How much to live on per week

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looby75 wrote: »

My daughter buys all her beef mince from a butcher in Granger Market Newcastle. I'm pretty confident that it is 100% beef mince as it's sourced from a local farm, where there are no horses. She also buys pork mince from them too which is cheaper and healthier than beef mince.

rubytuesday wrote: »

As my daughter has been making her own chilli and shepherds's pie she is unlikely to be neighing.

She doesn't eat ready meal rubbish.

She was also surviving on £40 a week for a while and gave up alcohol for the month of January which has helped considerably.

She's put on a much needed stone as well so her home cooking is helping her thrive.

As stated before she doesn't live by chilli and shepherds's pie alone so what the hell is your problem?!

Mince to be called "mince" only needs to be “skeletal muscle with naturally included or adherent fat and connective tissue” to be legal. So unless your daughters "mince" the meat themselves they have no idea !!!!!! they are eating.....

What's my problem???

Suggesting it's OK for our kids and students to live on S!!! food that's my problem....

Seeing it as a badge of honour to spend £15 on food per week that's my problem....

Suggesting and thinking that your a rock star because you buy cheapest, skankiest food available, that's my problem...

Suggesting that parents should aspire to have their kids eat the cheapest and skankiest food avaiable that's my problem....

Mocking parents who want their kids to eat well (and exercise) - that's my problem....

Dissuading parents from giving their kids money for healthy food and exercise...that's my problem....

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Dunroamin wrote: »

Presumably you've never eaten horse meat when abroad and so have no idea how delicious and nutritious it is. Perhaps you should broaden your experience.

Yes it's the bute in it that makes it so tasty....

....and what makes you think you are eating tasty horse steaks???? You are eating knackered old horse that comes from god knows where and was killed god knows when....

but hey I know that won't worry you....after all it's so cheap.....

tuck in

looby75

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

Mince to be called "mince" only needs to be “skeletal muscle with naturally included or adherent fat and connective tissue” to be legal. So unless your daughters "mince" the meat themselves they have no idea !!!!!! they are eating.....

What's my problem???

Suggesting it's OK for our kids and students to live on S!!! food that's my problem....

Seeing it as a badge of honour to spend £15 on food per week that's my problem....

Suggesting and thinking that your a rock star because you buy cheapest, skankiest food available, that's my problem...

Suggesting that parents should aspire to have their kids eat the cheapest and skankiest food avaiable that's my problem....

Mocking parents who want their kids to eat well (and exercise) - that's my problem....

Dissuading parents from giving their kids money for healthy food and exercise...that's my problem....

no one has done that, all people have said it that it is possible to eat a healthy, varied and cheap diet if you shop carefully, and ideally batch cook and freeze.

I don't know why you have such a chip on your shoulder about that concept. Saying that my daughter doesn't know what is in her mince unless she minces it herself, you could say that about any food, unless you slaughter it and butcher it yourself then you have to take the word of the retailer. The butchers that my daughter uses has been there for over 80 years and has a good reputation so she trusts them to be selling what they say they are. It's lean beef mince she buys so not full of fat and gristle, and it's cheaper than the ordinary mince from tesco so its a double win for her.

In fact I'm planning to meet up with her one day next week (its half term so I'm taking my son to the cinema if I'm feeling up to it) and am going to buy a meat pack from them for take home and freeze.

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looby75 wrote: »

I don't know why you have such a chip on your shoulder about that concept.

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I just don't understand how you can put such rubbish in your mouth and encourage your children to do the same. However, what you do in the privacy of your home is your own business but you choose to come on the internet and and boast about it - all in the name of saving a few quid - so I'm quite entitled to express my own opinion.

By the way, I have no idea why you think that "any" mince is healthy? Really???? You really think that???

looby75

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

I don't have a chip on my shoulder. I just don't understand how you can put such rubbish in your mouth, encourage your children and other people's children do the same and boast about it on the internet - all to save a few quid.

By the way, I have no idea why you think that any mince is healthy? Really - do you know anything about food nutrition?

lol sorry but I totally disagree that my daughters diet is unhealthy. As I've said many times what I have posted is just a snapshot of what she eats, a example of the healthy cheap meals she makes.

As for mince not being healthy, it doesn't seem to have caused my kids any problems, nor anyone else in my entire family. We've eaten beef mince, pork mince, lamb mince and turkey mince without any ill effects.

In fact I made turkey burgers last sunday for lunch using turkey mince (on offer £1.25 for 450g from aldi), we are all still here.

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looby75 wrote: »

lol sorry but I totally disagree that my daughters diet is unhealthy. As I've said many times what I have posted is just a snapshot of what she eats, a example of the healthy cheap meals she makes.

As for mince not being healthy, it doesn't seem to have caused my kids any problems, nor anyone else in my entire family. We've eaten beef mince, pork mince, lamb mince and turkey mince without any ill effects.

In fact I made turkey burgers last sunday for lunch using turkey mince (on offer £1.25 for 450g from aldi), we are all still here.

Lucky you. If that's what you eat then we will never agree on anything...


...and from aldi too. Top class butchers....

rubytuesday

Oh my god you really are from another planet!

Perhaps you would care to enlighten us what our children should be eating?!

She's making a roast dinner with chicken tonight - going to have a go at making her own stuffing - is that ok with you?

Sometimes she'll make a mozzarella salad is that ok with you?

She also has a cheese fetish probably her biggest expenditure - is that allowed?

My daughter is eating well she loves good food and is enjoying cooking and trying out new recipes but has the brains to be able to budget which is just as well really.

Please please do enlighten us with what they should be ingesting.

I never eat beef mince by the way I just say neigh!

Oh and she is doing yoga and Pilates regularly so I hope that meets with your requirement for exercise!

cousinit_2

we have 2 kids at uni in leeds and birmingham. they both get £50 weekly by direct debit. they work in the summmer to supplement it if they wish to. otherwise thats it! we let them take tins and jars of food back when they visit and use our laundry for big washing like bedding or delciates like party dresses. otherwise they walk every where or have a rail card to save on fares, have hairdressers and dental visits at home -they pay for hair i do dental! we keep the £50 going over xmas but not summer and at Easter it gets reduced as they can not work so much while revision is on. the money allows them to eat well enough, have a meal out once every couple of weeks, do pre drinks and booze at club nights and play sports. They were very well set up with cooking equipemnt and the skills to match and were both the info geru on how to do laundry and cook without jars or mixes cheaply so they advised their flatmates. They have friends who get three times that much but spend it all on clothes! I send them back with goodies like their favourite shampoos or baking ingredients sometimes but it is things like good meats to freeze or good shaving blades that cost a lot that they seem to get excited about! Washing powders, cleaning fluids and printer inks were all supplied befroe they went. start off skimpy after you have stocked them up with sacks of rice and pasta; they can then always plead poverty later when you can ask to see bills and reciepts to prove they need more! by the way -they don't do gifts for others as everyone is poor there too! they just celebrate by going out with the birthday person. it does them good to earn and save it for treats or holidays though we pay for their family hols with us still as they still want to join us! they have travel plans for the future but they will have to fund that themselves!

Noonar

Blimey, I am going to stick to pheasant, partridge and rabbit - at least I know who shot it, who eviscerated it and I definitely know where it came from ---- the wild. I just hope my daughter will appreciate a freezer full of it at Uni. I couldn't possibly let her eat supermarket mince

looby75

well healthy diet or not she got her exam results today that determine if she could carry on with her studies for next year and she has passed with flying colours so all it good