If You Had To Serve Up A Meal For A Family Of Four, Two Adults And Two Teenage Children, With A Budget Of 30P Per Person...

[sandyRoe]

...what could you serve up?

[mallyh]

shepherds pie
sausage mash

[mallyh]

and spag bol

[emmie]

for 1.20 for four you aren't going to get much, assume you mean pence not pounds.

[emmie]

mince would cost more than 1.20p. then top off with the toms, and sundry veg you might want to add, can't be done for that money. Maybe a soup of veg....

[mallyh]

if you buy a big bag of mince from eg icelands in your weekly shopping you can do a few meals

[emmie]

perhaps potato and leek soup...

[emmie]

you need pots and veg for shepherds pie and pasta for the spag bol,

[emmie]

my cumberland sausages cost more than the 1.20 stipulated, then you have to buy the potatoes.
is this something someone has to do sandyRoe.

[emmie]

say three leeks and a small bag of pots for the soup, you might just about manage it within the cost allowed.

[Ken4155]

https://www.cityam.com/tory-mp-claims-food-bank-users-cannot-cook-or-budget-properly-and-meals-cost-30p-a-day/

[emmie]

ah i see now. no can do.

[Ken4155]

This chap must have leapt from the pages of a Dickens novel.

[emmie]

the person is talking out of their backside,

[New Judge]

//is this something someone has to do sandyRoe.//

It's this, emmie:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/05/11/tory-mp-lee-anderson-moans-poor-people-cant-cook-properly-16626557/

"Anyone accepting donations must register for a budgeting course and a cooking course, he told fellow MPs, adding: ‘We show them how o cook cheap and nutritious meals on a budget – we can make a meal for about 30p a day and this is cooking from scratch."

[emmie]

i eat well, don't skimp on meals but i couldn't make a meal for 1.20p for 4 people. unless i already had a cupboard full of essentials like pasta, pots, toms, and sundry herbs and spices.

[emmie]

its a load of botox NJ, no one can make a meal for 1.20 for 4 with no essential ingredients already in the fridge/cupboard

[1ozzy]

Goats head soup, worked for the Rolling Stones,,,

[carrot99]

Baked beans and jacket potatoes. Sainsbury's sell 4 jacket potatoes for 42p and basic range beans for 21p so 84p with 2 tins of beans. You might be able to get a reduced price cake for the other 36p for the children.

The problem I found when I had a reduced income some years ago is that to do a whole meal you have to buy smaller portions of each item which is a very expensive way to shop. For example Sainsbury's sell 4 baking potatoes for 42p but 2.5kg of potatoes for 99p. Obviously if you were doing more than one meal you'd buy the larger, cheaper bag.

[naomi24]

Vegetable pasta bake.

[emmie]

yes you would Carrot, i made half a pound of mince go a long way, but that was also buying the ingredients needed to make a cottage pie or spag bol.