No benefits this week - it's an economy meal

[Saluki]

Oh, and what with fresh prawns and a dozen eggs, and a six-pack of expensive continental lager - and a garden to enjoy it in - it's hardly what I'd call an economy meal. I think Patrick's idea of the level of benefit is a bit off from reality.

When we had no money coming in for a month(Hubster on Disability benefit) we lived on boiled rice, boiled cous cous (seriously cheap) and boiled pasta. Once we had finished eating through the contents of the freezer, where there wasn't that much
For meat for Hubster we had rabbit and hare, which was free when you have hounds fast enough to catch the buggers. fed the hounds too.

Prawns! On benefits! Not in any world that I inhabit. We are on very limited means and beer is never on our shopping list. Fresh herbs are though, as I have a little herb garden out the back. We do have a garden.

 

[srw]

When we had no money coming in for a month(Hubster on Disability benefit) we lived on boiled rice, boiled cous cous (seriously cheap) and boiled pasta. Once we had finished eating through the contents of the freezer, where there wasn't that much
For meat for Hubster we had rabbit and hare, which was free when you have hounds fast enough to catch the buggers. fed the hounds too.

Prawns! On benefits! Not in any world that I inhabit. We are on very limited means and beer is never on our shopping list. Fresh herbs are though, as I have a little herb garden out the back. We do have a garden.

A garden?! A GARDEN?!

In Stevensworld that's an instant £50 a week off housing benefit - that garden could have a couple of tents in and house at least four more people.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

You're a terrible cook.

And a complete cock

 

[Scotchlovingcylist]

You're a terrible cook.

And a complete cock

Don't mince your words guys

Am I missing something with this Patrick bloke? He always seems to get a ton of stick, is it just because his food sounds shite?

 

[TVC]

Am I missing something with this Patrick bloke? He always seems to get a ton of stick, is it just because his food sounds shite?

He comes from Coalville too, talk sbout kicking a man when he's down.

 

[Saluki]

No benefit until Tuesday and even that's a pittance economy meal. All my 'works' customers are teachers so I have no dog walking until the 5th September. It's a bit of a struggle TBH. All saved back money earmarked for rent, council tax, gas, elec etc.

Turkey Mince (asda short code shelf. 90p, enough for 2 meals)
Tinned Toms 31p
1/2 onion (asda short code shelf 5p)
Herbs - free from the garden
1/2 green pepper, chopped (asda short code shelf 5p, enough for 2 meals)
Boiled rice - Asda Basic range, about 10p's worth.

Also cooking
Butternut squash soup
Diced squash (asda short code shelf 5p)
1/2 onion - see above for the other half
stock cube - in the cupboard from asda's basic range, 12 for 72p
curry powder - ditto above
coriander - garden herb patch..

Enough there for 2 meals each, along with 4 servings of soup for me.

Jelly for afters. Sugar free jelly crystals, damaged pack, asda 5p for 2 packs. Result. £1.51 spent today so feeling pretty good about that.

 

[Sara_H]

No benefit until Tuesday and even that's a pittance economy meal. All my 'works' customers are teachers so I have no dog walking until the 5th September. It's a bit of a struggle TBH. All saved back money earmarked for rent, council tax, gas, elec etc.

Turkey Mince (asda short code shelf. 90p, enough for 2 meals)
Tinned Toms 31p
1/2 onion (asda short code shelf 5p)
Herbs - free from the garden
1/2 green pepper, chopped (asda short code shelf 5p, enough for 2 meals)
Boiled rice - Asda Basic range, about 10p's worth.

Also cooking
Butternut squash soup
Diced squash (asda short code shelf 5p)
1/2 onion - see above for the other half
stock cube - in the cupboard from asda's basic range, 12 for 72p
curry powder - ditto above
coriander - garden herb patch..

Enough there for 2 meals each, along with 4 servings of soup for me.

Jelly for afters. Sugar free jelly crystals, damaged pack, asda 5p for 2 packs. Result. £1.51 spent today so feeling pretty good about that.

Wowzers, you're fantastic. I'm useless at budget shopping. I always spend too much.
Have changed to aldi recently though which has brought my food bill down. And I'm growing tomatoes, peppers and lettuce.

 

[Saluki]

Wowzers, you're fantastic. I'm useless at budget shopping. I always spend too much.
Have changed to aldi recently though which has brought my food bill down. And I'm growing tomatoes, peppers and lettuce.

Aldi is fantastic but there are bargains to be had at Asda at about 6.30 of a evening. I could have had a whole salmon for £7.50 if (a) I had the money & (b) knew what to do with it.
I spent 6 months homeless and living in my touring caravan. Living on £35 a week for 2 of us and our dogs, teaches you a thing or two.
I got given a chilli plant a couple of years ago. I have lovely red chillis this year - last year wasn't very good for it but the year before it went bonkers and we have only just finished the ones that we chopped and froze or stored in white wine vinegar.

I shop at an online company called 'approved food' and it's all short code stuff. I do swapsies with my neighbour as nobody needs 24 sachets of cous cous for £1.99. I swap cous cous for pasta or squash for baked beans, packet soup for packet sauce. Fresh caught rabbit in a curried lentil sauce the other night (Hubster did, I had veg - not caught but got on the short code shelf). Lentil sauce packs were 12 for 99p. Swapped 6 for vegetable and orzo soup.

I've got quite canny in my old age.