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

a reply to: nickyw

Sainsbury's are price matching Aldi on some products too , no bugs as yet though.

I'm something of an expert when it comes to food and cooking and also eating from an economical point of view.

I'm currently looing into how cheaper cuts of meat may now be as economical as they take more time and energy to be edible compared to more expensive options.

Its some strange days we are living in.

originally posted by: nickyw
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: gortex

watching the Aldis along the road i can see even waitrose do, my middle one commented lidl lost 10% of footfall when it opened but that returned in weeks as the lidl shoppers aren't saving money but shoppers of the big 4 are..

depending o metric i live in one if not the poorest regions in the SE and the aldis car park is generally filled with new cars, it makes for fascinating people watching, i've not seen any insects yet.. but to be fair i've not looked for them anywhere i've shopped bar pets@home when I gawp at the reptiles.

a reply to: nonspecific

coming from a 70s upbringing and first home/marriage during black wednesday i'm a tad paranoid to never live either again..

Some pricing still shocks me, i was out last weekend and a pint of shelled prawns was cheaper than 1/2kg of fish heads..

I've been shifting my habits for over a year now but my food shopping shifte at the start of the pandemic to local fish, meat, veg it saved me then and still does..

i think the biggest shift many people have yet to make is back to buying and cooking seasonal foods, given cost of energy the big one for us right now are slow cooked casseroles..

When it comes to the cost of living I'm pretty sure me and mine will be fine, we know how to cook and eat efficiently yet still well.

We take advantage of when there's decent reductions in the yellow sticker sections but to get the most out of that you need a decent amount of money and large freezers which many cant have, if meat is reduced by 75 percent and there's a lot of it we can buy say 15 packs of sausages and freeze them down.

We've got a very large garden and have chickens and ducks for eggs and if it comes to it I'll cull some and they can go in the freezer as well.

originally posted by: nickyw
a reply to: nonspecific

coming from a 70s upbringing and first home/marriage during black wednesday i'm a tad paranoid to never live either again..

Some pricing still shocks me, i was out last weekend and a pint of shelled prawns was cheaper than 1/2kg of fish heads..

I've been shifting my habits for over a year now but my food shopping shifte at the start of the pandemic to local fish, meat, veg it saved me then and still does..

i think the biggest shift many people have yet to make is back to buying and cooking seasonal foods, given cost of energy the big one for us right now are slow cooked casseroles..

originally posted by: DerBeobachter
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,

The biggest problem with insects as food is they are extremely low fat, and humans need animal fats - lots of animal fats. In fact, there is a thing called 'rabbit starvation' that comes from eating too lean a meat (rabbits) for too long.

Saturated animal fat is the healthiest food on the planet for humans.

a reply to: nickyw

Spam was never gone.

Some of my fondest memories of my childhood involved spam--as odd as that may sound.

Waking up on a frosty cold morning while on a hunting trip to the smell of coffee steaming in the pot, and spam in the frying pan, as the mighty hunters began preparations to get skunked (not always, but more often than not).

Or a summer camping trip. Etc...

Bugs are not on my menu, unless events have become so dire that even wild game is scarce. I've eaten bugs--they're a whole lot better than nothing, and some of 'em aren't that bad--if you can get past the "bug" part .

I rather have a avocado

originally posted by: infolurker
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.

Did you know as much as 80% of society voluntarily eat bugs on a weekly basis? The implication being there's more than enough consumer market to justify an insect protein menu in most restaurants or retailers where people want to modify their diet and see what risks yield what kind of reward.