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Cheapo Meals: Sardines on Toast

February 25, 2023 Eleanor Scott

Sardines on toast with mayo

If you eat fish, sardines on toast is probably the healthiest, cheapest meal to make. Bread and sardines may have been Roman peasant grub, but it was a necessary staple and kept the poor buggers fit enough to work the fields and the sea. Sardines powered empires.

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Are 30p Meals Really Possible, Including Hidden Costs? No, Not Really

November 14, 2022 Eleanor Scott

Mmmmm. Assorted cheap ingredients that parliamentarians don’t eat. Students and fieldwork volunteers might though. I ate them so you don’t have to. Although you probably do have to, because we’re all broke now.

Food is political. ‘Lee’s 30p meals’ still occasionally trends on Twitter. Sometimes it’s ‘Lee’s 10p meals’. Lee Anderson - quite a big fella himself - is the daftie Conservative MP who decided that the British people could live on meals that cost just 30 pennies per person. Apparently he saw it done at a food bank kitchen - completely ignoring the facts of food donations, the massive aconomies of scale and the energy costs - and now he has visions of the impoverished doing the same. Student or budget setter, cook or parent, this is the new narrative of aspiration. Trouble is, ‘30p Lee’ is an idiot.

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