Cornflakes and pure orange for Breakfast, 5 Packets of noodles, one for everyday for lunch, pasta, rice, cheap spicy kebabs and pitta breads and a bottle of 13p cordial to wash it all down with. Smug wasnt the word, I carried my basket to the check out thinking how good I was and how easy it had been, my shopping for £1 a day was done!
'Thats £5.03 please'
'What? No thats wrong I've added it up'
The man on the checkout looked at my face filled with confusion
'Dont worry if you havent got the 3 pence hun, there is odds here' He smiled kindly.
But it did matter, because for someone living in Poverty if they didnt have that 3 pence then they wouldnt eat, simple as, no kind person to let them off with it.
'You'll have to take something off' I said clearly now looking deranged to the queue behind me with heaving trollies. I handed my cordial back with my £5 note and slipped my 10 pence into my pocket.
Shopping away, I filled up two big jugs with water and put them in the fridge along with a couple of ice cube trays into the freezer and I thought in reality I was miffed at having to drink tap water all week, whilst really I should have been happy that the water that I had just put in the fridge was clean and safe. A basic right that EVERY person should have, yet so many living in poverty do not.
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