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Skint, On The Bones Of Your Arse....
How much would it cost you-as a single person, living on your own-to feed yourself for a week?
And i'm talking balanced, with nutritional value. I'm going to go for £15 per week. No booze or luxuries though.
It would take some planning and it would be a bit shit, but with some preperation and a shit load of imagination, could it be done? I suppose fresh veg and fruit can be pricey, and meat, even the frozen stuff at that budget. Maybe i'm way out, what do people think.
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I reckon you could easily live on 1 pound a day short term on food. If I lived alone I'd certainly try it
Boiled rice and pasta with some sauce for tea. With some frozen veg in it
Egg on toast for dinner
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You make one huge meal and freeze it in 7 boxes. Add rice or pasta.
Biggest way to eat cheap is to buy in bulk, but who can afford to do that when they are skint?
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Allez Allez Allez
You make one huge meal and freeze it in 7 boxes. Add rice or pasta.
Biggest way to eat cheap is to buy in bulk, but who can afford to do that when they are skint?
I was listening to Marcus Rashford's mum saying that at times they didn't even have any bread in the house, i can remember that happening regularly when i was a kid, **** all in the food cupboard and no food banks back then. Plenty of kids going hungry in this country as we speak.
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Tuerto
How much would it cost you-as a single person, living on your own-to feed yourself for a week?
And i'm talking balanced, with nutritional value. I'm going to go for £15 per week. No booze or luxuries though.
It would take some planning and it would be a bit shit, but with some preperation and a shit load of imagination, could it be done? I suppose fresh veg and fruit can be pricey, and meat, even the frozen stuff at that budget. Maybe i'm way out, what do people think.
Pancakes are really filling. Eggs, milk and flour all cheap. You also gotta suss out when your local supermarket reduces stuff. I've been there following the lady around with the yellow stickers.
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When I was in uni I fed myself for well under £15 a week, prob under £10 to be fair, but it was mainly pasta, and tuna so it falls out of the healthy side you mention (tuna aside!) But if you just meant staying fed short term, easily done
Luckily I’ve always enjoyed pasta :-)
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Pasta, onions, garlic and tinned tomatoes could go far if you could stomach that every day
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What you need is time, enthusiasm and resources. I reckon most people could do it for a week but weeks on end with no defined end point?
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I do have a degree of sympathy with people trying to buy homes on their own or with young children.
Rent is so expensive and even if you have a decent amount of money behind you there's so much pressure on people competing with others and that all costs money.
I think a lot of people would probably go without food rather than go without a phone.
We are pretty lucky in this country food is very cheap. Its housing prices which are expensive and causing people to have **** all.
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Way back in 1979. i had just bought my flat in London (for a massive £14,000 :yikes: ) and I had little spare cash after paying the bills.
I found buying a large jont (eg a whole shoulder of pork) would give me a roast dinner on Sunday plus lunch sarnies hot evening meals until Wednesday, then some cheap stuff for the other 3 days. Cost about a pound per day (for comparison, beer was about 50p a pint then.
If I could stand beans on toast every day it would be a lot cheaper.
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Is this just the cost of the food - or does it also cover the cost of electric/gas and all the other things needed to avoid cold/raw veg (and tuna)?
Didn't some Tory MP try to live on some small amount in a council flat about 20 years ago - and got loads of TV and newspaper publicity for trying to prove the state was generous - only to be caught out cheating (food from family and nipping home for a delux sleep)?
£15 p.w. may be possible (if you can get to a low cost supermarket without blowing half your budget on bus fares) but miserable!
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jon1959
Is this just the cost of the food - or does it also cover the cost of electric/gas and all the other things needed to avoid cold/raw veg (and tuna)?
Didn't some Tory MP try to live on some small amount in a council flat about 20 years ago - and got loads of TV and newspaper publicity for trying to prove the state was generous - only to be caught out cheating (food from family and nipping home for a delux sleep)?
£15 p.w. may be possible (if you can get to a low cost supermarket without blowing half your budget on bus fares) but miserable!
People always forget to take electricity, transport etc into account. You get those people (usually Tories) that say "its easy, just cook a week's worth of meals on the weekend!". Ok, where do I store the meals? Freezer? Ok, how do I pay for the freezer? How do I buy a week's worth of food at once? What is this magical meal that can ensure a balanced diet for a family for an entire week?
