ReformedCharacter wrote:I too have lived on a very limited budget ... I lived for a couple of years on little more than maize, beans, tomatoes and spinach. Healthy enough but I'd have given a lot for a decent loaf of bread and a pound of cheddar!
RC
Hmm, sounds comparable. Nutritionally speaking, I'd imagine maize+beans must be pretty similar to pasta+beans. And yes, cheese was somewhere up there with booze in the grab-some-when-at-someone-else's-table league, 'cos it was far too expensive to buy!
It was 2003 when I was picking the blackberries as late as the second half of November, by which time they were of course shrivelled remains. These days I stop picking them at least two months earlier, as by that time they're clearly no longer as good as a range of fruit I can buy.
Still no noticeable effect on the waistline, as measured by trouser size. Mine had reached its current 38" by the turn of the century.