Wow you really hate the working poor. I'm sure there's an example here or there of people spending such bens on booze but I know plenty of working parents, especially single mums, who rely on these credits to get by and don't squander it in that manner. The tax credits system was recently reformed by George Osborne and is less generous with benefit tapering away faster too.

At the end of the day, people on these credits are working and contributing to the economy (and society) and the tax credits bring them up to a liveable income. The alternative being 100% dependency on benefits if you prefer out-of-work benefits, so tax credits work out cheaper for the govt, provide a better income for the credits recipients (thus incentivising working) and the child(ren) will grow up in a household seeing their parent(s) work for (at least part) of a living - this has long-term benefits for avoiding the multi-generational unemployed family trap where children of the long-term unemployed themselves become unemployed.

A single parent will get a 25% council tax discount, as will ANY household where there is only 1 eligible adult in the household whether they work or not and irrespective of their tax credit status.

On the actual deal - hot from me. No, I wouldn't eat that as a 'meal' (far too much carb, salt and sugar) but it's all freezeable and the separate elements can all be used as such.

Right, I'm off down bargain booze to spend my giro on 2 bottles of white lightning and some scratchcards.

What are you blabbering on about?!
I cannot follow your thought process or decipher your point.

Anyhow, great deal Daffers as a one-off treat.

Hot deal! Love the co-op meal deals, for a fiver you can't go wrong.
My son loves them too, he's nearly 3!
Can't wait to tell him we are having pizza tommorow <3 rather than Confit of salmon with new potato & crab crush & dill drizzle! :confused:

I've no idea how I missed this, mega heat added daffers, you can eat a healthy diet and still have this meal :smile: plus at a throwaway price :man::laughing:

Well done on your weight loss :smiley:

Yes, ill write mine dipaloma as betty english, tinternet chatroom well... :wink:

It's-short for it is.

its not my language 'skills' that are desired, nor a freezer of crap :wink:

Is that good or bad?

Mine had dough balls instead of garlic bread

Thanks, daffers. Who'd have thought a Co-op deal could be so controversial?
Seanboy, please write in shorter sentences that make sense! Your grammar and punctuation leave a lot to be desired.
Just saying...

Great deal for anyone.

Have you checked job vacancies lately? Majority are part time and most people would love to be able to work longer hours and provide for their families without having to ask for help.

4 people?! Could definitely do for 2 with room for extra pudding :smiley:

Really? Got a source for that because mine says: "People living longer is thought to be a major reason for the increase."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22796220

I.e people not dying of other things before getting Cancer.

Thanks for posting this as the pizza alone can be £3. No need to eat as a meal as all can be stored as standbys . Hope weather improves and those ice creams will go down a treat .
Shame about comments about those on benefits .Maybe if employers paid more than the insulting £7.20 hourly rate then we could do away with wages top ups .

That is a HOT deal, this fox needs that FOX, who knew she was on HUKD :smile:

I think you have pulled, sean. Don't ruin it now. :laughing:

It is the poo they put in processed yuck, it really isnt good, I've seen it change health en mass and then tried it on myself, what a difference :smiley:


I'll be deciding dinner based on Markies and Tesco Metro across the road, between promos and reductions on fresh produce, most nights I dont know what I'm going to cook from scratch till a hour before I do haha

I was always classed as underweight on BMI but I ate like a horse and had big boobs so clearly I wasn't malnourished, hence why I know BMI needs taking with a pinch of salt...but it was a bit amusing based on your judgement of this food and pre-packaged food in general to see the results.

And when you said about having sweet potato wedges, BBQ sauce, burgers etc would be your alternative meal to this it made me chuckle, as that's not exactly vastly different from chicken goujons, potato wedges & ketchup (most people on here are saying they'd split the bundle up into different meals).

Anyhow, supper for me this evening is leftover homemade risotto. I'm looking forward to it already. Yum.

Lifestyle ? na just change of diet, removed all traces of gunk in all foods - ate minimal to start with.

Self taught cook here, my mother was into shopping than any of her her kids needs, we probably been taken into care if she was getting a grand a month in child benefit and tax credits because she would have left us at home at night to go 24hr shopping lol, thats no joke!

Not a argument, a educated 'on the ground' point of view :wink:

Well done on the weight loss, you should be proud of that.

It's about a change of lifestyle and you've obviously embraced it, hopefully you feel better for it.

