You can tell that the woman with the 4 children is suffering from depression. God give her the strength and courage to continue on.

The thing is - food basics are still cheap. Potatoes, rice, pasta, noodles etc. You can make amazing hearty meals with little ingredients - AND you don't need to be a chef! Yes, life is tough right now for many, but just start saying NO to those overpriced goodies that you used to throw into your basket without thinking.

I go to a community fridge 2-3 times a week. The piles of food the volunteers pick up were going to end up in a landfill site! It's amazing what I've picked up from there. You get one or two frozen items; 2-3 fruit, salad or vegetable items and as much pastries and bread as you like. Sometimes you get given a bonus item, like if they have an excess of bananas, they'll let you take a bunch or two on top of everything else. The food is still good. Saved a fortune on food bills. Anyone can go unlike food banks where only people on benefits can go.

I've just gone from watching a video where an estate agent for the super wealthy was explaining how dropping £80 million on a house was absolutely nothing to his clients,to this. This planet is mental.

Great Britain.??? I'm afraid I don't recognise the modern version of the UK... It's not the country my parents brought me up & prepared me to live in.! I don't know what the rules are, the goal posts have moved so much that I've given up trying to find them.

@dirtyunclehubert

Жыл бұрын

same for most other west european countries.

@stonebarrow5165

Жыл бұрын

i agree with you 💯💯💯 it's now a dump 😭 UK 👍

@danh5637

Жыл бұрын

So where would you say that life is good right now out of interest?

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

UK has never been great. Thatcher and Blair let us believe they had finally destroyed the thickle underclasses plaguing British society, when in truth they had merely supressed it for a limited period of time. Look at British hooligans in pre-Brexit Spain and Greece and you will see it. British empire and post-war UK killed more people than Hitler and Stalin combined.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

@@danh5637 Anywhere that could destroy the Fascist Boomer underclass.

And yet in the UK alone, it's estimated that we throw away around 9.5 million tonnes of food waste annually. We also have a continuing obesity crisis. There appear to be no easy solutions

@angelachanelhuang1651

Жыл бұрын

take the bushido away from the japanese

The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. This is a political decision, not fate.

@magesalmanac6424

Жыл бұрын

We can download the blueprints for a guillotine, for free!

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

Neo Liberal economics that were introduced by Thatcher and Reagan in the 1980s. “Trickle-down economics”.

@missinterpreted4923

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if everyone still thinks it was worth destroying the economy for Covid safety? And people continue to support so-called 'green energy' policies which will be the nail in the coffin of living standards and do nothing to change the climate.

@Dynasty1818

Жыл бұрын

Nope, this is poor financial actions by the public. Interest rates were always going to go up, yet you never saved under any government (UK has always had the worst savings of the big EU countries) so it's Labour's "fault" too, you decided to have a kid or kids, you decided to get a mortgage you couldn't afford if rates doubled but you never cared to check if you could afford it if they did, you got that car, you refuse to move somewhere cheaper, you refuse to take responsibility. Why should anyone help?

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

@@Dynasty1818 Western economies have been swimming on consumer debt for decades. If it weren’t for consumer debt our economies would spiral into deflation. Then instead of decrying poor choices you’d be decrying a miserly populace. China is “suffering” this problem right now. In order to keep the Chinese economy growing government invested heavily in infrastructure. But infrastructure is nearing saturation leading to wasteful projects. Now their struggling to find places to park all their economic surpluses. They’re hoping to spark a consumerist economy.

Tip from a broke student: Stew should be your best friend. Potatoes are a rather cheap and filling base, and you throw in the cheapest veggies you can find, a cube of broth, voilà. Making huge amounts that last a few days saves you a lot. Also good: Self made pancakes, pasta with self made sauce, rice pudding. If possible, get your hands on German bread, sometimes Lidl has some. It's way more satuating than toast/your bread, the difference is huge. Also Porridge with fruit or jam is a cheap belly filler, a packet of oats lasts you ages

@zippymufo9765

Жыл бұрын

Rice and pasta can also be made to go with practically anything for some cheap carbs.

@janicesmith975

10 ай бұрын

Good advice and ideas.

@adelaf.a6741

2 ай бұрын

People here in UK are just lazy to cook. They rather pay for unhealthy junk food n ready meals, then complain about money.

The consequence of over a decade of Austerity, taxing the poor to enrich the wealthiest classes.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

Who voted three times for an austerity-inducing fascist government? It wasn't the rich.

@CarFreeSegnitz

Жыл бұрын

Thatcher (and Reagan) who brought in Neo Liberal economics. Introduced in the early 1980s. The theory was that the rich would spend their increasing wealth into the economy. Reality is that the rich hoard their wealth and accumulate more far beyond what they will ever need. It’s well known that great fortunes are gained and lost in three generations: the first accumulate it, the second coast on it, the third blows it. Neo Liberal creates wealth inequality.

@victordonavon292

Жыл бұрын

Please check yourself into a facility.

