to think people who are crying poor should not eat

[DwainRooney]

Warburtons seeded batch bread.

On BBc news yesterday the roving reporter was out and about in a working mans house talking about the cuts and the people where complaining about losing money but in the background on the breakfast counter was a warburtons seeded loaf at about £1.70
Now if I had to tighten my belt I would be buying cheaper bread

People must realise that we have to live within our means and if that involves buying economy bread then so be it
If your income is reduced then so must your expenditure

problem solved
spend less buy cheaper

YABU. Cheap bread is full of chemicals. Also I buy warbutons seded bread and get it for much less than £1.70

Pagwatch, if only other people would follow your lead.

It's the only way to get this Big Society going...

meat paste?...protein??..we cover ours with saved mucus/bogeys when some gets a cold!..DD2 gave a bumper crop this year..enough snot for about 2 months

Goodnite, time for bread. x

Maybe he should only have one meal every other day and make his clothes out of potatoe sacks , or even better he could eat the whippet ? You could start a soup kitchen for all of us working class poor people and feel good knowing we are only
dipping economy bread into our cabbage soup , is this for real ????

maybe he wasnt poor...from personal experience more expensive foodstuffs burn my eyes from the shelves of supermarkets...i can only fully focus my poor, less financially fortunate eyes on the plain white and red packaging of tesco basic brand products...and being a perfectionist, i must make all of my food products match in my cupboards so all is red and white

perhaps, whilst buying the no frills, supermarkets own branded food he has seriously backed his bowels up due to the excessive salt and bulking additives and the only way he can have a good clear out of cheap food-ey poo is by eating well seeded loaves?? you ever think of that OP? sounds like you are also full of shite...

Well I don't 'work' and buy the stuff for my parrot - there is nothing I can do, he won't eat the cheaper stuff. He likes a slice lightly toasted with a scraping of butter in the morning with his cup of Earl Grey.

The non branded stuff of course could have it's advantages for us poor folk - it is quite malleable stuff and will dry rock solid. I could make little sculptures out of any leftovers and sell them on the street corner. Could turn into quite a lucrative little business. Scrapping that I could just do an effigy of the OP and stick pins in it...

so homeboys - how much should a poor family spend on their weekly shop?

And who are you to dictate what they include in their basket?

Some people spend more money on bread and cut down on beer, wine and other things.

We have nice food at our house shop at m&s etc and my partner doesnt earn much above the minumum wage but we dont drink wine etc or smoke and rarely go out together to cinemas etc in fact the last time we did that was before ds was born 3 yrs ago :( but we choose to have a nice home instead so cut back on other things :)

Thanks for posting this thread. The withering sarcasm at your expense has really made me laugh.

The3Bears - or how about they meal plan, shop carefully and get to buy both??

Or is that too radical a concept that a family can eat healthy food, and have some extras for a reasonable budget?

A lot of posts on this topic confirm my fears

The average person does not know how to save money and live within their means

If you find the money not going as far as it used to then you should make cutbacks

The co-op homebrand brown loaf is very nice and it costs 80p compared to £1.40
A saving of 50p which can go towards quality sausages from the local butcher rather than the crap supermarket ones

And dont leave your lights on when you go out of a room

"but other families claim to be hard up/on benefits and their trolleys are full of crisps, squash, kids muller yoghurts and cheese strings"

It comes to something when once people moaned about people on benefits having Plasma TV's...

Now it's cheese strings.

Fucking benefit scroungers eating cheese strings.

True its all about budgeting of course you can eat healthy on a budget but im sure theyve cut back on other things to be able to do this unless there not as hard done as they make out to be :)

Poeple can buy watever food they want ffs you cannot judge people for what food they buy this is ridiculous

oh fuck off, they can spend their money how they see fit. I really hope that next time you are in the supermarket and you see a poor person (im sure youl know how to spot one) you share your nugget of wisdom and they knock you out.

really some people.

well I feed my children a healthy dinner every night (usually cooked from scracth - although we do have the odd baked beans on toast meal ). They have fruit, and vegetables, and I have my wine (once in a while) and tobacco and other "non essentials" and they have their biscuits, and squash - and yes - sometimes cheese strings !

I spent on average £70 a week on my shopping - including "top ups" during the week (though this week so far have bought no top ups - woohoo)

Omg ..I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this thread

You disgust me MaMo.

You should be on GRUEL.

we just can't win can we?? If we buy ready meals and shite all the time we should be feeding our children properly and not wasting our money on that crap, if we buy better quality food we shouldn't be spending so much and should be buying the cheaper options