Live on a tenner a week ???

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I don't keep bread or butter indoors so a sandwich would be out of the question in my house if you came to visit.

Ieat crackers and soft cheese or pate instead.I wouldn't bother buying it and keeping it if I don't eat it
JackieO

suki1964

I've given up buying coffee as well as it just sits in the jar going hard

I now have powdered milk in the house, mostly for cooking, but I've had to make it up on a few occasions having been caught with no milk

Unless I've baked, there certainly won't be a biscuit offered either

FunBrum

JackieO wrote: »

I don't keep bread or butter indoors so a sandwich would be out of the question in my house if you came to visit.

Ieat crackers and soft cheese or pate instead.I wouldn't bother buying it and keeping it if I don't eat it
JackieO

Lunch round at yours then JackieO?:rotfl:

I don't have milk in my coffee, so you would be lucky to get any if you came for a cuppa in my house! Sugar is hard to find as well, although I do have a stash of sugar sachets, wombled when I've had a coffee out!:)

HOWMUCH

DD doesn't drink coffee either so we provide our own, that way we get a cup of what we prefer. I wouldn't buy anything I don't use and have it sat in a cupboard for other people should they want it.
They have blown the tea bag saga out of context but then that's the media for you.

pigpen

I don't drink coffee but I have it in.. because my visitors do.. my son, my mother (only drinks decaff so I have some in just for her!) I still think it is incredibly rude.. like asking them to bring their own loo roll!!

This weeks grocery shop is my house is £24.50 fruit/veg, £8 milk bread ... for 9 of us! Next week will be even less!

Ilona

HOWMUCH wrote: »

DD doesn't drink coffee either so we provide our own, that way we get a cup of what we prefer. I wouldn't buy anything I don't use and have it sat in a cupboard for other people should they want it.
They have blown the tea bag saga out of context but then that's the media for you.

Exactly. The whole kerfuffel started with that silly reporter from the Yorkshire Post making a ridiculous statement that I ask my friends to bring their own tea bags. She was there to do a job, she was not my friend. I offered her coffee or juice. She bought a small box of tea bags with her, which I have given away to my friend.

If I go to someone's house I do not expect them to have coffee in if they only drink tea. I would accept the tea to be polite. I can just about stand a cup now and again if it isn't too strong.

I now have a large (160) box of tea bags, given to me by another reporter. These too will be given away, to another friend.
Ilona

VfM4meplse

Softstuff wrote: »

My guess about the tea, though obviously this is speculation, is that Ilona doesn't drink it so doesn't have it in. Previously I had the same rule about coffee, since we didn't drink it you had the choice of tea, water or bring your own. Buying a jar of coffee often meant it was stale when only a few spoons had been taken and it was a huge waste. Now I have more regular coffee drinkers here, I drink it too and provide it. We took tea bags to a friends house with no gripes, she drinks only coffee or herbal tea, we like black teas.

I am a tea and coffee lover so have stacks at home!

But I'm often away overnight and never fail to empty the hotel rooms stash of tea and coffee. Comes in handy sachets so doesn't dry out, and is useful to give my guests a choice of different teas and although I don't drink decaf or hot chocolate myself, it's there for visitors.

Also a regular coffee-buyer (not so MSE, I know ) and always take a couple of sachets of brown sugar

Andypandyboy

pigpen wrote: »

I don't drink coffee but I have it in.. because my visitors do.. my son, my mother (only drinks decaff so I have some in just for her!) I still think it is incredibly rude.. like asking them to bring their own loo roll!!

This weeks grocery shop is my house is £24.50 fruit/veg, £8 milk bread ... for 9 of us! Next week will be even less!

You can really feed 9 people on that amount?

VfM4meplse

Andypandyboy wrote: »

You can really feed 9 people on that amount?

Adopting Christ-like qualities

candygirl

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Adopting Christ-like qualities

Just spat my coffee out :rotfl: