Pies

I've been thinking alot about food. This was one of our weekly shops, and yes, Aldi, as its the cheapest and the closest.
thats the thing about rural poverty, it's not just about heating or eating, its about the fuel to even get to the shops.
When I was young (I'm nearly 47) there were busses going to all the small towns most days of the week. And now? Lucky if you can get one one day a week once a week. So, you need a car. The nearest town with a supermarket is 20 minutes drive away.
And we have older cars..I mean alot older. So not necessarily the most fuel efficient. My daughter lives in that thar big city. I'm lucky if I can go see her twice a year. We shop when we deliver. Vegetables. I grow vegetables, on a smallholding.
And I know I'm lucky, no rent. And all the veg I can eat.
But then again, we live in a portakabin. No central heating. Nearly all our furniture was someone else's before it was ours (including my kitchen units). And as lovely as it is to do what I do, it makes no money. It used to, 30 odd years ago, when there were green grocers, and markets. I grew lettuces a few years back...400 odd. I think I sold a dozen. 'Oh we picked one up in the supermarket' said the ladies who had suggested I grow some. So my time, the the seeds, the compost for the blocks the seedlings grow in..wasted and ploughed in. I now grow a few for us!
Anyway, pies. I like pies! i would, in fact, eat all the pies! I costed my favourite pie last night. 85.92p for 8 portions of lemon pie. 19 1/2p for the bottom pastry case included in that. Less than 11p a portion. But it isn't healthy..very nice...very very nice..just not healthy. And rhubarb pie, thats good too..even cheaper as I grow some rhubarb. But..yep, unhealthy!
Is my life going to be filled with alot of unhealthy as we get poorer?..I shall have a think.
BBS x