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Originally Posted by Kizzy

This change has nothing to do with single parents... or with those families on benefits with 12 kids, of which there are what, 10 if that?
Benefits don't double the more kids you have so no they don't get enough to eat take out twice a day.
I would love to see a costing for one of your culinary delights,if you were 23 and on £57pw jobseekers what would you have for tea?

The thread has deviated from the strict parameters of the original post and I was referring to one obese woman with 12 kids, not the benefit cuts per se.

Incidentally if I was 23 with just £57.00 income, I could eat perfectly well - I couldn't gamble in the bookies every day, or drink in the pubs even once a week, or buy a £10.00 wrap of heroin 4 times a day, but I wouldn't expect to be able to because I know that the benefits system is a safety net not a replacement for life's requirements and an alternative route to life's non-essentials.

At 23 I was working over 90 hours per week, and I did not take any kind of holiday for 15 years. My wife works now an average 62 hour week for minimum wage.

Anyway, back to the budget of £57.00;

ASDA Pig Liver by Weight (100g) 17p
I Kg White Potatoes: 47p average Market price (enough for 5 more meals)
Aldi 200 g Fresh Geen beans 75p (enough for 2 meals)
Oxo 6 Beef Stock Cubes 35G £0.80 (enough for 5 other meals)
2.5 kg Onions £1.00 (enough for 7 more meals at least)
98 g Tesco Everyday butter 98p (enough for all week or more)

Delicious Creamed mash potatoes, fresh green beans, and Liver in a rich onion gravy - very nutritious and only £4.17 but with more than enough potatoes, butter, green beans, onions and stock cubes to make the next meals even cheaper - for example; the next days dinner could be Baked Jacket potatoes with a sliver of butter, green beans and a grilled pork chop -- ASDA Smartprice Pork Chops (765g) £2.79 with enough Pork chops to do other meals.