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Hi

Just caught an interview on BBC about failed crops which will lead to a price hike in flour and bread products. So stock up!

Cambourne7

I went to Sainsburys this morning and bought some flour, cos I needed it not cos it's going up. It was cheaper today than the last time I bought it about 3 weeks ago.
How do I know, well I'm one of these sad people who keeps a list of food prices that I buy regularly  ;D

We make our own bread cakes etc and buy pizza flour from an Italian supplier. 25kg at a time.  Have just had a delivery  :) :) :) :) :)

I was talking to my green grocer that supplies my veg at work and we were saying wait for when there is a shortage of spuds and watch the price of chips rise there will be an uproar!!

yep its all going to get ugly!!

We use a lot of flour in cooking so i might pick up a little more when i have room, i might pick up some more breakfast cereal as well.

I think once we know whats happening with the weather we should hear about parsnip, sprout, cabbage and other crop failures  >:(

And everything else. And with fuel going up too - well, transport costs will rise. And they will all be passed onto the consumer.   >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

yep were scr*wed!

Right! That does it! I'm off round to Tim's!

(he's always got LOADS of food on the grow!)

;D

Quote from: Amazin on July 20, 2007, 23:24:01
Right! That does it! I'm off round to Tim's!

(he's always got LOADS of food on the grow!)

;D

Including fields of wheat?! ;D

With Tim, anything's possible!

;D

ever heard of a breadaholic well you have now :-[ a loaf is not enough and a slice is too much! i have lost a stone in weight since giving up flour and sugar products ( bar a few rye crispbreads) think i,ll have to give up spuds as mine have the dreaded B . be alright if we stast growing rice tho :D
marg

More excess profits for the millers.

Try to equate this:-
How much was a loaf of bread in the 1960's, the farmers were then getting £120 per ton for milling wheat.
An average loaf of bread is now around £0.70, the farmers are now getting around £70 a ton.

So who's making all the profit, B----y cheek.

I heard that the Itailian spaghetti harvest has failed this year

It sounds like a year that my squirrell hoarding might need, with only 2 of us but I still buy in bulk as if feeding 8, flour by the sack, sugar by the sack  etc with enough food to last a year at least,bit of an addiction really but might just come in handy !!

XX Jeannine

Right - change of plan everybody- all round Jeannine's!

;D

Hey, my friends have teased me for years about my pack rat habits, I think it started when living in the Pacific North West right smack dab on the fault and heading fast for a big earthquake.I just got used to having a good stock of water, dried food etc along with all the other stuff I always grew and canned and as I happen to enjoy canning, preserving etc it just sorta became a habit.

I know it is really daft, but I get uneasy when stocks get low, and so I rarely let them.

XX Jeannine

Most of the flour used to make bread does not come from this country we get 90% of our flour from canada. The wheat use in bread making is hard grained we can only grow soft grain in this country. My family have been in the baking trade for over 130 yrs. This talk of bread price rise is a rip off by the bread industry to boost profits

The flours I buy by the sack from alocal mill are both imported and home grown.

The bread flour is mostly Canadian hard wheat with alittle soft added , the granary flour is  a combi  hard and soft and with other seeds added too.The cake flour I buy is English soft wheat .

The reason I buy this companies flour is because I am so used to the Canadain hard wheat for bread  and I like the  softer flour for other uses.

The price is very sensible, I have been told by the company that at this point they may have a small rise in the soft but do not anticipate any change in the bread flour at this time.I phoned them on Friday to ask just this question!!

XX Jeannine

Quote from: powerspade on July 22, 2007, 08:10:54
Most of the flour used to make bread does not come from this country we get 90% of our flour from canada. The wheat use in bread making is hard grained we can only grow soft grain in this country. My family have been in the baking trade for over 130 yrs. This talk of bread price rise is a rip off by the bread industry to boost profits

I quite agree that bakers get a hard time, but i think that what will be affected most in the UK is breakfast cereal and beer production !!

No one has equated the price levels in the 1960's and now.

Wages were then around £10 a week, so what does a tradesman get now? Certainly not £5 a week which is what would be the equivalent with wheat prices as the basis. Beer was around 8p a pint now it is around 30 times that, so why do farmers get nearly 1/2 what they did then.

When did you last see a farmer on a bike, I can truthfully answer that, 1964. John Taylor of Glebe Farm, Knapwell used to cycle to the village to use the phone in the kiosk.