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I currently live by one rule for 80% of my weekly diet - If it doesn't rot I'm not eating it. Then there's 20% for things that do come in boxes + cupboard goods [Including lentils and barley!] Has cut my food bills right in half! I can also barely ...

Ha Prop! I used to have a can of coke and a mars bar for lunch when I was at college, cost me 50 pence. Can't remember the last time I had a mars bar, but I bet they are half the size they used to be!! :-)

Blog is great as are the comments. Guilty of a tin of coke and a mars bar for breaky but at 5:20 in the morning while driving my van through London at cutting up Wrathy's bus..... Sometimes bad times inspire great thoughts. Not in my case, but I ...

'A starved brain doesn't work too well.' Ama, you are so right. What always baffles me is that a motorist wouldn't expect their car to run on diesel if it's supposed to have petrol, yet people believe they can function on a breakfast of Coke and a ...

Amarantha - thank you so much for sharing your perspective here. I have looked at data on this and analysed numbers, but it's no replacement for hearing from someone with direct experience who can confirm that this is indeed how things were in ...

Spangles - I have so very much missed our exchanges such as these. Especially the bits where I make a bold overstatement and you rightly steer me back on track. I have recently been looking at and discussing the medicines and pharmaceutical ...

Splendid stuff, Wrath. Twenty years is a fair amount of time to let emotions build up, but I'm overtly chuffed for you that after a couple of decades, Miranda shares the same sense of humour.

You're a fellow with similar enthusiasms to me, Alan. I just can't help myself when it comes to historical records and old photos. Especially if they're of family. Some folks take the mindset that it's a waste of time to look back and we should ...

Good article, Gemma - useful info. I'd like to add that aspiring writers can be both motivated and demotivated by the mindset change in taking steps that make them feel more professional. It can be the kick up the arse they need, or it can put ...

This is a subject I care passionately about. As one born pre WW2 I can say with conviction that although food rationing was fierce - not only throughout the war years when I was in primary school but for 8-10 years thereafter - the British ...

Steve, I agree that companies often seem to increase the price of a product purely on the grounds that it is supposed to be healthy, whether or not it really is. Just as shampoos and other toiletries can cost more when they have words like 'contains ...

I'm in the middle of cooking our (hopefully healthy!) supper so can't linger for long. But on the subject of those packets of dry, unprocessed beans costing possibly over £1, as opposed to the cheapest brand of baked beans selling for 20p, actually ...

Guero - congratulations on the win, and most gracious of you to pass on the prize. I think. Lemon entry - I did see what you did there. Unaware of the dangers, I'm looking forward to having my opening probed by the ladies.

Spangles - thanks for taking the time to post such a detailed and thorough response. In referring to healthier foods here, I took the easy option of only mentioning fresh fruit and veg and wholemeal bread versus white. Sure, even in that narrow ...