It is five days since I last went shopping, and we are planning a new expedition. I’m not looking forwards to it – I don’t really want to queue around the outside of the shop as they allow us to enter one at a time for a tour of the empty shelves. We have tried ordering home delivery, but can’t find a delivery slot – they are all booked up for weeks to come.
I won’t carry on with this complaint as I’ve said it all before, but I am confused as to why the shelves are still empty despite the restrictions on buying.
I feel a bit guilty about buying more food while we still have plenty, but it’s a question of quality rather than quantity. We have food, in the sense of having things to eat, but in terms of having a proper balanced diet we are nearly out of a number of staples.
To manage our food more efficiently I have been checking the backs of the cupboards. I didn’t find Narnia but I did find some mango chutney to go with my previous discoveries. I even found a tin of rice pudding whilst I was shuffling packets and counting tins.
We have, I think, enough food for three weeks, if I really push it. Unfortunately, this is only one week of balanced meals, as we are running out of fresh vegetables. It won’t include bread, as we are about to run out. Nor, soon, will it include milk, eggs, or salad. Our vegetable stew will be served without dumplings due to a lack of flour.
Happier Days…
Week Two will see us running out of fresh fruit and relying on tinned vegetables – beans, mushy peas and sweetcorn. Sadly, the fish fingers and tinned mushy peas will be served without potatoes, which are in short supply. The cheese will have gone by the end of the week. On a brighter note, we will have plenty of marmalade, though without toast to put it on this is a mixed blessing. If we have any surplus cheese biscuits I will try them with marmalade.
Week Three will see some real culinary horrors as the tinned haggis comes into play, teamed up with chick peas and lentils. I bought two tins of haggis when I was worried about Brexit but haven’t been able to face actually eating them.
Julia told me that there is a spoof email doing the rounds, and taking advantage of the fear of food shortages. It promises tins of pork, but people are advised not to open it as it’s just spam.
Sorry about that – when Julia told me I couldn’t stop laughing. We have a tin of spam on the shelf next to the haggis. We will have to see if I’m still laughing when we are reduced to eating it.
Haggis and root vegetables
Good joke.
Thank you. 🙂
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One of the stores here told me that the shortages are now at the warehouse level. The warehouses are out of certain things, and it will be a matter of restocking there before the retail stores will see the goods and he shelves full again.
We are also close to needing to go out again soon.
We may have started to sort things out – fingers crossed!
Sorry, forgot to add my best wishes for your next shopping trip. 🙂
Tomorrow (Monday).
I like both haggis and spam. Could we do a swap?
The garden needs some work – can I swap all three cans for Jackie?
🙂
Should I take that as a “no”? 🙂
Yep. Much as I would like to do a deal with you. 🙂
I see your point.
“A good woman has a price above haggis” would have made the Bible a very different book.
I think I like the idea of marmalade glazed spam, couldn’t make it any worse. Good luck, these are interesting times. I am still wondering why despite the government saying there were no shortages we still have empty shelves here too, although over all I think we are doing a bit better here in Australia, we still have fresh fruit and veg thankfully.
It seems to be easing a little here – went shopping today and got most things apart from flour and paracetamol.
How about marmalade-glazed Spam? In all seriousness, good luck!
I hadn’t thought of marmalade glazed Spam, but if the food situation continues to decline It is a possibility. Needs must. 🙂
Good luck to you and Clif too.