The country we left behind
Aug 15th 2018, 12:45 pm
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Aug 15th 2018, 1:14 pm
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I am not sure how valid this comment will be (hopefully others will give more informed opinions, for or against) but picking up on just one of the many cues in the article, the reference to chicken supernoodles, I see, looking just now, that a 100gram pack of supernoodles retails for ≥ 80p but a five hundred gram of own brand spaghetti for 50p.
Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.
Relevant? Not sure.
Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.
Relevant? Not sure.
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Aug 15th 2018, 3:34 pm
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I am not sure how valid this comment will be (hopefully others will give more informed opinions, for or against) but picking up on just one of the many cues in the article, the reference to chicken supernoodles, I see, looking just now, that a 100gram pack of supernoodles retails for ≥ 80p but a five hundred gram of own brand spaghetti for 50p.
Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.
Relevant? Not sure.
Now I don't know what horrors are added to supernoodles to make the "chicken" flavour but I'll bet a 1000 forints that pasta could be "flavoured" with an off the shelf product pretty cheaply & effectively.
Relevant? Not sure.
Aug 15th 2018, 4:08 pm
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Supernoodles are nutritional horror in themselves ! However, they're easier to "cook" as they only require hot water from a kettle, rather than boiling on a stove. It's certainly shameful if any child in Britain is going hungry through poverty, but more often than not the problem is poverty compounded with social and/or mental issues, all of which are better addressed by the state than food banks.
Aug 15th 2018, 4:14 pm
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Supernoodles are nutritional horror in themselves ! However, they're easier to "cook" as they only require hot water from a kettle, rather than boiling on a stove. It's certainly shameful if any child in Britain is going hungry through poverty, but more often than not the problem is poverty compounded with social and/or mental issues, all of which are better addressed by the state than food banks.
Aug 20th 2018, 1:46 pm
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Delusional f-wits who still believe in The Empire. The Wrath of the Almighty will fix them !
Aug 20th 2018, 3:03 pm
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Moggs is quite the believer in the Almighty too, particularly the Catholic version (against abortion and homosexuality). The people of North Somerset must be in a complete social time warp to elect JRM as their representative.
Nov 26th 2018, 11:05 am
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Sainsbury's launches scheme labelling items useful to food banks
It's a nice idea and all but what an indictment on the way things have gone.
Dedicated shelf-edge labels alerting shoppers to food and drink items that are most useful to food banks are to be introduced by a major supermarket for the first time after a trial led to a three-fold rise in donations.
Nov 26th 2018, 11:31 am
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Sainsbury's launches scheme labelling items useful to food banks
It's a nice idea and all but what an indictment on the way things have gone.
It's a nice idea and all but what an indictment on the way things have gone.
Nov 26th 2018, 1:03 pm
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My wife used to marvel at the things I told her about the UK system.
Jan 8th 2019, 9:19 pm
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Food bank broken into
A fundraiser has been launched by Oldham food bank after a burglary in which items including cash donations, food and electronics used by volunteers were stolen.
Mar 20th 2019, 11:39 am
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Rough sleepers to be offered stab-proof coats
Rough sleepers are to be offered stab-proof coats that turn into sleeping bags to keep them safe from attacks, amid evidence of growing violence against people living on Britain’s streets.
Mar 20th 2019, 1:36 pm
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Apr 2nd 2019, 11:10 am
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Children in low-income families suffer 'shame and social exclusion'
Things are a bit different to my day. On Monday we bought our dinner tickets for the week and handed one over on each lunchtime when we ate. Those on free school meals also got the same tickets so they were not identified.
There was no choice of food other than not eat something but there was no junk.
What's on the menu, then, that the price difference is enough that some items are not covered for those on free school meals? Or is it the quantity?
And what is this "money on the card" that someone spoke of, something with a magnetic strip? Does it work the same way as dinner tickets used to?
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Things are a bit different to my day. On Monday we bought our dinner tickets for the week and handed one over on each lunchtime when we ate. Those on free school meals also got the same tickets so they were not identified.
There was no choice of food other than not eat something but there was no junk.
Schools identify children on free school meals (FSM) by restricting the food options that they can select, causing children embarrassment. Maddy, 16, described her embarrassment at being identified as being on FSM. “When she [lunchtime staff at the checkout] was like ‘You can’t get that, you’re free school meals’, like I was really embarrassed ’cos people were waiting behind me, I was kind of like “Oh my God”. And it’s like you’re really restricted to what you can eat with free school meals. So now I just get what I know I’m safe with … so a small baguette and carton of juice.”
And what is this "money on the card" that someone spoke of, something with a magnetic strip? Does it work the same way as dinner tickets used to?
Shard?