For what it's worth I spend around £12 a week on food (sometimes more sometimes less dependent on offers etc), but I'm only cooking for myself and don't really mind eating the same stuff regularly. Luckily I have a Lidl near my house and the capability to cook meals in batches and store them
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jon1959
Is this just the cost of the food - or does it also cover the cost of electric/gas and all the other things needed to avoid cold/raw veg (and tuna)?
Didn't some Tory MP try to live on some small amount in a council flat about 20 years ago - and got loads of TV and newspaper publicity for trying to prove the state was generous - only to be caught out cheating (food from family and nipping home for a delux sleep)?
£15 p.w. may be possible (if you can get to a low cost supermarket without blowing half your budget on bus fares) but miserable!
Just food. I've been thinking about it as i'm stuck in at the moment and having food delivered by relatives, the top up stuff, not the main shop. The amount of money i spunk on food is ridiculous, although having to eat on £15 would be just as ridiculous. May i add that it's not me who is the fussy eater, that's the rest of the clan. I was brought up to eat almost anything that was put in front of me, we had little choice.
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Originally Posted by
jon1959
Is this just the cost of the food - or does it also cover the cost of electric/gas and all the other things needed to avoid cold/raw veg (and tuna)?
Didn't some Tory MP try to live on some small amount in a council flat about 20 years ago - and got loads of TV and newspaper publicity for trying to prove the state was generous - only to be caught out cheating (food from family and nipping home for a delux sleep)?
£15 p.w. may be possible (if you can get to a low cost supermarket without blowing half your budget on bus fares) but miserable!
Mathew Parish wasn't it ?
Ian Duncan Smith lasted 3 days I think
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Not a dig at you but I find these kind of posts on social media nauseating and insulting.
Usually posted by people who don’t need to live on such a budget asking why poor people can’t.
Not saying that’s what you’re doing here but it’s just reminds me of some of the nonsense I’ve seen posted on social media lately.
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You’d need to double up. Cook meals that last 2 days.
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If I was given £60 per month to feed myself I think I could do it. Bigger packs, batch cooking would make it easier.
Being given £15 each week would make it harder, but weetabix for breakfast, beans on toast for lunch and a jacket potato with tuna in the evening is doable.
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J R Hartley
Not a dig at you but I find these kind of posts on social media nauseating and insulting.
Usually posted by people who don’t need to live on such a budget asking why poor people can’t.
Not saying that’s what you’re doing here but it’s just reminds me of some of the nonsense I’ve seen posted on social media lately.
I'm not doing that. Trust me, i've gone without food, and heat-electricity, i was one of those people-child. It was just a thought i had as i spend so much on food and my little darlings are so bloody picky-that's my fault though :thumbup:
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Tuerto
How much would it cost you-as a single person, living on your own-to feed yourself for a week?
And i'm talking balanced, with nutritional value. I'm going to go for £15 per week. No booze or luxuries though.
It would take some planning and it would be a bit shit, but with some preperation and a shit load of imagination, could it be done? I suppose fresh veg and fruit can be pricey, and meat, even the frozen stuff at that budget. Maybe i'm way out, what do people think.
I have done some careful shopping for folk who don't have much and I would say own branded stuff like tin beans , spaghetti,
Pasta , Rice , fresh vegetables from Asda , eggs are relatively affordable.
Buying the Aldi / Lidl own brands are such good value.
I'd say for 20 pounds a week you'd have a good supply of food .
What is very expensive and a worry , is heating , lighting and rents
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On the subject of kids I think my lad lived off chicken nuggets smiley faces and pizza till he was 16.
In my house as a kid if you didn't eat what mam cooked you went hungry there were no 2nd choices.
It's surprising how quick you got to like liver and onions and the such like.
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insider
On the subject of kids I think my lad lived off chicken nuggets smiley faces and pizza till he was 16.
In my house as a kid if you didn't eat what mam cooked you went hungry there were no 2nd choices.
It's surprising how quick you got to like liver and onions and the such like.
Same as my childhood,if it is what has been cooked that is what you have to eat.
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Tuerto
I'm not doing that. Trust me, i've gone without food, and heat-electricity, i was one of those people-child. It was just a thought i had as i spend so much on food and my little darlings are so bloody picky-that's my fault though :thumbup:
I can understand your post , as a youngster we were extremely poor some day very little food , as an adult with young family poverty struck again having to declare myself personally bankrupt through a judgement court order which was awful , just to get rid of my debts , tough times , lived of very little .
