Please stop quoting pasta prices. A packet of pasta won't feed a family alone. You never cater for all the sauce ingredients, kitchen implements, cooking gear, energy, time. You fail to budget for competing demands of home heating, rent, water rates & council tax, among others.
Until you people recognise that others are entitled to a degree of variety in their food, nutrition instead of empty calories, fresh fruit and vegetables, clothing, shoes, internet access (don't pretend job seeking and many other services and needs are possible without it!)...
Then I am, like other people, sick of your shopping lists and diktats about how cheaply people can feed their families. For years and years the ONLY TVs available are flat screen. So stop all this nonsense about phones and TVs suggesting a lack of poverty. It's nonsense.
Why should people on low incomes eat the blandest possible food? Why should they have to choose between heating their home or cooking food? I am sick of the Let Them Eat Porridge/Spuds/Pasta posts of this week.
The biggest con is how energy prices are so much higher for people on low incomes or are unlucky enough to live in rented accommodation where the previous tenant incurred debt. These people pay much more for energy, leading to the choice of heating v cooking hot food.
Suggesting that everyone can gain the most discounted and rock bottom prices for food is rubbish. There are people who are working when food gets reduced. Others don't have discounted supermarkets nearby. How would you know what pricing others have available to them?
Look around yourself, austerity has meant Jobcentres and local libraries have closed. So the free internet access which had once existed has disappeared. Don't begrudge a job seeker a smartphone. They need an email address, mobile number and internet access to get a job.
Not everyone has a car or can afford to run a car. Therefore access to the most discounted prices is impossible. In many rural areas public transport fares are relatively expensive. So posting the cheap prices available in Aldi and Lidl (which I love) is unhelpful.
How many forget about the other costs of running a household? Clothing, furniture, cleaning, bedding, laundry? I'm sure I've forgotten something now, but you see my point. So spare me 60p packets of pasta. I'm exhausted.
Remember Mr Cheap Omelette with Cheese and Tomato? He doesn't have to feed his children 7 days a week. No wonder he thinks it's easy.
An omelette is fine for breakfast, unless you're allergic to eggs. What will lunch and dinner be? Since when could you buy bread by the slice? My shops make me buy a loaf. Butter uncosted. Pasta with sauce and no seasoning or Parmesan cheese? Could go on, but you get the drift.
I've not touched on the less obvious costs of living: detergent, washing up liquid, soap, shower gel, bubble bath, nappies, sanitary products, toothpaste, mouthwash, cleaning products for the different rooms of the house.
Too many of the people posting these cheap meal ideas are downplaying real costs, omitting ingredients, etc. It's not playing with a straight bat.
We also need to consider time. There are many people who don't have hours to cook a Sunday roast or make homemade stock.

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