Re: Food trends for 2008
- From: "Julie Bove" <juliebove@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:35:43 GMT
"raymond" <raymond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There are several of these lists. Here are three
http://www.amonline.com/online/article.jsp?id=20430
http://blogs.menupages.com/philadelphia/2007/12/food_trends_for_2008.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/food/story/377476.html
My 10. Just my observation...
1. Bottled water is out. I think more cities will ban it in 2008. Just
drive by your local landfill and you'll see why. In the southeast,
bottlers take water from drought-stricken areas, bottle it, ship it to
areas that have plenty. This doesn't set well. Water filter sales are
skyrocketing. Except those reverse osmosis things. There is talk of a
ban on those here in Florida unless you are using well or river water.
Osmosis filter on a city tap makes no sense at all.
Bottled water is banned in some areas? I'd never heard that before. It is
a real hot seller here in WA and I can't imagine it being banned. Wouldn't
they also have to ban soda and seltzer? I mean... We could make that at
home. Right?
2. Plastic grocery bags are going out. Grocers are starting to sell
reuseable cloth ones. I see more people bringing their own. Paper
might be a renewable source, but it takes more energy to make a paper
bag than a plastic one, so plastic is cheaper. Cloth, if taken to the
store on every trip, is cheapest.
Really old news. Some stores here are talking of banning the plastic bags.
Odd because when I was a kid, all the bags were paper and some stores gave
you 2 or 3 cents back if you brought your own bags back to reuse.
3. Despite the backlash against plastic bags, I see stores using more
and more plastic on their own stuff. In the bakery, for example, two
croissants in a huge plastic box. I look around the bakery and deli
and I see hundreds of plastic boxes.
Here, most bakeries put the baked goods in loose. You select what you want
(or they do it for you) and they go into a paper bag or box. Some things
are put in plastic. Like cookies by the dozen.
4. More companies are moving from glass jars and metal containers to
plastic for their products. Coffee, condiments already gone. Pickles
are next. Let the next generations worry about what happens when the
oil is gone.
I haven't really noticed this, but I don't buy a lot of this stuff.
5. The gummint can no longer be trusted to monitor the food supply, or
any other supply for that matter. Farmers markets are in. Most are
organic. Some people, including me, buy their week's supply of fresh
goods at farmers market. You have to get there early in the morning.
The good ones can't grow stuff fast enough. Yes, they are unregulated,
but they also eat the stuff they sell. It's their food supply, too.
I get weekly shipments of organic produce. It isn't always enough for the
week (or the right combination of things) so I do have to buy some
additional things from time to time. I try to buy organic, but can't always
afford it.
6. More people are planting gardens, even in their flower beds, and
they're learning how to can and preserve again. Also, city people are
contracting with country people to buy the excess direct from their
gardens. Truck farms and pick-from-the-fields farms are coming back
big time, more than just berries. A couple of farmers quit coming to
our farmers market. Instead, they post directions to their farm and
and hours of operation. Gives virtual office a new meaning.
I've always tried to grow things wherever I lived.
7. Fancy schmancy is in. Flavored salt. Exotic fruits. "Super fruits"
they're called. Melons with names I can't pronounce at prices I'm
unwilling to pay. That's fine because people leave the cantaloupes for
me. New apple varieties that are way more expensive than red delicious
or granny smith.
Last summer, the local gourmet market had a melon sampling. There were
probably 30 types of melons there for the tasting and the buying. Daughter
tasted a couple, decided she wanted a certain one. Took us a while to hunt
it down. I bought it. Of course it was very expensive. When I cut up
open, she jumped up and down and squealed, "Oh boy! It tastes just like a
canteloupe!" As for the apples, the only ones that seem to get eaten in
this house on a regular basis are red delicous or granny smith. We have a
couple of apple trees. Those apples are rather small and not so good for
eating out of hand. They will eat sauce made of them, or pies or crisp, or
whatever I make. But that's about it for apples.
8. Prices are going even higher. You have to learn to shop. Price
difference at several stores is no longer a matter of pennies. Quart
of strawberries at Publix is 3.99. Exact same brand in the exact same
package off the exact same truck at Fresh Market is twice that.
It only stands to reason that prices are going up.
9. On just about every street corner now there's a Starbucks and a
family run Mexican Restaurant.
Tell me about it. I'm in the Seattle area. It's worse here. Not only is
there a Starbucks everywhere you look, there's some kind of Java hut or
other coffee place in between them. You can't escape the stuff and you can
no longer get a regular cup of plain black coffee unless you go to a
restaurant. And even there you might have a problem.
A new restaurant opened in my city a few months ago. I heard the man seated
behind me comment that it was nice to have something that is not Mexican for
a change. I had made the same comment to my daughter, but we have food
allergies. We can always get at least one or two things we can eat in a
Mexican restaurant. Might have to ask for it special, but we can get it.
Because of our food allergies to wheat, dairy, eggs, soy and other things,
whole categories of restaurants are out of the question for us. Like Asian
and Indian and most fast foods.
10. I expect more recalls. Business is production and bonus oriented.
Inspections take time and are expensive. More inspections reduce
sales, increase expenses, reduce executive bonuses. As long as they
meet minimum gummint standards, and sometimes if they don't, turn it
up and ship it out. Gummint inspections are down. Budget cuts. Too
much money being funnelled to the war and to homeland security.
Inspectors are looking for imported WMDs, not salmonella.
I worry about this. I no longer buy bagged salads. The cat is on a gluten
free diet. I cook as much as I can from scratch.
Hope everybody has a great year.
.
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