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jeepster
Same as my childhood,if it is what has been cooked that is what you have to eat.
Bang on, i was told that if i didn't eat it, then my sister would, then the dog :hehe: There was no second choice.
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life on mars
I can understand your post , as a youngster we were extremely poor some day very little food , as an adult with young family poverty struck again having to declare myself personally bankrupt through a judgement court order which was awful , just to get rid of my debts , tough times , lived of very little .
That's awful mate, being truly skint for long periods can be damaging, especially for kids. It can make you stronger though, more resilient to adversity, tougher.
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Tuerto
I'm not doing that. Trust me, i've gone without food, and heat-electricity, i was one of those people-child. It was just a thought i had as i spend so much on food and my little darlings are so bloody picky-that's my fault though :thumbup:
No, I know you’re not mate, just been bugging me a lot on social media lately with smart arsed comments in reply to Marchs Rashford and his fight for children’s meals. I see people who I grew up with on the Gurnos estate who are doing ok now and forgot where they come from. Sticking up for Tory policies and the type of people who wouldn’t cross the road to piss on them if they were on fire on and that is just the type of crap they come out with. Wanted to get it off my chest :hehe:
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J R Hartley
No, I know you’re not mate, just been bugging me a lot on social media lately with smart arsed comments in reply to Marchs Rashford and his fight for children’s meals. I see people who I grew up with on the Gurnos estate who are doing ok now and forgot where they come from. Sticking up for Tory policies and the type of people who wouldn’t cross the road to piss on them if they were on fire on and that is just the type of crap they come out with. Wanted to get it off my chest :hehe:
Fair enough, things got better for me in my teens, my parents got work, qualified etc. The biggest achievement in my life is that none of my kids have had to come home to a cold house with **** all in the fridge, if i was going to get one thing right then that was it. I can't understand those people who seem to think that just because they got out of poverty then so should others, i may not have had much but what i did have was loving parents and a support network around me, plenty of kids don't have that.
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Tuerto
Fair enough, things got better for me in my teens, my parents got work, qualified etc. The biggest achievement in my life is that none of my kids have had to come home to a cold house with **** all in the fridge, if i was going to get one thing right then that was it. I can't understand those people who seem to think that just because they got out of poverty then so should others, i may not have had much but what i did have was loving parents and a support network around me, plenty of kids don't have that.
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Tuerto
Fair enough, things got better for me in my teens, my parents got work, qualified etc. The biggest achievement in my life is that none of my kids have had to come home to a cold house with **** all in the fridge, if i was going to get one thing right then that was it. I can't understand those people who seem to think that just because they got out of poverty then so should others, i may not have had much but what i did have was loving parents and a support network around me, plenty of kids don't have that.
I never wanted for anything as a kid, from my parents or my grand parents, never known poverty. My old man was out of work for a few years when I was 9/10 but we never went hungry or cold. My mother would cook 4 meals at 4 different times for the 4 of us.
We moved out of the Gurnos but I still went to school there and grew up there because that’s where my mates lived.
I went to school with people who had absolutely **** all. It’s only now as an adult with more of a social conscience that I look back on some kids and realise how bad some had it.
I remember some kids in my class were only 5 or 6 and walking half a mile to school on their own. No breakfast inside them. Dinner ticket for free meal was probably the only meal they had all day. What chance have people like that got?
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J R Hartley
I never wanted for anything as a kid, from my parents or my grand parents, never known poverty. My old man was out of work for a few years when I was 9/10 but we never went hungry or cold. My mother would cook 4 means at 4 different times for the 4 of us.
We moved out of the Gurnos but I still went to school there and grew up there because that’s where my mates lived.
I did however go to school with people who had absolutely **** all. It’s only now as an adult with more of a social conscience that I look back on some kids and realise how bad some had it.
I remember some kids in my class were only 5 or 6 and walking half a mile to school on their own. No breakfast inside them. Dinner ticket for free meal was probably the only meal they had all day. What chance have people like that got?
Yup, i was speaking to someone who taught on the gurnos and she said that social services would come to the school she was teaching in and take the kids into care such was the condition some of them were living in, although to counter that, she said that the vast majority were loving caring parents who gave their kids everything that they needed. Same where i went to school, some really poor families with all of the social problems that went with it. I never quite understood it as a child, although as you mature and have your own kids you realise how bad it was for some families. I was brought up on estates, Ely, Llanedeyrn, i look back now and it's unbelievable how many of the lads i grew up with are dead now due to addiction, crime, suicide etc. we all have choices, but being poor and not having a strong support network around you must be detrimental towards life chances, health and longevity.
