Fruit and veg shortage

serously it feels like it round here

went to the saturday market round here on saturday and the fruit and veg stalls, two of them had very little stuff, no green stuff at all, no strawberries :O its summer :S

and a very small selection of fruit and veg.

whats going on :S

i knwo also its hard to get hold of carrotts in alot of areas, eh ?

im really confuzzled, its ment to be summer, fruit and veg high point :S

Oh I don't know Ceiron - I had no trouble getting any from Tesco on Saturday I got some satsumas, granny smiths apples, cherries, bananas and a mango. (Laura is on a fruit-kick at the moment )

I,ve bought it all on WW

- might have known either you or Helena would have something to do with it

yeah tescos do but its all foreign stuff, i like to use the local shops and amrket as much as possible, dont like they helping em to then they hav cheek to moan.

Oh I don't care if its foreign or not if its better. We got some grapes once for something Laura was making at school in cookery class and we bought them from a local fruit shop down the road from us and the grapes were absolutely disgusting - they were all shrivelled and awful and other things we have bought from these small shops never seem as fresh so its Tescos everytime for me now.

Ceiron-The fruit & veg you see for sale on markets are all class 2 which means they are not good enough for the likes of Tescos,Waitrose etc (unless they're desperate).They buy it from produce auctions/dealers all round the country and basically if 99% of produce at any time is class 1 quality-market traders dont get it offered to them.

I used to be a lorry driver for a produce company which is why i know this!

yeah i know but the stuff gets eaten the same day so i dont care.lol