@jamesvoss3482

Жыл бұрын

So true Austerity has destroyed Britain

@yvonneholmes2990

Жыл бұрын

FOR GODS SAKE ITS ITS TOTAL WORLD LOCKDOWN BECAUSE OF CVID, THE RUSSIAN UKRAINE WAR AND THOSE FECKIN OPEN BORDERS>>>>>END OF

£80.00 every two days on food? HUH!? That adds up to £1200.00 EVERY MONTH!??!?!?!!? What the HELL are they eating....GOLD!?!?!

@kemibello6812

Жыл бұрын

@@DUDLEY2000 Their maths is fine. £80 * 15 = £1,200.

@Sayitlikitiz101

Жыл бұрын

$80 every 2 days for 6 people (2A + 4C) seems kind of normal to me in the US. It actually is reasonable.

@user-jw7pb3ye9v

Жыл бұрын

they certainly aren't eating vegetables and fruit. Or anything healty.

@angelachanelhuang1651

Жыл бұрын

my family are lawyers in u.s.

@StullerD

Жыл бұрын

@@Sayitlikitiz101 its still a shocking price.. at least to me.. i earn 3k euros but spend around 400 euros on food (plus eating out, restaurants... tho in central Europe) 1.2k GBP is the rent + petrol + all the bills + internet + phone + insurance included for me... geeezz. now I understand why half the tourists and immigrants here are from the UK, IL

Whilst others are moving hundreds of millions to offshore accounts, corporate greed, Lobbying, escaping billion pound mega fraud lawsuits and exploitation of labour force, the list is endless. 😡

I’m not a gardener but I started planting some veggies in pots and I love the idea of growing my own food and it’d be a great hobby.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

It would be great if we could stop building housing estates and start building farms. The British also have this Kafka-esque aversion to mid-rise flats and apartments, causing excessive suburban sprawl.

@theirishcailin333

Жыл бұрын

Good on you! Plant as much as you can now

@artofficial2010

Жыл бұрын

It can be a bit challenging to grow a garden atop concrete.

@HaggisMuncher-69-420

Жыл бұрын

@@Devenus20211 It's the boat pirates that are making us have to build new houses.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

@@HaggisMuncher-69-420 I do agree that we have too may people here given the size of our country. I hear a lot of young people want to emigrate, and I really hope they do because that could potentially compensate for those frightful immigration figures. The cost-of-living and inflation levels are out of control because the UK has become dangerously overpopulated and the monumentally stupid decision not to join the Eurozone and Schengen agreement has turbocharged these issues. Also, there are WAY too many car parks in our urban centres. Car-centric urban planning is horribly inefficient and we can't keep building new suburbs forever because we will eventually run out of space, therefore we should aim to turn all surface-level car parks into mid-rise flats and apartments while holistically making walking, cycling and public transport the travel of choice in our cities and towns.

The main problem is the cost of accommodation and bills and low wages. But food - £80 every two days is ridiculous - buy cheaper ingredients and batch cook.

Its really sad your government , like mine, rather spend money on refugees ,Ukraine and esg

That woman renting toys? This is whats crazy! You can get toys for 50p in a charity shop!!!

@myoldvhstapes

Жыл бұрын

And she called it a toy LIBRARY. That usually means borrow for free.

@munaali840

Жыл бұрын

there are toy libraries that you can pay £10 a year to borrow toys, think you get 5 a month and you bring them back, a lot cheaper than buying

@sadjaxx

Жыл бұрын

She is probably checking them out like books from a library. I very much doubt she is "renting" with payment.

@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey

Жыл бұрын

@@munaali840 Yes the small charge I believe is for cleaning and disinfecting toys -especially baby ones that go straight on the mouth!

I understand her. I live right across from the food bank and an so greatful for the people there.

I know its bad because the reduced special offer racks are always empty, its always a 'disxount sign and next to it a empty shelf'

Look at the cost of food compared to two years ago. The supermarkets are price gauging make no mistake.

@zippymufo9765

Жыл бұрын

Inflation affects them too, you know 😂

The food banks should be for homeless people. Regular people should not be having to go to food banks. The lady saying £80 every 2 days but 2 pizzas, chips, egg on toast would be under £10. There is a problem but I wish they would not exaggerate

@damienmorrison7226

Жыл бұрын

just shut up you judgemental shrew

@Michelle_Emm

Жыл бұрын

I think she said she got the pizza from the food bank. I agree £80 sounds alot for two days but she might not know how to cook. I'm surprised how many people have no idea how to cook cheap healthy food. One of the best things community centres can do is offer free cooking classes on how to make cheap, healthy meals.

@christinemuschiato5895

Жыл бұрын

i am a volunteer in a food pantry(not a food bank) i have seen only 3 homeless asking for food ,

@minahilfatima4374

Жыл бұрын

@ Hayley very true.

@comealongcomealong4480

Жыл бұрын

@@christinemuschiato5895 For most homeless their daily need is for nutritious meals, already prepared and cooked. Ingredients and frozen items aren't much use unless they're staying in some emergency accommodation. I have seen a group of city homeless create their own community kitchen. They had use of the cooking equipment and power by arrangement with a community centre. In that case, donated raw ingredients, meat, eggs, milk, etc would be ideal.

