This past weekend I wanted to cook and went grocery shopping. The price of a pack of 4 tomorrow which usually was 299 Yen at the supermarket, was 580 Yen !! Same brand same quantity.
I didn’t use tomatoes for my cooking that day.
I am aware that price of commodities is increasing in Japan. But this was double the original price.
Is it just for tomatoes or everything else?
Where else are you noticing increase in price of daily commodities? What else to expect in near future ?
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Less (and then suddenly a lot of) rain made tomato harvest go really badly.
It’s really just the end of tomato season.
Also, only 330 yen here in Fukuoka for my standard 4 pack of tomatoes. They were a little smaller than peak season but still good.
They were discussing this on the morning news. They said the unseasonably warm temperatures were to blame. They hope that distribution will recover and prices come back down in November
*gestures to yaoya*
I would recommend buying seasonal veggies and fruits.
1. More variety in your diet
2. Much cheaper
3. You get to try new foods and recipes
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For out of season veggies you can aim for the discounted bin that most big supermarket have, when it comes to tomatoes they are usually soft and they do not taste as good when eaten whole or in a salad, but to make a stew or a sauce they work perfectly.
Nope
Am I crazy or this is a repost? I swear someone complained about this 2 weeks ago
Yes ): so expensive
Shop at your local mom-and-pop vegetable stall.
The lack of rain this summer really was not good for tomatoes but on the other hand it was a bumper crop for corn this year.
Tomato is summer plant. Summer is over so its normal to hike the price.
I just realized how expensive they got this past Sunday.
yes. It was the only vegetable I eat. kh… ate. Past tense.
Oh wow where do you live?
I live in in Yamanashi. I haven’t seen tomato that is less than ¥100 each. And it’s usually ¥150 for one 😵
Same here in Saitama.
5** and with tax it’s around 618 for 5 tomatoes.
1 Carrot for 138 lol
Not in season anymore.
Yes I noticed today because I eat tomatoes every day. Well, mini tomatoes. One package was 500¥! It usually has around 26 mini tomatoes.
It was a bad year for the crops. Oddly, rice prices are virtually unchanged. Butter is up 25%. Yogurt is up by at least 30%.
Weather has been incredibly hot and very wet so loads of veg and fruit just hasn’t grown well at all this year. Add in rising food prices and we’re all struggling. It’s mad init
Out of season tomatoes are generally pretty expensive here.
Yeah, tomatoes are bad right now, and it’s the weather that’s the likely culprit. But lettuce has been bad also this year being over 200 yen a head as well as broccoli recently being 398 yen for a medium sized bunch in our inaka store.
But how quickly we forget last year’s shitty onion crop in Hokkaido.
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Welcome to Autumn.
Happens with a lot of seasonal produce
I also saw yesterday that they increased the price were i live.
Yeah. We stopped buying them. I just eat cabbage lol.
MaxValue near Nagoya was at ~200 Yennies for a single Tomato. Had just Ketchup on my sandwich instead…
My one indulgence is the fruit tomatoes and their price skyrocketed to 4000 Jpy per kg 🙁
For me, tomatoes are always expensive 😂 it’s one of the things I miss the most from Spain 🥲
Tomato can is the way to go
Tomatoes weren’t so tasty this year. Just a bad year and now they’re going out of season.
I stopped buying tomatoes for a long time now. It is more economical to just buy canned tomatoes. You can still cook a lot of recipes with it and you can still buy fresh tomatoes every now and then.