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Thanks Lord Sugar, This year I'm going to try to follow all the tasks myself. I've bought £40 of fruit from my local bowl fruit shop (apples oranges bananas grapes(all 10 for a £1)), 100 brown paper bags @£4.95, 50p worth of spuds and some kids paint from the 99p shop.
I'm going to carve a design into the spuds, dip it in the paint print a logo/brand on the bags. put in five pieces of fruit and see how many I can knock out for £4.50.
Cost = £46.44 if I sell 11 bags I've (11@4.5=49.5) i've made a profit of £3.66. So I can return principle of £250 plus income of 3.66. If I can sell the remaining 89 @ 4.5 I'll stand to make an additional 404.16 income. Now if I'm able to do that with £50 chunks from the remaining £200 as I sell out I should stand to make few quid over the next few days.
So lets see if I can do better than the smucks did.

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As the Girls team made Veg & Pasta dish and kept partial of their investment money from Lord A Sugar.
WHERE DID THEY GET THE PASTA FROM?
as Fruit & Veg Wholesale market doesn't rarely sell PASTA! let alone they didn't buy any, as; WAS THIS TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT OF THEIR BUDGET EXPEDITURE?
As much as i like, if you take in cost of Bottles, labels, packaging, did it actually make a profit?

As soon as Edward was appointed Team Leader I knew he was in trouble. It was the wrong task for Edward to put himself forward. The man has no leadership or people management skills.
Why he didn't stick to what he knew best is beyond me. This task provided him with a good opportunity to use his strengths in accountancy to win the task for the team. Sadly he did not see it this way which resulted in him being fired! He tried too hard to be something he's not.
Felicity to win (asI have her in the work sweep)!!

ourjamie - you are a genius! What a thoroughly excellent idea. Not only have you tackled a business project, you've taken on a craft project as well with the potato prints. I am thoroughly impressed - and almost (but not really) inspired to try the same thing myself. Please keep us posted on your progress.

I really like the boy's idea of juice and soup - easy to sell and liked by all. But their execution was terrible. I am surprised that no-one thought about how they will juice 1400 oranges!!! Edward did not really think this thru at all and no one in his team pointed it out :)

Why is it every time I look at Vincent I think of the sleazy character that Eric Idle played in the Monty Python sketch - nudge nudge wink wink....is it just me........?!

I got 100 brown paper bags, my wife caved a couple of potatoes, when the children got home from school I got them printing the bags. I managed to talk the grocer into thowing in some plums. We're bagging then up this evening. I've got an old peice of plywood that I've covered in wrapping paper and put a strap on it, like the old costermongers. Got the wheelie bag ready to fill up. Tonight we're going to bag them up and tomorrow morning I'm getting on a tube and going to hang around London Bridge, Liverpool St or Fenchurch St. I've got a £20 float in small change so let see what happens.

On another note I've downloaded the Android SDK from google and I'm gonna learn how to make a mobile application - its going to be Nice and Fruity... my idea, record how much fruit you eat a day, a good marketing ploy to tie from the first task to the second.

Thanks, Lord Sugar, by the time this series of the Apprentice is over I may have made myself a few quid.
Wonder what the next task will be...

What a shame the dialogue editing is so poor ... hope it improves for the rest of the series guys.

There was an Accountant called Ed
Who shouldn't have got out of bed
He thought he was cool
But behaved like a fool
And now his career is dead!

I hope your morning of costermongering went well, ourjamie? Your Nice & Fruity app sounds much more edifying than either team's effort last night. Will you be incorporating fruity sound effects into the product? It would seem from last night's episode that you really do need to have sound effects - even if they are rubbish.

Good luck with the rest of the tasks. I hope there are no dangerous ones, where you have to sell one of your own kidneys or children or anything.