I was very lucky growing up with a mum who cooked all of our meals from scratch and she gave me a love of food and a good knowledge of nutrition. I only wish that all children had that, as it gave me a fantastic start to life and a real passion for food and flavours.

I was 16-16.5 stone on a permanent diet before removing 'healthy' processed food then no change until removing processed 'diet' food. 3 stone permanently gone with no effort now :smiley:


When I follow BMI I look like a junkie because my face looks clapped in and I look anorexic. So your right, go by the mirror not the BMI :wink: I prefer and look better slightly stocky than 'skinny' even my GP says so - I look ill even near the right of the middle of my BMI green 'zone'


:smiley:

You actually have some fair points (ie educating parents on nutrition and budgeting) but your presentation leaves something to be desired, and your timing too. Sadly you've lost credibility from previous posts so your arguments are going to mainly fall on deaf ears.

Ok, I know you have to take BMI with a big pinch of salt, but I do find it amusing that you're waxing lyrical about diet and your results are

MP's have induced behaviours with free cash, substance abuse has gone through the roof since tax credits for kids, even more since the tweak that you dont actually have to work 16 hours a week anymore.


Jobseekers and child tax credits... a joke, not even remove JS and save the country some cash.


People will take entitlements, but the money should be ploughed in to education & childminding centres (schools) not for parents to spend on whatever, get out and work full time whilst a FREE before or after school club allows you to work YOUR child out of poverty.


I'm not blaming people for a government induced poverty trap, DWP benefits or Child Tax Credits but I will blame them for feeding their kids crap when they get money not to do so, not pay a mortgage, credit or substance abuse.


If it is about ending poverty, you educate child (and parents - budgeting (needs/wants) and food prep) not hand a parent the childs money to use how they see fit.



A child deserves much better than what the current system gives, it gives dependency, entrapment and failure to parents and child.

Good god.... The Keyboard Warriors are having a field day today :smiley:. Yep its utter junk food but as an occasional treat its fine. Do 4 people nicely. I went on health purge the beginning of the year and cut out processed food entirely from my diet. I also planned meals so that I had 3 meals and 3 snacks a day starting with the largest meal for breakfast and smallest meal as evening meal. I lost 3 stone and my Blood Pressure came down by 20 points enabling me to come off of medication. I now live by the 80/20 rule 80% non processed and 20% of what I like. This falls nicely into the 20%

Have some heat

:confused:

Just big-boned?

Daffers, what have you started?! :laughing:

Just because it's labelled a "meal deal", doesn't mean you have to eat it all in one sitting.
Heat added.

I am not talking about MP's, I'm talking about people in receipt of Child Tax Credits. You attitude seems more centered on those getting the benefit rather than MP's. Have a think about what you actually say and who you are targeting and make it clearer because currently it looks like you have an agenda against those in receipt of benefits.

I belittled government on policies that do not end child poverty or educate others in healthy food prep that end up being dependent on such junk foods. Your right though - I do look down on MP's because they are inferior to the real world they make voting decisions on and are overpaid.

In that case I pity you. You are so set in your judgmental ways that it's rather sad to see. Also I didn't mention your opinion on government policies.

This post is about a meal deal that you have turned into stereotyping groups of people and generally causing offence. If you don't eat this kind of food- fine. Will this help someone out? Absolutely! Will the majority of people buy this every night? Probably not!

Belittling and stereotyping people you think of as inferior is quite frankly ridiculous.

Uneducated because I would not rack up loans on a falsehood of a pretentious degree lol, almost finished my degree, mature STUDent :wink:



Politics is now, daily, not a educational course of a set period of years :wink:

? Poppycock

Even worse, uneducated and opinionated.

That wide your car fell off the roadside cliff :smiley:



Read up^ :wink:

Erm, no I dont, I shop on HUKD :wink: 13s, 5'9 btw, slighty stocky not fat nor a giant :wink:

My 'top shelf' theory may not be that wide of the mark then. :smiley:

Project Management level, 1 below the regional area manager, Scotland being the region.

Politics degree ? lol, yeah like I would waste my own money on student loans for that degree HAHA


Asda fresher produce foods v manufactured at source junk food ? All have no additives, allergens etc, gunk, the Asda (example) food is meat and veg, the 4 burgers for £1.50 were marked down nationally from £3.50 (I think she said) as they were meant to be a bbq promo until the weather turned and Asda nationally dropped its pricing.

