What have we got in store next year

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I have just read on the BBC site that the cheapest meal is a 'toast sandwich' which has been costed out at 7.5p.Literally three slices of bread two buttered and the one as the 'filling ' toasted.It is supposed to be sufficient for a lunch at 330 calories.Are times really going to get that bad.we seem to be reverting to the 'depression' of the 1930s:eek: I think the day I start eating toast sandwiches I think I'll just turn up my toes :eek: What can you all come up with as cheap as that
Although as a child 'conny-onny' sandwiches were made from condensed milk on bread Ruined the teeth but filled you up:)

balmaiden

Not sure how much it would cost, but, my late Father recalled children that he went to school with in the 30s who took pasties to school the filling was just turnip ( swede) and the pastry was made somehow with flour and water!! Plus the poor said children were bare footed as well.

tessie_bear

marmite on toast would be cheap but dont know exactly how many scrappings you would get per tub of marmite....
10p noodles only a bit more expensive
egg fried rice...rice with an egg scrambled through it
scrambled egg on toast

not much costs less than 10p

westcoastscot

lentil pie - not sure how much it would cost but very little. Also pea and mint soup with bread - very cheap.
WCS

splodger_seedswapper

i don't think i would bother with (or fancy) a toast sandwich tbh.

as i grow my own fruit and veg - and get free eggs (from my dad) i can eat really well for next to nothing - i think more people will be (and should be) growing their own in the future, just like they had to in the days of rationing - i am afraid to say it but people have been spoilt for choice over the last 30 or so years and i think they are now paying for it (can't cook, can't mend, can't make things, can't grow things, buy carp etc etc)

thank goodness for all you very sensible and practical os'ers :T

Fruball

Toast sandwich :eek: Totally agree - would rather curl up my toes than eat toast sandwiches _pale_

I am planning several raised vegetable beds and 2 hens next year so I very much doubt toast sandwiches will be on our menu!!!

ETA - Totally agree with splodger - people 'should' be growing their own and learning new skills.

Perhaps this current situation happens on some level to every generation so that we all learn something?!!!

Beccatje

LOL!! Toast sandwiches even made it to the Dutch news here in Holland!
Supposed to be considered a 'full' meal to UK standards.

My husband had a good frown about that one.. hahahaha.. Too funny.

When I was a kid my mum would sometimes give me a sandwich with satisfaction. (i.e. a slice of bread with just some butter on)
I think I'll get really grumpy if we have to eat that sort of thing because we can't afford anything else..

oldtractor

it will be a good thing if we all learn to make do and mend knit crochet and grow our own food.

meg72

JackieO wrote: »

I have just read on the BBC site that the cheapest meal is a 'toast sandwich' which has been costed out at 7.5p.Literally three slices of bread two buttered and the one as the 'filling ' toasted.It is supposed to be sufficient for a lunch at 330 calories.Are times really going to get that bad.we seem to be reverting to the 'depression' of the 1930s:eek: I think the day I start eating toast sandwiches I think I'll just turn up my toes :eek: What can you all come up with as cheap as that
Although as a child 'conny-onny' sandwiches were made from condensed milk on bread Ruined the teeth but filled you up:)

No No No:eek::eek::eek:

I will join you in the toes turnup and have a bowl of porridge thanks;

Cheapskate

Toast sandwiches for 7.5 pence - and I bet it was using "blotting paper" bread, too - yeuch!! We had some strange meals when we were kids as money was VERY tight, but never that bad!

I agree with splodger as well; I think it will become a necessity, rather than a lifestyle choice, for many more people to grow a few bits, even just a tub of parsley, some spuds in a corner, letting a bramble grow wild, etc.

We now have 3 fruit trees (1 desert apple, 1 cooker and 1 plum), plus brambles, tubs of herbs and potatoes, and I hope to share a friend's allotment next year to do a bit more.

A xo

oldtractor

re next year we'll all be eating gruel,HG and HM veg soup and toast sandwiches but paying through the nose for petrol to get to work ,if we have any work that is. oh joy.