It may not be the best. But it is possible to get basic food cheaply. Marked down vegetables, rice, potatoes and pasta. Italian food was often called peasant food. Most of the time I can do that. Buying almost nothing that is packaged can make a vast difference. Lots of lentils and beans too. Those packs stretch very far, it does work out better to have some basic herbs and spices. There are loads of you tube recipe channels, also for cheap recipes. If that helps anyone, good.

@djm2189

Жыл бұрын

Beans, rice, oats!! They are cheap easy to make and you can always spin them with a few other ingredients to make completely different dishes! How do you think the masses and the poor masses in many different countries survive? A frozen pizza has no nutritional value will make you hungry again and is high in fats and calories plus more expensive.

@jillgott6567

Жыл бұрын

I understand what you both are saying however the problem may be money to purchase those healthier foods. At the foodbank folks have to take what is available and fresh healthy food is not always there

@Michelle_Emm

Жыл бұрын

@@jillgott6567 but if she's spending £80 every two days I'm sure she can afford to buy some oats, beans and rice. There are some excellent KZread channels that teach how to cook cheap healthy meals.

@Alex-pr6zv

Жыл бұрын

It's striking how many food bank users seem to lack the capacity to adapt and improvise, relying on unhealthy processed food. Cooking allows you to economise by using staple ingredients like rice, veggies, pasta, pulses, crafting homemade pizza dough, curries, and pasta sauces (batch cook for multiple days). The adage of "giving a man a fish" versus "teaching a man to fish" holds true.

@Michelle_Emm

Жыл бұрын

@@Alex-pr6zv that's an excellent point about people not being able to adapt to different circumstances.

I have been cooking my family’s food from scratch eversince and it has saved us a lot of money. We also eat leftovers and I make a week food plan so I don’t waste any ingredients. We do eat out once a week just for a change and this has worker for my family. We do not have cc debt and we will try our hardest not to use them ever by having an emergency fund of 6-12 months of expenses. It was a long journey to be able to save this much money but it can be done and by doing this for 5 years, now we can enjoy having atleast once a year overseas vacation. ✅

What we have here.. we are witnessing a mother who she is feeding her small children with defrost pizza because she can't afford something better to provide, and from the other side the country we watched a lavish king coronation which cost multi millions.. It's terribly sad how far we have come in 2023 and still have not gotten anywhere !!

@angelachanelhuang1651

Жыл бұрын

my father is japanese

@yvonneholmes2990

Жыл бұрын

WELL BLAME THE GOVERNMENT < NOT THE KING . THEY SPEND BILLIONS ON OTHER PEOPLES WARS AND ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS FFS LETS KEEP SOMETHING BRITISH.......

@missmerrily4830

Жыл бұрын

No she's feeding her children pizza because she has no idea how to tackle a pack of red lentils! With regard to the coronation, you have a very one-sided view. A country must be prosperous in order for us to ever be prosperous. Take a look at a struggling third world country if you don't believe me. Part of being prosperous is to have prosperous people to pay their taxes andlift us all up!

@carlbland68

Жыл бұрын

@@angelachanelhuang1651 and inbread

If she's spending £80 on food every two days, I'd say she has a budgeting problem rather than an actual money problem.

@samhartford8677

Жыл бұрын

I'd think it's also a lack of time (if she's the only who works and her husband is disabled) and the children's fussy eating that has her relying on processed foods that are quite expensive for 6 people.

@Friendo111

Жыл бұрын

I lived in Cornwall until fairly recently, and I was able to keep costs down by using the reduced to clear at Tesco. Know the time and get sandwiches for 10p and 95% off so much else! She could get her food bill down to £40, £50 per week.

@Dynasty1818

Жыл бұрын

This is 90% or more, guaranteed, of people's issues. They refuse to admit their actual financial failings. I've spent £20-40 a week on food since around 2006 when I went to Uni, and that value has barely fluctuated on average. Rising costs I've made cutbacks on proteins and got them more from veggies and/or beans for example, changed my diet a bit and saved a fiver or tenner here or there a fortnight, but I've never been buying steaks, almost always chicken and maybe some pork once or twice a month. Sure some weeks I buy gin or burboun or something and that adds another 15, 20 quid, but it's consistent otherwise. People spending over 100 quid on food a week are just absurd, and if it's because you've got a kid or kids, well, tough. You shouldn't have had a kid or kids then if that food bill increase has pushed you beyond your income. That's your stupid financial decision and nobody should be helping you.

@jonathanbailey1597

Жыл бұрын

Foolish, ignorant and misguided

@jonathanbailey1597

Жыл бұрын

​@@Dynasty1818What an utterly foolish and ignorant thing to say. Staggering lack of knowledge, and bald hubris - offering assumption as fact. Moronic and dangerous

Its alot cheaper to cook from scratch imo

@bitcoincryptofreedom3652

Жыл бұрын

Yes batch cook with fresh ingredients.

@gerrypippin2263

Жыл бұрын

They can’t be both to learn. Prefer the handouts. Learn,adapt. But don’t scrounge because you can’t be bothered

@damienmorrison7226

Жыл бұрын

@@gerrypippin2263 do they scrounge for handouts like your mother?

