I went to do my usual big shop today and there were so many gaps on the shelves, it's getting like it was during covid. Our tesco have revamped their store and are still fafing about with the layout and what goes where, all the customers are complaing that they can't find anything. But even worse is that they've cut down the range of things they sell they just give the other stuff more space. You can get almost any sort of chip you like, but no potato croquettes. They're out of stock on nearly all their veggie stuff and have been for weeks. Morrisons main freezer has packed up, again, and guess what it's the veggie stuff thats disapeared from its usual place and into the ether. Aldi has stopped doing loads of stuff too, Farm Foods do a miniscule amount of veggie food as does Iceland and Lidl had been raided by ferry people.
I go to about 4 different shops as it is, today it was 6 or 7, it's getting to the point where I wonder what I will be able to eat! If I didn't cook from scratch or batch cook most of the time it would b marmite on toast and thres only so much of that a woman can eat. I daren't do online as they take everything from your local store and if they don't have it then you either have often unsuitable replacements or nothing. The way the shops algorrhytms work is by instructing the picker what to pick and so if you say quorn sausages and they don't have them, they will tell the picker to get meat ones as they're still sausages, the pickers aren't allowed to think, 'this person wants quorn sausages and we don't have any, maybe I should opt for these other veggie sausages rather than meat ones'.
Another thing, the only place I can get ginger beer from is Waitrose and thats at the other end of the island so I only go there infrequently, Morrisons used to do their own brand, now they don't, lidl and aldi don't do it and nor do tesco. Ginger beer was really popular, they sold loads of it, so why stop? It makes no sense. It feels like some numpty somewhere has decided what we're all going to eat and if we don't we can go hungry.
I'm just so fed up with it all, sometimes I just want to chuck some junk food in the oven and not have to think about cooking something or eating the same three things over and over again.
