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Do you earn enough for a minimum acceptable standard of living?
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Do you earn enough for a minimum acceptable standard?
Yes
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What we've got here is....... failure to communicate.
Some men you just can't reach.
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princeofpounds wrote: »
The first obvious thing that stems from many of these posts is that many of the people concerned certainly don't live in London or the South East. The cost of living is much higher. £40 for 3 meals a day, 7 days, is £1.90/meal. That's can of mid-market soup and a bread roll in a sainsburys around here.
I don't accept that. Groceries are just as expensive outside of the SE. Eating meals which you haven't prepared yourself is a luxury and I can't see how anyone has no time to make a sandwich and pack some fruit. This has absolutely nothing to do with being a cheapskate and preparing your own food is certainly not living at subsistence level.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Do you make those into a sandwich, then squeeze the cream crackers until the jam comes through the holes? I used to love doing that.
To the person who says crackers/jam isn't a meal ... of course it is!!!
Nah, I pretend it is those posh crackers with salmon on......:rotfl:
And it is a meal, ok not one you can have every day but it fills a hole and can be made bigger with the addition of a piece of fruit or two.
I have to be careful of eating too much bread and crackers with jam (or cheese) does the trick.We made it! All three boys have graduated, it's been hard work but it shows there is a possibility of a chance of normal (ish) life after a diagnosis (or two) of ASD. It's not been the easiest route but I am so glad I ignored everything and everyone and did my own therapies with them.
Eldests' EDS diagnosis 4.5.10, mine 13.1.11 eekk - now having fun and games as a wheelchair user.0 -
Just tried the calculator and it says my income is £307 per week more than I need."The problem with quotes on the internet is that you never know whether they are genuine or not" -
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princeofpounds wrote: »
The second thing is that people don't seem to realise that this is a budget for an 'acceptable' standard of living. Not subsisting on the breadline. So it should include a little money for luxuries beyond subsistance level. You know, luxuries like an adequate amount of protein!
Pasta costs pennies.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »further, an acceptable standard of living is a relative term. for instance, if i was ever reduced to consuming jars of sandwich filler as i couldn't afford meat, i would consider that my standard of living was less than acceptable.
Sandwich filler is for lazy people. I could put together decent ingredients for several days worth of sandwiches for the price of a pot of filler which might last two or three days.0 -
I don't understand people who get great enjoyment out of food, just as they won't understand the way I see it.
Food is fuel, but it’s also a physical manifestation of culture and emotion. One that is tangible, one that you can taste.
Food brings back the happy memories of childhood, reminds us of special events, and of experiences shared with others.
Good food can be the basis for an evening of entertainment, of experiencing new tastes, exploring new cultures, and making new friends. We are social beings, and much of what makes us human is the shared enjoyment of food with others.
Yes, food is fuel, but it's also so much more......“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
-- President John F. Kennedy”0 -
Well my lunch today is cream crackers with strawberry jam.....quite easy to take as a pack up too as the jam is in a squeezy bottle, so all you need to take with you is a plastic knife, get the crackers out, squirt the jam on, spread and eat.
Crackers were less than 50p for a pack and the jam is on special offer at a £1...and that makes loads of snacks/light lunches.
Jam in a squeezy bottle?!
I've just made 10 pots of strawberry jam. not a bottle in sight (-:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Food is fuel, but it’s also a physical manifestation of culture and emotion. One that is tangible, one that you can taste.
Food brings back the happy memories of childhood, reminds us of special events, and of experiences shared with others.
Good food can be the basis for an evening of entertainment, of experiencing new tastes, exploring new cultures, and making new friends. We are social beings, and much of what makes us human is the shared enjoyment of food with others.
Yes, food is fuel, but it's also so much more......
Well what I'm saying is that not everyone ties in food with emotion. Food doesn't remind me of anything - music does, but not food. I've never been one to sit around eating when there's other, more exciting things to be doing. Like I said - each to their own - to me food just isn't that important.0
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