Yes, we just filled the tank and paid about £50 - can't say we enjoyed it but, basically, it means that we'll use the car less and that can't be a bad thing if applied to everyone in the country. True enough, we don't use the car excessively but a lot of people do ...... and we'll be replacing it soon .....
When it gets down to food then we have to remember that 50% of our food is imported (from Spain perhaps) and 40% of it is wasted. There was a nice piece in the paper a couple of days back saying that most households could easily save £500 per year by considerate shopping and another £500 by avoiding waste.
I would hate to get into the Thatcher view that we should (
) all buy
en masse and store cheap offers in our freezers, that we could use our Chelsea tractors to bring bulk, that we could get our
au pairs to be more frugal ...
but, apparently, most food is wasted by people who can least afford it.
There was a piece in the
Guardian pointing out that bread from your own machine saves at least £1 per loaf; that making your own tomato sauce (for pasta) costs next to nothing and produces no waste if you plan properly, that hummus, pesto, all sorts of things take little time and save vast amounts of money.
... and, of course, if you carnivores out there
reduced the amount of meat you ate then you could travel a little further in your car ...
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Originally Posted by Garden Carpet  Hi Coasty, I have just returned from visiting my sister in Spain (it rained nearly every day!!) where a litre of petrol is 1.12 euros!!!!!!! It just shows that our govt. taxes the life out of us.
I agree with your predictions on food costs. I shopped today in my local co-op.. what a dismal comparison it makes to continental shopping.. their fruit and veg are so much better quality than ours.. and so much cheaper. And the variety! So much more in the way of meat.. much better quality and the price was astonishingly low. I know we have transport to factor in but really... if they can do it.. why cant we!
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