It's even worse when you have dietary restrictions due to allergies or autoimmune diseases like Celiac/Coeliac. That cheap pasta is deadly to a lot of the poor

Lol, BP censors Dickensian 😂

Pasta is at the base of the Mediterranean (Italian) diet and it may seem healthy and inexpensive and all but one can't live with pasta only (and it's not very healthy either). It's pasta, yes, but paired with fresh vegetables and plenty of fruit, sometimes fish, not too much meat, a little unsaturated fats (EVO oil) and no processed food. It's not just pasta. Eat pasta twice a day everyday and tell me if you're still healthy. Fortunately here in Italy eating like that is not super expensive, produce are still relatively cheap. But I'm aware that in some places veggies and fruits cost more than junk food, which is insane.

Good to see Conservatives are s**t no matter which country they're in

Delusional conservative - isn't that a bit redundant?

... when will we finally get on our feet and end the redistribution of wealth towards the top? The key problem is ... exactly that. It's not Syrian or Ukrainians or any other refugee, it's not the unemployed who are given too much, it's simply too much of any profit ending up outside the creation of wealth, just being stored unused, in someone's hands who already has more money than they could ever spend. We, as a society, should not be obliged to keep a few pet billionaires and allow them to suck the life out of economy and the working class...

BP, FFS, you should not censor Dickensian as it's referring to Charles DICKENS, an author. What next, "Richard 'D**k' Nixon"? "Phillip K. D**k"? Get a f**king grip.

You're really going to censor Dickensian? That's so twattish.

Good points so far. This is very minor, but it's also hardship culturally to eat only pasta. Can you imagine eating plain pasta on every holiday, birthday, anniversary, and beautiful day for a picnic/cookout? You'd never be able to host anyone for dinner, eat your own family's recipes, or chat about what recipe you made. It disconnects you from your community. Actually, that is really grim.

The problem is the misunderstanding that wealthy people have on how money is budgeted. If you take me, for example. I make 22 an hour at my job. To a lot of people that sounds like a lot. But I work in Boston where the median rent is about 2500 dollars which I can't afford. So I drive an hour to/from work to live where rent is closer to 1700 (and it's not a great place. 3rd floor walkup and the cops are at this building every night because of drugs or BS). If you break that down plus gas and utilities, groceries, car upkeep... You're barely surviving. I'm not struggling like this woman does but I'm also single with no kids so it's easier for me. Rich people are like 'why don't you save for a house?' Every raise I get coincides with a hike in health insurance or rent increase. You can never win. So you have make double your living costs to be able to keep up and save. Unless your married or rich like this guy is- that's not possible.

Everything aside, where can you find pasta that cheap?

He's completely out if his non existent mind.

What do you want to bet this jackass has never been grocery shopping, never had to live on a strict budget, and doesn't even know how to cook?

Let them eat cake?

The Candyman comment got me 😅

Maybe if her government didn’t take 30% of her pay……..

And over here in sunny Singapore where the ministers are the HIGHEST earners in the world as compared to their foreign counterparts, they think that the elderly collecting old cardboard boxes to sell as scraps are actually doing it for fun or for exercise. I hope the people get smarter in the next election and vote these clowns out.

It gets really expensive, once you actually want some protein on your diet or healthy(!) fats. Veggies are expensive where I live -- even cabbage has become expensive and I'm not even gonna start on salad. Minced meat is a tad cheaper, but fish is out of this world pricey. And that is just the main meals. There is still breakfast and lunch and stuff to drink. German benefit payment calculates 5€/day per person - which is simply not doable if you want to cook, so people go to food banks. What is really cheap is junk food: Super cheap canned stuff, stuff full of sugar. But a HEALTHY diet is costly.

Needed to include her subsequent comments about also needing to afford something to cook the pasta in and electricity to cook it with as well

What the hell does a nurse in the UK make? Here in the states nurses make a great living earning somewhere between $30-50 USD per hour for registered nurses...practical nurses or LPN's don't make as much but it's far from minimum wage. Either way it's very sad that a nurse cannot afford housing and food for her kids on one income. UK leaders shame on you for not paying your nurses livable wages!!!

What people like Kevin seem realise is that starvation is more than not having food in your belly. I work with kids with beige/restricted diets because of sensory issues who often end up having to go into hospital because they are malnourished because they only eat one or two things.

Cure for hunger? Eat the rich. Most movie takes on the HG Wells' Time Machine missed the bigger point. The Eloi weren't the victims in his book. They got to live a live of absolute luxury, but the price was their bodies to feed the mass of exploited working class they created. I still think the Eloi got the better end of the deal. HG Wells had serious issues with capitalism. From his perspective within the the industri revolution, the Morlocks are the inevitable result of worker exploitation.

Everyone brings up single mothers like they're some kind of heroes! I was raised by a single mother and would not wish her struggles on anyone! But they're not heroes. Unless a tragedy befell them, husband died, something horrible like that happened, to have 3 kids without any sort of a safety net (dad, parents, savings, good job etc etc) then to complain that you can't feed them... that's just lack of personal responsibility! Can't feed your kids? Well, maybe you should have thought of that before you fed your vagina! And maybe take off that nose ring now that you're a mother of 3.

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Perhaps it's different in the UK but, in America, I can walk down to any of five different food banks and get more free food than I can eat. And clothes. And toiletries. Before I found out about this, I was living on a very trim food budget with calculations for decent nutrition (Calories, vitamins, minerals, fiber, ...) which ran me about $150/month for the more luxurious version. It was still a stretch but, that's not a huge amount of money. I'm still going with mostly the free food I can get because, $150 is a lot to spend on luxuries. Buying food is a luxury when you can get it for free.