Most not, they would be home educated that if you cant afford something you dont have it, children included. And if you read correctly I make the point successive governments have failed and created a state dependency with finance and not ploughed less cash per child in to education/childcare in primary schools (and cheaper social housing) where working parents are penalised not supported fully when they do overtime.

Only if your on working tax credits, you need to show proof of this at the till. If not all they'll sell you is sweet potatoes and BBQ sauce. Sorry.

hi im gay can i get this deal

So the guy causing havoc on here with his health/politics comments shops at Jacamo. Granted he may be extremely tall but... Just saying.

In charge of stacking and tidying top shelf merchandise, rather than middle or lower shelves?




Not just any 'fresh out of uni politics student' - an Asda promoting fresh out of uni politics student.


Amongst a number of nonsensical and misguided views, you do make some decent points that I could find some agreement with, seaniboy. However, to attack a Co-op deal with a selection of Asda products is simply laughable, and leaves your credibility in serious question. Factory made sauces, and 8 (eight) burgers for just £3, you simply cannot be serious. 'Extra Special' they may be marketed as, but I don't think that they are extra special in the way that you would like to think they are.

Face-palm.....blah blah blah this is a bloody bargain site etc not sky news or the parliament channel. So now go and buy some food or go away already or at least thank the person who told us about the offer then go away :smiley:


Thanks daffers

I came on here , read some of the posts and can conclude ....seaniboy is a complete to55er , still undecided on whether to vote hot on the deal though :wink:

Right, that's the appetisers sorted, now what to do about the main course?

Good God, your prejudices of people who receive Child Tax credits are quite astounding! Let hope if you ever have kids they are a heck of a lot less judgmental than you!

Good to see the no fun allowed brigade are still out in force.

We're all going to die. Every. Single. One.
Chill the bleep out and mind your own beeswax you miserable sods.

Especially that one who thinks that smothering sweet potatoes in BBQ sauce is healthy just because they pay more for the privilege. That's just posh ready meals, that is. At least have the decency to smother them yourself if you're going to be stuck up about it.

This started at my Co-op on Sunday & lasted me three days! Heat!

Hey guys we are going off track a bit. This is a £5 frozen meal deal from the co-op not a political or welfare debate. Lets keep on track relating to the deal posted

Family of 4 watching the footy. Tea sorted.

HOT.

Spot the fresh out of uni politics student.

Some elements are not fit for purpose, but I guess that is why there's been a great deal of reform in that area with the cap, the so-called 'bedroom tax' and bringing several benefits together as the Universal Credit, as well as withdrawing child benefits to the higher paid. Yes, keeping schools open all day and using them as breakfast and after-school clubs not a bad idea and plenty of examples of that - not as sure about making people work a 55hr week and if they go straight from that to single parenting at home they'll die of exhaustion before too log :confused:
Also, it wouldn't work for parents of younger kids, so you'd need to think about an alternative there - can have a 3-4yr old in school club for 11hrs/day. Whilst these clubs could teach the kids home economics and other handy things, I'm not sure if the costs would add up and this would actually represent and improvement over part-time working on tax credits, with the parent providing the care and breakfast/dinner and bring their kid(s) up. Obviously there'd need to be the jobs too, and if the market is already saturated as you said, how is making all those extra people fulltime+parttime (40+15hrs a week) going to work? Yes, there'd be jobs in pre- and post- school clubs, but many of those would come at the expense of similar childcare jobs already being offered. Would these new clubs only be for parents currently receiving tax credits? Otherwise such clubs could be swamped with kids of parents who currently pay and see a chance to get a freebie and save themselves £1000s/year - if so will those parents be charged?

The whole problem of benefits and benefits reform is that it is a can of worms, any change has a knock-on effect.

What?

Coming from a single parent house; I probably had a better upbringing that you; my mother ensured there was always a roof over my head and food on the table - any additional luxuries I purchased myself. Which is how I have learnt to be money savvy - now I own one house and will be purchasing my second soon.

If they would substitute new potato for chicken goujon, this veggie would be in! A lack of veggie option is what I don't get about this promotion (every time it's on).

Sorry but I literally lol'd at this: "Try a on the ground, reality we call it (not guesswork in the sky for the little you know from a relatively new genre in comparison with civilization as a whole) a nursing home and a change of food supplier from mainly fresh to one thats cheaper and more chemical processed and contented and watch your residents health en mass over a few months"

Hey everyone forget control studies and actual science! Let's give seaniboys 'on the ground reality' (backed by civilisation!) a go and see health improve!