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

With the current high cost of gas, electricity, and fresh food it isn't.

@johnmoore9862

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBuckspygmy. That’s a very valid point there Fred.

processed food is typically more expensive and less nutritional

@Dynasty1818

Жыл бұрын

"Poor" people are poor due to stupid financial decisions, they're not smart enough to understand food nutrition.

@lailusionista2564

11 ай бұрын

Not always now veggies and fruits are expensive too

The divide between those who have everything they need without any problems And those who work to pay for their life can't afford to eat or pay bills. The divide will continue as AL replaces those working full-time. The servants are no longer needed and the divide of walls is established. This will create more, " crime" and more poverty and inequality.

@heathermortimer1126

Жыл бұрын

yes that is the plan Ai was invented to replace humanity, and it is doing just that, in the future their will be no jobs, and food will be scarce, if you can grow your own , as i have been doing for years.

@kimsherlock8969

Жыл бұрын

@@heathermortimer1126 Oh these things I have wished never to become. The death of humanism.

If she made shepherds pie, spag bol, chillie ect she could feed all family batch make food and freeze is the answer

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

That assumes ownership of a freezer.

@BizMan-fz5qt

Жыл бұрын

​​@@TheBuckspygmy lending options are available in plenty to buy a freezer. Maybe you need to assume that she's lazy and doesn't really care about her family She has multiple appliances already in the background.

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

@@BizMan-fz5qt You are 30p Lee and I claim my £5. Lending options even further into debt.

@BizMan-fz5qt

Жыл бұрын

@@TheBuckspygmy but that loan will be way more beneficial health and cost wise than buying the processed nonsense that she's currently eating. Not all debt is bad.

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

@@BizMan-fz5qt Frankly like 30p Lee you really have no idea. (Especially about people in poverty getting loans.)

You had a royal queen and now a king, they should address this UK poverty issues! Komlan from Africa

This so called food crisis is caused by the UK government. A tax burden that is the highest since the war, £7m a day spent on hotels for illegal migrants, and billions £££ given to pay for a proxy war that has not been declared and has nothing to do with us. The British people are suffereing and the government does not car, but is the reason why. Sadly the other colour won't be any better. Britian is screwed....and we are bitter

Why aren’t these people applying for benefits? Also £80 every two days. What the hell are you eating!

@Marc-xc9uo

Жыл бұрын

Well Lurpack is over £7

@danh5637

Жыл бұрын

@@Marc-xc9uo yeah for the massive pack that would last someone a month! Is your argument that you need £80 every two days to feed yourself?

@Marc-xc9uo

Жыл бұрын

@@danh5637 Yea, fair point. Depends how big your family is really doesn’t it and what you are eating. She was only eating eggs judging by that report.

@danh5637

Жыл бұрын

@@Marc-xc9uo yeah but the woman who said it was saying it was for her and two little kids. Kids have gotta eat of course. But she was serving three mini pizzas and some tater tot things. I mean you can get 3 packs of 9 mini pizzas for a fiver from Iceland. And the tater tots are like 2quid tops. I mean I don’t mean to sound heartless. But if she’s spending £80 every couple of days then I couldn’t fathom how.

@Marc-xc9uo

Жыл бұрын

@@danh5637 Yea, I get you. Maybe she is buying booze or cigarettes.

What worries me is that the UK has a really high population that is nearly completely dependent on food imports. The Agricultural system is unsustainable with declining fertility, top soil, and biodiversity. What happens when this fine line of a system snaps?

I am willing to bet that the district council officials are getting their full salary and bonus’s they get what they want by the council tax increases.

All the children look well cared for and happy good parents and a heping hand when needed from the food ban8

I noticed food bank trollys in Tesco are empty.

I think the main problem for these families is how to access the large cheaper superstores without transport. It's not easy to walk to them with 4 children then hike all those bags of food home on foot. Getting a bus would cost a lot. These mothers should get together and babysit for each other, car pool or taxi pool. They could also oven pool and take it in turns to put casseroles etc in one oven. It's hard to be resourceful but older people know how to do it. Falmouth has a Lidl - they just need to get there but they also need to learn how to cook. I'm also mindful that many kids won't eat anything else but convenience foods full of sugar and salt. Not easy.....

@juliewills8034

Жыл бұрын

Lidl has become quite expensive. They keep on raising their prices.

@chocksaway100

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I agree with all your suggestions .Also, working 1 or 2 jobs to make a wage is not a priority, but maximising taxpayer funded benefits is .

@bobjames6622

Жыл бұрын

The MAIN problem is people who keep on pumping out units that they CLEARLY cannot afford to provide for. "I'm also mindful that many kids won't eat anything else but convenience foods full of sugar and salt. Not easy....." Then don't give that crap to them. Once they're hungry they'll soon eat other foods.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

Where I live there is one bus an hour into the centre, and I had to wait 1hr 50min last night because a bus was cancelled.

@HorseSaddleRider

Жыл бұрын

@@bobjames6622 Yes, they need to realise that children are very expensive but, to be fair, perhaps their circumstances were different when they gave birth. There are those who do expect others to subsidise them. I know a chap with 8 children and he's still having more and still can't fully afford them. Sad really.

