Falmouth's food crisis | Times Reports

While UK food inflation remains over 10%, The Times reports from Falmouth in Cornwall where some residents are struggling to put food on the table in a town that is also home to multimillionaires.
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[@farmboy_bry]

You can tell that the woman with the 4 children is suffering from depression. God give her the strength and courage to continue on.

[@museonfilm8919]

The thing is - food basics are still cheap. Potatoes, rice, pasta, noodles etc. You can make amazing hearty meals with little ingredients - AND you don't need to be a chef! Yes, life is tough right now for many, but just start saying NO to those overpriced goodies that you used to throw into your basket without thinking.

[@lewisbale1]

Yep

[@dougie1968]

I go to a community fridge 2-3 times a week. The piles of food the volunteers pick up were going to end up in a landfill site! It's amazing what I've picked up from there. You get one or two frozen items; 2-3 fruit, salad or vegetable items and as much pastries and bread as you like. Sometimes you get given a bonus item, like if they have an excess of bananas, they'll let you take a bunch or two on top of everything else. The food is still good. Saved a fortune on food bills. Anyone can go unlike food banks where only people on benefits can go.

[@lilybliblablubb5023]

Tip from a broke student: Stew should be your best friend. Potatoes are a rather cheap and filling base, and you throw in the cheapest veggies you can find, a cube of broth, voilà. Making huge amounts that last a few days saves you a lot. Also good: Self made pancakes, pasta with self made sauce, rice pudding. If possible, get your hands on German bread, sometimes Lidl has some. It's way more satuating than toast/your bread, the difference is huge. Also Porridge with fruit or jam is a cheap belly filler, a packet of oats lasts you ages

[@zippymufo9765]

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

[@janicesmith975]

Good advice and ideas.

[@adelaf.a6741]

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

[@MotionViews-pc8xq]

And yet in the UK alone, it's estimated that we throw away around 9.5 million tonnes of food waste annually. We also have a continuing obesity crisis. There appear to be no easy solutions

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

take the bushido away from the japanese

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

FoodBank should put their address so that the society can send food to the food bank. I have 15 jar of spegethi sauce that can feed 15 families sitting in my house

[@alantaylor353]

Great Britain.??? I'm afraid I don't recognise the modern version of the UK... It's not the country my parents brought me up & prepared me to live in.! I don't know what the rules are, the goal posts have moved so much that I've given up trying to find them.

[@dirtyunclehubert]

same for most other west european countries.

[@stonebarrow5165]

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

[@danh5637]

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

[@Devenus20211]

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.

[@Devenus20211]

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

[@ihaveadreamformykids4400]

I’m not a gardener but I started planting some veggies in pots and I love the idea of growing my own food and it’d be a great hobby.

[@Devenus20211]

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.

[@Iamhome365]

Good on you! Plant as much as you can now

[@artofficial2010]

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

[@HaggisMuncher-69-420]

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

[@Devenus20211]

@@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.

[@TheDevilsAccountant]

I've just gone from watching a video where an estate agent for the super wealthy was explaining how dropping £80 million on a house was absolutely nothing to his clients,to this. This planet is mental.

[@banksiasong]

The consequence of over a decade of Austerity, taxing the poor to enrich the wealthiest classes.

[@Devenus20211]

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

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

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.

[@victordonavon292]

Please check yourself into a facility.

[@jamesvoss3482]

So true Austerity has destroyed Britain

[@yvonneholmes2990]

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

[@5LJ3A2]

The main problem is the cost of accommodation and bills and low wages. But food - £80 every two days is ridiculous - buy cheaper ingredients and batch cook.

[@colleenstevens7651]

I understand her. I live right across from the food bank and an so greatful for the people there.

[@elipa3]

The poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer. This is a political decision, not fate.

[@magesalmanac6424]

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

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

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

[@missinterpreted4923]

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.

[@Dynasty1818]

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?

[@CarFreeSegnitz]

@@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.

[@bobjames6622]

£80.00 every two days on food? HUH!? That adds up to £1200.00 EVERY MONTH!??!?!?!!? What the HELL are they eating....GOLD!?!?!

[@kemibello6812]

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

[@Sayitlikitiz101]

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

[@user-jw7pb3ye9v]

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

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

my family are lawyers in u.s.

[@StullerD]

@@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

[@bigglestornado3882]

This so called food crisis is caused by the UK government. A tax burden that is the highest since the war, £7m a day spent on hotels for illegal migrants, and billions £££ given to pay for a proxy war that has not been declared and has nothing to do with us. The British people are suffereing and the government does not car, but is the reason why. Sadly the other colour won't be any better. Britian is screwed....and we are bitter

[@hayleydoherty9557]

The food banks should be for homeless people. Regular people should not be having to go to food banks. The lady saying £80 every 2 days but 2 pizzas, chips, egg on toast would be under £10. There is a problem but I wish they would not exaggerate

[@damienmorrison7226]

just shut up you judgemental shrew

[@christinemuschiato5895]

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

[@minahilfatima4374]

@ Hayley very true.

[@comealongcomealong4480]

@@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.

[@juniorester6942]

You had a royal queen and now a king, they should address this UK poverty issues! Komlan from Africa

[@theyjustwantyourmoney4539]

Whilst others are moving hundreds of millions to offshore accounts, corporate greed, Lobbying, escaping billion pound mega fraud lawsuits and exploitation of labour force, the list is endless. 😡

[@fdocument2889]

I know its bad because the reduced special offer racks are always empty, its always a 'disxount sign and next to it a empty shelf'

[@elizalam5253]

What the HELL is wrong with people? Why the HELL do these poor people have kids? Mind boggling!!!!!!!!

[@jamiekenleyuk]

That woman renting toys? This is whats crazy! You can get toys for 50p in a charity shop!!!

[@myoldvhstapes]

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

[@munaali840]

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

[@sadjaxx]

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

[@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey]

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

[@markdavies6696]

It may not be the best. But it is possible to get basic food cheaply. Marked down vegetables, rice, potatoes and pasta. Italian food was often called peasant food. Most of the time I can do that. Buying almost nothing that is packaged can make a vast difference. Lots of lentils and beans too. Those packs stretch very far, it does work out better to have some basic herbs and spices. There are loads of you tube recipe channels, also for cheap recipes. If that helps anyone, good.

[@djm2189]

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.

[@jillgott6567]

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

[@Alex-pr6zv]

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.

[@jillgott6567]

@@Alex-pr6zv I agree

[@Devenus20211]

So true! My grocery shopping is completely plant-based and I have developed my home cooking skills to a high standard. I make the effort to find recipes from many different countries using local and seasonal vegetables, and instead of buying unhealthy crisps and chocolates from Israel-supporting genocidal corporations I prefer to snack on delicious fruit. The outcome is that even with food inflation soaring through the roof because some irresponsible fools voted Brexit, I usually manage to keep grocery costs within £20-a-week, and I take a few pound coins with me just in case. My eating out habits are no different from before and I seem to manage it fine.

[@user-bu9nb8wr6e]

Look at the cost of food compared to two years ago. The supermarkets are price gauging make no mistake.

[@zippymufo9765]

Inflation affects them too, you know 😂

[@ricardoblikman2676]

Its really sad your government , like mine, rather spend money on refugees ,Ukraine and esg

[@ihaveadreamformykids4400]

I have been cooking my family’s food from scratch eversince and it has saved us a lot of money. We also eat leftovers and I make a week food plan so I don’t waste any ingredients. We do eat out once a week just for a change and this has worker for my family. We do not have cc debt and we will try our hardest not to use them ever by having an emergency fund of 6-12 months of expenses. It was a long journey to be able to save this much money but it can be done and by doing this for 5 years, now we can enjoy having atleast once a year overseas vacation. ✅

[@kostasveronis5882]

What we have here.. we are witnessing a mother who she is feeding her small children with defrost pizza because she can't afford something better to provide, and from the other side the country we watched a lavish king coronation which cost multi millions.. It's terribly sad how far we have come in 2023 and still have not gotten anywhere !!

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

my father is japanese

[@yvonneholmes2990]

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

[@missmerrily4830]

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!

[@carlbland68]

@@angelachanelhuang1651 and inbread

[@KG-ui7ji]

That 1st woman is giving her kids junk food, frozen pizza and processed potatoe while they have the healthier eggs on toast. She would be better off giving eggs to the kids. And why do you need batter mix? People need to learn to cook and be educated about nutrition.

[@Gazmeizster_Wongatron]

If she's spending £80 on food every two days, I'd say she has a budgeting problem rather than an actual money problem.

[@samhartford8677]

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.

[@Friendo111]

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.

[@Dynasty1818]

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.

