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8 Iceland burgers £1:50I can produce a roast dinner to feed four people for around £5.
Granted there have to be a few bits and bobs in the kitchen already, basic seasonings etc but at £1.25 per head I doubt you'll find a ready meal to beat it!
Big bag Iceland chips £89p
3 big tins beans £1:00
Which comes to a grand total of £3:39
85p per head, beat that!Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
8 Iceland burgers £1:50I can produce a roast dinner to feed four people for around £5.
Granted there have to be a few bits and bobs in the kitchen already, basic seasonings etc but at £1.25 per head I doubt you'll find a ready meal to beat it!
Big bag Iceland chips £89p
3 big tins beans £1:00
Which comes to a grand total of £3:39
85p per head, beat that!
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Boom, crap food is cheaperPinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0
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I once got 8 meals out of a small chicken. I know people who make a stew type meal (call it scouse pie or something like that). It is basically a stew where you never stop making it once you start. So you make a large pot of stew one day, eat what you want and leave the rest in the pot covered up. The next day you just add stuff to it like vegetables, cheap stuff that you just simmer away until tender. Then you keep doing that but occasionally adding meat to top it up. Basically a very poor man's food but it can be very cheap and still have the nutrients needed. If at the end of the week (or 2 week jobseekers payment period) and you have no money left to buy food then you still have something in your pot to perhaps tide you over a day or two.
Now I heard originally about this pot thing as a kid from family members who lived through the depression in Liverpool. They had fond memories of those days despite them being hard times. One family member had all these stories of her Mum's thrift methods such as bulk buying from the fish van whatever was left over and about to be thrown. Stories of being woken up late at night because the family had obtained a load of very cheap fish and it had to be eaten (cooked simply in water and milk with a little bread that was there).
All stories from a long time ago of truly hard times that we are not experiencing here and now. So anyone who spouts about not being able to afford to eat or to eat healthily needs to get out of their self sympathy gloom and wake up to the fact we have a safety net, such as it is, that is survivable. Back in the day it was not there in the same way. Heck I have relatives who still remember workhouse days. These days there are large families living a lifestyle that has no benefit caps. Back then you had nothing much at all. A family of 7 kids and 2 parents would not have a fraction of the benefits they would have now (and at one time only the handouts of charity). Now there are foodbanks handing out food too but to who? People in work??? Sorry but the world it to pot when it comes to a lot of things and obesity is one thing that is totally messed up.
PS I am a rare breed who used to have the opposite problem of being dangerously underweight. I later on got to a very high BMI of just over 25, well high for me and it got a few looking fat comments from family. I got down to a BMI of IIRC 21.75 in about 2 weeks after cutting out the snacks and exercising hard. I switched from an unfocussed resistance training regime to a predominantly CV workout with a but of resistance work. Oh and I did exercise 5 to 6 days a week too. My metabolism helped a lot with that of course but I still put the effort in. My life after that was one of exercise as part of life. I could eat whatever I liked because exercise, good diet generally (cooked my own food healthily from fresh ingredients without that much processed muck in there) and a suitable metabolism. I still worked at the healthy aspects through gym and outside exercise. That is where a lot of people who are obese fail I think. Simply getting out there and working hard for your health is an anathema for them. Easier to work out on the Xbox or shouting at a TV programme (like on gogglebox). I still think if you can sit down at the end of the day and have that good but tired feeling of having given everything to your day then I reckon most people would not be obese.
PS Is V.Coren really fat or is that just down to the angle taken to look down her obviously baby feeding cleavage? I think even Holly Willoughby looked fat after her child was born if you took a shot at that angle. To all the pervs out there google that for images, i dare you!!!;)0 -
Perhaps be a little careful about google terms.PS Is V.Coren really fat or is that just down to the angle taken to look down her obviously baby feeding cleavage? I think even Holly Willoughby looked fat after her child was born if you took a shot at that angle. To all the pervs out there google that for images, i dare you!!!;)0 -
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This thread- I'm Loving It.
Popcorn, Cola and Haribo time. Ha ha.seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Boom, crap food is cheaper
Yes, it's cheaper but you have to buy so much more of the slop that it turns out to be twice as expensive .......Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
No I was right the first time. People playing shifts of cowboys and Indians for a living, hanging around supermarkets with their military sized bags waiting for the fridges to be stocked up. I'll mention no names (MW) look after number one.Or perhaps those on a budget who are trying to bring up healthy kids by cooking decent meals by freezing food so it keeps?
I've never noticed that myself but then again I'm not hanging around the fridge in question.And you can't talk, force feeding your kids roast potatoes every day, their cholesterol must be through the roof!
You don't need potatoes to make a roast piece of meat and vegetables. OK it may not be a true " sunday roast" but it would have a decent piece of meat, three portions of vedge and some gravy.
And who said I have a roast every day?Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
Cracking post-baby tits though :twisted:"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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Cracking post-baby tits though :twisted:
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No I was right the first time. People playing shifts of cowboys and Indians for a living, hanging around supermarkets with their military sized bags waiting for the fridges to be stocked up. I'll mention no names (MW) look after number one.Or perhaps those on a budget who are trying to bring up healthy kids by cooking decent meals by freezing food so it keeps?
