Frozen fruit and berries were in 600 gram bags. Now they are 400 grams, but the bags look the same. And the Weasels *also* raised the price 2 dollars and the shops have the nerve to call it a sale when it's *only* 1 dollar more and for the 1/3 smaller size!
Fine. I won't buy them any longer.
I will redouble my efforts to freeze plums, cherries and blackberries from the yard in season. I will buy clearance citrus and grapes and freeze them myself. They can pound sand up you know where.
Ditto for mushrooms. I normally just freeze a few Pines (matsutake) and eat the others I forage, but now I'm going to freeze morels, chanterelles and sweet tooths as well. King boletes even grow right in my yard.
More foraging. More leaning on friends hunting (I butcher). I'm nearly meatless anyhow.
I will push back!
We have sky high food inflation in canada and the supermarkets are having record profits, but they tell parliament it's just a coincidence.
@gemlog I've already cut down my diet and range of foods to almost absolute basics and making soups from everything just to keep flavoured water... can be done while keeping some existing stuff more as treats... I think probably we need to go to this level anyway like after the war was and things were special from abroad etc...
and great how you're already thinking / doing it yourself. Apples are amazing and many things you mention...
