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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

For 30p a head?

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By *torm in a G cupWoman
over a year ago

Land of the Long White Cloud


"For 30p a head?"

Definitely not at NZ grocery prices. Unless half a pack of 2 minute noodles counts

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

Defenitly yes and plus

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Defenitly yes and plus "

What would you use though because I reckon it would simply have to be something like a bag of pasta and a tin of tomatoes and not much else.

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

A basic omelette?

Not sure I could do a whole / proper meal though

J x

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By *heVonMatterhornsCouple
over a year ago

Lincoln

Of course! Would it be a good meal? Definitely not

LvM

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Bearly ...and it won't taste all that nice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

No guys been at the punch bowl again

See what hes saying come winter when were getting malnourished starving kids on tv who are not from 3rd world country's and old folks are dying at the same rate as during covid all so big business get there record profits in screw democracy screw Parliament this country is broken i want no part of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hope people enjoy rice

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

At a massive financial loss, yes or I'll rob the ingredients at my folks house

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes of course, but you couldn't buy the ingredients for 30p

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Yes of course, but you couldn't buy the ingredients for 30p"

You say yes of course as has someone else but not actually said what you could make.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Depends on how many heads?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Does beans on toast constitute a meal?

If so, yes.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Does beans on toast constitute a meal?

If so, yes."

That's the sort of thing I'm thinking but hardly sustainable for any period of time really.

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin


"Yes of course, but you couldn't buy the ingredients for 30p

You say yes of course as has someone else but not actually said what you could make. "

Cheapest rice you can find cooked in vegetable stock with a tsp of Tumeric and a small tin of non-branded sweetcorn added

Make it beef stock and you've got your protein

(It's actually a dish I used to cook regularly - fry garlic, onion and chicken before you add the rice and stock to the same pan to simmer until cooked, it's a delicious meal but would cost more than 30p a head).

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby


"Defenitly yes and plus

What would you use though because I reckon it would simply have to be something like a bag of pasta and a tin of tomatoes and not much else. "

If you have the pasta and tomatoes i will add feta cheese oreganos and basil , woild be very similar to pasta baked cheese but more sofesticated or if not vegetarian i would do a Caprichosa .

Is pasta already cooked and added to a mix of double cream with Bolognese sauce , and adding also peas and mushrooms. It is yummy

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By *oo..Woman
over a year ago

Boo's World

30p a head, but how many people is there to what sort of budget you actually have for buying ingredients with?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Does beans on toast constitute a meal?

If so, yes.

That's the sort of thing I'm thinking but hardly sustainable for any period of time really. "

Yes its ok now and then. Anything on toast would be cheap enough but that's hardly nutritious. That MP was talking out of his arse!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes, I have catering training so I can cook a meal. And I'm going to blow my own trumpet now. I used to cook Christmas dinners for my neighbors and they always went down well. was also told by my catering teacher that I have talent. An whilst in work experience, when at school I cook spaghetti Bolognese for 650 people and that went down well as well.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Easy although Tom would say 30p per head

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By * la carteCouple
over a year ago

Dublin


"Yes of course, but you couldn't buy the ingredients for 30p

You say yes of course as has someone else but not actually said what you could make.

Cheapest rice you can find cooked in vegetable stock with a tsp of Tumeric and a small tin of non-branded sweetcorn added

Make it beef stock and you've got your protein

(It's actually a dish I used to cook regularly - fry garlic, onion and chicken before you add the rice and stock to the same pan to simmer until cooked, it's a delicious meal but would cost more than 30p a head)."

1kg rice - €0.99 (250g for 4)

10 stock cubes - €0.41 (only need 1)

Sweetcorn - €0.35 large tin

Tumeric 45g - €0.69 (need 1 TSP)

Works out at 73 cent for a meal for 4 people (19 cent per person) - what's that in sterling (I know food prices may vary in the UK )

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baked beans with some sweet chilli sauce, Worcestershire sauce on fried bread, with some chopped onion and a bit of grated cheese. The cheese will push it over 30p but frying the bread is more filling but not as healthy.

Homemade egg fried rice and a packet of stir fry sauce.

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By *tephTV67TV/TS
over a year ago

Cheshire

Of course as long as you like dry toast

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara


"For 30p a head?"
how many at the table???

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford


"Baked beans with some sweet chilli sauce, Worcestershire sauce on fried bread, with some chopped onion and a bit of grated cheese. The cheese will push it over 30p but frying the bread is more filling but not as healthy.

Homemade egg fried rice and a packet of stir fry sauce.

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Surely that's over 30p

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby


"Yes, I have catering training so I can cook a meal. And I'm going to blow my own trumpet now. I used to cook Christmas dinners for my neighbors and they always went down well. was also told by my catering teacher that I have talent. An whilst in work experience, when at school I cook spaghetti Bolognese for 650 people and that went down well as well. "

Myself qualified chef for 26 years but not anymore as i got tired of kitchen but from chef , head chef, kitchen supervisor to kitchen manager , from portugal, Spain , France , Switzerland and England i lost the count for how many people i have cooked

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Yes, I have catering training so I can cook a meal. And I'm going to blow my own trumpet now. I used to cook Christmas dinners for my neighbors and they always went down well. was also told by my catering teacher that I have talent. An whilst in work experience, when at school I cook spaghetti Bolognese for 650 people and that went down well as well.