Also the idea that everyone involved in science is after a nobel prize. again, lol

A one off meal like this deal is no problem at all, I hate having to see people here defend it. Shall we all point to your 100 PERCENT red meat burgers and warn you of your cancer risk?

Thats not fresh ingredients, the plant you refer to is your pantry...the trick of fate is in your head, its not a plant you have :wink:


Biochemistry like healthcare is in its infancy, for as much as we know in 100 years we know very little about the human body and its chemical interactions on every cell and molecular level - you are right though know-it-alls who often know less than anyone else in a cruel trick of fate is exactly what your degree field is in, the minimal we know about the human body and its processes, a degree in something where most is unknown does not give the right to preach you are a god and others are less worthy.

Try a on the ground, reality we call it (not guesswork in the sky for the little you know from a relatively new genre in comparison with civilization as a whole) a nursing home and a change of food supplier from mainly fresh to one thats cheaper and more chemical processed and contented and watch your residents health en mass over a few months, for the sake of £15 per head per week diminish generally with a unusual unexplained higher death rate than ever known on site over a 3 month period, not guesswork, fact.


I look forward to your nobel prize, just like every biochemist degree holder gone before :smiley:

Urgh previous offer ice cream (Kelly's Salted caramel choc brownie) was the dog's b0ll0cks. This meh. Goodfellas takeaway pizza far worse than Chicago Town takeaway pizza.

Great deal

Funnily enough they're not fresh, but I'm a biochemist so I kind of enjoy making frankenstein's monster:

I grow one sweet potato sweet potato, drizzle with water, white sugar, tomato paste, touch of hickory smoked yellow and red pepper, dash of vinegar, some molasses sugar syrup, cornflour, granular salt, onion powder, garlic purée, cumin, paprika, then a final drizzle of rapeseed oil. Bob's yer uncle.

Only thing fresh is the potato, but it's amazing people will believe anything these days, especially the know-it-alls who often know less than anyone else in a cruel trick of fate (I don't believe in fate, but you know what I mean :smiley:)

How did you get all the fresh ingredients to grow on one plant ?

I've been higher management in food and food retail...I've seen and tasted it all and rejected such 'food' because it is not food, it is processed gunk with little benefit but filling a hole and expanding a waistline. But them shareholders as you say are very happy with their private healthcare :wink:

Yeah I do love the BBQ sauce plants on my allotment, pure unprocessed BBQ sauce every time. None of this processed gunk for me!

Late to the party - heat added daffers

last weeks deal was much better, Lasagne, wedges, peas, dough balls and Kellys ice cream.

seaniboy, you mention shame on you, however, if you have ever worked in food retail, guessing you probably haven't, you would know that junk food is the food that sells! People as a general rule want pizzas, crisps, chocolate, fizzy and alcohol from a local convenience store.. there are precious few who frequent a convenience store for free from.. heck even salad.

There is a reason we have a fast food "restaurant" on every corner and not a health and well-being store.

It just make smart business sense if they pull a profit or at a minimum break even for the additional footfall and in turn additional purchases either via impulse or lazyness as to not wanting to visit another store.

True, you think a co-operative would know better, I'm sure if they actually had COOP Healthcare the chief exec would be castrating the Retail division management lol


The point of food is energy and health, people need to re-establish their connection with food not the processed gunk packaged and marketed as food.


Shame on the coop selling out like a Maccas Meal Deal, M&S actually have healthy options and Tesco minimal but some at least, thats just gunk for £5 that probably adds 5 lbs haha

I bought the co op deal from a couple of months ago. I basically had four meals out of it, balancing it with veg and whatnot. Lasted me a while, and didn't cost much at all. I'm not saying it's healthy, but anyone who's planning on having the whole lot in one meal isn't exactly looking after their health to begin with!

Its not food, it's processed gunk full of chems and nasties...good for you balancing it out but you really arent, my balance is to buy 2 x sweet potato wedges with bbq sauce at Asda for £3 and serve with Extra Special 100% meat burgers (£3 for 8 ) and £1 salad bag, £2.50 a main 'large ploughmans' meal - with 6 burgers, one sweet potato packet left and loads of salad for whatever in the week.

Defo worth £7 all in :wink:

Enjoy anyway :smiley:

I'm going to do it.

You don't have to have it in one go, and you can balance it out with salad or veg in various ways.

