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He is not the brightest button in the box, and he is riding the wave first started by a young schoolgirl, Christina Adane, now forgotten. That irks me, but hey.

At least he his using his fame to be the figurehead of a campaign, along with cook, Tom Kerrridge, to get people buying fresh food and cooking it. Cheap as chips and easy to do - well done him.

Marcus wasn't always rich, he was brought up on free school meals, so he has form and knows what it's like to be on the receiving end. He's now famous and popular, that carries weight and he is using it to good effect.

There are 52 £1 per portion meals on the menu covering things from a fish finger sarnie to vegan stews, some of those are even edible.

Some ideas are here.

This is practical help, not preaching as per Jamie, and was needed years ago. It shows that with few skills, and even fewer kitchen gadgets or ready meals, we can cook up a feast for pennies.

Well done that super rich ball kicker.

Yes, well done.
We must have 99 different cookery programs on the TV but still some people in this country couldn't toast a slice of bread.
I'm not a personal fan of Mr Rashford, tax dodging Manc that he is, but I think his heart is in the right place.

How do you know he is a tax dodget?

Marcus Rashford paid himself just under £5k from his multi million pound company MUCS Enterprise LTD.....
Then gave himself a £950,000 directors loan.
This means he avoids paying tax on that £950,000 and just pays tax on the £4950.

I have been thinking for ages that what we need is a cookery programme showing us how to prepare and cook simple meals. Very few of us ever prepare, never mind eat, the fayre seen on Masterchef, Great British Menu or their likes. Many of us are total strangers to a lot of the ingredients or some of the gadgets used in most cooking programmes. Avocado pastry anyone?

Set up a kitchen and rope in a few random people and show Tom and Marcus getting them to make toad-in-the-hole, c-con-c, spagbol, cottage pie, simple stews and curries, pastry for pies and so on. Do away with the useless The One Show and give it a prime slot.

Most of us can get our hands on a few pots and pans, knives, dishes and a chopping board. We do not need blenders, liquidisers, blow torches and food processors. What we do need are the basics. The programme Eat Well for Less is a prime example of how lost we have become. These people have no idea what to do so they opt for the easy, and very expensive, options of ready meals and takeaways.

The saddest thing is that the people in most need spend a far bigger percentage of their income on these things when DIY meals are so much cheaper and easy to make - healthier too. Then there's the time excuse. People have been sold on the idea that they have to spend hours slaving away in the kitchen to make a simple meal. It is nonsense. I can get a spagbol, c-con-c or curry on the plates in about 45 minutes and a lot of that time is the stuff bubbling away in the pan while I watch Pointless.

Time to get a grip.