Your recipes for salads without lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, etc

[honeybee13]

Do people have favourite recipes for when summer salad ingredients aren't available?

 

One of mine is what I was introduced to as Winter Salad years ago, a no-cook one. Adjust the quantity of ingredients to suit the number of people.

 

Thinly sliced white or red cabbage or any cabbage that's available

Grated carrot

Raisins or sultanas

Diced dessert apple

 

If liked and if available

Dates, chopped

Small pieces of clementine segments

 

Serve with your favourite dressing.

 

Please add your recipes if you have favourites.

 

HB

 

 

[hightail]

I don't have any great recipes, do just want to record my utter amazement at supermarkets putting restrictions in place.  If they need to limit the amount taken it means people have been buying large amounts of highly perishable goods.  Why?  You can hoard toilet rolls, I get that but salad veg doesn't keep.  What is wrong with people?

[Homer67]

Steak and chips with tomato sauce.

[tobyjugg2]

I call this the coffee plebiscite special. Feeds a family of 4.

 

Take one turnip, chop it, boil it. Eat it.

If you cant afford heating, Take one Turnip, chop it and eat it raw

 

 

 

3 hours ago, hightail said:

I don't have any great recipes, do just want to record my utter amazement at supermarkets putting restrictions in place.  If they need to limit the amount taken it means people have been buying large amounts of highly perishable goods. 

 

The rationing is due to low availability in the UK, not because someones bought all the UK stock and bought 3 fridges and a chilled container  or 10 to keep them in.

 

Think of your peppers and tomatoes as limited editions of a Ferrari

- the people who can afford it and want it will have it shipped in specially from abroad (presumably if they have the right customs declarations)

- abroad there is loads of fruit and veg ... if not special edition Ferrari's ... .

 

You can replace Ferrari's with limited edition perfume if that suites your metaphor better.

Edited February 24, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Very good, Homer. A recipe would be nice as well. 

[hightail]

2 minutes ago, tobyjugg2 said:

The rationing is due to low availability in the UK

So why put restrictions in place if nobody is buying more than a reasonable amount.  It isn't as though you're restricted to one lettuce - it's two or three depending on the supermarket which means they must have experienced people buying more than that.

[tobyjugg2]

Whats 'a reasonable amount'

 

Example

10,000 peppers v 20,000 shoppers for peppers

- rationing prevents the first 10 just grabbing all thats available and perhaps trying to sell them on fruit and veg ebay or their own market stall at 3x the price - as happened with toilet rolls

- even then theres still not enough - but it is unquestionably 'fairer to the supermarkets customers

Edited February 24, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[Nicky Boy]

56 minutes ago, Homer67 said:

Steak and chips with tomato sauce.

Definitely tomato sauce... Has anyone else noticed the scarcity of budget/own brand brown sauce nowadays?

[tobyjugg2]

13 minutes ago, hightail said:

 which means they must have experienced people buying more than that.

 

No, they aren't/can't

 

 

Edited February 24, 2023 by tobyjugg2

[honeybee13]

Thoughts from Jay Rayner on the food system in the UK.

 

You can blame the weather and Brexit. But there’s more to the UK’s food supply crisis | Jay Rayner | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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The empty supermarket shelves aren’t just a blip. They’re a symptom of a dysfunctional system

 

[tobyjugg2]

Market research company Kantar reported on Tuesday that grocery prices in Britain in the four weeks to Feb. 19 were a record 17.1% higher than a year earlier.

[honeybee13]

That's awful.

 

The Graun has an article about why the UK food system doesn't work like European ones. HMG 'leaves it to Tesco'.

 

Food tsar blames shortages on UK’s ‘weird supermarket culture’ | Farming | The Guardian

WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM

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Henry Dimbleby says suppliers struggling with rising costs while locked into fixed-price contracts

 

[tobyjugg2]

its perhaps worth considering that the Brexit hard right 'argument' of the UK not needing farming - depended on cheap and simple imports of food and labour from the EU

 

and they then proceeded to shaft both sides of the argument

 

... oops

[honeybee13]

Indeed.

[tobyjugg2]

and experiments have shown that UK consumers are extremely cant or are extremely reluctant to pay more for farmer friendly milk

- not that the 'experiments' were applied well.

 

eg

Farmers milk Implemented as Pay more over the 'normal' price than the farmers got - so supermarkets profited from it

- rather than the customer pays a bit more and the supermarket pays some more on top out of the profits