She states that she did have money and couldn't predict this, but she could have not had 4 children and put money aside for just incase this happened. Also there is NO WAY she is spending £80.00 every 2 days on food. There only small, so does that £80.00 include alcohol and ciggies.

@yvonneholmes2990

Жыл бұрын

MMMnnnnnnn!

@Dynasty1818

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. Sick of "poor" people having multiple kids. Utter scum, nobody should help them, you made your bed now lay in it. Why should my taxes increase because of their stupidity.

£80 every two days, what is she buying? I must have missed something, so my bad if i have, but i can feed myself my partner and 3 kids for on average £100 a month. If you're spending £80 every two days on food, then i dont know how you would have a cubpoard full of value brand food and still need a food bank for help.

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

Special dietary needs are incredibly expensive, and you idiots are watching a video where they discuss the food banks getting food donations from people and stores and providing the people in the segment that food for free because it is excess.

That is interesting even affecting donations now.

FoodBank should put their address so that the society can send food to the food bank. I have 15 jar of spegethi sauce that can feed 15 families sitting in my house

FOUR children. I think I've just spotted the problem right there. Ain't rocket science. Don't pump out units that you clearly cannot afford to provide for.

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

Four children that are disabled, that she was previously just fine taking care of until the man of the house succumbed to illness that he will never recover from.

This is Cameron's 'Big Society' right? Instead of the State intervening to ensure people have the necessary income for a decent quality of life, we leave it to charities and local organisations. A majority of the Nation voted for this time and again. Let's not pretend otherwise. This is a choice.

@damienmorrison7226

Жыл бұрын

@@jacoboc2244 shut up

@magesalmanac6424

Жыл бұрын

@jacoboc2244 What an idiotic statement.

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

It's not Cameron's fault, it's BREXIT!!! That bigoted attitude of Brexiteers has validated everything Cameron said about these people. They clearly don't deserve to have anything, which they won't in the next few years.

@NeilCWCampbell

Жыл бұрын

I also blame brexit voters for enabling this government

@Devenus20211

Жыл бұрын

@@NeilCWCampbell Cameron was right to ridicule those people, in their shithole piggy-northern towns.

How can she afford to do her nails,those are really expensive to maintain, wouldn’t that be the one expense that she could do without?

@johnmoore9862

Жыл бұрын

Let her have one little luxury in life.

@christinephillips3435

Жыл бұрын

That might be her only treat for months .

@piledriverpotter9847

Жыл бұрын

Like smokers she should be turned away from food banks.

Anyone living in small towns miles away from any major supermarkets suffer the hardest where i live there is rarely anything decent marked down just choc and junk food

And import 1.2 million immigrants last year. Somebody should explain to them there's a lot of poverty here. Go somewhere else!

I’m on the outside (US) looking in, but my question is, why can’t the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall do something to fill up those food banks? If they are going to have the titles they need to look after their people. Or how about the millionaires that live/visit/share the community?

@lizintas8396

Жыл бұрын

how do you know they dont? Its bit like saying trump, biden rockerfeller etal should stomp out poverty in the US

@aaronsteer2677

Жыл бұрын

Yea, best to think of the royal family and all of our Lords and ladies as just very rich landlords and not much else to be honest.

@richardjames3356

Жыл бұрын

Why doesn't the US government do something about the abysmal state of US healthcare? Oh thats right, they're not interested about the welfare of the populace.

@angelachanelhuang1651

Жыл бұрын

japanese ninja

@missmerrily4830

Жыл бұрын

Ah I see.... But isn't that Socialism? Because that's something that's despised by the US even more than it has been here for quite a lot of years now!

This crisis has been for told by many economists and trend commentators for the last 10 years at least. I have been watching the coming train wreck slowly unfold for those years, and now we have a crisis in the western world. It seems no western country is untouched. UK, USA , Australia are all starting to see an alarming number of homelessness, and working poor. I fear that this is only the beginning. The good news is, if you are crafty enough, start to learn what our forbears did in the great depression years to stay alive, and possibly thrive.

@javieralvarez1072

Жыл бұрын

what did they do?

@sergiozammel8261

Жыл бұрын

@@javieralvarez1072 During the depression, in different countries they had different methods but the outcomes were similar..here in Australia, they would eat things like dripping sandwiches, source farm vegetables or grow their own and make large pots of stews or soups..high energy at low cost. Many of their foods were cooked by the wife, and came from local recipies shared around. Hunting and trapping was rampant especially vermin species like rabbits. Barter became very popular (trading)..clothing was mended instead of discarded. Large numbers of people were evicted from their houses and it wasn't uncommon to see streets lined with furniture on the footpath. These people had no other choice but to camp out as best they could. You have to think with your head. Learn what local wild plants are edible, but get it right every time. If not 100 pc sure don't eat! P.S happy D day !

@zippymufo9765

Жыл бұрын

@@javieralvarez1072 There's entire books on the survival tactics of the Depression. Lots of stews, lots of barter, lots of people learning how to fish and catch small game for the first time.

