Food shortages being kept quiet?

I couldn't get extra thick double cream for my apple pie. I had to 'make do' with clotted cream. The world is spiraling down the pan.
My local butcher has all the meats on his shelf that I wanted and could possibly want, my local shops have all the fruit and veg' I want and if there is a global shortage of kumquats with 6,000 air miles behind them then boo-hoo I'm gutted. No, not really.
Whipped cream would be my choice with apple pie every time - Check the fat % and add some milk to get double or extra double down to 40% before whipping.
 

thesilentone

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Livestock Farmer
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Cumbria
What, a shortage of Walkers Crisps !!! What is the world coming to, it'll be Pigs in Blankets next, god forbid anybody wraps a bit of bacon round a sausage a corners the market.

Their will be a food panic buying when the left wing press decide so !!
 

manhill

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Anyone who sees a potential food shortage and who wanted to stockpile would have to buy long life milk or milk powder if they wanted to keep it as a backup. These products were often made with surplus milk, milk volume is down at this time of year and some producers have had to dump milk as they couldn't get it picked up. I've heard modern factory food production has meant that milk powder is actually quite profitable these days though, and in demand rather than just being an option for storing surplus in the spring flush.
prefer to stockpile it as cheese rather than UHT milk
 

upnortheast

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Northumberland
Had a local co-op shop on the phone last week needing milk. Had no milk delivered from the co-op depot for 5 days. they had not had a sensible explaination why

Whipped cream would be my choice with apple pie every time - Check the fat % and add some milk to get double or extra double down to 40% berore whipping.
Spot on.
Whipping double cream can result in a course textured product, easy to overwhip & end up with butter.
40 -45% fat gives a smoother cream
 

JeepJeep

Member
Trade
I've noticed bits and bobs missing week to week with a gap on the shelves .

On the whole, it's no bother.

Plenty of Weston Vintage, Britanny Butter, and Torchon Ham.

Meats no issue neither is Bread.. Bread all comes from 1 of 2 Local Bakeries.
 

unlacedgecko

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Livestock Farmer
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Fife
I was at Lidl and the tomahawk steaks were plentiful, then I read the small print and it turns out it was tomahawk horse steak so I left well alone.
I’d happily eat horse if it was available. I was dropping some dead sheep at the kennels last month and the kennelman had just shot a horse. My mouth was watering watching him skin it I tell you.
 

fgc325j

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Has the media been told to stop reporting food shortages?

Has anyone else noticed a shortage of food items in restaurants and shops recently? Maybe its just me being stupid.

Not essential by any means! But shortages I have noticed and on my mind are walkers ready salted crisps and diet coke.

Anyone else noticed anything?
Supermarkets have no issues with getting Halloween tat into the stores, and Aldi had Christmas foodstuffs on the shelves 2 weeks ago. Does the fact
that these items have a larger profit margin explain their availability ????.
 
The last few tesco delivered groceries have had there were a fair few items unavailable so they send you something similar, my wife then went to do the shopping to Tesco in person and she had no problem getting any of the things that weren’t previously available with online deliveries, although she did say the shelves were pretty bare, like for instance there was no frozen fruit and other fruits not available but a pile of blueberries with sell by date that day. Frozen chips and fruit juice also hard to get.

This is why I won’t do online shopping. I’ve tried them and every single one has missing items and that was before coronavirus even existed. I just find the whole experience crap having to stay in for the delivery and then not getting what you wanted.
 

Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
Supermarkets have no issues with getting Halloween tat into the stores, and Aldi had Christmas foodstuffs on the shelves 2 weeks ago. Does the fact
that these items have a larger profit margin explain their availability ????.
It's not supermarkets ordered a 32pack box of walkers ready salted off Amazon 10 days ago. Said 2 days delivery. Still not here. Was in a 24 hour corner shop in a city last night and they didn't have any either.

It's not a big problem, nobody's going to starve. But Christmas will.be interesting when pressure on for everything.
 

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