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The issue isn't what food is cheapest and what is dearest, it's whether healthy food is affordable to the poorest people. I think it clearly is. I'm actually going to go to Aldi later (yeah, I am that sad) to prove it, I'll provide a complete list of what I bought.
I was going to use that name but worried it might alienate people who had no idea what it was. Also, I don't remember any of those lessons being economic; they were all about cooking stuff that wasn't all that nutritious; scones, cakes, biscuits, rock buns (scones gone wrong). Maybe that was just what the teacher liked in my school, she was a bit wide for her height.
the presence of food banks proves you wrong
Looking forward to it; 128-piece Workforce drillbit set. Crane thermal underwear. 4 x Pinochet Blanc 75cl and a £1 bag of winter vegetables.
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With regards to your comment about having a great fire service here's some info. As I say I think we have superb firemen but the service is not what it used to be through cuts and it's putting lives at risk.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority confirmed today an increase in its council tax precept of 2% for the next year.
It's as they have to find £10 million of savings over the next two years on top of the £9.2 million it made in the previous two years.
Most taxpayers on Merseyside live in Band A properties and will see an annual increase of only 89p for their fire and rescue service (or less than 2p per week).
Merseyside’s Grant cut for 2013/14 is 8.7% and a further 7.5% in 2014/15, slightly above the national average.
In the previous two years Merseyside received the worst Grant settlement in the country at more than twice the national average.
The budget cuts will come from £7 million in back office and support services and £3 million from emergency response.
Fifty seven posts in support services are put at risk of redundancy and 90 firefighter posts will be lost through natural retirement rates over a three year period.
This will result in an eventual reduction of fire appliances from 42 two years ago down to 28, but all our community fire stations will be kept open. This is an overall 33% reduction in fire appliances since the Government began its’ spending reviews and will also have a significant impact on the Authority’s highly acclaimed fire prevention work.
Councillor Dave Hanratty, Chair of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority, said: "We have made huge reductions in management costs and support service but Government has left us with no option but to cut our frontline services even further.
Our firefighter numbers will reduce from 1,500 a decade ago to 760 by 2015.
"With support from our local MPs, we have lobbied hard to stop further grant cuts but Government has only partially listened.
"Our officers have put plans in place which we are confident will limit the direct impact on our services to the community but the Government can’t take more than £19 million out of our budget over the four years of the spending review and it not have an effect.”
Dan Stephens, Chief Fire Officer, said: "A 33% reduction in fire appliances will affect our emergency response and our fire prevention activities, but we will continue to identify ways of making ourselves more effective and efficient with fewer resources.
"We will be talking with our staff and communities over the coming months to explain the changes we are proposing and how we intend to minimise the effect of the cuts.”
With regards to your comment about having a great fire service here's some info. As I say I think we have superb firemen but the service is not what it used to be through cuts and it's putting lives at risk.
Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority confirmed today an increase in its council tax precept of 2% for the next year.
It's as they have to find £10 million of savings over the next two years on top of the £9.2 million it made in the previous two years.
Most taxpayers on Merseyside live in Band A properties and will see an annual increase of only 89p for their fire and rescue service (or less than 2p per week).
Merseyside’s Grant cut for 2013/14 is 8.7% and a further 7.5% in 2014/15, slightly above the national average.
In the previous two years Merseyside received the worst Grant settlement in the country at more than twice the national average.
The budget cuts will come from £7 million in back office and support services and £3 million from emergency response.
Fifty seven posts in support services are put at risk of redundancy and 90 firefighter posts will be lost through natural retirement rates over a three year period.
This will result in an eventual reduction of fire appliances from 42 two years ago down to 28, but all our community fire stations will be kept open. This is an overall 33% reduction in fire appliances since the Government began its’ spending reviews and will also have a significant impact on the Authority’s highly acclaimed fire prevention work.
Councillor Dave Hanratty, Chair of Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority, said: "We have made huge reductions in management costs and support service but Government has left us with no option but to cut our frontline services even further.
Our firefighter numbers will reduce from 1,500 a decade ago to 760 by 2015.
"With support from our local MPs, we have lobbied hard to stop further grant cuts but Government has only partially listened.
"Our officers have put plans in place which we are confident will limit the direct impact on our services to the community but the Government can’t take more than £19 million out of our budget over the four years of the spending review and it not have an effect.”
Dan Stephens, Chief Fire Officer, said: "A 33% reduction in fire appliances will affect our emergency response and our fire prevention activities, but we will continue to identify ways of making ourselves more effective and efficient with fewer resources.
"We will be talking with our staff and communities over the coming months to explain the changes we are proposing and how we intend to minimise the effect of the cuts.”
Back then though, our diets weren't automatically saturated in the fat and salt they are now, so making and eating those types of things wasn't a problem. Classes these days would need to be the exact reverse.
I am interested in this... what's your budget going to be?
"Chief Fire spokesperson A. Light said that they'd like to thank those in poorer communities for assisting in reducing blaze incidents. He said the lower than normal cooker usage had led to fewer chip pan fires as residents were choosing more fast food from outlets. The Department hope to see this trend continue as it copes with budget cuts."
No it doesn't, unless you can prove that benefits aren't enough to cover £25 per week (for one person, reducing with more people given the opportunity to buy in bulk). I think they are, and if that's right there must be another reason for food banks.
£15. Actually I might be able to do this via the Ocado site, and save myself the trip. Bear with me.
And don't be claiming it back on your expenses.
£15 for the week? I was thinking of closer to £1 per day!
Ok, via a combination of Ocado and Aldi prices (Ocado seems a bit more expensive, so there's probably slack here) the following can be bought for £15:
12 large free range eggs
4 chicken breasts
2 loaves of wholemeal bread
2 pints semi-skimmed milk
6 small apples
a whole cabbage
500g of spaghetti
2 tins of tuna
1 box of cereal
Now obviously that doesn't necessarily arrange itself into neat meals, but I think that is 4 days' worth of reasonably healthy food. It'll keep you going and you won't get fat. I think that works out at £25.25 per week. It'd be cheaper still if you sacrificed chicken for 2 days and had a vegetarian meal instead.
12 large free range eggs
4 chicken breasts
2 loaves of wholemeal bread
2 pints semi-skimmed milk
6 small apples
a whole cabbage
500g of spaghetti
2 tins of tuna
1 box of cereal
Now obviously that doesn't necessarily arrange itself into neat meals, but I think that is 4 days' worth of reasonably healthy food. It'll keep you going and you won't get fat. I think that works out at £25.25 per week. It'd be cheaper still if you sacrificed chicken for 2 days and had a vegetarian meal instead.
£15 for 4 days. Around £3.50 a day.
Shopping lists are interesting in their own right but what's it to do with Thatcher's dead?
By the way you could ditch the cereal and get porridge at 88p a kilo at Asda but she's still dead.
By the way you could ditch the cereal and get porridge at 88p a kilo at Asda but she's still dead.
What did you order first, the chicken or the eggs?
You are right . The video was more fitting for mine though . Captures the times well .
Shopping lists are what accountants do in their spare time .
Was at that myself .
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