not including spices, stock cubes and seasoning then yeah
deffo done it before but it’s not very exciting
water from the tap
bag of sugar 70p (tbh we should be able to get sugar in less than 1kg bags)
40 basics teabags from sainsbury’s 40p (the best own brand ones)
own brand soya milk (or could also get one of those nutbags and make almond milk for pennies) 2 x 49p
1kg rice £1.50
1kg oats - 80p
£3.50 of veg - including an 80p bag of soup mix (4 servings), bag of carrots, bag of greens and some potatoes
2x 35p cartons of own brand passatta
remaining money on loose fruit (a few apples and a couple of bananas)
i do eat chicken, fish and eggs but even frozen chicken pieces, ownbrand tins of tuna and a 6 pack of cheapo eggs are expensive in comparison
This isn’t jazz life, @bird. From what @1101010 has shared on here in the past, I’m pretty sure he has first-hand experience, even if he’s now a sexy, successful man-robot.
thanks, but i don’t think having little money to spend is some sort of badge of honour. if you have to go without, you don’t really have a choice. growing up, at times when we had no money coming in we lived off corned beef hash (potatoes, tinned veg, corned beef, stock/gravy), beans on toast and egg and chips. none of them are particularly appetising or nutritional.
I don’t really know what to suggest: there have been a few times recently where you’ve ended up getting wound up with people on here, or ended up posting something that people have reacted badly to.
I’m not suggesting for one moment that living on a tenner week in, week out is easy. as people have already mentioned, it’s bleak as fuck. I’ve been there myself dude
please read the title of the thread again and come back to me. in fact…don’t come back.
I’ve read the title of the post and I’ve read the tone of the post. My personal opinion is that it comes across as a bit flippant. When you say, twice, that living off a tenner a week is “fucking easy”, it’s easy to see why someone might think that, even if that’s not what you intended and even if you’ve been in that situation yourself. Especially when you tag the post as “workingclasshero”. I just think you’d save yourself a hell of a lot of backpedalling if you thought more carefully before posting.
From scratch the first couple of weeks would be pretty dull, but then I’d work up enough backlog of staples and spices to eat quite decently I reckon. A lot of rice, lentils, pulses and 25p bags of brown old looking veg from the greengrocers. Tins of sardines are a good one too. All bought in crazy bulk, and nothing wasted at all. I’d make bread rather than buy crappy loaves, you can knock out a few with a cheap bag of strong white flour. Reduced price chickens are the only meat I can think of, “cheap cuts” of meat seem to not be that cheap now they are in fashion. I’m not into offal at all. For cheap flavour and goodness - blocks of lard or beef dripping. I am not too bothered about snacks, breakfast is a slice of toast, lunch can be any old crap or leftovers and tea is a pot of rice and veg or daal. Sorted.
I wasn’t ever poor like that, partly because different times I guess.
Really I was just highlighting the “class tourism” sense of this kind of thing and “eat well” is a vague sense. Could I eat enough to be full in a week on only 10 quid? Yeah probably, but I will always have the option of spending more when I want and it probably wouldn’t be the tastiest or most varied week.