[@jonathanbailey1597]

Foolish, ignorant and misguided

[@jonathanbailey1597]

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

[@hayleydoherty9557]

If she made shepherds pie, spag bol, chillie ect she could feed all family batch make food and freeze is the answer

[@TheBuckspygmy]

That assumes ownership of a freezer.

[@BizMan-fz5qt]

​​@@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.

[@TheBuckspygmy]

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

[@BizMan-fz5qt]

@@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.

[@TheBuckspygmy]

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

[@leonardgibney2997]

And import 1.2 million immigrants last year. Somebody should explain to them there's a lot of poverty here. Go somewhere else!

[@394pjo]

_"Western politicians do not have the power or possibilities to change life in their country for the better, because they have not been independent figures for a long time. Real power in the west is in the hands of resourced clans, transnational corporations and Oligarchs. Everyone is controlled by big business, lobbyists and foundations. They do not even hide these facts."_ Nikolai Patrushev

[@HorseSaddleRider]

I think the main problem for these families is how to access the large cheaper superstores without transport. It's not easy to walk to them with 4 children then hike all those bags of food home on foot. Getting a bus would cost a lot. These mothers should get together and babysit for each other, car pool or taxi pool. They could also oven pool and take it in turns to put casseroles etc in one oven. It's hard to be resourceful but older people know how to do it. Falmouth has a Lidl - they just need to get there but they also need to learn how to cook. I'm also mindful that many kids won't eat anything else but convenience foods full of sugar and salt. Not easy.....

[@juliewills8034]

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

[@chocksaway100]

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 .

[@bobjames6622]

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.

[@Devenus20211]

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.

[@HorseSaddleRider]

@@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.

[@lisamurphy1734]

All the children look well cared for and happy good parents and a heping hand when needed from the food ban8

[@kimsherlock8969]

The divide between those who have everything they need without any problems And those who work to pay for their life can't afford to eat or pay bills. The divide will continue as AL replaces those working full-time. The servants are no longer needed and the divide of walls is established. This will create more, " crime" and more poverty and inequality.

[@heathermortimer1126]

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.

[@kimsherlock8969]

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

[@AlchemicalForge91]

processed food is typically more expensive and less nutritional

[@Dynasty1818]

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

[@lailusionista2564]

Not always now veggies and fruits are expensive too

[@misslanapaulford]

She states that she did have money and couldn't predict this, but she could have not had 4 children and put money aside for just incase this happened. Also there is NO WAY she is spending £80.00 every 2 days on food. There only small, so does that £80.00 include alcohol and ciggies.

[@yvonneholmes2990]

MMMnnnnnnn!

[@Dynasty1818]

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.

[@Kittybarcode]

How can she afford to do her nails,those are really expensive to maintain, wouldn’t that be the one expense that she could do without?

[@johnmoore9862]

Let her have one little luxury in life.

[@christinephillips3435]

That might be her only treat for months .

[@piledriverpotter9847]

Like smokers she should be turned away from food banks.

[@Abraham_Tsfaye]

When I was in UK. I saw empty boarded up streets under a constant grey sky, litter everywhere. Homeless people sleeping in doorways. Opioid addicts out of their mind and women so drunk they urinated on the streets. It's a sad declined country

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

I noticed food bank trollys in Tesco are empty.

[@laylamorgan4018]

£80 every two days, what is she buying? I must have missed something, so my bad if i have, but i can feed myself my partner and 3 kids for on average £100 a month. If you're spending £80 every two days on food, then i dont know how you would have a cubpoard full of value brand food and still need a food bank for help.

[@Starry2000]

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.

[@juhaszsc]

What worries me is that the UK has a really high population that is nearly completely dependent on food imports. The Agricultural system is unsustainable with declining fertility, top soil, and biodiversity. What happens when this fine line of a system snaps?

[@onetalentedman2822]

Trouble is people don't know how to live cheap these days. Make a huge pan of stew or curry add any thing cheap AND TASTY make it last a week. Make flat bread simply flour and water made and cooked in minutes in a frying pan. Take note how Indian family's live as they live exstreamly cheap. My weekly food bill is never over £10 as only buy greatly reduced prices in super markets before closing time. Grow your own vegatables. Heat my home free allso my collecting fire wood daily in local woods and skips while walking my dog. Transport I use a push bike even to go long distance. Toilet tissue never purchased I use news paper cut in small squares hung on a nail for when needed. Two rules in my life Rule One NEVER waste money. Rule Two NEVER forget RULE ONE.

[@bobjames6622]

FOUR children. I think I've just spotted the problem right there. Ain't rocket science. Don't pump out units that you clearly cannot afford to provide for.

