Fresh Food Rationing !

[piggynose]

Are you being affected by this?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2023/02/23/uk-britain-fruit-vegetable-shortage-rationing-tesco-aldi-morrisons-asda/amp/

[naomi24]

No.

[youngmafbog]

No.

[barry1010]

No, my local greengrocer seems to have plenty of everything with no rationing and my freezer is still quite full of home grown

[ladybirder]

No, got all I ordered in this week's Waitrose delivery.

[Hazlinny]

Not yet ... lucky that a nearby farm shop sells many vegetables grown in local fields but guess they, too, might quickly disappear.

[Prudie]

No. Does it depend where you live?

[douglas9401]

It's not rationing though, is it?
It's putting a curb on greedy thoughtless morons who want everything for them and beggar the rest of us.
See also toilet paper, pasta bread etc.

[naomi24]

^ I think that’s right. People are selfish. When shelves were empty of toilet rolls someone on here had over 100 stashed at her home.

[pastafreak]

Not really. My local Aldi had what I wanted...and this was just before closing time on Sunday. They were limiting some items to 3 of each...but if I never have need more than 3 cucumbers, let alone 1...then I see no problem. I read that supplies should be back to normal in a few weeks.

By the way...your article is behind a pay wall.

[nicebloke1]

If supermarkets didn't reject a large percentage of what farmers produce in this country, then perhaps they might, just might ,be able to afford to heat their greenhouses. We have a knack of self inflicting wounds in this country at the moment.

[Gromit]

Nowt to do with wonky vegetables being rejected.

Bad weather in Spain where we import these items from is the cause.

Perhaps Greta Iceberg was right ?

[Deskdiary]

"When shelves were empty of toilet rolls someone on here had over 100 stashed at her home."

If it's the same person I'm thinking of, she quaintly referred to herself as a hoarder, when a more accurate description would have been selfish ahole. It was absolute common sense that if people had shopped the way they usually shopped, there would have been no shortages.

I have not experienced any difficulty in getting tomatoes and cucumbers, but perhaps it's because I only buy half a dozen tomatoes a week and one cucumber. Given their shelf-life, any person panic-buying these perishables makes them a moron.

[gulliver1]

"Brexit"

[nicebloke1]

Well that's part the problem gromit, note I said (part) " importing to much. Aldi in fact support the British farmer when possible. To grow a tomatoe to a certain size and weight requires controlled heat, the cost of that heat is now to expensive for our farmers greenhouses. If that tomatoe is not up to the standard the supermarket requires its rejected. And that goes for a lot of veg also.

[douglas9401]

Does the 'e' denote a European tomato?

[gingejbee]

^yes, and the plural "tomatos" means it's from Spain.

[Ken4155]

Shopping in Tesco last week and the only tomatoes i could get were cherry toms. No large ones to be seen - and there are usually a wide variety of them available.

[webbo3]

Nope, my son works in a large fruit and veg shop, no shortages.

[maggiebee]

Asda and Lidl limiting the amount you can buy but it hasn't affected me, I just drive to another shop.

[pastafreak]

How many cucumbers do you need maggiebee? Or tomatoes or peppers? These are all perishable items and most people will buy what they need for 7 to 10 days.