Is Eat Well For Less the most sexist show on telly?

[GolightlyMrsGolightly]

It’s all about women getting back in the kitchen!

I suppose they could do a spin off, “earn more to buy Gousto” 😀

Mainly women do the cooking 🙄

They always try to get the whole family cooking not just the mums. I've just watched one from a couple of weeks ago and they had a 10 YO boy making pasta.

Like it or not, the most effective way to 'Eat well for less' is to know how to cook and prepare most of your food at home from fresh ingredients.

Because the guests (men and women) want to learn how to cook healthy food to lose weight! What’s sexist about that exactly?

Ok,I haven’t watched every episode, but it mostly seems to be the women doing the cooking, shopping and thinking...

This week there are 2 single mums, so of course they will be in the kitchen with the children. Who else will cook the meals?

No, society is sexist and the TV programme is just reflecting that.

Two episodes so far? Both centred around single parent families. The parent was a woman.
What should they do? Grab a random man off the street and force him to make salad dressing at cucumber point?

There's been plenty of episodes where the men do the cooking.

@Lumene

No, society is sexist and the TV programme is just reflecting that.

True. I hate patriarchy but I live eat well for less

No.

It's just both episodes so far this series happen to feature single mums.

They normally get all the family involved in cooking meals from scratch.

I seen many couples- just a recent flux of single mum episodes

I've only seen the opening episode but that was a single mum cooking but so was her son. Don't see that as sexist.

There seems to be a lot of chopping of vegetables going on, after work.

It always seems to me that it's the woman who's expected to be undertaking the chopping activities....or supervising the chopping activities..

The last thing I want to do after work (pre-covid, obvs, is chopping..especially onions....)

Chopping vegetables isn't exactly rocket science. Don't know why some people make such a meal of it.

It is a fact that women do most of the cooking in families, so how the fuck is it sexist?

@ageingdisgracefully

There seems to be a lot of chopping of vegetables going on, after work.

It always seems to me that it's the woman who's expected to be undertaking the chopping activities....or supervising the chopping activities..

The last thing I want to do after work (pre-covid, obvs, is chopping..especially onions....)

So should we just wave our magic wands to make dinner appear then?

Not all cooking requires hours of chopping. It's perfectly possible to prep the veg required for a meal in a few minutes.

Or you could do prep a couple of times a week and keep in the fridge until you need it. I sometimes start the following evenings meal later in the evening, or first thing in the morning, so I'm not having to cook straight after work.

You could buy ready prepared veg but some is far more expensive than normal so not in the ethos of the show.

Or you could stick to expensive and nutritionally poor ready meals, takeaways and processed food like the people before they go on the programme and continue to be unhealthy and have no money left for nice things.

It sounds like they've responded to comments about using couples with very big budgets and always 2 parent families. The first family had quite a small budget but wanted to free up money for a holiday, so a lot less scope to cut back.

@SkyinthePie

Chopping vegetables isn't exactly rocket science. Don't know why some people make such a meal of it.