full price crisis foods and Carrefour, which proposed to limit the prices of some basic products with Yolanda Díaz, the Second Vice-President of the Government, announced that it would launch a batch of 30 products for 30 euros to alleviate the situation. The minister immediately explained that his proposal is moving in this direction and that his idea is for supermarkets to prepare it. baskets with closed prices and yes, fresh produce meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits and dairy products. The nuance is not in vain: the Carrefour basket does not contain any of these. And in fact, it only has three of the 13 food types that the Department of Consumption highlighted in a guide to essential products distributed this week.
This list is almost identical to the list prepared by three professionals from the food world that El Periódico consulted. The three of them are Alicia Rodríguez, a neighborhood restaurant chef who lives off the almost daily menu; Montserrat Bagó, manager of the Serhs Group, involved in preparing meals for school canteens; and Laura Padró, a nutritionist who advises the Fundació Banc dels Aliments de Barcelona. same ten items.
A a packet of pasta or rice, fresh and seasonal fruits and vegetables (and if possible accompanied by tomatoes and onions, which are indispensable in Mediterranean cuisine), potatoesSome legume, olive oil, eggsa piece of meat, chicken or fishSome daily Y bread. Purchased separately and white label at Carrefour itself, Consum or Mercadona, this lot costs today, about 20 euros.
In any event, such a basket, designed primarily to assist the end consumer, won’t make a big difference. restaurants: a business fabric that is used to buying goods from wholesalers, but also has to do all sorts of juggling to balance the accounts. Especially the little ones.
The script becomes even more complex when fielded. baby feeding. In addition to inflation, companies committed to serving schools face an increasing trend towards food diversity (58% of children’s menus by Educa of Serhs Group are adapted to children with intolerance or Muslim culture), or depending on the agreed price in public schoolsthrough competition before the price increase begins.
There is a third sector of the food world that is missing, beyond the price increases, which is stocks. The Barcelona Food Bank Foundation relies heavily on donations and yet works with the same ten types of food (pasta, rice, legumes, vegetables, eggs, liquid oil, bread…) what healthy reference for your menus.
No matter, everything points Carrefour will continue its basket as envisioned, and Minister Yolanda Díaz will continue to press for other major distributors to do the same. The associations representing them said they didn’t see anything clear anyway, and organizations grouping small traders also expressed fears that such a measure would result in their customers being robbed. But the Government is still there, and Consumption released the official product offer to fill that basket on Friday: Vegetables and fruits, cereals, potatoes, vegetable oils, legumes, Hazelnut, the fish, eggs, Dairy products, meat, crushed tomatoes, vegetable cream and children’s jars.