Myself qualified chef for 26 years but not anymore as i got tired of kitchen but from chef , head chef, kitchen supervisor to kitchen manager , from portugal, Spain , France , Switzerland and England i lost the count for how many people i have cooked "

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By *pursChick aka ShortieWoman
over a year ago

On a mooch

I would make, sausage noodle & veg mix

You can get 20 frozen sausages for £1.50, so one sausage is 0.7p

Instant flavoured noodles 20p, portion halved so 10p

Frozen mixed veg 1kg bag (carrots, green beans, peas & cauliflower) for 69p. One portion 100g portion is 0.7p

Use the remainder to add a sprinkle of flavour / spice…. I’m not working that out per sprinkle.

Total 24p a head

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By *inky-MinxWoman
over a year ago

Grantham

Yes I could

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Yes but why should you have to ?

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

No. The calculation of the meal costing 30p only works if you spend more and portion it out, and have a lot of store cupboard ingredients like salt and oil.

As I only cook for myself (and I do it rarely) there isn't much I go out and buy to make that one 30p meal. Can you buy eggs individually, and a single slice of bread?

I'm really quite angry at the poverty bashing that is doubling down to say it's your fault you can't manage on next to nothing from people with huge expense accounts and subsidised menus.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Baked beans with some sweet chilli sauce, Worcestershire sauce on fried bread, with some chopped onion and a bit of grated cheese. The cheese will push it over 30p but frying the bread is more filling but not as healthy.

Homemade egg fried rice and a packet of stir fry sauce.

2 separate dishes and yes might be but depends on how cheap the ingredients are, one egg can cost 30p

A

Most things are over 30p is you include electricity, water etc.

Surely that's over 30p"

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"Defenitly yes and plus

What would you use though because I reckon it would simply have to be something like a bag of pasta and a tin of tomatoes and not much else.

If you have the pasta and tomatoes i will add feta cheese oreganos and basil , woild be very similar to pasta baked cheese but more sofesticated or if not vegetarian i would do a Caprichosa .

Is pasta already cooked and added to a mix of double cream with Bolognese sauce , and adding also peas and mushrooms. It is yummy "

You could not do all of that for 30P a head.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"For 30p a head? how many at the table??? "

Four, 2 adults, 2 children.

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford

Tom prediction...the swong go labour will be huge at the next election..

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too"

Definitely. As I said above I think it could be done for very short periods of time but also how miserable if you had to constantly live like that.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound


"When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too

Definitely. As I said above I think it could be done for very short periods of time but also how miserable if you had to constantly live like that. "

A few months ago Jack Monroe tweeted the challenge to the eat exactly the same basic meal every day to the 'we know better' brigade. Your only meal, because that's all you can afford.

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth


"When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too"

This is the problem! They aren't taking that into account.

And his example was spending 50 quid, having a professional chef, commercial kitchen and batch cooking the same meal in copious amounts.

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby


"Defenitly yes and plus

What would you use though because I reckon it would simply have to be something like a bag of pasta and a tin of tomatoes and not much else.

If you have the pasta and tomatoes i will add feta cheese oreganos and basil , woild be very similar to pasta baked cheese but more sofesticated or if not vegetarian i would do a Caprichosa .

Is pasta already cooked and added to a mix of double cream with Bolognese sauce , and adding also peas and mushrooms. It is yummy

You could not do all of that for 30P a head."

Sorry i apologize i didn't read the 30p a head , i don't think there's much you could cook at that figure unless is a can of pasta in tomato sauce from Aldi everyday essentials

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Yes, but it's no way to bloody live.

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

7 days a week 3 meals a day add into that kids have to have a balanced diet ..Not a chance and anyone that thinks differently don’t live in the real world like them twats that run the country.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Baked potatoes all round then

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By *ssex_tomMan
over a year ago

Chelmsford


"7 days a week 3 meals a day add into that kids have to have a balanced diet ..Not a chance and anyone that thinks differently don’t live in the real world like them twats that run the country."

Agreed

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"7 days a week 3 meals a day add into that kids have to have a balanced diet ..Not a chance and anyone that thinks differently don’t live in the real world like them twats that run the country."

Absolutely agree.

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago


"When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too

This is the problem! They aren't taking that into account.

And his example was spending 50 quid, having a professional chef, commercial kitchen and batch cooking the same meal in copious amounts.

"

Spot on plus also it is assuming people have big chest freezers to store all this batch cooking in

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"When you take into account the electricity/gas used to cook the food it'll take you over the 30p too

This is the problem! They aren't taking that into account.

And his example was spending 50 quid, having a professional chef, commercial kitchen and batch cooking the same meal in copious amounts.

"

Living in a totally different world to the rest of us mere mortals.

Currently being unemployed I can tell you its a struggle to eat healthy, nutritious food on a daily basis

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By *uxom redCouple
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Yes, a veggie or lental curry.

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Out of date Pot Noodles anyone?

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

Yes but I wouldn’t want to do it day in day out.

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By *harpDressed ManMan
over a year ago

Here occasionally, but mostly somewhere else


"Yes but why should you have to ?"

You could then be all over the news...

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