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Return to Dickensian poverty?
Following on from the link provided by DrFilth in a previous thread...
http://www.telegraph....tired-and-hungry.html
How is this allowed to happen in this day and age?
There's a paragraph that claims a 6th former (16/17- right?) hasn't eaten for 3 days!
Surely even the poorest family could cobble 40p together to buy a reduced loaf from a supermarket?
http://www.telegraph....tired-and-hungry.html
How is this allowed to happen in this day and age?
There's a paragraph that claims a 6th former (16/17- right?) hasn't eaten for 3 days!
Surely even the poorest family could cobble 40p together to buy a reduced loaf from a supermarket?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Even when I was cripplingly poor I never allowed my children to go without food.I could get a 55lb sack of potatoes, 2 doz eggs and some cheap baked beans and that would last for ages. Yes the diet wasn't brilliant, but at least they had a hot meal every day. If I got bread as well they could have scrambled/poached eggs on toast, egg bread or boiled eggs and soldiers :)
Cheese is extortionate lately!
However like Cazzz, if you budget mercilessly, food can work out relatively cheap if you use a bit of savvy. A sack of potatoes from my local asian shop is a tenner and lasts the entire month. Granted, I accept not everyone has access to those types of shops, but still...to allow a child to go that hungry in this day and age is nothing short of child abuse IMO.
However like Cazzz, if you budget mercilessly, food can work out relatively cheap if you use a bit of savvy. A sack of potatoes from my local asian shop is a tenner and lasts the entire month. Granted, I accept not everyone has access to those types of shops, but still...to allow a child to go that hungry in this day and age is nothing short of child abuse IMO.
Some of it really is to do with education...not that long ago when on the wards there was a group of student nurses I noticed helping themselves to thepatients leftovers... this coulds have got them in serious trouble so I took them aside and asked what the problem was... failing to budget their bursaries they were left with next to nothing ... took them back to my place at end of shift, fed them (pasta, veg sauce, salad) and took them shopping... they had no idea .... and had bought ready meals, and stuff in tins because they didn't know how to cook... As we were a first placement ward I always checked as each batch started... most groups would have at least one mature student who could teach the others but some were getting in real trouble
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