You're right that I know very little about child tax credits, and I can assure you that it has no impact on child poverty, but I am still struggling to decipher your posts and get your all of your points.

'CTC £53.46 a week, dinner at Coop per week £35 = £18.46 for a bottle (or cheapo 2) of spirits' isn't a coherent sentence.

I also don't believe that this deal is solely available to single parents on benefits, as far as I am aware it's also available to students, bachelors, women, men, even pensioners.

Yes, it's not the healthiest food in the world, but as a one off treat it's probably better than getting a takeaway and much cheaper.

Hot deal! Love the co-op meal deals, for a fiver you can't go wrong.
My son loves them too, he's nearly 3!
Can't wait to tell him we are having pizza tommorow <3 rather than Confit of salmon with new potato & crab crush & dill drizzle! :confused:

You're the man, loved your last line.

I've no idea how I missed this, mega heat added daffers, you can eat a healthy diet and still have this meal :smile: plus at a throwaway price :man::laughing:

you really are a fool. working full, these are handy for freezer when in a hurry to take kids to clubs and this is a good deal. go somewhere else and spout your politics

Hate? The country is in debt due to a 1950s Welfare system and tweaks like child tax credits and housing benefit etc, we also have low wages because paying for children means the 16+ job market is now oversubscribed, its meeting maturity at 25 years (with most them having their own kids by 25 and child tax credits generation 2) and it will cause mass unemployment and a recession.


Simply give every school a 50% bonus of CTC at £1500 extra per child and have before and after school clubs between 8-8pm and work upto 11 hours Mon - Fri even on minimum wage and work your ass off to get YOUR child out of poverty and yourself off any benefits so this country can save money on DWP, Tax and local authority budgets AND staff costs to administer so we can give the disabled and sick and carers a basic rate of 40 hours x minimum wage so they too can get out of poverty and rent social housing at minimum £100pm not high social rents to subsidise Housing staff wages.


The Tories and Labour arestuck in the 1950's social system tweaking it to high expense not high standards for all whilst both have outsourced government depts contracts that costs everyone more, not less.



8-8 healthy food and financial and moral education ontop of the basics and stop repeating **** that does not work generation to generation, its poor parenting to feed your children crap like the coop £5 meal deal, even as a *cough* 'treat'.


You educate and provide FREE school/childcare support to get a first generation child out of poverty (not education charges: Lib Dems) not create financial dependency generations ongoing.



Enjoy your pish drink, Single Barrel Jack Dans here :wink:

Yes all of this processed packaged factory made "Food" is one of the contributing causes to the increase in Cancer but musn't grumble too much for a fiver eh!

good find Daffers , heat added :smiley:

Thanks for posting, heat added :innocent:

Wow you really hate the working poor. I'm sure there's an example here or there of people spending such bens on booze but I know plenty of working parents, especially single mums, who rely on these credits to get by and don't squander it in that manner. The tax credits system was recently reformed by George Osborne and is less generous with benefit tapering away faster too.

At the end of the day, people on these credits are working and contributing to the economy (and society) and the tax credits bring them up to a liveable income. The alternative being 100% dependency on benefits if you prefer out-of-work benefits, so tax credits work out cheaper for the govt, provide a better income for the credits recipients (thus incentivising working) and the child(ren) will grow up in a household seeing their parent(s) work for (at least part) of a living - this has long-term benefits for avoiding the multi-generational unemployed family trap where children of the long-term unemployed themselves become unemployed.

A single parent will get a 25% council tax discount, as will ANY household where there is only 1 eligible adult in the household whether they work or not and irrespective of their tax credit status.

On the actual deal - hot from me. No, I wouldn't eat that as a 'meal' (far too much carb, salt and sugar) but it's all freezeable and the separate elements can all be used as such.

Right, I'm off down bargain booze to spend my giro on 2 bottles of white lightning and some scratchcards.

You can't understand how your tax credits/maths :smile: work? That why child poverty exists

Why would anyone pay £5 for a pile of junk food?

What are you blabbering on about?!
I cannot follow your thought process or decipher your point.

Anyhow, great deal Daffers as a one-off treat.

Jesus - how is that a meal?

Great deal Daffers - heat added!!

Even better for £4.50! :smiley:

Is it Margherita time already ? :smile:

What Co-op say to me everytime



Also not forgetting can use your NUS card, Should be £4.50 iirc

Always a winner :smile: