Falmouth's food crisis | Times Reports 

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

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

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.

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?

@@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.

same for most other west european countries.

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

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

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.

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

take the bushido away from the japanese

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

Good advice and ideas.

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

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

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.

Please check yourself into a facility.

So true Austerity has destroyed Britain

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

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

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

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

my family are lawyers in u.s.

@@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

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.

Good on you! Plant as much as you can now

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

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

@@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.

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

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

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

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

just shut up you judgemental shrew

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.

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

@ Hayley very true.

@@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.

Inflation affects them too, you know 😂

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.

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

@@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 RU-vid channels that teach how to cook cheap healthy meals.

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.

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

my father is japanese

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

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!

@@angelachanelhuang1651 and inbread

Well Lurpack is over £7

@@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?

@@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.

@@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.

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

Yes batch cook with fresh ingredients.

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

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

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

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

That assumes ownership of a freezer.

​​@@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.

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

@@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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Foolish, ignorant and misguided

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

Let her have one little luxury in life.

That might be her only treat for months .

Like smokers she should be turned away from food banks.

MMMnnnnnnn!

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.

@@jacoboc2244 shut up

@jacoboc2244 What an idiotic statement.

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.

I also blame brexit voters for enabling this government

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

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.

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

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.

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

Not always now veggies and fruits are expensive too

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

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 .

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.

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.

@@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.

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

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.

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.

japanese ninja

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!

what did they do?

@@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 !

@@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.

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.

Cornwall voted heavily for Brexit.

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

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

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

well dont vote labour either,they are exactly the same

Beggars can't be choosers

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

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

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

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.

@@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.

Or just give them cash, it can be taken everywhere

@@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.

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

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

You mean like ... state benefits?

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.

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?

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.

@@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.

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.

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.

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.

@@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

@@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 RU-vid is like having your own private chef.

Assuming they can afford the electricity to prepare the meal

@@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.

To my ear none!

So what, they’re still people.

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

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.

@@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 ?

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

@@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.

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

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

Only someone thick would think that labour offer anything different