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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?
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’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.
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.
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.
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
We've got Lidl. But you never know what you're going to find there.
Admittedly, that's for a pound of ground coffee. But it's a cheap brand, and there'd be plenty left over. I would sacrifice the cheese for the coffee. That was almost $8.
We also need to question why food is so cheap, rather than so expensive.
It's visible. And a real problem. But it's nothing like LA. LA has a crazy homeless population. There are tents everywhere.
https://www.google.com/search?q=tent...w=1242&bih=698
My sister and I grew up on a staple diet of jam, banana or paste sandwiches.
My mother raised us after she divorced my father when we were small. I used to drink huge amounts of milk though, I can only think this was what helped me grow.
Check out this website. Some very good recipes with costs included
https://cookingonabootstrap.com