30p to make a cooked meal - Tory Hypocrisy

[Paddy]

Lee Anderson MP claims it takes only 30p to make a cooked meal
People should be made to attend a 'budgeting course' before being allowed food from a food bank.
yet Lee Anderson MP claims £25 per day for meals and £222,000 per year in travel and incidental expenses.

[TheDude]

A slice of toast IS a cooked meal.

[ladymuck]

That's assuming you've scraped together enough money to buy food that will serve multiple meals.

But it's not helpful to anyone if you can't afford the initial outlay to get the right staple ingredients in your cupboard.

[Paralytic]

A slice of toast IS a cooked meal.

You're not accounting for the additional £17 cost for electricity to toast the bread

[TheDude]

That's assuming you've scraped together enough money to buy food that will serve multiple meals.

But it's not helpful to anyone if you can't afford the initial outlay to get the right staple ingredients in your cupboard.

Or herbs, spices, oil, etc.

[NotAllThere]

A slice of toast IS a cooked meal.

Apparently a toast sandwich with pepper is quite tasty.

That's assuming you've scraped together enough money to buy food that will serve multiple meals.

But it's not helpful to anyone if you can't afford the initial outlay to get the right staple ingredients in your cupboard.

Further, it gives no leeway. You have one emergency - kid needs new shoes - and your money is gone.

[vetran]

30p is probably a bit tight but under a £1 a head is entirely possible.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/fo...living-crisis/

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news...s-what-7113243

[Paddy]

30p is probably a bit tight but under a £1 a head is entirely possible.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/fo...living-crisis/

https://www.hulldailymail.co.uk/news...s-what-7113243

This must be a copy and paste article from many years ago, the budget is over-spent in the first three ingredients.

[TheDude]

Apparently a toast sandwich with pepper is quite tasty.

Further, it gives no leeway. You have one emergency - kid needs new shoes - and your money is gone.

I dropped out of university in the early 1990's for a year and ended up working a really tulipty factory job.

I saw first hand how that people with full time jobs who worked really hard could also be poor and it infuriates me when people preach thrift to people in poverty.

[vetran]

I dropped out of university in the early 1990's for a year and ended up working a really tulipty factory job.

I saw first hand how that people with full time jobs who worked really hard could also be poor and it infuriates me when people preach thrift to people in poverty.

Whilst it is possible that there are many people in poverty the situation is not as simple as many paint it. I have friends/associates that do not help themselves.

Plenty of people who claim poverty also smoke, drink, run costly vehicles etc.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulat...ved/2018-03-14

A person’s likelihood of smoking¹ increased in line with the level of deprivation in their neighbourhood², according to new analysis by Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England.