2020 Trends

Now that a new year - and new decade is about to start people have started to wonder what will be the trends? Will we give up meat entirely? Will global warming affect our diets? What will be the latest gadget? The latest must have foods?

To be honest it's hard to predict what this decade will bring. It will possibly have something to do with climate change and us being more aware of our carbon footprint. We may be embracing more local farming by 2025 and much more locavore dining. Seasonally grown foods such as cabbage and potatoes in the winter and tomatoes and squash in the summer may replace us buying avocados and apples in January and cauliflower in July. Amazon may play a part in how we food shop and eat. There's supposedly talk and plans from the company itself that it will build big box stores throughout the US. As we all know you can buy almost anything on the site. An Amazon store will probably do the same. That means we can buy clotted cream from the United Kingdom and rice noodles from China in the store. It also means we can hopefully choose from a plethora of cooking and baking items and gadgets,Hopefully this doesn't mean the end of such local groceries like Piggly Wiggly and Stop & Shop.

As for the upcoming trends, I think more and more fast food chains like Wendy's and Mc Donald's follow in Burger King's footsteps and sell Beyond Meat, Beyond Burgers and Impossible Burgers. It's been successful for them as it has for Dunkin (formerly Dunkin Donuts),and KFC bringing in more customers and dollars.This may spread to college and university cafeterias as more and more students turn vegan or go vegetarian.Will high schools and grammar schools adopt this trend?Maybe in Canada and Europe. I can't see it happening it here until the end of the decade.More households may try either the Beyond Meat or Impossible Burgers for a healthier , greener lifestyle.Will international trends impact how we eat in this new year? Foodies have run the gamut internationally, from Nouvelle Scandinavian where moose and lingenberries were served over lichen to Vietnamese pho with American add ins like pepperoni and sliced hot dogs. Maybe there will be a trend towards Latin American food? Or possibly more Mediterranean foods. This was the decade of za'atar, the lovely mix of green spices and harissa, the spicy blend from North Africa.

What will these Roaring Twenties bring to the table? Will they bring us more sustainable foods? Or more home grown? We shall only see.