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I’ve still got photos from school, early 60s, one class photo from around about 1962/63 is quite a sobering one, there were some of my classmates more or less dressed in rags. Looking back I imagine they were hand me downs and had been in the family for years, heartbreaking really, I was ok but some poor dabs must have had it hard.
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Tuerto
Yup, i was speaking to someone who taught on the gurnos and she said that social services would come to the school she was teaching in and take the kids into care such was the condition some of them were living in, although to counter that, she said that the vast majority were loving caring parents who gave their kids everything that they needed. Same where i went to school, some really poor families with all of the social problems that went with it. I never quite understood it as a child, although as you mature and have your own kids you realise how bad it was for some families. I was brought up on estates, Ely, Llanedeyrn, i look back now and it's unbelievable how many of the lads i grew up with are dead now due to addiction, crime, suicide etc. we all have choices, but being poor and not having a strong support network around you must be detrimental towards life chances, health and longevity.
I was out walking there in the summer and was behind a few kids about 11/12 having fun with an old office chair. Spinning on it, just ****ing about, having a laugh with each other, took me bsck to being a kid.
Then I carried on walking and there was a boy and girl about 15/16 out of their head on spice or heroin and it really struck a chord with me thinking that in a few years time it’s very likely the younger boys I’d seen only a few minutes earlier having fun at least one of them will end up like the boy or girl on spice.
Very sad indeed. Couldn’t stop thinking about the girl in particular who was around same age as my daughter.
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Tuerto
That's awful mate, being truly skint for long periods can be damaging, especially for kids. It can make you stronger though, more resilient to adversity, tougher.
Thanks , wife and kids had to move in with in laws for a while due to no heating and electricty in house it was tough ,looking back I can see I made silly decesions , bit naive, married too young .
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life on mars
Thanks , wife and kids had to move in with in laws for a while due to no heating and electricty in house it was tough ,looking back I can see I made silly decesions , bit naive, married too young .
All in the past mate, we all make silly decisions, as long as we learn from them and keep plugging forward then it's fine. Hope it all worked out for you.
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All in the past mate, we all make silly decisions, as long as we learn from them and keep plugging forward then it's fine. Hope it all worked out for you.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as they say
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J R Hartley
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger as they say
It can certainly give you an edge, determination etc
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Tuerto
How much would it cost you-as a single person, living on your own-to feed yourself for a week?
And i'm talking balanced, with nutritional value. I'm going to go for £15 per week. No booze or luxuries though.
It would take some planning and it would be a bit shit, but with some preperation and a shit load of imagination, could it be done? I suppose fresh veg and fruit can be pricey, and meat, even the frozen stuff at that budget. Maybe i'm way out, what do people think.
Is this food for a week every week? Or can you go back to your normal diet after 7 days?
I just did a mock online shop. I'm eating bread, butter, cheese milk, chicken, black beans, and spinach every day and it's $46.68.
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NYCBlue
Is this food for a week every week? Or can you go back to your normal diet after 7 days?
I just did a mock online shop. I'm eating bread, butter, cheese milk, chicken, black beans, and spinach every day and it's $46.68.
Plus $4.29 for a can of coffee.
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Plus $4.29 for a can of coffee.
They got Aldi or Home Bargains in NYC?
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Tuerto
I was listening to Marcus Rashford's mum saying that at times they didn't even have any bread in the house, i can remember that happening regularly when i was a kid, **** all in the food cupboard and no food banks back then. Plenty of kids going hungry in this country as we speak.
We didn't have it quite as hard, although we had help from grandparents. Without them, we may have struggled a bit. Grew up with kids who would go hungry, and scrounge a crisp off anyone who opened a packet. Huge shame it still is happening in the 5th richest country in the world.
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1 kg chicken breast fillet (x2) £5 each. 7 fillets in a pack so 14 in total
1 kg mixed vegetables (x3) 69p each
2.5 kg red potatoes (x4) £1.09 each
£15.74 total, Prices taken from Tesco online.
You would be eating a roast chicken dinner twice a day every day which would get boring very quickly, but it's only 74p over the £15 budget and the combination of a lean meat and mixed veg will mean it's pretty good for you while the potatoes will fill you up
You will need a bit more cash to run a freezer and oven