_"Western politicians do not have the power or possibilities to change life in their country for the better, because they have not been independent figures for a long time. Real power in the west is in the hands of resourced clans, transnational corporations and Oligarchs. Everyone is controlled by big business, lobbyists and foundations. They do not even hide these facts."_ Nikolai Patrushev

Im not an amazing cook but I do batch cook and fill the oven right up when I do to save costs. Those pizzas could have been made from scratch, a load cooked once a week using basic ingredients and discounted veggies; the older children helping mum if they could. My next door neighbour has 4 little ones and they do exactly this; the children are occupied and the second eldest now puts Mr Kipling to shame with her cakes!Also a toy exchange scheme is better than renting them surely? I know in Liverpool they had toy banks in the 00's which worked well, (and the lady might remember herself growing up as she is from there) I worked with them.

This food bank, along with their volunteers are doing a great job.

That 1st woman is giving her kids junk food, frozen pizza and processed potatoe while they have the healthier eggs on toast. She would be better off giving eggs to the kids. And why do you need batter mix? People need to learn to cook and be educated about nutrition.

Heartbreaking

06:25 her response to that question is a lot more civil than mine

What the HELL is wrong with people? Why the HELL do these poor people have kids? Mind boggling!!!!!!!!

1 thing I'll thank the cost of living crisis for, it show me that i was buying way to much food b4 & wasting food 😭 Not a, more 🥳💯👍🇬🇧

Why don't you ask Rick Stein for food contributions - ready to eat or anything? He's always pluggin' the town : Do it!

Start community gardens or just start gardens in your backyard even in your front yard at this point plant potatoes because those will grow anywhere. Also as an American, not sure what under the tether means?

And yet I'd wager you all watched his coronation on the telly. You know who I mean, that chap who was Duke of Cornwall for the past 70 years? I believe the French were really hungry in 1792. They were told to eat cake. You my friends are being told to eat something far less palatable.

It's always denied and cried down, but there's a huge problem with people who never had it so good until now and haven't experienced harder times. They think this is hard now. No, it's not! Half the world has to live on much less. Similarly they won't be told that you can live more cheaply by cooking from scratch with nourishing but cheap ingredients. What they mostly need is some real guidance in basic cooking skills. Convenience foods may look like a deal but they are expensive to feed more than one or, at a pinch two people.

01:50 whoa . . . 50 dollars a day for groceries? That sucks

Frankly every town in Cornwall has the same problem with more and more people needing food banks. If anyone in Cornwall votes Tory at the next general election that have no idea how bad things are.

@sadjaxx

Жыл бұрын

Cornwall voted heavily for Brexit.

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

@@sadjaxx Now more and more people realise the gravity of that mistake.

@keithbenson4915

Жыл бұрын

Voting for Brexit wasn't a mistake,I knew it would be years until we unshackled ourselves from the EU .

@TheBuckspygmy

Жыл бұрын

@@keithbenson4915 I knew the Tories would make a dog's Brexit of it, and they have.

@craigridsdale4832

Жыл бұрын

well dont vote labour either,they are exactly the same

I think the Food Banks should have a duty to only provide healthy food, and if required, show the recipients how to prepare meals. Frozen pizza and ultra processed potato balls arent going to provide the nutrients that her family need.

@coinbuyer-8605

Жыл бұрын

Beggars can't be choosers

@terrylynn9984

Жыл бұрын

Food banks get what people donate, stable shelf life canned goods last the longest, as do many boxed items like Mac n cheese. If a family has food insecurity an6 food is better than none

@libertarian4323

Жыл бұрын

They've got more nutrients than a big plate full of nuthin'.

@CDN1975

Жыл бұрын

They exist on donations, so they don't get to dictate what people donate.

Terrible life for children and their truly caring families.

This country is in a sorry state of affairs. I don't have a family, so only have myself to worry about. I don't envy families who are struggling.

Trouble is people don't know how to live cheap these days. Make a huge pan of stew or curry add any thing cheap AND TASTY make it last a week. Make flat bread simply flour and water made and cooked in minutes in a frying pan. Take note how Indian family's live as they live exstreamly cheap. My weekly food bill is never over £10 as only buy greatly reduced prices in super markets before closing time. Grow your own vegatables. Heat my home free allso my collecting fire wood daily in local woods and skips while walking my dog. Transport I use a push bike even to go long distance. Toilet tissue never purchased I use news paper cut in small squares hung on a nail for when needed. Two rules in my life Rule One NEVER waste money. Rule Two NEVER forget RULE ONE.

Terrible, people should be on the streets protesting.

I don't have all the answers but people need to look at how Indians eat in their own country.....Very little meat and they MUST provide school lunches for every school age child......Before COVID the schools food budget compared to the amount of kids worked out to be 20 cents a meal......They us a lot of dried lentils and spices......I thought the food would taste like garbage but my kids and I love it.......Yes, we still eat meat but not every night. Lentils have A LOT of protein in them......add rice and U got dinner.

