The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

kezlou

hmmmm

I've just read shirley goodes blog piece and it is disgraceful.
I agree it is just food snobbery.

My budget varies a lot from week to week, but to have the audacity to question a persons action regarding the use of a food bank is disgraceful.
As a supposed budget cook she should have the respect and kindness not to slander people just because they buy the basics range.
I'm sorry but guess what i do, i've lost a tremendous amount of weight because the basic brands have less chemicals and sugar in them. They also are needed when you don't have a lot of money spare.

40p for a kilo of tesco long grain rice is a life saver. No way can i afford the basmati rice even in the Asian grocers as its just too expensive.


If Shirley had the budget that i have off for family of four she would be well and truly screwed.
I'm sorry to say that but she would. The 80's is a different to now Food prices are extortionately high even compared to then.

Sorry if i upset anyone but i just had to write something.
I'm fuming.:mad:

juliettet

Would you recommend rice & pasta then perhaps with the tuna. I struggle with the thought that children might be hungry.

FairyPrincessk

Well done SDG! I know it must have been tough!

Hugs and a virtual bowl of soup to Elona.

Julietett, baked beans and tuna are on the Trussell trust website as good items to give. Rice and pasta are also on the list, so I think you're good with any of those things!

Popperwell

I often eat basic ranges/reduced items/offers or eat smaller portions, fewer meals but am not hungry. Tend to feel like Kezlou. I have been known to think I fancy some chocolate/sweets but if I don't buy I can put that money to a meal or something in the food line that is good for me...

I love tomatoes and lately have eaten the little plum or cherry tomatoes but in the last couple of days I went through both cartons within two meals and that came to £2.40 just on tomatoes alone:eek:Imagine if I did that across the week, that would be approx £8.

Obviously ordinary loose tomatoes are cheaper.

As are loose bananas...I can pay £1-£1.37 prepacked, last evening the same amount cost me 52p it all helps...

Popperwell

At the Saltburn food festival someone was selling a madeline slicing machine but said it was worth approx £30 but on offer for approx £20 with a free carving knife worth approx £10 and a kind of plastic thing that you can use to do fancy cucumber.

I found a similar one a few months back in The Yorkshire Trading Company in Redcar for approx £6(that one was selling in John Lewis for approx £30)

I have had that plastic spiral thingy and its never worked for me yet or perhaps I am doing somthing wrong. I haven't quite worked out how you do those fancy tomatoes where they are haved but have jagged edges(little peaks all the way around)

Obviously he's a good talker and it looked as though he sold nearly all his stock.

Popperwell

I have all the gadgets going from electrically powered to using good old elbow greece. They should last me the rest of my life...most were on offer.

tattycath

Popperwell wrote: »

At the Saltburn food festival someone was selling a madeline slicing machine but said it was worth approx £30 but on offer for approx £20 with a free carving knife worth approx £10 and a kind of plastic thing that you can use to do fancy cucumber.

I found a similar one a few months back in The Yorkshire Trading Company in Redcar for approx £6(that one was selling in John Lewis for approx £30)

I have had that plastic spiral thingy and its never worked for me yet or perhaps I am doing somthing wrong. I haven't quite worked out how you do those fancy tomatoes where they are haved but have jagged edges(little peaks all the way around)

Obviously he's a good talker and it looked as though he sold nearly all his stock.

I can make the tomatoes with jagged edges. There is a pointy gadget thing on the end of one of my peelers and you just poke it in the tomato all the way around and voila-fancy little tomato. You could do it with the pointy edge of a vegetable knife too.

boultdj

juliettet wrote: »

Would you recommend rice & pasta then perhaps with the tuna. I struggle with the thought that children might be hungry.

Back in the late 80's/early 90's a lot of the party food was tuna, rice or pasta,sweetcorn,peas and thousand island dressing, and we always seemed to stay full till the next morning, nowadays I do tuna mayonise with pasta as a cold salad for work, so it should keep the littlies full, as long as they arn't in the hollow leg age.

boultdj

fuddle wrote: »

Now you say it... I dunno! :eek:

I always make flapjack or carrot cookies for lunch boxes. Ive never given it a second thought and I have made twinks before and know how divine they are!

golden brown twinks are the order of day. It's difficult walking past 39p biscuits for ingredient laden home made but I stick with it because its all in the house already and has multiple uses. Plus a custard cream wouldn't fill DH up for lunch where oat biscuits do.

Still though, those carrot cookies from We'll Eat Again really are yummy and surprisingly lacking in fat, they stretch very far. Ill find the recipe when I get on the old rickety laptop later.

Carrot cookies! I like the sound of them, and yes please to the recipe when you get time.:D

auntymabel

I always thought the jagged edge cut tomatoes were called Van Dyck tomatoes but I just googled it and didn't find anything so maybe I made it up. (Or I know something Google doesn't)