You Will Eat Bugs: Aldi considers selling edible insects amid cost of living crisis

Lesser mealworm, house cricket, yellow mealworm, banded or decorated cricket, migratory locust are now back on the menu.

Don't worry, they will make sure we have bugs to eat in our time of "financial crisis". Like the WEF said, you can have real meat as a treat a few times a year if you are good and the masters are pleased with you.


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Popular supermarket Aldi is considering selling edible insects to help families struggling with the cost of living crisis.

The supermarket giant, known for its cheap prices, is weighing up stocking insect recipe kits to give customers the choice to chow down on a cricket or two.

Aldi, if it sees it through, would stock Yum Bug's insect recipe kits, founded by Aaron Thomas and Leo Taylor.

The duo, both 28, beat off hundreds of applicants to appear on Channel 4 ’s ‘Aldi’s Next Big Thing’ tomorrow. If they win they could soon see their product on Aldi shelves across the UK.

Speaking out about their hopes for success, Mr Thomas has said they want to take insects “mainstream”.

Mr Thomas, from Islington, London, said: “We're on a mission to change perceptions of insects as food; they're one of the most sustainable protein sources in the world.

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During an episode of Aldi's Next Big Thing, in which food producers compete to get their products on the supermarket's shelves, edible insect business Yum Bug made their pitch.

Though buyer Julie Ashfield didn't think the products would do well currently, she told the entrepreneurs: "Come back in five years."

It comes after The Great British Bake Off contestant Janusz Domagala used crickets as an ingredient in a first for the show.

Why shop at Aldi's? You can already buy all that stuff at Petsmart, or are they expecting a lizard and fish food crisis?

a reply to: infolurker

I would have no problem with this under normal circumstances , you know , non-'great reset' movement.
People who want to eat this buy this, those who don't want to eat it don't buy it , simple.
But, this will be forced on us , just like all the other 'great reset'/plandemic agenda things.
I won't eat it, my family will not either, not ever. I will sooner starve than eat disgusting bugs !

Off course we also all know that those that are pushing this agenda will be eating the best $300 steaks money can buy

a reply to: ancientlight

Rich people don’t buy things duh! Thats why their rich.

a reply to: infolurker

As I understand it we already do eat insects. I remember hearing that the FDA allowed a certain percent of insect "pieces" in food because there is no way to limit insect 100% in factories where they process food(s).

Here are some links:

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Like it or not we've been eating insects the whole time.......

a reply to: infolurker

I love me some ALDI's, but just NO.

and we'll see these still sitting alongside the pretend burgers/fake steaks when all else is sold out..

its always ironic how over stocked they always are on the fake ultra processed crap that is still more expensive than normal meats..

a reply to: Brotherman

always find it weird how its mostly the rich that eat them as they are more expensive than the cheaper cuts of meat..

but then even the middle class stores are shifting to selling fish heads, beef shin, ox cheek and lamb neck as they still prefer meat to fake meat.. though spam is making a come back..

a reply to: [post=26732851]infolurker[/post

Like it?

I highly doubt it considering the human digestive system can't handle the chitin.

We pay premium prices for what are basically sea insects, but because these bugs are land based and smaller they’re not good? Just call then a superfood, carry out some BS epidemiological study saying they prevent baldness or some other thing and everyone will be paying crazy money to get them.

I never ate faked meat, wannabe meat, if i eat meat then it is real meat from the butcher on the other side of the road. But i don´t get the problem people have with a simple protein source aka insects. First thing i read today is that the security of food supply here in Germany is only guaranteed till around March 2023. After that, who knows?

Tbh, i would prefer a good cup of mealworms then before eating my cooked leather belt. Simply because of the huge protein boost. I am pretty sure that if there is no pre-fabricated BS food to buy anymore, or too expensive, a lot of people who say now that they never would insects will eat them if they are hungry, are starving or whatever.

Even almost all people who said they never would eat insects and went to a Thailand trip came back and have tried eaten insects on the Bangkok market, even if only as a test of courage. Nobody of them died because "the human body can´t handle chitin" (why is chitin then even artificially added to many pre-fabricated BS foods?). And many of them said it´s only a "head-thing", in reality these insects tasted very well, like chips, crackers.

