Things you won't learn about poverty from engaging in a budget eating challenge š§µ
1. Eating the same item so many times you cannot force another forkful & can barely stand to look at it. You'd rather not eat than face it. It's always something you actually do/did like.
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1. Eating the same item so many times you cannot force another forkful & can barely stand to look at it. You'd rather not eat than face it. It's always something you actually do/did like.
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Finessing absolute garbage.
When times are hard enough to go to incredible lengths to use food you shouldn't. How much intervention does it take to save that slice of bread? Maybe if you pick the mould off, toast it twice and put marmite on it? Will it maybe be ok then?
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When times are hard enough to go to incredible lengths to use food you shouldn't. How much intervention does it take to save that slice of bread? Maybe if you pick the mould off, toast it twice and put marmite on it? Will it maybe be ok then?
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Missing your favourite thing and not having access to it, for literally years.
I haven't had steak since at least 2019. I am also a fan of seafood and cheeses.
How long can you hold a thought? People in poverty are holding theirs way longer than your eating challenge lasts.
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I haven't had steak since at least 2019. I am also a fan of seafood and cheeses.
How long can you hold a thought? People in poverty are holding theirs way longer than your eating challenge lasts.
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Shame.
I wish I had a bigger font because this one word is a whole tweet on it's own.
SHAME
(better?)
We get public ridicule. Sometimes even our own friends and family shame us. We have a whole range of lies to cover it up.
You promote your thing to your friends.
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I wish I had a bigger font because this one word is a whole tweet on it's own.
SHAME
(better?)
We get public ridicule. Sometimes even our own friends and family shame us. We have a whole range of lies to cover it up.
You promote your thing to your friends.
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Overeating because it's freezing cold.
It's often said "it's alright for you lot with your nice kitchen, you try doing that in a bedsit with a microwave and a kettle".
When dinner decisions regularly depend on how much Fairy you have left, you're only starting to get it.
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It's often said "it's alright for you lot with your nice kitchen, you try doing that in a bedsit with a microwave and a kettle".
When dinner decisions regularly depend on how much Fairy you have left, you're only starting to get it.
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Time.
The same reasons that make people cash poor often make them time poor or low ability- being sick, disabled, having young or demanding kids, working a lot for low pay/ high rent, etc.
The endless rhetoric around effort and skills feeds the ugliest of stereotyping.
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The same reasons that make people cash poor often make them time poor or low ability- being sick, disabled, having young or demanding kids, working a lot for low pay/ high rent, etc.
The endless rhetoric around effort and skills feeds the ugliest of stereotyping.
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Biological drive for sugars, fats and carbs.
Even if you're habituated to healthy eating, if you experience regular hunger your body will crave quick fixes. This is evolutionary.
Over time poverty will trap you in a battle between learned knowledge and survival instinct.
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Even if you're habituated to healthy eating, if you experience regular hunger your body will crave quick fixes. This is evolutionary.
Over time poverty will trap you in a battle between learned knowledge and survival instinct.
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Eating challenges have a place, for example charity sponsorship or in connection with religious fasting.
But it's crucial to understand that eating challenges are to poverty what babysitting is to parenting. As long as you can opt out you will never understand.
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But it's crucial to understand that eating challenges are to poverty what babysitting is to parenting. As long as you can opt out you will never understand.
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Recently a privileged individual has been claiming that a challenge of their own devising would give them sufficient insight as to then be able to teach the poor how it's done.
(*Not the Eton-educated TV chef/ landowner with the double barrelled name. Someone else).
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(*Not the Eton-educated TV chef/ landowner with the double barrelled name. Someone else).
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It will not.
It can not.
It's patronising and vain to imagine otherwise.
In order to know more about anyone elses way of life centre living experience and lived experience as the primary source, with learned experience as supporting material only.
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It can not.
It's patronising and vain to imagine otherwise.
In order to know more about anyone elses way of life centre living experience and lived experience as the primary source, with learned experience as supporting material only.
10/end
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