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I would love to see what sort of meals he plans to make for 30p a serving? I am guessing its pasta / rice-based. No fresh fruit or vegs. That'll be good for long term heatlh
I would love to see what sort of meals he plans to make for 30p a serving? I am guessing its pasta / rice-based. No fresh fruit or vegs. That'll be good for long term heatlh
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Jack Monroe laying down a challenge. £500 donation to the Trussell Trust if anyone can do this (I'm not sure if you have to be a "white winger") .
All the white wingers saying cooking on a budget is easy, let’s see it. I want your shopping list & 7 day meal plans, to include all 3 meals drink & snacks. Has to meet 5 a day fruit & veg, daily vitamin RDAs, protein targets & fibre. Off you pop, I could do with the competition.
Jack Monroe laying down a challenge. £500 donation to the Trussell Trust if anyone can do this (I'm not sure if you have to be a "white winger") .
All the white wingers saying cooking on a budget is easy, let’s see it. I want your shopping list & 7 day meal plans, to include all 3 meals drink & snacks. Has to meet 5 a day fruit & veg, daily vitamin RDAs, protein targets & fibre. Off you pop, I could do with the competition.
It's perfectly possible to make a meal for 30p. The difficulty is doing it when you can't buy in bulk, hitting all of the RDA, keeping processed flour/sugarto a minimum, getting enough variety to get different nutrients and having to do it day after day.
Not to mention some people were choosing between heating and eating and now some cannot even afford to cook.
The ingredients for a BBC beef stew recipe for 5, assuming you could buy 2 celery sticks rather than six, or two tablespoons of worcestershire sauce rather than a bottle, cost about £7.50.
So assuming you're happy to have beef stew 5 days a week (you don't have a freezer, remember) that's already £1.50 a day.
That £1.50 does not cover the cost of cooking nor purchasing and cooking some spuds, say, to go with your stew.
Then of course there's the other two meals.
I can make a stew for £10 and get 10 helpings from it.... You are going to need to freeze some of it, (if you live on your own) Chillie con carne same, Bolognese same.... It's not ideal to eat the same food often... But I'm not much of a foodie, so its just fuel to me... Porridge for breakfast, guessing about 40p a portion.... Beans on toast or soup and roll for lunch, 60p?.. Thats 3 meals for £2 per day.... My point is, if you have to, you can eat cheaply... Tbh, I only eat 2 meals a day, normally, and the odd piece of fruit thrown in... Obviously, we are all a bit different and need varying amounts according to our size and what kind of work we do, or how active we are.. (BTW.. my spuds are part of my stew , so are cooked with the rest in 1 big pot)...... Don't get me wrong, I agree that living costs are soaring.. But like I say, imo, food is the one thing, that's probably easiest to save a bit of cash on, if needed.. (Carrots, onion, whole swede, 2 parsnips, spuds, diced beef, 2 stock cubes, teaspoon mustard,water).. Perhaps not as grand as a BBC stew, but does me... If I'm on a tight budget, I'll just take a ten pound note with me to the supermarket , instead of taking a bank card. You'll be surprised what you can get with a tenner, if its all you've got..
I can make a stew for £10 and get 10 helpings from it.... You are going to need to freeze some of it, (if you live on your own) Chillie con carne same, Bolognese same.... It's not ideal to eat the same food often... But I'm not much of a foodie, so its just fuel to me... Porridge for breakfast, guessing about 40p a portion.... Beans on toast or soup and roll for lunch, 60p?.. Thats 3 meals for £2 per day.... My point is, if you have to, you can eat cheaply... Tbh, I only eat 2 meals a day, normally, and the odd piece of fruit thrown in... Obviously, we are all a bit different and need varying amounts according to our size and what kind of work we do, or how active we are.. (BTW.. my spuds are part of my stew , so are cooked with the rest in 1 big pot)...... Don't get me wrong, I agree that living costs are soaring.. But like I say, imo, food is the one thing, that's probably easiest to save a bit of cash on, if needed.. (Carrots, onion, whole swede, 2 parsnips, spuds, diced beef, 2 stock cubes, teaspoon mustard,water).. Perhaps not as grand as a BBC stew, but does me... If I'm on a tight budget, I'll just take a ten pound note with me to the supermarket , instead of taking a bank card. You'll be surprised what you can get with a tenner, if its all you've got..
