The price of food....and everything really

[coasty]

I Coasty of the all seeing eyes do make the following predictions That in 5 years the following will be a fact.....

Petrol / Derve £2.50 /litre
Loaf of bread £2
Rice prices will have trebled from its current level.
Eggs £3 /dozen
There will be road pricing schemes in several major cities ala the congestion charge.
The thread for "Is Global warming a natural blah blah blah" will still be lumbering on.
Gordon Brown will still be Blaming the last conservative Goverment ( Albeit from the opposition back benches.....)
Boris “Statistically, I am due to be fired again.” Johnson
will have just been re elected to be mayor of London...........
The London Olympics Bill will have been so huge I cannot even type that many zeros...

I wonder what you all think?

[Garden Carpet]

Hi Coasty, I have just returned from visiting my sister in Spain (it rained nearly every day!!) where a litre of petrol is 1.12 euros!!!!!!! It just shows that our govt. taxes the life out of us.

I agree with your predictions on food costs. I shopped today in my local co-op.. what a dismal comparison it makes to continental shopping.. their fruit and veg are so much better quality than ours.. and so much cheaper. And the variety! So much more in the way of meat.. much better quality and the price was astonishingly low. I know we have transport to factor in but really... if they can do it.. why cant we!

jaki

[Paul mabbott]

Yes, we just filled the tank and paid about £50 - can't say we enjoyed it but, basically, it means that we'll use the car less and that can't be a bad thing if applied to everyone in the country. True enough, we don't use the car excessively but a lot of people do ...... and we'll be replacing it soon .....

When it gets down to food then we have to remember that 50% of our food is imported (from Spain perhaps) and 40% of it is wasted. There was a nice piece in the paper a couple of days back saying that most households could easily save £500 per year by considerate shopping and another £500 by avoiding waste.

I would hate to get into the Thatcher view that we should () all buy en masse and store cheap offers in our freezers, that we could use our Chelsea tractors to bring bulk, that we could get our au pairs to be more frugal ... but, apparently, most food is wasted by people who can least afford it.

There was a piece in the Guardian pointing out that bread from your own machine saves at least £1 per loaf; that making your own tomato sauce (for pasta) costs next to nothing and produces no waste if you plan properly, that hummus, pesto, all sorts of things take little time and save vast amounts of money.

... and, of course, if you carnivores out there reduced the amount of meat you ate then you could travel a little further in your car ...

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

Hi Coasty, I have just returned from visiting my sister in Spain (it rained nearly every day!!) where a litre of petrol is 1.12 euros!!!!!!! It just shows that our govt. taxes the life out of us.

I agree with your predictions on food costs. I shopped today in my local co-op.. what a dismal comparison it makes to continental shopping.. their fruit and veg are so much better quality than ours.. and so much cheaper. And the variety! So much more in the way of meat.. much better quality and the price was astonishingly low. I know we have transport to factor in but really... if they can do it.. why cant we!

jaki

[Meta menardi]

Made my day, Coasty.

And the rate of inflation that determines the rate of my pension will be 2.5 %

(Breaks into old Music Hall song
"it's the Same the whole world over.
It's the poor what gets the blame
It's the rich what get's the pleasure
Ain't it all a blooming shame")

Please pass the 'at round, any contribution avariciously received.
But we will still have outside to go and look at.

[Pat]

Coasty, where do you get eggs at £3 per dozen in 5 years time, I bought 6 free range eggs at Tesco yesterday cost me £2.48

[Helo]

Originally Posted by Pat

Coasty, where do you get eggs at £3 per dozen in 5 years time, I bought 6 free range eggs at Tesco yesterday cost me £2.48

Good grief, what a rip off!

Eggs and supermarkets don't go together, in my book.

I buy 6 eggs from a lady who lives 'across the field', taken from chickens in her garden, for just £1

[coasty]

Originally Posted by Helo

Good grief, what a rip off!

Eggs and supermarkets don't go together, in my book.

I buy 6 eggs from a lady who lives 'across the field', taken from chickens in her garden, for just £1

I pay £2.30 for a tray of 30 from the farm,,,,,

[bleeper]

A few years ago we bought 2 hens from a battery farm, apparently too old. They cost us £1.00 each. They laid most days and lived for a good few years pecking around the garden, contented and happy. We never bought food in for them (if memory serves me right) they lived off the pecking around and kitchen scraps. Sometimes we had so many eggs we were giving them away. Best £2.00 we ever spent!
Am seriously considering getting some again.
Jen

[stripee]

Maybe there will be the return of fruit trees in gardens, apples, pears, cherries and plums. Gooseberries, blackcurrants and raspberries and allotments, and veg plots. I read in the Independent yesterday about super rich Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich. He is not cutting back on anything, he owns a crazy amount of things for one human being.

[shei111]

Originally Posted by Pat

Coasty, where do you get eggs at £3 per dozen in 5 years time, I bought 6 free range eggs at Tesco yesterday cost me £2.48

Hello Pat Yes thats far too much for horrible supermarket eggs Ive never bought eggs from supermarket and I wouldnt have them if they gave them to me free , you cant beat buying them on the side of the road free range or farm fresh usually about £1.20 per dozen or bantams eggs about 80 pence per dozen. sheila