A trip to the supermarket on Saturday was yet another illustration of soaring food prices here.
$3.98 for a lettuce! In the middle of summer! Can you believe that? I told another shocked woman beside me "I'm not paying that for a lettuce!" (in my best indignant voice). Although reluctant, she did buy one of the golden lettuces, where as I opted for a menu change and went for a small head of broccoli.
My grand plans for successive lettuce sowings has been hampered by bad weather and laziness - if I'm honest.
So needless to say, I scurried home and sprinkled a whole tray with lettuce seeds, which in the current humidity have germinated in a day and a half!
How single income families manage to feed their children on modest food budgets without producing some of their own food, I'll never know.
Well I do know - nutrition suffers! When you can buy a bag of frozen chips for cheaper than the cost of a bag of dirt covered potatoes!
Anyhow, I need to go an rescue my tomato plants that were battered by the gale force winds we had over the weekend. They are laden with fruit, so I'm watching out for blight and other nasties.
Till next time x
1 comment:
Haha I love it! I hear your rage...although supermarkets make me mad at the best of times and it's not always over the food prices!! I actually overplanted my garden with lettuces that are doing pretty well so i may have a few to spare for you if they survive the next few weeks of my novice gardening! x
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