More kitchen budget tips

A good article in the Times this morning shows how to economise in the kitchen.

Rather stupidly, though, this is presented as a woman's problem.

You're telling me that my male friend who spend a hundred pounds a week on prepared meals couldn't learn something too?!!

Single men are probably the worst at wasting money in the kitchen. Most of the ones I know were never taught to cook by their parents and haven't done much learning since then. I still remember when my father, newly single, proudly told me he'd just microwaved an egg... and spent two hours cleaning the resultant explosion out of his microwave!