine ordered "less than perfect" apples from Waitrose and joked that he should send them back when they arrived as he couldn't see anything wrong with them!
In the immediate post Brexit famine I plan to live off asparagus and rhubarb from the garden....
https://therealjunkfoodproject.org/
-if you're interested...
That's right, people think that it's not going to last for long, but it will. It's not like when the war was on. We depend on a lot more from abroad now.
We've stocked up with tinned tomatoes, corned beef, instant coffee. Need to look at the labels and see where they've been packed or made in which country.
Logan - I don't think coffee is an EU crop. Grown in mostly 3rd world countries then processed in the UK, unless you have a thing about Italian roast beans........
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
As for hoarding, no border problems here but I like a well stocked pantry so lots of different rices, pastas, flours, sugars, beans and lentils both dried and in tins, home-made jams and chutneys, spices and pastes and vinegars and oils, coffees, chocolate for baking and so on. Freezers full of fish and meat bought in season or on offer. The only thing I'd need is fresh veggies as we've eaten nearly all our veggie plot goodies altho we have a few pumpkins left and there are still fartichokes and a bit of cavolo nero left to harvest and celeriac just starting to swell.