To think this lady lives a depressing existance

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I Know its a Failonline like but please read.

The food can't be healthy and looks like vomit. Why would one want to live like this. I understand that people are on budgets but I think I would rather starve.

I honestly don't get this frugal lifestyle you only live one life if you have the money spend it on living comfortable you could be dead tomorrow.

I think the veg thing sounds quite nice and similar to a vegetable bake I get from M&S as part of their £6 meal deal.

It doesn't look appetising, BUT if you were truly starving and down to your last few pounds, you'd eat it.

Some people are really weird about anything resembling fruit and veg
I once made a boozy fruit salad for a party along with blueberry and white chocolate muffins. A fellow guest sneered at me and said "Oh god, not your healthy food again"

She is the sort of person who thinks I deprive my DD by serving her vegetables. Her husband thinks men should eat meat, not rabbit food.

OP may share similar views

Ah OP you made me click on a Fail link! I was expecting mashed up turkey twizzlers or something, the vegetable gratin is fine, and perfectly acceptable as a side-dish.

She has also devised a full week's menu of frugal but nutritious meals, and I can see why her website gets so many hits as that is actually quite difficult to do on a small budget. I admire her for surviving homelessness with two small children in the 70s, clearly her frugality was honed there.

Looks great to me.

I make dishes every night we enjoy roasts sourced from a good qaulity butcher who charges a very reasonable price. Yesterday we had sausages from the same butcher that again are good qaulity but actually taste good and are not plastically and pumped with water like cheap supermarket ones. I accept that for some people their is no choice but it amazes me people who can afford reasonably priced food but choose to go to Aldi and buy distilled milk because its cheap and lasts.

How is cabbage, butternut squash and swede shitty food?

She looks content and well fed....she's had a hard time and all the best to get. Her food looks fine too....we live on stews and love them and it's not for financial reasons. Do stop bitching,OP.

She is the sort of person who thinks I deprive my DD by serving her vegetables. Her husband thinks men should eat meat, not rabbit food.

Absolutely vegetables should make up a portion of the plate as well as protein as well as carbs. If you want to lose weight cut out the carbs. Meat or protein replacement for vegetarians should be in every meal it is in my house.

I should imagine her budget, vegetarian cookery blog is her hobby. I make plenty of it myself. It's nice enough once you have a taste for vegetables.

I shouldn't worry too much about her quality of life. It seems fairly clear from her lovely house and her build (yes- I typed that out loud) that eating lentil soup is neither financially necessary nor her full-time daily diet.

That gratin looks perfectly nice enough to me.

"The food can't be healthy..."

It's vegetables

The "vomit" one is just veg and potatoes in cream? Looks fine to me, I'd eat it

In fact I find her inspiring and will be looking at her website!

I love vegetable crumble.

I'll get my coat.

How is cabbage, butternut squash and swede shitty food?

No but it's not a meal.

I think she just meant it can be filling and tasty enough on its own.

It doesn't look appetising at all. I'd much rather go for those value fish fingers a pp was talking about.

How is a vege bake a depressing existence

it's not a meal
It is three quarters of a meal, she does suggest extras to go with it.

IDK if she eats like this everyday but their are well off people I know that don't care about health buy food with the most disgusting cheap ingredients like MSG and Aspartame when they could afford even low range stuff that is much nicer and healthier but choose not to. That is crazy.

I think it looks nice too, I love my veg and never thought of mixing them with garlic and cream, I've bookmarked her website!!

There's a lot of sneering on here from people with extremely generous food budgets and money left over for luxuries against people who have to make choices about what they spend their money on

The woman in the story has money, she's doing it out of choice, so this doesn't apply at all.

Like a PP said, she seems very happy and comfortably off but makes it her mission to make healthy thrifty foods for other, less well off families, to emulate. Doesn't sound like a depressing existence to me, fair play to her!

imwithher what other people, regardless of income, choose to eat/not eat/cook/not cook is of no consequence to you. Don't form opinions from afar.

She says it is a main meal.

i am on a fb site she is on and pointed out no one can live on £1 a day long term .she said well its for emergency,s but she never says this while getting her face in the paper .her sites are just no believable .who can feed themselves on £7 a week

I get it.
She is not buying ranges, she is buying vegetables, maybe even with mud on them and double cream and garlic.

To those who are sneering at this lady have you thought of applying to appear on Eat Well For Less, you may find it beneficial.