That is a spectacularly bad article. It doesn't say anything that isn't not only very obvious but also only possible if you are well-off, and also assumes the reader does silly things like spending a fortune on lunch and expensive coffee every day in the first place, and drinks "soda" (? - don't have that in England, but if wanting to save money one would simply add bicarbonate of soda, sugar and, say, a bit of ginger to tap water and hey presto...if one could be bothered) instead of tap water!
I don't know many people who work who could afford to buy lunch rather than take sandwiches, yet alone buy coffee. My dad allows himself one or two coffees a week.
Farmers' markets here are extraordinarily expensive. The nearest to me is in Marylebone, where people like Madonna live/have a home (and where Sherlock lives) and frequented by people who say, "ooh yah dah-ling, shall we hev a pheasant for supper?" I used to go every week to get the cheaper bitties at the end.
Better money saving advice would be to join a buying group, where people get together at local community centres to buy wholesale, if that is possible where one lives, or to go to local street markets (again, if you have one near enough - I don't think I have the energy I used to have to cycle or walk to my nearest any more), to cook in bulk and freeze (if you have a freezer - again, not everyone can afford one: my mother bought me mine as a present), or, more simply, to live on chips.
An even better solution is for city councils to plant fruit trees down every possible street and provide allotment land everywhere instead of selling every available corner for office blocks, and to make it law (as in Tokyo) that said office blocks must have green rooftops (used for food growing), but that involves things like caring, political will, etc..
London is getting better at such stuff but it is slow progress.
I am out of date as it was five years ago I did qualifications in local-community food initiatives. Things seem to have got a bit better since.
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Date: 2012-03-10 11:15 pm (UTC)I don't know many people who work who could afford to buy lunch rather than take sandwiches, yet alone buy coffee. My dad allows himself one or two coffees a week.
Farmers' markets here are extraordinarily expensive. The nearest to me is in Marylebone, where people like Madonna live/have a home (and where Sherlock lives) and frequented by people who say, "ooh yah dah-ling, shall we hev a pheasant for supper?" I used to go every week to get the cheaper bitties at the end.
Better money saving advice would be to join a buying group, where people get together at local community centres to buy wholesale, if that is possible where one lives, or to go to local street markets (again, if you have one near enough - I don't think I have the energy I used to have to cycle or walk to my nearest any more), to cook in bulk and freeze (if you have a freezer - again, not everyone can afford one: my mother bought me mine as a present), or, more simply, to live on chips.
An even better solution is for city councils to plant fruit trees down every possible street and provide allotment land everywhere instead of selling every available corner for office blocks, and to make it law (as in Tokyo) that said office blocks must have green rooftops (used for food growing), but that involves things like caring, political will, etc..
London is getting better at such stuff but it is slow progress.
I am out of date as it was five years ago I did qualifications in local-community food initiatives. Things seem to have got a bit better since.