To think this lady lives a depressing existance

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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 am veggie and that dish sounds like the sort of thing I make sometimes. I tend to saute the veg then add cream/ creme fraiche/ cream cheese or just a stock cube and a bit of cheddar. I will serve directly from the saute pan so the veg still has crunch and i will add a bit of rice or

Thank you spinach.

I am veggie and that dish sounds like the sort of thing I make sometimes. I tend to saute the veg then add cream/ creme fraiche/ cream cheese or just a stock cube and a bit of cheddar. I will serve directly from the saute pan so the veg still has crunch and i will add a bit of rice or quinoa. I wouldn't bake it but it sounds good enough to me, as part of a varied diet. I really don't see the reason anyone would object to that dish or pity the woman who made it. Seems a waste of emotion to me, good for her.

I do feel that many meals photograph really badly despite being tasty, bit like me actually

Oh dear weird double post

It sounds lovely. Off to read her blog.

Her food sounds ok. Amateur food bloggers often take awful pics of their food. If it's badly lit then it'll often look a bit gross. I remember that Jack woman who was popular a few years ago. So many of her recipes looked like poo.

Reading her story just made me think 'damn she was lucky to get such a nice council house!' That's a nice oven.

What a monumentally dickish OP, and your follow up posts display a huge level of ignorance and snobbery.

That meal sounds really nice to me, the cream would make it filling because of the fat. Plus it's adaptable if you follow the lobitin school of haut cuisine. The photo isn't great, is all.

You can GTF with your poncy butcher an' aw. Some of us have to do this thing called "budgeting" because we're on a "low income" which means we can't go wafting about "sourcing" beef that spent it's life listening to whale music and getting Swedish massage and eating ambrosia, because it costs more than our weekly fucking food budget. You collosal bell end.

Ugh, I really hate this "I want to do right by my kids by feeding them the BEST organic sausages and vegetables" mentality that's everywhere on Mumsnet. Like everyone else who doesn't have that income doesn't want to do just that...

I feel like those on lower incomes can't win. They feed their kids on easy cheap chips and they are demonised. They put effort into prepping veg and cheaper from scratch options and it's the same thing.

This woman is putting effort to help people live in the healthiest way possible in difficult circumstances. Living on a very little will never be the healthiest option, but you can make the best of these situations. Likewise, a little frugality never hurt anyone.

Rant over... I think.

Amen, Mousehole. I mean when you get down to it a swede from Waitrose and one from Aldi are going to taste exactly the same and have the same nutritional value. Literally the only difference is the price.

Haven't rtft, but first page has me

Anyone else think of this?

I think she's done something interesting with vegetables here. I might try it myself! It's creative and healthy. I don't see why this is being mocked. You could add something else to it if it's to bland for you.

Once you've prepared and cooked the dish, the shelf life is only about 48 hours or so. But the ingredients that haven't been used have a much longer shelf life. I find cream lasts up to 3 weeks in the fridge. Cabbage a week or so. Swede and butternut squash longer. So the pricing is fine. The frugal cool will use up all the leftovers in other dishes.

Can someone explain to me how, with this as an example of one of the presumably three meals she eats a day, we have concerns she isn't getting her five a day?
That makes no sense at all to me.
Presumably wit sausages, chips and peas instead of this she'd be fine?

Her website is gonna have a few more hits per week thanks to this thread.

Good on her. FFS most of us are having to stretch our money further. She's making healthy food for minimal money and I'm entirely fond of that idea. I try and save as much as possible when it comes to food whilst still feeding everyone decent stuff. Now I can have more ideas.

Thanks OP 😁

If I follow her lead could I have a huge cooker like that too?

I'm confused as to why your screen name is 'Imwithher' and you've decided to be rude about another woman's entirely inoffensive (that has no impact on you whatsoever) lifestyle.

Ive been in the position of have no money to buy anything close to a decent meal, and I've either gone without so I could feed my daughter, or I've bought the cheapest things I can find and make whatever I can to stop myself from starving.
If you've never been in that position you will never understand.
Even though that part of my life was many (10+) years ago, I am still rather frugal, making my meals stretch for as cheap as possible, bcoz I know how easy it can be to fall back to that place again

If you can shave £30 off your weekly food bill you could have a cooker like hers.
Duck I agree healthy food for minimal money, and that tastes nice, got to be good.

I was very poor for several years in my teens and early twenties. Now I still live frugally as it is hard to change the habit, I still remember struggling to afford basics. I frequently went hungry and weighed only 7 stone.

Cooking from scratch, using mainly cheap vegetables and occasionally the, um, less popular cuts of meat, was one of the useful skills I learnt in that time.

DH is frequently amazed by my ability to rustle up a meal from a couple of wrinkly veg and a bit of cheese when he thought there was no food in the house and we would have to go to the shop

People like the OP who can't imagine that anyone goes hungry enough in this country to eat that sort of food must have lived a very sheltered and privileged life

Horrible spiteful post from the OP.

We are a highish income family and I shop wherever is convenient. Today it was ocado, if I need nappies its Aldi. A carrot is a carrot is a carrot. I'm lucky that I can pay waitrose prices and still eat next week. Plenty of people don't have that luxury.

Good for this woman who is trying to eat well for less, and sharing her ideas. I feel I should try some of them.

Yabu. I don't understand your problem. If she wants to eat that it's up to her and some families don't have any money so what is wrong with wanting or needing to be frugal!

Yes, agree with upthread. A carrot is a carrot.

I don't buy into this organic crap. It's a money spinner. I could easiiy afford to buy organic food but I choose not to.

I think this looks a tasty meal. Just needs some protein. I'm sad that there are so many judgemental posts. Nothing wrong with this lady if you ask me.