To think that £17,000 a year on food is obscene

[ChillySundays]

Watching 'Eat well for less' on i player. The family are spending £17,000 a year on food. I'd quite like to earn that. The bloke is saying about saving them £100 a week - my food bill is that a week (4 adults) never mind saving it.

What is really getting my goat is the mother laughing about how little fruit and veg the family eat. Surely most people would be embarrassed whatever the reason was.

Am I being incredibly judgey?

What the hell is evoo??

Extra virgin olive oil.

Sounds more like toilet cleaner as an acronym!

^ I used to use evo motor oil, I'm presuming it's not the same thing or maybe people are taking budget cooking to another level.

Oh. Doh!

Etra Virgin Olive Oil.

Ohhhhhhhh

I remember the days when my nan would fry her own chips in a big pan of oil, then when it cooled she'd funnel it back into the bottle for use another time!!! Imagine the aldehydes in that! Still, she lived to be 88, chock full of aldehydes, butter, lard, whole milk and red meat. She'd give you a funny look if you mentioned saturated fat.

CharlotteCollins
We're talking about it because the woman on the programme did it. It's not good to cook with because it loses its goodness when heated and possibly also turns carcinogenic?
Could you provide a link to the science of that assertion?

This study suggests little difference in the levels of aldehydes produced when frying in extra virgin and refined olive oils. Or is it something else that's the problem?

thebest my parents used to have a chip pan 3/4 full with what I assume was lard, and that would get used over and over and over. It might be lurking in a cupboard somewhere still

All the fried EV olive oil avoiders will get hit by buses all too soon, I reckon.

Lard is a stable fat though.

Actual,ly the old working class eating of lard ( dripping) which is animal fat was incredibnly healthy. It was when the NHS turned people off animal fat and on to carbs that the nation got sick and fat.

A lot of our older foods were good - cockles and mussels, alive alive oh; hot roast chestnuts. Now it's just junk.

As for what people spend it's up to them. We probably spend a fair bit may be £10k but there are quite a lot of us and I don't limit at all the spending cost as I earn quite a bit.

As for the poster saying no fruit and veg - there are studies on how the eskimoes were very healthy on a high animal fat and medium protein diet with very little veg and fruit. if you eat things like the liver and kidney and all the rest of the animal you get heaps mroe good stuff than you get in fruit and veg.

Lard is a stable fat though.
Define, scientifically ....

See this BBC link to the differing types of fats www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33675975

It wasn't so much the lard that was vile, it was the layer of dust it would develop between uses...

I thought it was considered rather a waste to use evoo for frying.

It does seem to give health benefits if used uncooked.

It does seem to give health benefits if used uncooked.
Loving the science on this thread .......

Why are you insisting fluffy define "stable". What she says is the same as your link, which I also linked to below.

Talkin so there are studies that have shown that - no need for the sarcasm.

Bet
Sorry
but there are people on the thread saying that Extra Virgin Olive Oil is dangerous to cook with : which is utter bilge.

One would have to be a tad loopy to deep fry in it, but for sauteeing veg at the start of a ragu, there is nothing better

As far as this thread goes : frying in evoo seems profligate.

If people want to save cash lard seems a better option!

Sadly if ther evoo comes from the EU it's probably not as described on the bottle but that's a whole other thread.

Where has the "frying in extra virgin olive oil (but not refined olive oil) is carcinogenic" thing come from?

We often fry in butter or lard from last night's grilled sausages. I don't think we're actually very frugal, either.

There was something on tv recently (a Michael Moseley thing?) where they showed that it's actually better (can't quite remember in what way - useful) to fry in butter rather than olive oil. Olive oil is best kept for dressings.

Our main fried food is pancakes.
Doused in sugar.
Something tells me there's more to unhealthy fried food than whether olive oil got near the pan.