[@Starry2000]

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.

[@GWAYGWAY1]

I am willing to bet that the district council officials are getting their full salary and bonus’s they get what they want by the council tax increases.

[@noleenkearney2898]

Anyone living in small towns miles away from any major supermarkets suffer the hardest where i live there is rarely anything decent marked down just choc and junk food

[@sluglife9785]

This is Cameron's 'Big Society' right? Instead of the State intervening to ensure people have the necessary income for a decent quality of life, we leave it to charities and local organisations. A majority of the Nation voted for this time and again. Let's not pretend otherwise. This is a choice.

[@damienmorrison7226]

@@jacoboc2244 shut up

[@magesalmanac6424]

@jacoboc2244 What an idiotic statement.

[@Devenus20211]

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.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

I also blame brexit voters for enabling this government

[@Devenus20211]

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

[@danh5637]

Why aren’t these people applying for benefits? Also £80 every two days. What the hell are you eating!

[@Marc-xc9uo]

Well Lurpack is over £7

[@danh5637]

@@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?

[@Marc-xc9uo]

@@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.

[@danh5637]

@@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.

[@Marc-xc9uo]

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

[@Christinesees]

Its alot cheaper to cook from scratch imo

[@bitcoincryptofreedom3652]

Yes batch cook with fresh ingredients.

[@gerrypippin2263]

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

[@damienmorrison7226]

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

[@TheBuckspygmy]

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

[@johnmoore9862]

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

[@sergiozammel8261]

This crisis has been for told by many economists and trend commentators for the last 10 years at least. I have been watching the coming train wreck slowly unfold for those years, and now we have a crisis in the western world. It seems no western country is untouched. UK, USA , Australia are all starting to see an alarming number of homelessness, and working poor. I fear that this is only the beginning. The good news is, if you are crafty enough, start to learn what our forbears did in the great depression years to stay alive, and possibly thrive.

[@javieralvarez1072]

what did they do?

[@sergiozammel8261]

@@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 !

[@zippymufo9765]

@@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.

[@jonh6503]

That is interesting even affecting donations now.

[@zetametallic]

Im not an amazing cook but I do batch cook and fill the oven right up when I do to save costs. Those pizzas could have been made from scratch, a load cooked once a week using basic ingredients and discounted veggies; the older children helping mum if they could. My next door neighbour has 4 little ones and they do exactly this; the children are occupied and the second eldest now puts Mr Kipling to shame with her cakes!Also a toy exchange scheme is better than renting them surely? I know in Liverpool they had toy banks in the 00's which worked well, (and the lady might remember herself growing up as she is from there) I worked with them.

[@tycobb2580]

06:25 her response to that question is a lot more civil than mine

[@janicesmith975]

This food bank, along with their volunteers are doing a great job.

[@Stiffd1]

Why don't you ask Rick Stein for food contributions - ready to eat or anything? He's always pluggin' the town : Do it!

[@LeilaLamb]

Heartbreaking

[@TheBuckspygmy]

Frankly every town in Cornwall has the same problem with more and more people needing food banks. If anyone in Cornwall votes Tory at the next general election that have no idea how bad things are.

[@sadjaxx]

Cornwall voted heavily for Brexit.

[@TheBuckspygmy]

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

[@keithbenson4915]

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

[@TheBuckspygmy]

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

[@craigridsdale4832]

well dont vote labour either,they are exactly the same

[@missmerrily4830]

It's always denied and cried down, but there's a huge problem with people who never had it so good until now and haven't experienced harder times. They think this is hard now. No, it's not! Half the world has to live on much less. Similarly they won't be told that you can live more cheaply by cooking from scratch with nourishing but cheap ingredients. What they mostly need is some real guidance in basic cooking skills. Convenience foods may look like a deal but they are expensive to feed more than one or, at a pinch two people.

[@philipmalone4771]

And yet I'd wager you all watched his coronation on the telly. You know who I mean, that chap who was Duke of Cornwall for the past 70 years? I believe the French were really hungry in 1792. They were told to eat cake. You my friends are being told to eat something far less palatable.

[@Nigelcaygill]

Ashamed of our politicians and civil servants who do anything but serve the needy 6:59 community. I shall see what I can do and not just putting a can of baked beans in the basket at Tesco’s but my anger will only increase with Fishi Risho on down to local council. Narcissistic bds the lot .

[@kevinwilde]

thatchers diabolical legacy continues to linger on. safeguarded by cynical sunak's cost of greed crisis.

