shrinkflation
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 12:20 am
Okay stuff has been getting less and less over time in products. It has been a gradual thing but recently they have gone crazy. Anyone know why?
Yes you may ask.We buy no eggs.We buy no salads,as that is taken care of by using the polytunnel and seasonal plants.Brassicas are covered and Alliums too.Although ' normal' onions we buy in.Spuds I can grow for half the year,and right now Jerusalem Artichokes are coming in to supplement them.Tomatoes are frozen and dried for use in cooking and last a good half year.I will only eat fresh tomatoes in season.We have stored apples from the little orchard ( five trees) and the plums I dehydrate or brew.Dried chillies from the greenhouse and enough root veg to last until fed up with them.Perpetual spinach is always there and provides a picking at least once a week,( used some tonight in a pasta dish).Arwen Thebard wrote:jansman;
Can I ask what percentage of your own veg / meat / dairy etc do you expect to grow each year?
Do you save your own seeds?
Always a good hedge against rising food prices
What? me? What can I say,I like to keep a good strain going and I'm a tightwad and we like to share! don't we Jansman?jansman wrote:Yes you may ask.We buy no eggs.We buy no salads,as that is taken care of by using the polytunnel and seasonal plants.Brassicas are covered and Alliums too.Although ' normal' onions we buy in.Spuds I can grow for half the year,and right now Jerusalem Artichokes are coming in to supplement them.Tomatoes are frozen and dried for use in cooking and last a good half year.I will only eat fresh tomatoes in season.We have stored apples from the little orchard ( five trees) and the plums I dehydrate or brew.Dried chillies from the greenhouse and enough root veg to last until fed up with them.Perpetual spinach is always there and provides a picking at least once a week,( used some tonight in a pasta dish).Arwen Thebard wrote:jansman;
Can I ask what percentage of your own veg / meat / dairy etc do you expect to grow each year?
Do you save your own seeds?
Always a good hedge against rising food prices
Then we have the rabbits.I sell most of them on,but during Winter we eat one or two a week.I wish we still had the goats,but I lost the land to keep those, and I do miss the milk.And the meat for the best ever curry.However,I do shoot,and there is no shortage of game and pigeons.I fish too,and that is my real passion.My wife is not a fan of fish to eat,but now and again I will take a Perch ( the river here is teeming with them), or a Zander.The Environment Agency electro fish them as they are a pest species,so no guilt there!
I wish I had more room to grow more beans.I could take another allotment, but that is valuable fishing time! And yes,I save seeds- big time.Although there are one or two here who save seeds to the nth degree,don't they Brambles?
Good grief! I'm seriously impressed jansman, and humbled too. That's amazing, and congratulations. I'm planning, finally, to actually plant and harvest properly next year, now that the bulk of the building works and all the family disruptions are done. Fruit, perennials and perpetuals, thats my game, and that will help with food prices.jansman wrote:We buy no eggs.We buy no salads,as that is taken care of by using the polytunnel and seasonal plants.Brassicas are covered and Alliums too.Although ' normal' onions we buy in.Spuds I can grow for half the year,and right now Jerusalem Artichokes are coming in to supplement them.Tomatoes are frozen and dried for use in cooking and last a good half year.I will only eat fresh tomatoes in season.We have stored apples from the little orchard ( five trees) and the plums I dehydrate or brew.Dried chillies from the greenhouse and enough root veg to last until fed up with them.Perpetual spinach is always there and provides a picking at least once a week,( used some tonight in a pasta dish).
Then we have the rabbits.I sell most of them on,but during Winter we eat one or two a week.I wish we still had the goats,but I lost the land to keep those, and I do miss the milk.And the meat for the best ever curry.However,I do shoot,and there is no shortage of game and pigeons.I fish too,and that is my real passion.My wife is not a fan of fish to eat,but now and again I will take a Perch ( the river here is teeming with them), or a Zander.The Environment Agency electro fish them as they are a pest species,so no guilt there!
I wish I had more room to grow more beans.I could take another allotment, but that is valuable fishing time! And yes,I save seeds- big time.Although there are one or two here who save seeds to the nth degree,don't they Brambles?
They are creeping in gradually.However,when I catch the few I come across...I eat them!Arwen Thebard wrote:"I fish too,and that is my real passion"
Any crayfish issues / available in your part of the country?