The only insects i ever ate where ants, grasshoppers (grilled), worms. That stuff you do when you are a kid, just because of curiosity. And we all did it (we were all in "Bushcraft" decades before we knew what "Bushcraft" is). Nobody ever had any problems because of eating them. And we didn´t only do it once and only one ant or grasshopper.

On the other side, i never paid money in a supermarket, discounter or whatever for insects and will never do this (not least because you can´t buy them here in average supermarkets and they would be too expensive anyway, same with all that fake-meat). If i would like to pay for them to eat them i would buy them where i can buy food for pets, for almost no money and in huge amounts. But they are insects, why should i have to buy them, they are everywhere and even very easy to breed if necessary.

I am pretty sure that if i would see a packet of whatever, for me good looking insects with 90% discount because nobody wants to buy them, out of curiosity i would buy a pack then and eat that stuff. I know myself... xD

I would never start to eat them constantly if not necessary. But if necessary, i would have no problems to eat tons of them, especially if nothing else is available anymore. You mustn´t forget that we average Germans aren´t hunters, don´t have hunting weapons (and if, they are mostly illegal without the right papers not everybody can get and it´s again very expensive), don´t have a huge country with enormous forests full of game. We have enough but if suddenly everybody would start to hunt soon there would no wild life be left in these forests.

For me, insects are nothing else than a protein source when i depend on protein. If i can eat four legged animals why shouldn´t i eat six or eight legged animals, especially in dark times which are ahead.

Don´t get me wrong, i don´t want others, who hate to eat insects, to eat insects. This is just my "survival-thinking", my personal opinion that i would rather eat insects than going to starve.

a reply to: infolurker

It's funny how many people think that eating insects is some new thing. Humans have been eating them throughout all human history.

time.com...

www.nationalgeographic.com...

www.ancient-origins.net...

a reply to: infolurker

Not a chance in hell

People aren’t just gonna glue themselves down in front of these disgusting products, they are gonna do a lot worse in protest

Hey politician jackasees… stop with the bug food talk now before it gets ugly, ya dig?

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Yeah, I would rather eat Bugs Bunny thanks Aldi's! Kill the wabbit, cook the wabbit, then eat the wabbit! Then it's duck season again!🐰🍗

a reply to: infolurker

That's all very well but this is (perhaps) happening because the chaps who are marketing these things won a reality show.

Aldi is so cheap and cheerful people don't need to eat bugs if they don't want to try them.

They can sit on it and go swivel. I wouldn't even consider Aldi that cheap anymore, ASDA & Tesco's off-brand stuff is just as cheap and usually has better sources. Aldi was good 10 years back when it used to just sell basic food staples, but since it became yuppified and trendy, they've started trying to emulate M&S and are selling ridiculous mostly semi-pre-cooked oven/microwave-friendly convenience-ready meals and frozen processed crap. I used to go as a student and graduate when it was considered a paupers supermarket. And it was pretty good then, it was kind of a secret for the little man, but then the struggling middle classes moved in and culturally appropriated it. And ALDI started catering more for them. No one knows how to cook from scratch anymore. Know one knows basic food economics. How to portion out foods for the week etc. People are thick. Example: went in the other day and they're selling a family tray of cooked penne pasta in a cream sauce with bits of ham in it (not much of it) for like £7.50. You could literally buy a large pack of penne, some bacon/ham and cream add seasoning at home and you've got probably twice the amount for about 2 thirds of the price.

a reply to: gortex

always see lidl as the cheap store and Aldi as the tesco/sainsburys basics comparison which places aldi as the waitrose of the cheap stores and the one the middle class are happier to shop at..

a reply to: nickyw

I shop at Sainsburys mate , I've been to an Aldi but didn't like the lack of choice , food quality was good though ,not been to a Lidle.

I'd be more inclined to go if they would do self service tills as standing in long queues looking at unmanned tills put me off.

a reply to: gortex

quite agree was a sainsburys shopper now M&S but have Aldi very close and middle son works at lidl after working in Sainsburys so i would go as far as saying M&S basics are priced in the same way as the others but wins on quality even so Lidl comes in well under the cost of the others.. which is why the other compare prices with aldi.. even seen a few waitrose adverts that make the same comparison..