debtors going without food.

A_fiend_for_life

I had some beetles, butterfly / moth larvae and ant eggs in Thailand a few years back. They were quite bland actually. The beetles were grown on cow dung and you had to spit the carapaces out after chewing. Apparently they irritate the bowel.

A_fiend_for_life

I suspect H F-W's ingredients masks any flavour the slugs might have had.

Pobby

I sometimes have a snoop at what people having in their shopping trolleys. Bit of an eye opener. Food can be quite inexpensive if you bother to cook.

lostinrates

Pobby wrote: »

I sometimes have a snoop at what people having in their shopping trolleys. Bit of an eye opener. Food can be quite inexpensive if you bother to cook.

I think it can also be a lot more expensive to cook somethings. I cook from scratch, reasonably cheaply, IMO. However, I am aware, I could give DH pot noodle, and some cases, microwave meals/ready meals that cost less than the homecooked equivalent. I have the choice not too and I take it, on an ethicl and frankly taste and pleasure stand. If I had my back against a wall it might be different.

I'll also say I've always cooked, even when in longer ours than normal full time work: but I was my own boss. Then OH didn't help, I had no children to feed. It is possible to cook from scratch cehealy, if everyhing else is right. If you are working all hours and have kids that need to be fed, and bathed, and homework helped and bedtime storied and you have housework to do, and the shopping, and the school run etc etc etc its a very different picture. Slow cooking is only part if the answer: time poor as well as money poor things get harder.

dopester

StevieJ wrote: »

Pretty harsh having their throat :eek: no dressing that up.

Don't they use a bolt gun or something on livestock, which is slightly more humane for a near instant death? (Sorry Trel) Still not something I like to ponder on. An abattoir guy has just been sent down for murdering a woman with one.

The slug being a regular part of the diet of the English was on some English history TV documentary I watched a few years ago. It seemed believable.

“If you do eat uncooked or inadequately cooked slugs or snails it is possible to get a parasitic infection that can be dangerous,” Pryor says. In a few rare cases, humans have contracted parasite-induced meningitis from eating raw slugs.

StevieJ

dopester wrote: »

Don't they use a bolt gun or something on livestock, which is slightly more humane for a near instant death?.

This appears to happen, thanks to Andrew on Yahoo answers.

Chickens are hung upside down, then placed on a converyor belt. The pass thru an electrical field which fries their brains and then still on the belt they pass an automatic throat cutter, there they are bleed out and they are opened cleaned and bathed in scalding water. Then on onto the prepartion tables.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I think it can also be a lot more expensive to cook somethings.

This is especially true for smaller quantities. I bought some coronation chicken sandwich filler and priced it up for making it myself. If I'd bought just 100g of ready cooked chicken and added the other ingredients it would have cost about the same as the ready-made pot did. If I'd bought a whole chicken and roasted it, then stripped it down, it would have been cheaper but then I'd have had to eat chicken for a whole week and spent 1-2 hours sorting it out - and they don't safely last that long... so then it's back to looking at the individual portions again and the price goes up again.

Same with bread. Yes, I can spend 3 hours making my own loaf, at an ingredient cost of 20p and an electricity bill of 20p, so 40p. This loaf will have to be eaten with 2-3 days. Or, I can buy a Tesco long-life loaf for 50p that is soft and bouncy and lasts 7-10 days.

Cost, time, convenience, variety. Bring them all into the mix and the choices are different.

ninky_2

mbga9pgf wrote: »

So, lets get this right, I get hit with 40% tax, whilst over a million britons are on 15K annually for sitting on their fat, chav, workshy @rses and you expect me to feel sorry for them?

I would rather send them across to Afghanistan as a expendable mine detector to protect our brave lads and lasses, who have actually gone out on a pittance, still pay their taxes in the Stan to fund said chavs than have them sat at home.

Its called Darwinism.

if darwinism is right then we have to consider that every human action is governed by the laws of evolution. including sitting on a chav !!!!. adapt and survive and all that. it is possible that chav !!!!!! have the stronger genetic material and that workaholic dopes are the weakest link......

carolt

PasturesNew wrote: »

This is especially true for smaller quantities. I bought some coronation chicken sandwich filler and priced it up for making it myself. If I'd bought just 100g of ready cooked chicken and added the other ingredients it would have cost about the same as the ready-made pot did. If I'd bought a whole chicken and roasted it, then stripped it down, it would have been cheaper but then I'd have had to eat chicken for a whole week and spent 1-2 hours sorting it out - and they don't safely last that long... so then it's back to looking at the individual portions again and the price goes up again.

Same with bread. Yes, I can spend 3 hours making my own loaf, at an ingredient cost of 20p and an electricity bill of 20p, so 40p. This loaf will have to be eaten with 2-3 days. Or, I can buy a Tesco long-life loaf for 50p that is soft and bouncy and lasts 7-10 days.

Cost, time, convenience, variety. Bring them all into the mix and the choices are different.

Certainly, I can't imagine cooking cheaply without a freezer. It allows me to batch cook, buy frozen veg (cheaper, use only what you want, lasts for months), etc.

Without one, I'm sure I'd buy a lot more ready-prepared. (And I do buy quite a bit; my life is too busy to make pizzas, say - unless I happen to have some leftover tomato sauce and cheese that need using up...).

lostinrates

I used to not even have a fridge. :eek:

I did have an old fashioned cool larder. I ate on pennies, but not very well balanced diet. Its not something I'd do with kids happily, tbh, its not somehting I'd relish myself now.