Food shortages

[LizzieL]

Is anyone else still experiencing food shortages in supermarkets (in UK)? For 7 weeks yeast and any kind of flour (not just bread flour) has either been unavailable to order, or if we do order has not actually arrived. last week we couldn't get eating apples. This week no cooking apples and no fresh skimmed milk. This is in addition to less essential items not being available like mustard, packet soups, pickles etc. Is this general or am I just unlucky? I haven't been out to shop since 17th March and that was just to the village shop which at the time was experiencing considerable shortages 

[rosie99]

I know that some people have been having problems with flour and yeast.

I have not had any problems with Milk and fresh produce that I would not have normally experienced with my online delivery.  I always used to say 'no alternatives' but my list nowadays allows these wherever I am not after a particular branded item. 

[tjugg]

Bicarbonate of soda has vanished as have cheap dishwasher tablets.
Linda

[chempat]

Flour was patchy but reappeared, and then disappeared.  Only available from local shop if you order sackfuls - so I assumed the bigger supermarkets were grabbing all the standard bags - but some of them also do not have any available online.

[chempat]

Found recent Daily Telegraph article - problem is demand for normal size flour bags vastly exceeds capability of producers to pack and supply them.  They are used to dealing with large sacks to commercial operations.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/features/why-flour-shortage-shops/

[gaffy]

You're not alone, though I haven't experienced any issue with fresh produce, it's usually more the likes of frozen veg (cauliflower in particular) and tinned items like mince /stewed steak. Plenty of toilet rolls available though - I hope folk sitting with a stockpile of 300 rolls in the garage or roof space feel suitably embarrassed.

[mckha489]

Friend of my daughters ordered a large bag of flour. To get free delivery she added the teabags, then had to “persuade” all her friends to buy them off her in lots of 100!

[suey]

All baking ingredients  ?? can’t get glacé cherries, sultanas, raisins or mixed peel. No flour, no yeast, no baking powder, no ground almonds. Bakery were selling plain flour not much help if you have no baking powder.

Some cereals have been patchy too, cornflakes, all bran, shredded wheat.

Fresh fruit and veg have all been ok, we use two different farm shops, what we can’t get in one we generally get from the other.  Milk fine, straight from the farm.

It seems that the things I can’t get I can live without anyway so mustn’t grumble!

[suey]

Wow  . I bet those teabags worked out cheaper in the long run though.