I watched #JamieOliver make £1 meals last night.
It's always comforting to have a #millionaire advise us simpletons on how to #budget.
The thing about making #food for small amounts of money is that it's a lot easier to do if you're comfortable. If you're struggling, making decent food is not so easy.
It's fine for him to flavour his food with herbs or mustard but if you've only got £10, you'll want to buy something to eat, not a jar of dried leaves ...
... They price the meal up on some average, based on 'per portion' prices - which is realistic I guess - but the plates he used to serve the dishes looked suspiciously small to me.
And - give me a break - Jamie Oliver doesn't use tinned custard! He doesn't cook with value brand mince! He doesn't eat that shit!
This is how capitalism works. Instead of addressing wealth inequality, they redefine how to live, what's acceptable. So it turns into a personal failure if you're unable to keep up ...
@lydiaconwell Although I've often heard of millionnaires (the normal kind, not the ones in the media) became millionnaires exactly because they lived normal. Not because they wanted the most fancy stuff of everything.
While there are plenty of poor people in huge debt because they wanted to keep up appearances.
@lydiaconwell Well yeah, I did talk about self-made millionnaires. The inherited ones are just lucky they have rich parents.
Actually, I'm not even talking about millionnaires per se. I'm talking about normal people who are well off. They are capable of living comfortably precisely because they live normally.
@trinsec You always read anecdotal evidence of self-made millionaires and such like, but the reality is that wealthy people pass wealth and privilege to their children and people of power do everything they can to keep hold of wealth, tax dodge and put more wealth into their own pockets.
I think Jamie Oliver is a self-made millionaire, but that's beside the point. His advice is easier to follow if you're in a comfortable position.