If You Had To Serve Up A Meal For A Family Of Four, Two Adults And Two Teenage Children, With A Budget Of 30P Per Person...

[sandyRoe]

...what could you serve up?

[naomi24]

Why 30p?

[emmie]

i can buy a bag of carrots for less than 60p, and pasta is not expensive but who in their right mind thinks you could do this every day, its not possible, no meat no dairy, no fruit, no bread. ummm

[emmie]

because the *** MP said that it could be done on 30p a person per day.

[Redhelen72]

Carrot and tattie soup with rice pudding would work out at 30p a portion.
The MP is not saying that you can go out and buy food for 30p but you buy food and then cook a meal to 30p a portion.
So you would have the staples in like herbs and stock cubes etc

[davebro]

Lidl sell off boxes of assorted veg for £1.50 that would easily make a veggy stew or bake for 4 people.

[naomi24]

A bit of digging reveals that he seems to be talking about a specific scheme that's running in his constituency.

//He also offered an invitation for Opposition MPs to visit a scheme in his own constituency that represented 'a real food bank' and allowed people to 'make a meal for about 30p a day'.//

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10806007/Tory-MP-faces-fury-claiming-people-use-food-banks-cook.html

[emmie]

dave, but in order to buy some meat like pork or beef say then that's the budget busted.

[davebro]

then there's the cost of gas or leccy to cook the meal.

[naomi24]

People here are getting their knickers in a knot. Take a breath and read my post at 08:54.

[Ken4155]

He'll be offering to live on benefits for a week, next. Oh, wait, that's already been done, hasn't it:-/

[emmie]

it had already been pointed out Naomi, on another post about what he said and didn't say. I took it as read. I Must go and find something useful to do.

[naomi24]

emmie, //it had already been pointed out Naomi, on another post about what he said and didn't say. I took it as read.//

Why are you swearing about it then? It isn't what you're making it out to be.

[johnny.5]

anyone could live on benefits for a week but try it for a year or two then they might realise how some people suffer...
but then again there is always the Wetherspoons 9 0'clock club !!

Am I right ?
I'm Not Wrong !

[naomi24]

Able bodied people shouldn't be on benefits for years, johnny. It's not meant to be a lifestyle.

[ToraToraTora]

Beans on toast, you could get a loaf and couple of tins of beans for £1.20, not much but you'd not starve.

[johnny.5]

but it is naomi for many
those that know how to "work" the system
pun intended

[Redhelen72]

My mother used to do a dish of pasta, chicken soup and tuna.
for 4 people at £1.20 current prices

[New Judge]

As usual, the media have taken Mr Anderson’s remarks completely out of context and contorted them to give him a good handbagging.

As I mentioned in a thread last week, (concerning what is needed to fix the economy) there are people who live in this country who have virtually all their food cooked by somebody else and have it delivered to their door. There are some who live near me. They are not, as the usual suspects howl among their rabid rantings, predominantly people who are rushed off their feet doing three jobs. They are mainly people who are at home all day and who do not work at all. The “Deliveroo” business is busy delivering their breakfast, lunch and dinner from various outlets, including Greggs, McDonalds, Pizza Express, “KebabYe” and various other places selling, in the main, totally unsuitable food for frequent consumption. I know that McDonalds delivery charge is £3.99. I doubt any of the others are significantly different. They even deliver tea and coffee to save the poor mites having to boil a kettle.

Mr Anderson is right to pick up on this. People who purport to be potless should not be paying others to cook and deliver their food (usually ordered via an App, making a Smartphone necessary – another extravagance.). There are plenty of ways to eat nutritiously and cheaply, but they usually require a bit of thought and application, together with a bit of time. His local Food Bank has the right idea:

“What we do in the food bank, we show them how to cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget.”

The old adage: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for life.” There is no point in people with little money to spare continually complaining about their lot whilst hoping to see it improved with ever greater sums of money thrown at them, when they are paying people to cook their food and make them a cup of coffee. It’s time they realised this.