I can make a stew for £10 and get 10 helpings from it.... You are going to need to freeze some of it, (if you live on your own) Chillie con carne same, Bolognese same.... It's not ideal to eat the same food often... But I'm not much of a foodie, so its just fuel to me... Porridge for breakfast, guessing about 40p a portion.... Beans on toast or soup and roll for lunch, 60p?.. Thats 3 meals for £2 per day.... My point is, if you have to, you can eat cheaply... Tbh, I only eat 2 meals a day, normally, and the odd piece of fruit thrown in... Obviously, we are all a bit different and need varying amounts according to our size and what kind of work we do, or how active we are.. (BTW.. my spuds are part of my stew , so are cooked with the rest in 1 big pot)...... Don't get me wrong, I agree that living costs are soaring.. But like I say, imo, food is the one thing, that's probably easiest to save a bit of cash on, if needed.. (Carrots, onion, whole swede, 2 parsnips, spuds, diced beef, 2 stock cubes, teaspoon mustard,water).. Perhaps not as grand as a BBC stew, but does me... If I'm on a tight budget, I'll just take a ten pound note with me to the supermarket , instead of taking a bank card. You'll be surprised what you can get with a tenner, if its all you've got..
Meanwhile lots of foodbanks are requesting no root vegetables as people can't afford the additional power required to cook them.
There's a difference between making do with a (very) tight budget and having next to no budget.
I had a short period where I had to survive on not much, and it was tough, but I could spend a tenner to get enough to do a few meals as you suggest. Had I nothing more than a pocket full of change and impending energy bills or metres to be fed it would have been very different.
No idea when I began here, was a very long time ago. Previously known as Spirit_of_81. Love cheese, hate the colour of it, this is why it requires some blue in it.
Meanwhile lots of foodbanks are requesting no root vegetables as people can't afford the additional power required to cook them.
There's a difference between making do with a (very) tight budget and having next to no budget.
I had a short period where I had to survive on not much, and it was tough, but I could spend a tenner to get enough to do a few meals as you suggest. Had I nothing more than a pocket full of change and impending energy bills or metres to be fed it would have been very different.
And of course whilst we are discussing whether you can survive on £1 or £2 a day the real issue, why should anyone in the 6th largest economy in the world have to contemplate such things, goes unremarked upon.
And of course whilst we are discussing whether you can survive on £1 or £2 a day the real issue, why should anyone in the 6th largest economy in the world have to contemplate such things, goes unremarked upon.
Exactly; the salient point
Mr Nose in Trough Tory might be right that you can cook a healthy nutritious meal for 30p
The fundamental point is that you shouldn't have to
I too can knock up a meal for relative pennies, I'm pretty good at it as it goes when I want to.
But that's a million miles away from the point. Those on this thread claiming they can do this/that aren't considering that for a great deal of people in that situation it isn't a short term thing , but could well be a fact of life day in/day out forever.
"I can make a meal for £1 for 2 people". Well bully for you, can't we all if we need to, but what a way to miss the point.
No one wants to eat porridge and lentils every day for the rest of their lives, is one thing.
But the main thing is it isn't the damn place of someone who doesn't have to live that way to point it out as acceptable for others to do so in order to 'get by'.
It's downright patronising and fecking rude to boot.
More than doubled the budget AND probably not hitting nutritional requires and living like a monk. Nothing wrong with say a thin veg soup, but I wouldn’t want to live of the stuff.
In general (not aimed at who you were replying to), I’m finding this talk of ‘how little the poor could maybe get by on if only they could be bothered’ all very depressing and condescending. It’s hardly a bar we should be aiming for or proud of.
I too can knock up a meal for relative pennies, I'm pretty good at it as it goes when I want to.
But that's a million miles away from the point. Those on this thread claiming they can do this/that aren't considering that for a great deal of people in that situation it isn't a short term thing , but could well be a fact of life day in/day out forever.
"I can make a meal for £1 for 2 people". Well bully for you, can't we all if we need to, but what a way to miss the point.
No one wants to eat porridge and lentils every day for the rest of their lives, is one thing.
But the main thing is it isn't the damn place of someone who doesn't have to live that way to point it out as acceptable for others to do so in order to 'get by'.
It's downright patronising and fecking rude to boot.
More than doubled the budget AND probably not hitting nutritional requires and living like a monk. Nothing wrong with say a thin veg soup, but I wouldn’t want to live of the stuff.
In general (not aimed at who you were replying to), I’m finding this talk of ‘how little the poor could maybe get by on if only they could be bothered’ all very depressing and condescending. It’s hardly a bar we should be aiming for or proud of.
It's back to the "We shouldn't helping those foreign types when we have people of our own who need help too".
Except when it comes to it 'our own' aren't welcome to any support either.
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