What Is It With The 20% Increases On Food?

[El Cid]

2 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Yes, insects are eaten all over the world as a generous source of protein, especially locusts. 

There was a time when there would be insects dead on your windscreen after a trip to the coast.

There isn't so many of them these days, a delicacy 🤣🤣

[Padders]

1 minute ago, El Cid said:

There was a time when there would be insects dead on your windscreen after a trip to the coast.

There isn't so many of them these days, a delicacy 🤣🤣

I'm on a diet,

Having a mashed fly for dinner.

[Anna B]

6 minutes ago, El Cid said:

There was a time when there would be insects dead on your windscreen after a trip to the coast.

There isn't so many of them these days, a delicacy 🤣🤣

Apparently the insect population has dropped by 50% in Britain Padders, (don't know if it's the same the world over.) 

Insects are an essential part off the ecosystem so we should be worried,

[Guest sibon]

1 hour ago, trastrick said:

Maybe a little off topic but a serious question.

 

After chasing a cockroach around my room this morning, I had a flashback to Heeley, circa 1946.

 

Did anyone ever hear of cockroaches and locusts being sold in the U.K., like figs and dates, during the war?

 

Folks used to call them that when I was a kid.

 

And apparently they are eaten around the world, still.

I’ve eaten locusts before. Well, locust actually, because I didn’t fancy a second one.

 

You can still get them though. These sound lovely;

 

https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/products/limited-chilli-chocolate-locusts

 

[El Cid]

29 minutes ago, sibon said:

I’ve eaten locusts before. Well, locust actually, because I didn’t fancy a second one.

You can still get them though. These sound lovely;

 

https://eatcrawlers.co.nz/products/limited-chilli-chocolate-locusts

 

They must be like Weetabix, very filling and you cannot eat three?

With rocketing inflation, it does highlight that there is free food available if people are actually poor. Free insects, will people now utilise their gardens and grow their own.

Some council's have planted community orchards.

[Anna B]

45 minutes ago, El Cid said:

They must be like Weetabix, very filling and you cannot eat three?

With rocketing inflation, it does highlight that there is free food available if people are actually poor. Free insects, will people now utilise their gardens and grow their own.

Some council's have planted community orchards.

Community orchards are a good idea. As for eating insects, I can't even eat sea insects like prawns and lobsters. However if insects were harvested and processed, say into powder, which can be added to fortify food, I suppose that would be alright - just don't tell me.... 

[trastrick]

3 minutes ago, Anna B said:

Community orchards are a good idea. As for eating insects, I can't even eat sea insects like prawns and lobsters. However if insects were harvested and processed, say into powder, which can be added to fortify food, I suppose that would be alright - just don't tell me.... 

Cockles and whelks were still a hot item in Skegness, the last time I was there. Very expensive too.

 

And France has it's "escagot". They're not cheap!

 

Used to love the English wild mushrooms.  A nice greasy bacon and mushroom sandwich on fresh bread for breakfast.

 

Miss that!

[Chekhov]

All totally predictable (since March 2020 in fact) :

 

UK interest rates raised to 1.25% by Bank of England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61801362

Inflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year high of 9%, and the Bank warned it could surpass 11% later this year.

 

Many of us have been saying we would do very well to stop inflation going over 10%, and that was before Ukraine.

The official (massaged) rate may go as high as 15%, I am not saying it will, but it's a definite possibility as the actual rate for most people will already be around that level.

Very worrying.

[RJRB]

 

12 minutes ago, Chekhov said:

All totally predictable (since March 2020 in fact) :

 

UK interest rates raised to 1.25% by Bank of England

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61801362

Inflation - the rate at which prices rise - is currently at a 40-year high of 9%, and the Bank warned it could surpass 11% later this year.

 

Many of us have been saying we would do very well to stop inflation going over 10%, and that was before Ukraine.

The official (massaged) rate may go as high as 15%, I am not saying it will, but it's a definite possibility as the actual rate for most people will already be around that level.

Very worrying.

Just to add to your woes are you aware of the shortage and escalating costs of Chlorine.

Many of us think that this will lead to closure of swimming baths for this reason and also due to the cost of heating them.

I am not saying they will but it’s actually a definite possibility.

[Anna B]

2 hours ago, RJRB said:

 

Just to add to your woes are you aware of the shortage and escalating costs of Chlorine.

Many of us think that this will lead to closure of swimming baths for this reason and also due to the cost of heating them.

I am not saying they will but it’s actually a definite possibility.

And like libraries, once closed they may never open again...