@djm2189

Жыл бұрын

People need to discover the foods that most humans, throughout history survived on. NOT PROCESSED FOODS! Rice, beans, oats, etc. Cheap, easy to make in large batches. Literally just add a few other ingredients and you'll make vastly different meals! Google recipes and try them out. So cheap to make that you can dump it and find one you're family would like. I'm Mexican American and grew up poor. Now I'm 28, earning $112k+, no debt. Guess what, i still eat these staple foods and cheaply even though I can afford way more stuff! Plus they are healthier. People need to grow up and think just a tad bit.

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

@@djm2189 The adult women in this video, who are already working paying jobs, and taking care of 9034857 disabled children and adults in their household are quite grown and mature thanks. People who say what you do, have never actually had to do it, let alone do it and what I just mentioned that they are doing. Having to haul, soak, sort, can&bottle, package, and god forbid find room for it, and so on is incredibly labor and time intensive. Finding those items in the UK or US at a large bulk rate is difficult to impossible. Getting the containers, and everything else, is also incredibly expensive. The list goes on. My experience is that I, apparently not you, have actually done this. I know how full of crap you really are.

It is utterly disgraceful to say that ordinary people have to depend on others charity to stay alive... The government should bring in a system of vouchers for people on low incomes so that they can exchange them for their weekly shop in the local supermarket and grocery store.

@NeilCWCampbell

Жыл бұрын

Or just give them cash, it can be taken everywhere

@zippymufo9765

Жыл бұрын

@@NeilCWCampbell Politically unpopular to give them cash. Better to have a system like Independence Cards in the United States, a debit card that can only be used for food (vendors who accept them have to download the software) and are reloaded every month.

@NeilCWCampbell

Жыл бұрын

@@zippymufo9765 oh the stupidity of illeducated voters is something we should fix indeed.

@lorettaobrien8599

Жыл бұрын

@@zippymufo9765 that's CONTROL just like a dictatorial state...

@vatsmith8759

Жыл бұрын

You mean like ... state benefits?

Such a sad, avoidable situation for all of them. Govt at fault !

@Dynasty1818

Жыл бұрын

Not even slightly the government's fault. This is people's financial decisions, their own mistakes. 80 quid every 2 days on food, that's insanity and nothing to do with anyone other than their stupid decisions.

Well, the Conservatives and the Brexit movement promised to deliver a lean and mean Britain…

If you cannot afford the electricity or gas to cook what use is all your advice about buying potatoes because they're cheap?

Interesting lots of rich people but they done donate humm

I am 60 and my mothers generation were way better money managers they could run a home on a shoestring budget some domestic science classes need to be reintroduced to the curriculum.

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

Your mothers' generation generally weren't taking care of a house full of disabled children and adults who will never get any better. They also probably lived through the Great Depression where a lot more was heavily, heavily regulated and distributed by the government directly to the people. Your mothers generation enjoyed, ironically, a lot more protection and guarantee from the government.

all that frozen muck... expensive garbage.

What are the people who claim they 'rely' on food banks actually spending their money on!? If they smoke, go to the pub, have a smartphone, car etc then they DO NOT need food banks! The people who run these food banks are being played for as fools as the free food the 'poverty stricken' are given means they can spend their money on anything BUT food!

Ashamed of our politicians and civil servants who do anything but serve the needy 6:59 community. I shall see what I can do and not just putting a can of baked beans in the basket at Tesco’s but my anger will only increase with Fishi Risho on down to local council. Narcissistic bds the lot .

Why feed children pizza and potatoes? What happen to the veggies? The veggies would actually be cheaper too...this isn't anywhere near a balanced diet, especially for children.

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

Pizza and potatoes were given to her by the food bank for the children. They ARE veggies you idiot, and the best thing to satiate hunger and prove fat and calories. What the hell do you think a typical pizza even is? Plastic?

Saw a guy use a food bank take it outside and loaded into brand new Bentley I proceed to ask him why he was using a food bank he said I enables him to keep his money in his bank DISGUSTING

@piledriverpotter9847

Жыл бұрын

That is why I refuse to donate to food banks and if anyone thinks I am mean and selfish so be it. The mean selfish greedy ones are the ones that go to food banks when they don't need to.

"£80 on food every 2 days"? Cooking mini pizza's and gets food from the foodbank while the parents have 1 meal a day. 4 kids is alot but this dosnt add up. What are they serving up, caviar from Waitrose? More like £8 on food every 2 days.

I hate the government so much

The title…….😢

Sorrowful. I want to be saying more yes n less no nos heartbreakin 4 a parent,n crime would be the way out if not for foodbanks n grants Everything good you do in the society is connected

I do have lesser money than all the poor in the Netherlands and uk. But have more food, and other things named brand clothes, Silver gold, because i have more deciple and manage money better, they are jealous because the can manage it with little. But each year i have more.

thatchers diabolical legacy continues to linger on. safeguarded by cynical sunak's cost of greed crisis.

I never understood how natural resource are free, but for some reason we all have to pay to live? Get out of the towns and cities, Go farm, build a house and live a life free of the bloodsuckers (lawyers, doctors, government workers)

@lovelyenglishnature3277

Жыл бұрын

That just isn’t possible in this country without a lot of money to start with. Why do you think the masses are here? We’re here to provide a workforce for the rich. Society isn’t going to make it easy for us to escape. It’s possible with some ingenuity but most people are too ground down, depressed and ill to get out of the system.