I've never noticed that myself but then again I'm not hanging around the fridge in question.And you can't talk, force feeding your kids roast potatoes every day, their cholesterol must be through the roof!
You don't need potatoes to make a roast piece of meat and vegetables. OK it may not be a true " sunday roast" but it would have a decent piece of meat, three portions of vedge and some gravy.
And who said I have a roast every day?
Tinned carrots and watery gravy perhaps?
That is what I believe some people think constitutes a Xmas dinner, nevermind a run of the mill Sunday one..
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Chicken, £3.00
Carrots, £50p
Tin of corn, £30p
Brocoli £1 (or chopped savoy cabbage with a red onion and loads of garlic, about £1)
Juice from the roasted bird, a bit of cornflour and an oxo cube to make the gravy.
Come on guys, you know you're just being pedantic internet wankers over this. Cheap food is bad for you but good food doesn't need to be expensive.
£5 to most dole dossers is a packet of fags...Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
ps sorry about the swear, I assumed it'd be filtered but as it isn't I'm assuming its ok Advocate of disc brakes.0
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ps sorry about the swear, I assumed it'd be filtered but as it isn't I'm assuming its ok
Mods away be happy.
Though I may change your sums slightly, that could be where I shop (chicken would be £5 base). But people often blame expense when it is ignorance or the idea that you can't cook it batches and use later in the week/lunches or freeze0 -
I don't mind being called a w**ker but uncensored wankers is below the belt! Where's v68 when you need him!?
I'm glad we've cleared up the difference between a roast dinner and a roast chicken dinner
Granted you can eat healthily for a reasonable price but you're still going to run out of options for a family of four compared to the selection of cheap crap.
I'd like to know where you get your £3:00 medium chicken?Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
I can't believe you lot discussing chickens :roll: This place has gone downhill rapidly :shock:
I guess I'll just have to admit defeat and join you in your poultry debate :roll: The best I could find was £3.99 for a chicken, breasts would be a cheaper option if you'd rather........maybe this is the sort of breasts people round here prefer now :P
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Frozen-Whole-Chicken-essential-Waitrose/58222011?gclid=COq_jOn88MYCFY_JtAodkCIIRw&voucherCode=&parentContainer=&kpid=58222011&sku=58222011&dnr=y"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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So what you're saying is that HD is doctoring his figures? And that crap food is in fact cheaper?I can't believe you lot discussing chickens :roll: This place has gone downhill rapidly :shock:
I guess I'll just have to admit defeat and join you in your poultry debate :roll: The best I could find was £3.99 for a chicken, breasts would be a cheaper option if you'd rather........maybe this is the sort of breasts people round here prefer now :P
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Frozen-Whole-Chicken-essential-Waitrose/58222011?gclid=COq_jOn88MYCFY_JtAodkCIIRw&voucherCode=&parentContainer=&kpid=58222011&sku=58222011&dnr=y
Nice to see you BTW.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
So what you're saying is that HD is doctoring his figures? And that crap food is in fact cheaper?I can't believe you lot discussing chickens :roll: This place has gone downhill rapidly :shock:
I guess I'll just have to admit defeat and join you in your poultry debate :roll: The best I could find was £3.99 for a chicken, breasts would be a cheaper option if you'd rather........maybe this is the sort of breasts people round here prefer now :P
https://www.ocado.com/webshop/product/Frozen-Whole-Chicken-essential-Waitrose/58222011?gclid=COq_jOn88MYCFY_JtAodkCIIRw&voucherCode=&parentContainer=&kpid=58222011&sku=58222011&dnr=y
Nice to see you BTW.
Nice to be back, I thought that I'd cracked the addiction but this place drags you back
Maybe HD is talking about something like this?
https://www.aldi.co.uk/en/product-range/frozen/poultry/poultry-product-detail-page/ps/p/bastedstuffed-chicken-joint/"Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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A small Asda chicken will feed two adults and two kids, then you can boil the bones to make stock, frozen for when you want to make a good winter soup for about £3.
It's not that I'm tight it I've had this argument before with people who actually believe you can't do it.Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
what a bunch of arseholes.0
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what a bunch of arseholes.
This is a bunch of arseholes.
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what a bunch of arseholes.
This is a bunch of arseholes.
How did you get hold of V68's holiday snaps "Arran, you are like the Tony Benn of smut. You have never diluted your depravity and always stand by your beliefs. You have my respect sir and your wife my pity"
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So you are now all advocating meat in water?Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0 -
First time in BB?what a bunch of arseholes.Pinno, מלך אידיוט וחרא מכונאי0 -
So you are now all advocating meat in water?
And raisins for pud.0 -
So you are now all advocating meat in water?
I think you've just described gravy.
I'm advocating using bones to make stock, to add to soup, to give it a better base flavour.Advocate of disc brakes.0 -
So you are now all advocating meat in water?
I think you've just described gravy.
I'm advocating using bones to make stock, to add to soup, to give it a better base flavour.
No. Meat in water. It's a BB old time favorite recipe ...... If I meant gravy I would have typed gravy.....Postby team47b » Sun Jun 28, 2015 11:53 am
De Sisti wrote:
This is one of the silliest threads I've come across.
Recognition at last Matthew, well done!, a justified honoursmithy21 wrote:
He's right you know.0