[@stonebarrow5165]

1 thing I'll thank the cost of living crisis for, it show me that i was buying way to much food b4 & wasting food 😭 Not a, more 🥳💯👍🇬🇧

[@tycobb2580]

01:50 whoa . . . 50 dollars a day for groceries? That sucks

[@allpsychicsarefraudsfact8357]

What are the people who claim they 'rely' on food banks actually spending their money on!? If they smoke, go to the pub, have a smartphone, car etc then they DO NOT need food banks! The people who run these food banks are being played for as fools as the free food the 'poverty stricken' are given means they can spend their money on anything BUT food!

[@LauraSnow-in3nx]

Start community gardens or just start gardens in your backyard even in your front yard at this point plant potatoes because those will grow anywhere. Also as an American, not sure what under the tether means?

[@AmysTrilogy]

I think the Food Banks should have a duty to only provide healthy food, and if required, show the recipients how to prepare meals. Frozen pizza and ultra processed potato balls arent going to provide the nutrients that her family need.

[@coinbuyer-8605]

Beggars can't be choosers

[@terrylynn9984]

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

[@libertarian4323]

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

[@CDN1975]

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

[@djm2189]

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.

[@christinemuschiato5895]

@michellesm26 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

[@terrylynn9984]

Assuming they can afford the electricity to prepare the meal

[@djm2189]

@@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.

[@Starry2000]

"How do you think the masses and the poor masses in many different countries survive?" - Answer: They don't. Furthermore pizza is very nutritious and as far as you f. ucking know she got those for free for the children. In a starvation situation you need fats and calories you dipsh . it.

[@Starry2000]

@@djm2189 Cooking at home is a lot more energy intensive and heats up the entire house. Especially if you can receive processed food which is way less resource and labor intensive to boot, for free. I swear to god you people on here with your advice have no idea what the hell you are talking about. It isn't even obvious where you got the opinion you espouse in the first place.

[@mikescarborough9196]

Well, the Conservatives and the Brexit movement promised to deliver a lean and mean Britain…

[@marthmfn9707]

Terrible life for children and their truly caring families.

[@iszychurch4711]

I hate the government so much

[@karenmbbaxter]

I don't have all the answers but people need to look at how Indians eat in their own country.....Very little meat and they MUST provide school lunches for every school age child......Before COVID the schools food budget compared to the amount of kids worked out to be 20 cents a meal......They us a lot of dried lentils and spices......I thought the food would taste like garbage but my kids and I love it.......Yes, we still eat meat but not every night. Lentils have A LOT of protein in them......add rice and U got dinner.

[@djm2189]

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.

[@Starry2000]

@@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.

[@arostheautistic1045]

Terrible, people should be on the streets protesting.

[@lorettaobrien8599]

It is utterly disgraceful to say that ordinary people have to depend on others charity to stay alive... The government should bring in a system of vouchers for people on low incomes so that they can exchange them for their weekly shop in the local supermarket and grocery store.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

Or just give them cash, it can be taken everywhere

[@zippymufo9765]

@@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.

[@NeilCWCampbell]

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

[@lorettaobrien8599]

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

[@vatsmith8759]

You mean like ... state benefits?

[@janicesmith975]

This country is in a sorry state of affairs. I don't have a family, so only have myself to worry about. I don't envy families who are struggling.

[@missadda8890]

I am 60 and my mothers generation were way better money managers they could run a home on a shoestring budget some domestic science classes need to be reintroduced to the curriculum.

[@Starry2000]

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.

[@richardtuxford1812]

Some of the comments on here are truly shameful. This is a crisis created by the Tory government and it's inability to support society through social infrastructure or run a successful economy.

[@javieralvarez1072]

Those who voted for Brexit can be happy now.

[@888ssss]

she could never afford to have so many children. no planning. no responsibility.

[@Sam_Guevenne]

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

[@djm2189]

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.

[@888ssss]

@@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 ?

[@calihapamama]

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

[@Shadow-7773]

@@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.

[@hud86]

I never understood how natural resource are free, but for some reason we all have to pay to live? Get out of the towns and cities, Go farm, build a house and live a life free of the bloodsuckers (lawyers, doctors, government workers)

[@lovelyenglishnature3277]

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.

[@zippymufo9765]

@@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.

[@mariajefferies8555]

Such a sad, avoidable situation for all of them. Govt at fault !

[@Dynasty1818]

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.

