Advice to poor people about food

Well meaning advice to poor people about food

Poor people should buy cheap food and cook it slowly, some cheap cuts taste marvelous after 5 hours slow cooking. Better off people who recommend the above just don't know what they're talking about. ''Should poor people really risk getting their gas or electricity cut off when they can't pay their fuel bills? After cooking cheap food slowly for 5 hours at a time that could too easily happen.''

In Nations round the Mediterranean crops like Aubergines, Bell peppers, Courgettes, Cucumbers, Tomatoes can be grown in open fields though those same crops in the UK need to be grown under glass or imported. Therefore poor people living round the Mediterranean traditionally had a wider range of cheap healthy vegetables that they could afford to eat. Jamie Oliver said:

"I meet people who say, “You don't understand what it's like.” I just want to hug them and teleport them to the Sicilian street cleaner who has 25 mussels, 10 cherry tomatoes, and a packet of spaghetti for 60 pence, and knocks out the most amazing pasta. You go to Italy or Spain and they eat well on not much money. We've missed out on that in Britain, somehow."

Oliver doesn't understand what it's like. I just wish we could teleport Oliver between Mediterranean markets and British supermarkets so he could compare prices. Perhaps after that he'd get a bit more realistic. Has Oliver ever checked prices in UK shops or does he get servants to buy everything for him? Incidentally prices are rising today so ordinary Italians often can't afford the types of food that peasants used to eat.