This is all really depressing and contributes to my general lack of excitement for the future, it just feels like there's always bad news on the way. These rising bills and costs of living generally are going to have devastating effects on those who have very little income.
The winter of discontent 2021? Food, energy, transport, jobs, housing etc
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Is there a problem getting turkey? I've just googled it and seems plenty available?
I don't think there are any shortages in Europe, only price increases (although good deals in discounters).
Supply seems to be plenty.
Supply seems to be plenty.
True, but it seems that the pandemic and Brexit created a perfect storm and the steep increase in NI will reduce the disposable income even more.
I think if the C02 shortage continues then there might be a meat shortage. I really hope things do improve for us all.
This article explains it well:
Why is there a CO2 shortage and how will it hit food supplies?
The UK's food industry has been told it must pay five times more for carbon dioxide in future.
www.bbc.com
I'm on a prepayment meter - electric only as my property doesn't have gas for some reason. I got an email a few weeks back from my supplier informing me that it's going up but if I switched to a monthly deal, I could stay on the same price. I rent and my two neighbours checked if their meters could be changed over and the Landlord said no, so we're stuck on prepayment.
I tend to put on £40 a month and £60 a month in winter. I tend to do it monthly as I hate the hassle of walking to a shop every week especially in winter and I have a slipped disc in my back at the moment so find it painful to walk for too long.
I tend to put on £40 a month and £60 a month in winter. I tend to do it monthly as I hate the hassle of walking to a shop every week especially in winter and I have a slipped disc in my back at the moment so find it painful to walk for too long.
For assurance would it not be worth just buying one now and freezing it, if it's that important to your family member? Then if you can get a fresh one nearer the time, even better?
I don't eat meat now, but have had frozen turkey crowns previously and they were fine.
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Are blackouts likely? I know the press are reporting so, but they have done previously and nothings come of it.
My uni housemates and I really rented a house that doesn't have bills included and now this happens 
Funny isn’t it because if you look at the first few threads on Covid here back in March 2020 ish there was a lot of talk of stockpiling and some of us (me!) took the piss a bit. Then low and behold within a matter of weeks we were all largely confined to our homes and scavenging around for toilet roll and bleeping pasta 
I might go and fill my chest freezer with Xmas food this week just in case 
Might buy candles and extra blankets/duvets if I’m feeling particularly pessimistic!
TLDR after the events of 2020/21 anything is possible!
I might go and fill my chest freezer with Xmas food this week just in case Might buy candles and extra blankets/duvets if I’m feeling particularly pessimistic!TLDR after the events of 2020/21 anything is possible!
I think I must be really naive, I order my food shopping online and haven't noticed any real substitutions at all. Only the odd duff one you usually get.
Because of all of the idiots stockpiling.Funny isn’t it because if you look at the first few threads on Covid here back in March 2020 ish there was a lot of talk of stockpiling and some of us (me!) took the piss a bit. Then low and behold within a matter of weeks we were all largely confined to our homes and scavenging around for toilet roll and bleeping pasta
TLDR after the events of 2020/21 anything is possible!
Anyone else find all this anxiety inducing? My MH is fragile as it is, this doesn’t help 
Also generally if you live in the cities you might not notice as much because they are prioritized over more rural areas.
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I do shopping in person and by far the biggest issues I've had is pet treats, and whatever shortages Wilkos is going through
Asda has changed their isle system so a good portion of it is now dry and wet food and a very small portion is treats. Wilkos is just half empty, though that could also be partially because every other B&M-like store closed
Pets At Home probably has okay stock but their prices are far too expensive. They're now also the only local store that appears to be carrying flea treatments
We are pretty rural, an hour to our closest city, and not been experiencing many unavailable items. The bigger one was courgettes for most of summer, luckily I had planted some, so I could pick my own.
Fears over Irn-Bru production as UK faces carbon dioxide shortage
SCOTS could face shortages of Irn-Bru thanks to the rapid wholesale gas price increase in the UK, it has emerged.
Disaster!
I’m oxygen dependent and have been left short for the past two weeks because of supply issues for the first time ever.Scary.
Aaah I’m urban that probably explains why I haven’t noticed it. I have every supermarket brand going (and duplicates) within a 5 mile radius
They obviously didn't learn anything, from the panic buying they helped to create, during the height of the pandemic.
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I think the opposite, the media would love if we all started panic buying - they would get so many easy stories
Outrage stories about people being left short of food
Lots of easy photos that can be reused time and again
Angry opinion pieces about how stockpilers are awful
Angry opinion rebuttals about how there's nothing wrong with stockpiling
Tips on what you can make with a packet of flour and a tin of sardines
Endless speculation about when the shelves will be restocked
Feel good stories about people helping out foodbanks and elderly neighbours
Articles blaming Boris/Starmer *
Articles blaming immigrants/upper class toffs *
Articles blaming Brexit / the EU *
Tonnes of people sharing all of the above to show how much better they are than the people in the articles
* delete as appropriate for each paper
There used to be a saying in the newspaper world: If it Bleeds, It Leads but the modern equivalent with online newspapers is If it Enrages, It Engages.
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