Lidl has become the sixth supermarket to ration the sale of some fruit and veg because of shortages.
Bad weather in Spain and North African countries have been blamed for a reduction in the sale of tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers.
Lidl has followed other stores such as Tesco, Aldi, and Morrisons in limiting customers to three each of those items.
Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey has encouraged the public to eat UK produce.
She told the House of Commons: “It’s important to make sure that we cherish the specialisms that we have in this country.”
Ms. Coffey also encouraged people to eat more seasonal produce, suggesting that everyone should transfer to homegrown vegetables like turnips.
Dave Price, 76, of Langworthy, was shopping in Lidl and had this to say about the changes to the number of purchases to the items.
He said: “I haven’t really thought about it to be honest. If you’ve got a market you’ve got plenty of them.”
With the shortages to tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, Dave added: “What are tomatoes like grown in Britain? Can’t imagine we have the climate for it.
“I prefer beef tomatoes and I cook with tomatoes quite a lot. You don’t seem to get beef tomatoes anymore.”
Mr Price also commented on the suggestion to eat turnips: “I’ll try anything twice me.”
Adam Norton, 20, from Langworthy, seemed more confused at the recent change. He said: “I don’t understand why they’ve put a limit on these things. Who’s buying three bags of peppers unless you’re a big family?
“I’m only buying one a week so there’s no point in putting a cap on it, nobody’s buying more than three.
“I don’t see it making that much of a difference to anything and for the supermarkets, they’re going to sell less I guess because the people that need them won’t be able to do that, limiting it only costs the supermarket money.”
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