[@raymondchassell4204]

Saw a guy use a food bank take it outside and loaded into brand new Bentley I proceed to ask him why he was using a food bank he said I enables him to keep his money in his bank DISGUSTING

[@piledriverpotter9847]

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.

[@rbj5767]

Everyone please read The Sibling Society by Robert Bly ‼️💔💔💔💔💔💢🙏⚡👑🌈🌍🦹‍♀️💫👄💞🗡️🤴🦁🇬🇧✨

[@sharonvass8700]

Interesting lots of rich people but they done donate humm

[@andrewburnett4931]

If you cannot afford the electricity or gas to cook what use is all your advice about buying potatoes because they're cheap?

[@bfyrth]

why havent these people got cornish accents

[@stealthbum34]

There are still people out there who’ll vote Tory at the next election.

[@fdocument2889]

Only someone thick would think that labour offer anything different

[@RockfordFiles74]

Learned helplessness and not thinking beyond next week. Learn to cook for a start.

[@DavidSmith-oy4of]

Not everyone has the energy to cook. What seems easy for you might be incredibly difficult for someone else, and vice versa. "Learned helplessness" doesn't change the system we have to deal with that is causing mass inequality.

[@RockfordFiles74]

@@DavidSmith-oy4of in the time/energy spent going to food bank she could have prepped and started a simple veg or meat stew. Nutritious and filling meals for those kids cost very little. Processed crap from the food bank is more convenient, and free.

[@DavidSmith-oy4of]

@@RockfordFiles74 So you must know all about the problem of free will? I've spent 10+ years looking into it during my spare time so you must be able to as well. So you would understand why your argument fails on that point alone.

[@121love6]

Sorrowful. I want to be saying more yes n less no nos heartbreakin 4 a parent,n crime would be the way out if not for foodbanks n grants Everything good you do in the society is connected

[@yetidodger6650]

thank the people who kept voting tory, this is their fault.

[@bloodmoon1956]

How many of these people are actually Cornish? 😂

[@kernowboy137]

To my ear none!

[@johnmoore9862]

So what, they’re still people.

[@edwardcat5247]

all that frozen muck... expensive garbage.

[@alhassanmahmood5358]

It just shows how selfish and ignorant the British politicians are they dont their wages and they jobs

[@HenkRijn-rc3vf]

I do have lesser money than all the poor in the Netherlands and uk. But have more food, and other things named brand clothes, Silver gold, because i have more deciple and manage money better, they are jealous because the can manage it with little. But each year i have more.

[@AtlasofInfo]

Poor parenting, overpopulation caused by mass immigration and the welfare state are the cause of all of these problems. Altruism is the death of us. Remember that altruism isn't simply doing things for others but sacrificing yourself and quite often, your own family for the betterment of others. Disgraceful.

[@dirtyunclehubert]

altruism is to me, one of the worst mental illnesses you can suffer from. "im an altruist!" - me: run like feck!

[@888ssss]

rents

[@elipa3]

Your empathy is overwhelming.

[@AtlasofInfo]

@elipa3 ... and yet, someone who would "have a criminal record without the foodbank" must be excused from having any empathy with others? They would be stealing from others, no? How would those businesses survive if everyone stole? They simply wouldn't and they would go hungry as well as the people that need to buy food from them. Most of these people who have jobs and yet find themselves at foodbanks are mostly to blame for their situation. It's our choices that make us. Have kids when you can't afford them, who is to blame for that? Buy a new car. A new bike. A new scooter. A new TV. A new sofa. A new house. A new bbq. Takeaways every other night? Who is to blame for that? Surely, it's the person making those poor financial decisions.

[@888ssss]

@@elipa3 people need to pay their own bills buddy.

[@crystaline1093]

I had seen a video of north Korea parents not eating to give to kids.

[@angelachanelhuang1651]

my family are lawyers in AMERICA

[@artofficial2010]

The title…….😢

[@adella-zw9nv]

Has anybody noticed which minority or using the food and which minority seems to be doing very well in the British society something to do with British businesses going out of business and minority businesses flourish in because they're undercutting British businesses believe they should be looked into

[@charlottebowes7666]

This is the cause of the government and while people continue to go to work for the Tories and refuse to organise strike action for better pay, yall working towards your own homelessness, not the people already sitting on the street. Try punching up to the thieves you work for 😎

[@Prieze868]

You should be able to go to Buckingham palace and have a meal!

[@KENKENNIFF]

They should get money to buy food ?

[@Starry2000]

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