www.iva.co.uk

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090404/tu ... 23e80.html

Isn't it the truth though - We're in recession and the basics are going up bigstyle....

Edit - warning - just opened the link adjacent to this news story about the woman who bit off boyfriends tongue - not for the squeamish!
(Now thats what I call hungry)

It doesn't seem to be there anymore - I've just clicked on the link and the item seems to have gone!

Link doesn't go anywhere.

Try it a couple of times - it doesn't work on every attempt for some reason.

I've tried it several times and it still doesn't work. Says the page is no longer there.

Some hard-up families are facing the prospect of malnutrition due to the recession and soaring food prices, a charity has warned.

Save the Children said inadequate benefit payments combined with massive price hikes for staple foods like rice and sausages mean some families could not afford decent food.

The warning comes as figures from The Grocer magazine show food prices have risen by nearly a fifth over the past year.

Save the Children's Colette Marshall told the BBC: "We are facing a crisis.

"Benefits simply haven't been enough and with rising food costs it means that families cannot afford to give children proper decent food.

"We think we are heading towards malnutrition happening here in the UK."

The charity is launching a crisis grant scheme next week to help families struggling with food bills.

According to figures from The Grocer magazine supplied to the broadcaster, a typical basket of 33 items of food that cost £48 a year ago now costs £57.50.

Rice has seen prices jump 81% over the past year, pork sausages are up 51%, mince 22% dearer and milk 14% more expensive, the data shows.

Prices have increased recently as the pound has weakened against the euro, driving up the cost of food imports.

And heres the other bit 'ugh'..!

A woman who bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a kiss on his birthday has been jailed for three years. Tracy Davies bit off her boyfriend's tongue during a kiss.

Tracy Davies, 40, severed the first third of Mark Coghill's tongue in "an animal fashion" after asking him for a "smoochy kiss", Newcastle Crown Court heard.

The pair, who met through a lonely hearts column, had been celebrating Mr Coghill's 45th birthday, and had drunk two bottles of vodka before the attack.

During the three day trial, Newcastle Crown Court heard how Davies "turned into the likes of Mike Tyson" within seconds of being "lovely".

A recovering alcoholic, Davies had become upset because she wanted a baby and wasn't pregnant. When Mr Coghill comforted her, she told him she loved him and asked him to kiss her.

But she soon turned into a "massive monster", Mr Coghill told the court, biting down hard on his tongue after she lured him into putting it in her mouth. He screamed in pain and tapped her on the head in a bid to make her release him. Instead she chewed through his tongue, and spat it out on the floor.

Sentencing her, Judge John Evans said Davies had acted in an "animal fashion" and adding that Mr Coghill's injury was "truly appalling".

During the trial, Mr Coghill told the court how he tried to fight Davies off, but her teeth remained clamped to his tongue. "I couldn't kick her off, or push her away or anything like that. I was just hoping and praying she would stop," Mr Coghill told the court.

"Then when she did stop, she opened her mouth, and looked at me in such a way that I have never seen anyone do before. She opened her mouth, and my tongue was in her mouth. She let out a satisfaction sound, like if you have a cup of tea when you haven't had one for a few days. An mmmm sound."

In her defence, Davies said she had "no recollection" of attacking Mr Coghill, and she only told the police she was responsible for his injury because he had convinced her that she had done so.

Thanks soreloser!

I do have to disagree with some of it though - the number of families I see in Asda every week when shopping who have a couple of small children with them - their trollies are usually full of things like ready made beefburger meals and other junk food. It's what the kids ask for and usually what they get! And that isn't a cheap option either.

I also have to say that my shopping visits haven't gone up recently, the stuff we buy is either the same price or less.

As to the other story - what a lovely lady![:0]

Well the word 'lovely' was used in court as you see..

But her pic on Yahoo doesn't look too lovely to me...

Its all a bit tongue in cheek if you ask me

Ouch![:D][:D][:D]

think some people bite off more than they can chew

I would certainly say it is possible to survive for less, but whether people are prepared to do so is another matter.

The jokes get worse![:D]

Going back to the food story - a lot of people are not prepared to economise on food by buying own labels or even value labels.

I have no problem with either for most things, although I do have my principles over such things as chicken and eggs.