If People Would Learn To Cook, Make Tasty Broths With Bones From The Butcher, Buy An Occasional Pigs Head(Eyes Left In To See Them Through The Week)...

[sandyRoe]

...would there be any need for food banks?
There's an ass of a Tory MP who thinks there wouldn't be.

[naomi24]

//was informed that they were not allowed to hand out bones! //

https://www.thecavershambutcher.co.uk/product/marrow-bones/

[ToraToraTora]

I think he's got a point they can't cook cheap meals from scratch. My mum used to feed 8 of us with a few spuds and pound of mince.

[Redhelen72]

Oh you know the butchers down the road - turn right then left and go straight from there!
NI!!

[barry1010]

I get bones from my butcher, too.

[MissTerious]

He has a point. Forget the pigs head rubbish or 30p meal. I can make nutritious meals for my family fairly cheaply because I learned from cook from my mother and grandmother as a child. And we don't eat ready made pizza etc. And the children eat what the adults eat.

[naomi24]

Try these people.

https://www.mckeesproduce.com/product/beef-bones/

Strangford View Farm
28 Holywood Road,
Newtownards, County Down
Northern Ireland
BT23 4TQ

[barry1010]

You can make a meal for 30p per person if you use dried pulses, different types of beans, tinned tomatoes, pasta or rice.

[tiggerblue10]

I make a rice, green lentil and fried onion soup with veg stock dish. Son loves it. Now that could could work out at 30p if you had all the cupboard staples.

At the weekend I made a 4 portion chicken pasta bake for under £4. £1 is more doable than 30p for a nutritional meal.

[burlyshirley]

Jourdain - what were the 'very dark days in the late 60s/70s' ? I definitely don't remember those.

[barry1010]

I do, Shirley. I remember the three day week, the electricity cuts, the standpipes to collect water in buckets. Sky high interest rates. Walking to work because the buses weren't running and petrol was rationed and very expensive.

[MissTerious]

70s/80s Three day working week miner strikes, power cuts and massive interest rates on mortgages. Reclaimed homes by mortgage companies because of fall in property prices and negative equity. And more.

[ToraToraTora]

MissTerious, the 3 day week was 1973/4.

[naomi24]

Labour's Winter of Discontent when rubbish piled up in the streets and bodies went unburied. The good old days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_of_Discontent

[pastafreak]

Did it ever improve? I moved here with my now ex in 1989, after years of his mum telling us how wonderful it was here. (He'd moved to the States in 1978 to get away from things here and to do a further degree)
When we purchased a house we could only afford a teeny tiny terrace with interest rates of 15% plus. That was in 1990.

[naomi24]

//Did it ever improve?//

Are you kidding?

[pastafreak]

No naomi...I'm asking a question of those who lived through the 70s-80s. We initially felt we should have stayed in NY...it took us a while to get back on our feet and settled as 15% interest rates and a tiny property was not what we...or maybe I...expected.

[ToraToraTora]

are you mad pasta? Of course it improved TGL saved us and smashed the unions. The medicine was harsh, yes, but the patient needed it and made a full recovery.

[naomi24]

In your experience, pasta, has it improved?

[OldChestNuts]

The MP says you can you can cook for 30p. But he have forgot the energy would have cost more if your cooking is taking longer than an hour. So you need to cook quick and use lids.

[douglas9401]

Fags and iPhones, well clichéd Tora. Saving Sky and big screen tellies for later?