HELPING GRANDAD - COOKING 3 MONTHS SUPPLY OF FOOD

Hello friends! Thanks to all of your get well messages, im feeling a bit better and i wanted to post about this few days ago, before I got sick! 

So every year when I go home to Latvia, I usually go shopping and get loads of food and help my grandad. As some of you might know in eastern europe for older people its very hard to survive, they monthly pension is around 250-300 euros , which is around 355 $ per month. 

I try and help him as much as i can, but unfortunately life in London is so expensive that I cant really help him every month, but what i do is cook for him for about 3-4 months when I am there. 

The food costs was a lot, even though i bought the cheapest ingredients, cheapest meat and vegetables and canned food and was planning to cook most of the dishes from scratch - the total bill was 225 euros - which is around 300 $ and imagine that was just food! 

I really feel that my grandad barely eats when he is alone, and hence he is losing weight. So at least when I come, I feel i help a little bit. I feel bad for him, my grandmother passed away nearly 3 years ago, he is alone and nearly 80 years old. He doesn't know how to cook and its so lonely. I only saw him for a day, its hard when you live so far away from your family. 

I really urge you all to help your elderly, your family is the most important thing! I cooked for about 4-5 hours in his small kitchen, and with no proper kitchen equipments. I am so grateful to my boyfriend @ivargereiko for helping me to chop vegetables, meat and peeling onions! He helped a lot, otherwise I would be there all day. 

If you can vote this post and spread the love, it would help a lot! I appreciate all of you! Thank you so much Steemit for giving me this opportunity to help my grandad. 

Alla xoxox