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fairclaire

Sunshinemummy wrote: »

The sad thing is that adults and children do starve to death in this country. The state allocation of funding to statutory and universal services is so poor, it has to be targeted precisely, the cradle to the grave provision of services has ended and some gaps are being filled by charities.

Another of my friends runs a project with adults with LD teaching them horticulture. The project has grown rapidly. This is a charity, but is ultimately funded by the state, privatisation of the welfare state... I am not particularly against this in very specific circumstances.

Hope you look at the funding that is available x

I have. I hadn't put on here but the project was awarded £200k of lottery funding very recently which will keep it running (at core costs) for the next 3 years. The workshops/classes that are taking place are being funded by various council grants and private funding. A grant from the armed forces covenant ( to help the ex-service part of the organisation which is my involvement) is hopefully imminent. Its a great project. Its hoped if the armed services funding comes through we can get some ex-servicemen turning a piece of waste ground into an allotment for members of the community. Giving the community something and some people who might have lost a sense of purpose, something to work towards.
The project has just employed 2 ex-servicemen that were service users and are now employed in the various projects. the idea being its a stepping stone to get them back into proper work. Although to be honest, they are so happy working there they might just stay

David.

Ladyshopper wrote: »

Its also not taught in schools any more. I'm nearly 40, and we had cooking, but it wasn't really cooking, there was a lot of pre-prepared stuff that you just assembled, and I think its even worse now, certainly was when my two did a half term of cooking at secondary school.

Being very honest, I can cook stuff, I'm just extremely lazy where cooking is concerned, thats the bottom line. For example, I can make a (veggie) spag bol or chilli from scratch, but I just find it quicker/easier/cheaper to bung a jar of sauce on instead.

Lots of things I love, the kids won't eat as they don't like them - for example, macaroni cheese or anything in a cheese sauce. If I was sensible, I would batch cook these for myself, then freeze them, so I had nice healthy "ping" meals. Instead, when I do cook them, I end up eating far more than I should in one go, because I'm a greedy guts, so then I just end up not bothering at all.

I dont make the sauce either I didnt mean you had to go back to growing your own organic tomatoes for the sauce I just meant people will and that's their choice buy a bag of frozen chips at say £1.50 per kilo rather than buy some potatoes and peel and chop them which is fine but dont then say your budget does not stretch to a week :rotfl:
Egg/beans and chips for example not the healthiest but coppers
family of four fed 2 or 3 times for the price of 1 Mcdonalds meal

aau1

Ladyshopper wrote: »

Right, I'm off to bed as this talk of food is making me hungry!

Wonder if they'll be any more "Ladyshoppers" popping up trying to cause trouble anywhere else?! :eek:

Night all.

Maybe just davemorton

NICHOLAS_2

My dinners mostly consist of meat and salad. Quick and easy. Healthy and boring.

I can't eat things like micro meals or stuff out of tins.

I have the odd takeaway now and then when i am knackered or have an empty fridge.

The downside of this though is that my foodbill is 5k a year, salad is more expensive than it used to be and fresh meat prices are ridic.

If i was to live on Iceland food for a year i'd be loaded but i can't do it

Tinyshoes

David. wrote: »

Leek and potato make a stock pan full when I do it, depending on the price of leeks at the time of year cheap as chips (peeled and chopped of course)

Mr TS made a delicious leek and potato soup couple of weeks ago, he used pot of the turkey stock he made from the carcass. Bloomin loverly. :T

Last week was duck noodle soup, from the duck (new year) carcass stock and the bits of meat that were left on the bone. I had to be careful as there were a few tiny bones in it. Again delicious.

This week was pumpkin and chilli flakes soup. I'm not so keen on that one if he uses too much chilli but it wasn't bad this time round.

David.

fairclaire wrote: »

I have. I hadn't put on here but the project was awarded £200k of lottery funding very recently which will keep it running (at core costs) for the next 3 years. The workshops/classes that are taking place are being funded by various council grants and private funding. A grant from the armed forces covenant ( to help the ex-service part of the organisation which is my involvement) is hopefully imminent. Its a great project. Its hoped if the armed services funding comes through we can get some ex-servicemen turning a piece of waste ground into an allotment for members of the community. Giving the community something and some people who might have lost a sense of purpose, something to work towards.
The project has just employed 2 ex-servicemen that were service users and are now employed in the various projects. the idea being its a stepping stone to get them back into proper work. Although to be honest, they are so happy working there they might just stay

and I will not say what she had to do for the funding :rotfl:

fairclaire

NICHOLAS wrote: »

My dinners mostly consist of meat and salad. Quick and easy. Healthy and boring.

I can't eat things like micro meals or stuff out of tins.

I have the odd takeaway now and then when i am knackered or have an empty fridge.

The downside of this though is that my foodbill is 5k a year, salad is more expensive than it used to be and fresh meat prices are ridic.

If i was to live on Iceland food for a year i'd be loaded but i can't do it

Grow your own? you can grow salad on a window ledge

Sunshinemummy

aau1 wrote: »

Maybe just davemorton

My eye sight is damaged forever.... has DM got breasts and a beard?

:o:o:o:o:o

David.

aau1 wrote: »

Maybe just davemorton

See he has 2 shops going there :T

David.

NICHOLAS wrote: »

My dinners mostly consist of meat and salad. Quick and easy. Healthy and boring.

I can't eat things like micro meals or stuff out of tins.

I have the odd takeaway now and then when i am knackered or have an empty fridge.

The downside of this though is that my foodbill is 5k a year, salad is more expensive than it used to be and fresh meat prices are ridic.

If i was to live on Iceland food for a year i'd be loaded but i can't do it

and 3 stone heavier :rotfl: