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"Poor people don't know how to cook"
"Poor people don't know how to cook"
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Not knowing how to cook has to be a contributary factor towards this fact................surely.
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have the lords voted for their bumper champaign allowance yet....the greedy c...s
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1st time poster - absolutely disagree! - fresh (disputable granted) vegetables in comparison to ready meals days these - no brainer.
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Just Checking 08 Dec 14 20:18
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. Yeh, because everyone has a freezer don't they ? |
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wasnt mr pickles blaming dr,s for his weight problems,
different rules depending what rung of the ladder your on |
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Got a chest frezezer 6 months back, best thing ive bought
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Buying ingredients fresh isn’t expensive, it just depends where you go to buy it. I used to be a master of knowing the cheap places for fresh meat and veg when I was up north in my early 20’s. Basically supermarkets are a rip off for a lot of stuff. Plus if you cook in bulk and freeze it it’s cheaper still.
EO – most of the time there was zero choice about when you ate and what you ate when I was kid at home, i.e. everybody ate the same thing at the time end of story or do without, oh yeah everyone had to sit the table as well. I’ve been conditioned so much by my mother's super boil style I still prefer my cabbage like silage lol. Tonight’s childhood basic speciality was :- 1 extra large frying pan Slowly fry as many slices of bacon as you can fit in the pan, I used olive oil but to be true to my roots it should have been lard Take the bacon out when it’s cooked to taste Empty a tin of plum tomatoes into the pan, break them up a bit a spatula and add some salt, pepper, garlic and herbs to taste Get one of those mesh things you can put on top of a frying pan , cover it with slices of bread (at least 3 but up to 6)and put the bacon on top and place on top of frying pan so the bread is heated up. When the tomatoes have fried and reduced put it all on a plate and generally inhale it. LOL can’t escape your roots !!! |
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Regardless of cost - I definatley can not bring myself to buy cheap meat! 'EAT' it? You've gotta be joking!
 I'd rather go without....................... |
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"Yeh, because everyone has a freezer don't they ? "
What the hell is your point caller? I've countless times bought frozen food and put it in the fridge and eaten it over the next 2 or 3 days, have you never thought of that? I lived for years without a freezer, doing just that. This thread is bizarre as there are people on it spouting their theories as if this is some hypothetical situation. It's the complete opposite. We ALL cook, have cooked or have the capacity to cook and we are talking from real experience, so if you're going to shoot down the common sense postings here out of some childish inability to say anything that might agree with a bad Tory lady, then that's your silly problem. I'm guessing you're one of the people that can't cook... |
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And......
A senior York politician has sparked a furious row by saying there is no real poverty in Britain and people should not donate to food banks. Chris Steward, a Conservative councillor, said living standards had surged, that there was no need for food banks, that they were an insult to starving people around the world, and that donating to them allowed recipients to spend more money on alcohol and cigarettes. "The fact some give food to food banks, merely enables people who can’t budget (an issue where schools should do much more and I have said the council should) or don’t want to, to have more money to spend on alcohol, cigarettes etc.” |
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Just Checking - Perhaps you could define 'cook'. As we know it.....................
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ingredients required for home cooking for average poor family ,UK
For northern households simply double the quantity . 20lb of sugar 40lbs of white flour 10 chickens 10lb of vegetable fat (for the pastry) 1 large packet of salt BBQ seasoning 2 bottles of vegatable oil 20 lbs of potatoes a few beans. a few vegetables * make sure the vegetables are cooked for atleast 30 minutes on a boiling heat more sugar and finally a tablespoon of cocoa powder to colour the chocolate cake . |
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vegetables even
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What are you driving at dewey, are you saying that if you use frozen ingredients it's not real cooking? If not where are you going?
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Coachbuster : 30 minutes at least! I'd never cook vegetables that long unless it was swede or something, just do the bare minimum to keep the vitamins in.