@zippymufo9765

Жыл бұрын

@@lovelyenglishnature3277 Besides, the people doing so in the US don't live admirable lives. There's an entire subculture of people fleeing out to the woods and building shanties and setting up gardens and etc, but it's all very precarious.

Those who voted for Brexit can be happy now.

I had seen a video of north Korea parents not eating to give to kids.

my family are lawyers in AMERICA

Beans, rice, oats!! They are cheap easy to make and you can always spin them with a few other ingredients to make completely different dishes! How do you think the masses and the poor masses in many different countries survive? A frozen pizza has no nutritional value will make you hungry again and is high in fats and calories plus more expensive.

@Michelle_Emm

Жыл бұрын

While I agree the frozen pizza and potato is junk food devoid of nutrition I think she said it was what the food bank gave her. I'm a huge fan of rice, oats, beans and lentils. Add cheap in season veg and tinned tomatoes and you have a healthy balanced diet. Unfortunately many, many people have no idea how to cook.

@christinemuschiato5895

Жыл бұрын

@@Michelle_Emm come on ,she has a pair of hands , she doesn t need to learn to read to understand a coockery book there is youtube for the cooking classes

@Michelle_Emm

Жыл бұрын

@@christinemuschiato5895 absolutely true, I'm not saying she can't learn if she chooses to but many people don't know where to start, are locked in a mindset and also grappling with crippling fear of how they're going to survive. When I went vegetarian I had to relearn how to cook and KZread is like having your own private chef.

@terrylynn9984

Жыл бұрын

Assuming they can afford the electricity to prepare the meal

@djm2189

Жыл бұрын

@@terrylynn9984 everything has a cost. Using a bit of electricity to batch cook a bunch of cheap and healthy food. Vs buying processed expensive trash food. Balancing cost. You'll find out, cooking at home is cheaper and leads to less health issues.

plenty of jobs in and around Falmouth on Gumtree

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

They were already working. They're also the caregivers to 49857 disabled children and adults.

It just shows how selfish and ignorant the British politicians are they dont their wages and they jobs

How many of these people are actually Cornish? 😂

@kernowboy137

Жыл бұрын

To my ear none!

@johnmoore9862

10 ай бұрын

So what, they’re still people.

They should get money to buy food ?

@Starry2000

Жыл бұрын

They are working. They are also taking care of 394857 disabled children and adults at once.

she could never afford to have so many children. no planning. no responsibility.

@Sam_Guevenne

Жыл бұрын

You are just looking for any excuse not to call out the Tories for their policy of austerity.

@djm2189

Жыл бұрын

Hate that they do that! They say they would do anything for their kids, meanwhile having kids they can't afford and brining that suffering to them! Selfishness. I would know, i grew up very poor. Constant fighting, yelling, violence due to bills. Never getting anything and being picked on my kids, etc. If you love kids, wait and plan for them. Ensure you give them quality of life.

@888ssss

Жыл бұрын

@@Sam_Guevenne their choice have nothing at all to do with politics ? in fact, perhaps its people like you who insist on a nanny government that perhaps encourages others to become state dependents instead of independent ?

@calihapamama

Жыл бұрын

Are you supposed to give away your kids if something catastrophic happens and your income decreases? Good grief, what kind of bs is this?

@Shadow-7773

Жыл бұрын

@@calihapamama No one said sell your kids, nor give them away. The comments, were don't have kids in the first place, if you don't look to the future? Yes Life happens. Funny! how so many other folks give answers on how to cook, save, make do, share rides, babysiting each others kids, etcetera, etcetera! Almost none of the folks in some many of these videos, don't nothing but wait for someone else to do some for them.

Learned helplessness and not thinking beyond next week. Learn to cook for a start.

@DavidSmith-oy4of

Жыл бұрын

Not everyone has the energy to cook. What seems easy for you might be incredibly difficult for someone else, and vice versa. "Learned helplessness" doesn't change the system we have to deal with that is causing mass inequality.

@latorregolf

Жыл бұрын

@@DavidSmith-oy4of in the time/energy spent going to food bank she could have prepped and started a simple veg or meat stew. Nutritious and filling meals for those kids cost very little. Processed crap from the food bank is more convenient, and free.

@DavidSmith-oy4of

Жыл бұрын

@@latorregolf So you must know all about the problem of free will? I've spent 10+ years looking into it during my spare time so you must be able to as well. So you would understand why your argument fails on that point alone.

why havent these people got cornish accents

There are still people out there who’ll vote Tory at the next election.

@fdocument2889

Жыл бұрын

Only someone thick would think that labour offer anything different

Has anybody noticed which minority or using the food and which minority seems to be doing very well in the British society something to do with British businesses going out of business and minority businesses flourish in because they're undercutting British businesses believe they should be looked into

You should be able to go to Buckingham palace and have a meal!

1984

thank the people who kept voting tory, this is their fault.