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"Poor people don't know how to cook"
"Poor people don't know how to cook"
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yeh but halal meat and curried goat,s not for everyone
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Grammar certainly isn't. Jesus.
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just like value you cant eat grammer,
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Foodbanks request tinned everything so no cooking is required of their punters.
They even asked me for BOXES of dried mashed potato (remember the Smash ads  )They ask for tinned puds, tinned meat, tinned custard. It's madness. If people don't start cooking it will cost x2 with this tinned garbage. I accept they want unperishables but if they're not encouraging cooking they're compounding the problem. |
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still using my Dairy book of homecooking
£2 ebay burt sold it me |
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re all them cookery programmes, any chance of just once someone saying i,m not eating that its shoite
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Neither do the well off. We always go out for dinner. But not to certain restaurants that allow breastfeeding.
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moisok
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Capt you will struggle to find a better cookbook than the one you have mentioned, I have got 3 different editions as the brother-in-law used to be a milkman. Non of the recipes in their books cost an arm and a leg, nor do they require hard to get ingredients.
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I much prefer my multi volume Cordon Bleu. Although my girlfriend seems to spend an inordinate amount of the time talking to the milkman about recipes???
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trying to woo Liz with a lemon layer cake
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If you look at the rubbish people put in their shopping baskets, she's obviously correct to some extent, but being a Tory she'll immediately be vilified for saying it.
You want the truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH. The permanently outraged on twitter have their daily hate target though.. |
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I cook myself because i can muster up some mouth watering food -but it's not cheap for the ingredients . I don't mind admitting i spend more on food than anything else per week . Wine a close second
If i want cheap ,i'll buy ready meals in Iceland ,which is what poor folk are doing - they are doing the correct thing. The majority of the British public love shyte food , most food in UK restaraunts is shyte . So simply serve it in a frozen pack form ready prepared . Simples . |
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Most folk in the UK require chicken in their meal - only this one ingredient has the necessary nutrients to sustain life on earth .
Cooking the said product requires heating the oven . Heating the oven probably costs more alone than the cost of the ubiquitous chicken ready meals found in every UK store |
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Im poor and i eat very healthy indeed, i buy fish from a local guy and use frozen veg and buy 20kg of spuds for 6 quid, the biggest problem for me is the cost of cooking it everyday, quite expensive on electric
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good work Bhoys
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It's true that cooked meals can cost more than frozen ready meals. But shop around and you can easily make a good relatively healthy curry to feed four for a couple of quid or less. If you live alone then I suppose fuel costs play a larger part, but you can still cook some pasta up with a decent enough sauce for 40p or so.
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I live alone clunge but i never cooked pasta, usually what i mentioned there or soup and stew, usually freeze soup or stew in plastic containers and freeze it and heat it up, definatly reduceds the elec that cooking every day
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unless you are cooking quality food then home cooking is a false economy i'm afraid .
most poorer folk wouldn't appreciate good food . They are better off using their money for a 64 inch widescreen imo |
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lovely curry,are you going to post the next 364 meals on one thread or seperate threads for every day,
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similar i guess to a Wine merchant offering a 1964 Chateau Le Boscq as a replacement for a Stella six pack .
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in the real world theres loads of problems in cooking homemade food,finding something the whole family like 7 days a week,finding a time to cook and then eat due to work,school,kids playing etc,thats before costs
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They are better off using their money for a 64 inch widescreen imo
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theres no such food as good food everyones tastes are different i wouldnt thank you for some of that slop dished up on masterchef but have never had a takeaway for 20 years or chips,the snobbery in food is pathetic
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in the real world theres loads of problems in cooking homemade food,finding something the whole family like
That's a slippery slope 1st timer and at the bottom of it is all the sugary shiit. The palate is something to be developed and refined over time. Having a dinner which a parent cooks for you and being made to eat it or go hungry is a valuable lesson sadly lost. |
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I've found cooking a lot cheaper.
Pies a good example. Pastry is cheap but cheaper if you make it from scratch. Meat and veg, bit of gravy or homemade sauce and you're sorted. Very tasty and surprising how little meat you need per pie. Not difficult to make a decent pie for a quid. As The Bhoys says, make a few and freeze. Luvly jubbly. |
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"unless you are cooking quality food then home cooking is a false economy i'm afraid ."
I 1000% disagree with you on this I'm afraid. With pasta and rice and so on, tinned tomatoes, frozen vegetables, tuna, beans, lentils, etc you can make piles of food for cheap. It's eating little poxy ready meals full of pre processed crap, that are comparatively expensive for what you get, that the poor value for money. Anyway if you are heating food you are heating the room, in winter unless you are venting it out the window it's heating your home so you get 2 uses out of it. |
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Damn well said Eeternal.
You eat what's set before you. |
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I 1000% disagree with you on this I'm afraid. With pasta and rice and so on, tinned tomatoes, frozen vegetables, tuna, beans, lentils, etc you can make piles of food for cheap.
Missing the vital ingredient of sugar. A large number of people would struggle with this type of food because their body is attuned to eating mounds of sugar and salt to mask the fact they are eating craap. |
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Some of my fav stuff is the cheap basic homemade stiff my mother used to cook for me when I was a kid.
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To be fair Injera I always believe in choice. You souldn't make someone do something. Every meal would have two choices. Eat it or don't.
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I mean, how much does it take to heat a meal? You'd have to have a 1kw electric heater element on for 1 full hour to even burn 1 unit which is only about 10p. You are vastly overestimating the cost of making food, unless you are using the oven every time for a small amount. Which is your own stupidity!
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Now you're talking pawras. I lapped up the veg boiled to shiit, tripe, black pudding, pigs trotters and puddings in rags. I never left anything.
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Sorry to pi$$ around.
Seriously fish is your sure fire healthy eating. Unless warmed up at Hinkley Point ha ha!!! I used to take my boat out in poole harbour - get a few schoolies (bass) and have them under a grill by the evening. Yum yum - happy days. Your sweetest fish in the sea(for me) is a fresh couple of dabs. |
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Now when I watch the Bushtucker trials I start salivating.
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forgetting todays parents are the junk food kings so eat it or else means your forcing the kids to eat junk
just checking unless your buying your ingriedients fresh which makes them expensive they,ll have just as many additives,salt sugars etc as in processed foods |
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Nonsense, they don't add sugar and salt to frozen peas and brocolli.
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lot of people quoting veg on here the price of fresh veg for a family of 4,5 for a week will be horrendus for those on low incomes
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Well buy it frozen! Frozen veg has been shown to be sometimes healthier than fresh, depending on how quickly it was frozen and how long the fresh has been on the shelf. You can buy mountains of it from your frozen food shops for not that much.
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Moisk, i usually but haddock or salmon from local fish guy and grill it, both r superb
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