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the archbishop and his merrymen have studied this for over a year and the best the torys can come up with is the usual cigs and boooze and insulting the cooking skills of the poor,and by the way check we,re not discussing anybody who can cook but the poorest in society,wiv all the help on here how you have all coped not much mention of cooking for familys of 4,5,6 etc,
if the torys think they are right debate it with the bishop and the rest of the people who,ve studied foodbanks closely,currie didnt even speak to the people using them but hid in the car park and watched what cars they drove up in and drew her conclusions from that |
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JC - folk won't like that mate
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i was thinking of cooking shepards pie, what could i cook with it tho, surly on its own isnt filling enough?
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this isn't Come Dine with me
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Sprouts. Tis the time of year for em..
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Coachbuster 08 Dec 14 20:52
JC - folk won't like that mate -- Won't like what? Ok let's make this clear, when I said "I'd never cook vegetables that long unless it was swede or something" this was NOT a slur on the intellectual capacity of people from the home of ABBA, or a request that we boil them alive.  |
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perhaps the Archbishop could try and persuade the church to part with a bit of the £5 billion they are sitting on.
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I've been asking the Pope for a loan for years..
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Shepherds pie can be filling? If you want it cheap and more filling I'd maybe just make the spuds layer a bit thicker?
Let's make this clear: I'm not requesting that the Bhoys eats Shepherds, or anyone involved in the herding professions. |
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who,ll be the 1st tory to say if your struggling now wait till we lob another 23 million of the benefits bill,
1,01 mathew hancock all in wouldnt you like to kick this arrogant little runt in the rollocks |
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Just Checking - NO! on the contrary - I am disputing the freshness of 'fresh' vegetables, frozen vegetables can be equally, if not better for you - who knows? Once they have been picked, the vitamin content begins to diminish. Unless you are a 'vege' though - I prefer something to go with them.................preferably home cooked.
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Well dewey I think we're agreeing then
I'm official Betfair Frozen Veg Champion. Captain Birdseye has nothing on me :) The Green Giant can eat my warm second hand sweetcorn. |
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Shepherds are among the poorer people in society. As they are all out tending their flocks they have asked me to ask if they could have their pies back, please.
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In the 'real word' people have been finding time to cook food for thousands of years. If you're that stupid and selfish to think your kids should get to choose each meal individually then you are too stupid and selfish to have kids. Bowl of cornflakes, milk, maybe a few raisins, banana, slice or two of toast with jam and spread. 50p a head tops. Porridge even less. Couple of minutes prep time each. By all means indulge yourself or your children if you have the money, but you you can't say you can't afford to feed people if you don't.
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I must be poor then - I cook Shepherds Pie or it cold be Cottage pie even - whatever - they love it. (with at least three fresh or frozen veg.) and always home made gravy - as opposed to granule c*a*.
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When I went to live and work in Scotland years ago I had Crofters Pie thinking it was just shepherds pie renamed until I ate a big mouthful. Haggis instead of mince !
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Missing the point ..................'Poor people don't know how to cook' - 'Cook' being contributary factor towards the 'poor' bit of this statement......................surely.
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Domestic Science/Cookery classes should take preference over subjects like Drama and 'Humanities' (what's that all about these days) and even sport (unfortunately).......for male and femail pupils alike imo.
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They don't have to get up at 5am, go **** in a field, and then walk five miles to get some water.
Move closer to the water and have another hour in bed would be the intelligent move, shirley. |
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Never cooked a meal in my life and wouldn't have a clue how, and not bothered in the least.
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It's true.
Almost always had a wife or a girlfriend, in the rare case of absence of either, I'd go to my sisters and get fed. If she was on her holidays or on a day out, I'd go to a mates and get fed. I'm well known in my circles as a non-cook. |
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Haha Fair play to ya CMAT,
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They are better off using their money for a 64 inch widescreen imo
I used to do voluntary work with an organisation that offered financial management advice and debt counselling and a feature of almost every house you went in was the enormous tv and the SKY dish outside. |