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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)...
...would there be any need for food banks?
There's an ass of a Tory MP who thinks there wouldn't be.
There's an ass of a Tory MP who thinks there wouldn't be.
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OldChestNuts, //The MP says you can you can cook for 30p.//
No he doesn't. He says there's a scheme running in his constituency that allows people to make a meal for about 30p a day.
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No he doesn't. He says there's a scheme running in his constituency that allows people to make a meal for about 30p a day.
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To Naomi...and TTT...at the time I could only judge it from the point of view of someone who'd just been transplanted several 1,000s of miles from A to B. Things improved for us personally....but did it for the average person? After being in the UK 10+ years, we moved to a city that seemed very poor and behind the times, but was just on the verge of having more money poured into it...new building, an upwardly mobile economy, a university that was establishing itself. A city that has changed a lot in 20 years.
But it's still got plenty of not so well off people...myself included.
Whether or not its improved depends on where you were *then* vs now.
But it's still got plenty of not so well off people...myself included.
Whether or not its improved depends on where you were *then* vs now.
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9:44 well barry, all I remember of that were the power cuts, but they probably didn't bother me because I was young ! I never worked a three day week, we never had to queue for water. I had a well paid job, got married and bought a little house. The late 60's and early 70s were very happy times for me and my parents. In fact I don't remember any 'dark' days' at all.
The late 60's/early 70's were very difficult. Others have explained. I was newly married. We bought our first basic house in June on a mortgage rate of about 4% and budgeted to cover a rise to about 6% - within a couple of months there was the fuel crisis and our M. Rate went up to 14%. This put us back years. We had my mum's old blackout curtains and bare floorboards, with a square of cheap carpet on which to sit the playpen.
I stopped smoking (good!) so I could feed us, grew as much as possible in the tiny garden and learned to make my own bread. We made our own wine & beer. I was given a book of 'Make do & Mend' for a wedding present - and boy did I need it!!
You can eat well very cheaply - but it takes time. When the 3rd-hand twin-tub expired and I had to wash everything (sheets, nappies - everything) by hand it took 2 exhausting days.
We lived and were happy - I became quite proud of the skills I developed and could still turn a collar if desperate.
As I said, the MP has an underlying point and I know from covering Food Tech. classes in the 90s that the curriculum does not teach the skills we had. I can still make a good meal for 2 of us for under £2.
I stopped smoking (good!) so I could feed us, grew as much as possible in the tiny garden and learned to make my own bread. We made our own wine & beer. I was given a book of 'Make do & Mend' for a wedding present - and boy did I need it!!
You can eat well very cheaply - but it takes time. When the 3rd-hand twin-tub expired and I had to wash everything (sheets, nappies - everything) by hand it took 2 exhausting days.
We lived and were happy - I became quite proud of the skills I developed and could still turn a collar if desperate.
As I said, the MP has an underlying point and I know from covering Food Tech. classes in the 90s that the curriculum does not teach the skills we had. I can still make a good meal for 2 of us for under £2.
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