The kids wanted to watch it so I sat through it tutting and huffing the whole time. Yes agree about the ridiculous product placement. Obviously the curry paste people hadn't PAID enough for the label to be seen - Jamie had his whole mitt obscuring the label.
I crunch numbers for a living and can work out a product/service down to the last bean. So I was just livid last night at what he did NOT cost into these 'cheap' meals. Bear in mind I was not paying major attention, I was internet shopping while the tv was on. BUT
he said that one meal was about £1.30 per portion 'and there's enough for 8 there' so that meal cost over a tenner to make!
Also, the cost of all his storecupboard items, he put about £1 total worth of the different sauces from his seemingly FREE storecupboard in to the pork dumplings thing. Also not added in to the cost was lettuce, sesame seeds, muffin cases, etc etc etc and that was only ONE of his recipes. The curry had tons of stuff on that he didn't cost - coriander leaves, curry leaves, and whats with putting feta cheese in everything???? in a curry???? Yuk. Totally unnecessary ingredient. Also those tubs of yeo valley are at least £1.50, so because he only put a bit in the curry, he didn't seem to think that the price mattered....
Costing out meals properly means adding up the cost of EVERYTHING that goes into them! Not grabbing tons of jars of expensive things out of a cupboard - as if they all magicked themselves in for free.
Oh, wait, not only are the contents of Jamies storecupboard FREE, the providers PAY him to put them in his food. No wonder he has such a skewed idea of what meals cost!