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?

The Michael Moseley thing is the BBC link.

It says that corn and sunflower oils are better uncooked.

Ah, sorry, just dived in.

Add a squeeze of lemon and you've made them Mediterranean ragged!

As a family of five we spend around £260-£280 per week. We don't live on conviencie food, mostly I make things from scratch but we go through tons of fruit fish and poultry/meat,and that isn't cheap. How anyone can say they exist on £100 a week who are a family of four/five well it's beyond me

And why is coconut oil all the rage now?

The only oil I have a mahoosive problem with is Palm Oil.
It kills Orang Utangs

and by the way "certified" palm oil just means that they killed all the Orangs over three years before

PS today I spent £59 at the butcher and £61 at Lidl

Palm Oil

Unless it's grown in Brazil.

I think you know perfectly well what is meant by stable tip, it changes molecular structure less under high heats than EVOO. The changes are thought to be carcinogenic.

None of us is likely to be affected by it unless we are deep frying everything from our cornflakes through to our Ovaltine and biscuits every day.

But it does mean that there's no reason for anyone to get the warm fuzzies because they only buy evoo and not lard to cook for their families.

Interestingly, my mum told me all this about evoo about 20 years ago, so it's not new knowledge really.

Agree that dietitian is annoying and rubbish.

She made pizzas that were basically a chickpea pancake. Had to mix it, leave it to stand for an hour, bake in pan in oven, take out top and bake again. Must take at least two hours for her pizzas. Went on about them being healthy with veg toppings, but we all know you'd have to eat a huge pizza to get one portion.

Hate how she's caked on with makeup.

Fluffy
But people were implying that Extra Virgin is different to hot pressed .....
where is the evidence for that?
Where is the evidence that only Extra Virgin is bad to cook with?

Brazilian Palm Oil : news.mongabay.com/2015/06/palm-oil-plantations-used-to-reforest-parts-of-brazil-despite-being-wildlife-deserts/
no thanks

Re evoo there was lots of "think" in what she said, no proper advice. Just that it changes colour.

Also the woman who shows them how to cook cheap meals is irritating and then Greg and the other chap exclaim over it like no one ever made pasta bake before hmm the worst was the microwave risotto that was rice, onions and passata. I don't recall her putting meat or veg in, but I could be wrong... How is that eating well?! Certainly falls under the "for less" part of the title though.

Totally agree, that risoto dish also had cheese. Its an OK junky meal to have now and again, but not healthy or balanced.

I think I watch this show because they all so annoying.

I always do roasted med veg with evoo. Isn't all o oil EV anyway?

"I don't believe that anyone would spend that amount on 2 people for a week."

This isn't technically proof but it can happen.

Yes, but you don't have to be feisty about it though. Their only saying what the advertising has told them for years.

It's like brainwashing. Same as the little red-green-white strip on the label of evoo to make us think it's from Italy.

Unless you take an active interest in these things you wont look any futher.

£405? Are you even looking at what you're buying?

Even if I've fed guests I've never spent that, not even close.

trufflehunter you see I cannot imagine being able to feed 6 people a sunday lunch including wine for £25?

this weekend we are having Waitrose rack of welsh lamb that i got reduced for £15 which will easily feed 6. i pay £4 for 25kg of potatoes from a farm door so 2kg is about 35p. white cabbage and a butternut squash i grew myself and a bag of carrots which were about 60p in lidl. i always do yorkshire pudsas everyone loves them

pudding will be a big chocolate souffle, i pay 39p for the lidl chocolate (i am a pastry chef by trade and it is excellent) and £3 for a tray of 30 eggs - rejects from a free range farmer that he can't sell to the supermarket so sells at the farm. lidl value flour, caster sugar and milk i would say no more than £3 for the whole pudding.

the wine we buy in france from the tank, 30l at a time. at the moment we have chinon red, rose d'anjou and pays de loire blanc which cost us 2.45e a litre. sparkling water from lidl

so money left over from my £25

You can't just post the total, post the whole list hun! I'm sure no one will go through it, rip you a new one and be critical of it.

It has my name/address/end of my card number , I cropped that quickly from the receipt email on my iPad. Il see about editing and uploading the full list, not entirely sure how much I want to do that.

I actually think I could spend around £300 per week fairly easily. I don't know whether to feel ashamed or slightly wistful...

In reality we live on a strict budget and I seem to be living on cereal at the moment but I would, if I could, buy loads of prepared fresh fruit, my teens would get through huge amounts of £££ branded cereal, lovely big joints of meat for a Sunday roast, expensive drinks like San Pellegrino, cooked meats, household stuff and toiletries like expensive soap and shampoo...I honesty imagine I could do it quite easily. And I don't even drink alcohol!

I suppose it would be a bit like Christmas week, but every week. From September I spend about a fiver extra on each weekly shop on things like good biscuits, goose fat, sparkling water etc for the Christmas cupboard and if we can afford it we do a huge shop Christmas week which is £££. We are careful throughout the year and after 51 weeks of meal planning and budgeting, the Christmas shop feels wonderful. I can't imagine what it would be like to do that every week. Do you think it would get boring?

Do you get bored with it, catmilkman? I imagine if you could gratify every desire each week, the novelty would wear off?

I'm a great believer in cooking and good food being a very important part of life hence why I am ashamed of my cereal diet atm and I don't think money is ever wasted if it's spent on good food.

Post it, I genuinely can't work out how you can spend that much. Do you just buy brands and lots of expensive meat and wine? I want to know!!

Oh please do post it! On android its very easy to edit and image and sqiggle over the I'd stuff

I must admit I'm more than curious also

My weekly shop was under 40 quid this week but it was just a to up of freezer and fresh fruit and veg, milk and bread. My brain is boggling at that total minus offers.