Just raise the flag and finger and leave it there to linger
Takeaway food really becomes your life when you don't have a kitchen. It's simply the cheapest way to get your daily calories. Today I went to Sainsburys because I didn't have any cash on me, and the local cashpoints are outside Sainsburys. I ended up spending maybe twice as much as I would have in the local chicken shop, for the same degree of satiety.
Sainsburys do these very tasty roast chicken breast things in different flavours (tikka, barbecue, chilli, etc.). They're £2.59 a pack, or two for £4. Three pieces of chicken and chips from Morleys (not sure if it's a national chain but they're all over South East London, just like Wimpy which seems to thrive in these parts despite being extinct in the rest of the country) costs £3.49. With the Morleys meal I normally end up leaving some of the chips because there's just too much food, and I'm full for a good portion of the day. Two packs of the Sainsburys chicken, on the other hand, are little more than a snack.
Packs of ham are moderately filling, but you have to buy several packs to get the same level of satiety as you get from the chip shop/chicken shop/Chinese, and these end up being more expensive, not to mention more monotonous (there's a £1.29 smoked sausage which is tasty and filling, but after about a dozen I started craving anything other than sausage).
The only way Sainsburys can fulfil my daily food requirements cheaper than the local takeaways is if I buy biscuits. A pack of digestives is about 40p and is extremely filling and calorific. (I've just noticed how much that sounds like a portmanteau of 'calorie' and 'terrific'. I think I prefer it that way. "This kilogram of pork is calorific!") When I went through my impoverished phase in Edinburgh, living off less than £1 a day, I ate a hell of a lot of digestives. It's viable in the short-term, but I can't imagine that one would be particularly healthy after a few months.
None of this is a huge problem, of course, just an interesting (to me) observation. I can cope with spending the next five weeks or so buying fruit and nuts (and perhaps the occasional Pot Noodle) from Sainsburys and all other meals from takeaway shops.
Sainsburys do these very tasty roast chicken breast things in different flavours (tikka, barbecue, chilli, etc.). They're £2.59 a pack, or two for £4. Three pieces of chicken and chips from Morleys (not sure if it's a national chain but they're all over South East London, just like Wimpy which seems to thrive in these parts despite being extinct in the rest of the country) costs £3.49. With the Morleys meal I normally end up leaving some of the chips because there's just too much food, and I'm full for a good portion of the day. Two packs of the Sainsburys chicken, on the other hand, are little more than a snack.
Packs of ham are moderately filling, but you have to buy several packs to get the same level of satiety as you get from the chip shop/chicken shop/Chinese, and these end up being more expensive, not to mention more monotonous (there's a £1.29 smoked sausage which is tasty and filling, but after about a dozen I started craving anything other than sausage).
The only way Sainsburys can fulfil my daily food requirements cheaper than the local takeaways is if I buy biscuits. A pack of digestives is about 40p and is extremely filling and calorific. (I've just noticed how much that sounds like a portmanteau of 'calorie' and 'terrific'. I think I prefer it that way. "This kilogram of pork is calorific!") When I went through my impoverished phase in Edinburgh, living off less than £1 a day, I ate a hell of a lot of digestives. It's viable in the short-term, but I can't imagine that one would be particularly healthy after a few months.
None of this is a huge problem, of course, just an interesting (to me) observation. I can cope with spending the next five weeks or so buying fruit and nuts (and perhaps the occasional Pot Noodle) from Sainsburys and all other meals from takeaway shops.