CBC predicting...
End of life as we know it... again...
Dining out regularly may become less appealing for many Canadians as higher food prices are passed on from restaurateurs who have to pay more for basic staples like flour, rice and just about anything in their kitchens.I'm not so sure the usually unfailingly amazing predictors at the Ceeb have got this one right.
Based, admittedly, on my personal observations while threading my way through masses of hippo-sized consumers at the local mall food court... I'm guessing most of these folks would give up a kidney before taking a pass on the many and various iterations of deep-fried whatever.
The boys at the Mother Corp., however, seem pretty determined to find a way to blame this on Big Oil.
Andrew Laffey, owner of the Hot House Cafe in downtown Toronto, says the first indication that prices are rising is that suppliers are adding fuel surcharges to their deliveries and "some have a flat fee per delivery and are charging so much per case."Of course... ol' Andrew does go on to say...
"This is not even to do with food prices. It is interconnected with the fuel crisis, and they are all using fuel as the catalyst to increase food prices," he says.
So far, he hasn't seen a decline in reservations — "not at this stage."Good grief.
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UPDATE: Good news, Ceebers...
The PM-in-waiting is on your side.
"Oh, what a mighty cheer must have gone up from the governing federal Conservatives when Liberal Leader Stephane Dion revealed plans to impose a carbon tax should he ever become prime minister."*
"The chance of that happening has all but disappeared."
3 comments:
Just planted my veggie garden, fresh veggies without pesticides, yumm!
Check out the frozen foods section of your local grocery store, you can even get frozen Mac and Cheese. The worse I have seen is baby food, it lasts until 2010! What chemicals are you feeding your baby if the stuff lasts for years?
Fuel costs aren't the problem, lazy people wanting microwaved meals are the problem.
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how about microwavable bacon or the frozen slurry you pour into your slow-cooker before leaving for work?
just how lazy do you have to be to go down that road?
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Yep...2 salaries are needed to pay, for these ready to eat MW meals or get a family meal from KFC or pizza 3~4 times a week. You see, mom and dad are really exhausted after a long day's work and commute in and out of suburbia land where grocery and other stores are all conglomerated into big box malls in one spot where driving is the only way to get to them.
Here's a novel idea: Why not have one of the parents stay home and cook good meals from scratch often using fresh produce from the garden that parent could also tend to.
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