30p guv ?

[Nick]

I bet he knows how to knock up a  bit of nosebag for 30p

If only the shelves weren't empty 😉. 

[Streetwalker]

Well quite.

I enjoy torturing poor sad, mad Pappy as much anyone else, but we can't do that unless he is here. So when is he coming back?

I bet he knows how to knock up a  bit of nosebag for 30p 

[Borchester]

Well you're wrong, cause he ain't coming back, it was a bit of fun.

Well quite.

I enjoy torturing poor sad, mad Pappy as much anyone else, but we can't do that unless he is here. So when is he coming back?

[Barry]

Well you're wrong, cause he ain't coming back, it was a bit of fun. The question is, when is Barry coming back, there's been a right miserable git in his place for the last few months. 😉

Why, thanks! Maybe I need a holiday. 

[Nick]

He's had more comebacks than Muhammed Ali and Frank Sinatra combined. I detect another one about to happen. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
Anyone who wants to interact can do so on another forum.

Well you're wrong, cause he ain't coming back, it was a bit of fun. The question is, when is Barry coming back, there's been a right miserable git in his place for the last few months. 😉 

[Barry]

Where is a Pappy to tell me I'm so out of touch? I miss the ole B-stard.

He's had more comebacks than Muhammed Ali and Frank Sinatra combined. I detect another one about to happen. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
Anyone who wants to interact can do so on another forum.

[Borchester]

Sadly his income doesn't reflect the life experience of others but he does have a point. The thing is that it isn't necessarily everyone's fault. eg Cheaper cuts of meat are no longer generally available in supermarkets and how many independent butchers are around?  Go on the TV and the ingredients used there would be out of the question for many. For those of us who had parents who had to cope through the last war we probably grew up with a general knowledge of filling inexpensive meals. I will have to think about your 30p challenge but certainly the comment I heard by some woman who insisted that cereal and milk costs £2 per child per breakfast was a bit far off.
I would comment that we all expect to eat too much very often. My Mum's mantra was that you should never feel full as you leave the table. Of course many  no longer eat at a table and it has been proved that more is eaten when the eyes are on a screen. So it needs thought and planning to eat for less and we need to forget the notion that it is demeaning to eat cheaper. It is often far healthier.

George Orwell made a similar point nearly 100 years ago.

He remarked that a simple, wholesome diet was not only usually beyond the resources of the poor, but also arse numbingly dull as well, which meant that they soon reverted to the cheap and cheery crap they were used to

[johnofgwent]

Sadly his income doesn't reflect the life experience of others but he does have a point. The thing is that it isn't necessarily everyone's fault. eg Cheaper cuts of meat are no longer generally available in supermarkets and how many independent butchers are around?  Go on the TV and the ingredients used there would be out of the question for many. For those of us who had parents who had to cope through the last war we probably grew up with a general knowledge of filling inexpensive meals. I will have to think about your 30p challenge but certainly the comment I heard by some woman who insisted that cereal and milk costs £2 per child per breakfast was a bit far off.
I would comment that we all expect to eat too much very often. My Mum's mantra was that you should never feel full as you leave the table. Of course many  no longer eat at a table and it has been proved that more is eaten when the eyes are on a screen. So it needs thought and planning to eat for less and we need to forget the notion that it is demeaning to eat cheaper. It is often far healthier.

Too many years ago now a couple of celebrity chefs were called to pontificate on some daytime TV show about the poor diets of the poor.

My eldest then a struggling new single mum nicked my internet to email each of the pontificatiors and ask how they thought she should proceed to feed herself for a week on the pittance she was left with after paying the rent from the job she struggled to keep up.

To his credit, Gordon Ramsey actually managed to come up with ideas but in his own words he could not see how to achieve a decent healthy diet 7 days a week on what little she had.

None of the others even bothered to reply.

PS I did expect Nick to be in here with his let them eat brioche attitude. I'm not as old and hope to f**k I'm not remotely as curmudgeonly as our cornish ratepayer was but I'll do my best as a substitute. But I'm a dye my hair green kind of guy. Blue is for woad warriors

[Nick]

Tory MP Lee Anderson branded out of touch for food bank remarks - BBC News


There are always going to be people who need a little extra help to get by in society . The rise in the use of foodbanks is maybe an indication that that number is rising and with the cost of living crisis starting to bite and apparently going to get worse I guess we could all do with some money saving tips .

Ive not been the most sympathetic over the years but I think Anderson may be taking the micky here , I might be wrong

So lets have it then , whos got some recipies for 30p ...........

I think his 30p comment was a mistake, but the underlying message was correct: which was that you can eat much healthier and for less if you buy ingredients instead of pre-cooked meals. 

A 20KG sack of Maris Piper is £9 at my nearest farm shop, the wife, eldest daughter and I would walk the 4 miles taking turns to hump it if it was the choice between that and a good bank. 

Cottage Pie

A quid for the spuds
30p for the onions 🧅 
10p carrots 🥕
£2 ft or the mince
plus a bit of salt, pepper etc. 

You're talking a Pound each for a healthy meal, even if it wasn't so tasty, by the third time the cook would have sorted it out-ish. 

Where is a Pappy to tell me I'm so out of touch? I miss the ole B-stard. 

[T00ts]

Tory MP Lee Anderson branded out of touch for food bank remarks - BBC News


There are always going to be people who need a little extra help to get by in society . The rise in the use of foodbanks is maybe an indication that that number is rising and with the cost of living crisis starting to bite and apparently going to get worse I guess we could all do with some money saving tips .

Ive not been the most sympathetic over the years but I think Anderson may be taking the micky here , I might be wrong

So lets have it then , whos got some recipies for 30p ...........

Sadly his income doesn't reflect the life experience of others but he does have a point. The thing is that it isn't necessarily everyone's fault. eg Cheaper cuts of meat are no longer generally available in supermarkets and how many independent butchers are around?  Go on the TV and the ingredients used there would be out of the question for many. For those of us who had parents who had to cope through the last war we probably grew up with a general knowledge of filling inexpensive meals. I will have to think about your 30p challenge but certainly the comment I heard by some woman who insisted that cereal and milk costs £2 per child per breakfast was a bit far off.
I would comment that we all expect to eat too much very often. My Mum's mantra was that you should never feel full as you leave the table. Of course many  no longer eat at a table and it has been proved that more is eaten when the eyes are on a screen. So it needs thought and planning to eat for less and we need to forget the notion that it is demeaning to eat cheaper. It is often far healthier.

[Streetwalker]

Tory MP Lee Anderson branded out of touch for food bank remarks - BBC News


There are always going to be people who need a little extra help to get by in society . The rise in the use of foodbanks is maybe an indication that that number is rising and with the cost of living crisis starting to bite and apparently going to get worse I guess we could all do with some money saving tips .

Ive not been the most sympathetic over the years but I think Anderson may be taking the micky here , I might be wrong 

So lets have it then , whos got some recipies for 30p ...........