(June 30, 2016 at 3:42 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(June 30, 2016 at 1:23 am)Alasdair Ham Wrote: Oh I also buy bread (no butter or margarine, just to go with my meals) and sometimes fruit. I bought some peanut butter to put in a mouse trap to get rid of the mouse in my apartment but the rodent bugger hasn't turned up since (my apartment has gaps in the skirting boards so a mouse got in). So I have almost ate it all already.
I sometimes buy ice cream or Pepsi as a treat but I usually have to miss a meal or two.
Maybe things will improve when you get out of the EU.
UK food prices set to rise after Brexit vote
Quote:Food prices are likely to go up as a short-term consequence of Britain’s voting to leave the EU, owing to the UK’s dependence on imports, according to the president of the National Farmers Union.
Meurig Raymond said the EU referendum result had been a “political car crash” and that UK farmers who receive up to £3bn in subsidies from the EU each year were headed into “uncharted waters”.
But he warned that one of the most immediate impacts would be from the combination of the UK’s reliance on food imports and the pound hitting a 31-year low on Friday after the leave vote.
“Sadly, we only produce 60% of the food we consume, we’ve seen our self sufficiency fall dramatically, so we are very dependent on imported food,” Raymond told the Guardian. “So a weaker pound will mean higher imported food value.