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Eat Well For Less? BBC1

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LovelyFriend · 03/09/2015 20:19

They are looking at a family food spend.

Family of 5 is spending well over national average - about £220pw.

THey are being slated for buying "expensive" sliced cheese. I'm a pretty savy shopper and I will buy sliced cheese and grated cheese after working out that they usually DON'T cost more per kilo to buy than a block.

Also apparently Greg Wallace is going to argue that margarine is not an unhealthy choice compared to butter! WTF? Apparently as it has less sat fat it is "healthier".

Watching with interest.

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Chippednailvarnish · 01/10/2015 20:23

The bowls had my eyes on stalks too!

PurpleDaisies · 01/10/2015 20:27

I'm not convinced about the chick pea flour base pizza-halfway between an omelette and a pancake sounds very strange!

ilovechristmas123 · 01/10/2015 20:31

i really dont know how they manage to pay their other bills with a food shop at £300 a week

RedMapleLeaf · 01/10/2015 20:34

My mind boggles at all of these people who think it's expecting too much to chop an onion, boil up some rice, grate a carrot...

blibblobblub · 01/10/2015 20:38

I'm baffled as to why they eat all of their meals out of bowls.

I like this dietician woman though. She speaks sense.

ilovechristmas123 · 01/10/2015 20:39

nooooooooooooo dont change the butter for some cheap insepid crap

specialsubject · 01/10/2015 20:41

The dietician has said:

no such thing as superfood
diet foods are a con; much more expensive and often MORE Sugar. (I bet I know what the diet cereal was...)
to lose weight, eat proper food in reasonable portions.

should be written in big letters in all possible places.

(and yes, how hard is it to chop an onion?)

AesopsMables · 01/10/2015 20:50

I really like this family

It is wrong to push spread instead of butter, there is no comparison on taste.

AvaCrowder · 01/10/2015 20:58

This family seem so nice. I felt sorry for her when she was told that her food bill was a fte salary.

Gram flour base pizza could be really nice with Indian style toppings, loads of onions, cauliflower, peas, potatoes, mushrooms.

I like the teenage daughter, she is sweet. I hope they get a holiday.

AvaCrowder · 01/10/2015 21:00

That cereal has to be special k

LavenderRain · 01/10/2015 21:02

Nice family, I like the little son, very sensible Smile
But I was also Confused about the bowls
Some nice meals there too, but KEEP THE BUTTER

RedMapleLeaf · 01/10/2015 21:05

The children were lovely.

emotionsecho · 01/10/2015 21:21

They kept the butter yay! It irritates the life out of me when they try to push that spread crap.

I didn't like the sound of that chick pea flour base pizza, looked a bit oily to me.

I don't understand the aversion to vegetables, all those lovely different flavours, colours and textures so much more appetising than a plate of beige food.

This family were nice though and seemed far more open minded and willing to try things and change the way and what they eat, some of the meals were quite adventurous compared to what they had been eating and they did seem to enjoy them.

That was a hell of a lot of money they spent on food though and yes hooray for the dietician de-bunking the superfood and diet food myth.

JustRosieHere · 01/10/2015 21:51

I really enjoyed this week. The whole series should have been about this, people stuck in a rut of crap convenience eating. It shows how much you can save by swapping jars and boil in the bag rice and as a consequence eating healthier.

Blondeshavemorefun · 01/10/2015 22:39

Some of the recipes look lovely - tho why they just didn't make pizza /bread dough

Wonder if a cook book will come out of recipes

Think many of the mums don't actually know how to cook - guess their parents didn't show them

Would love to know what the annual salaries are of these families. To spend £15k on food a year seems insane

Keep saying it but would like to see them help poorer /normal Families who struggle spending £50/60 a week and want to save £10. That would means so much more !!!!

SteamPunkGoth · 02/10/2015 10:35

Lovely family.

That chickpea pizza base looked rank. Wouldn't have that.

myotherusernameisbetter · 02/10/2015 10:40

I quite fancied the chickpea pizza base.......until she made it :)

I think it might work for something else, just not as a pizza - I make bases with about a 3rd wholemeal flour mixed in to the white - they aren't as light and fluffy as plain white, but they are nice. That's healthy enough and I can't see that it would be any more expensive than chickpeas - might be a useful one for gluten free diets?

SoupDragon · 02/10/2015 10:43

I wonder if you could make an acceptable pizza base with the chickpea flour that doesn't look like a cold omelette.

I'm always amazed that all the children of these families who eat vey little vegetables etc take so well to the new meals. I can imagine what mine would do if I dared serve something with peppers. DD was appalled by the small piece of leek she tried last night.

myotherusernameisbetter · 02/10/2015 10:48

Yeah I also thought that - I've still got a 15 year old that wont touch anything green.......and freaks if they put parsley on his dinner - I really cant see him magically tucking into mixed veg and chick pea curry :(

tbf I'm not a big courgette fan either so on that basis alone SWBU :o

carbcraver · 02/10/2015 10:50

I too mentally complained about the bowls! What was up with that!?!

Tinned salmon.... Still not convinced!

SoupDragon · 02/10/2015 10:51

Yes - fish and chips in a bowl! Why?!

myotherusernameisbetter · 02/10/2015 10:52

We do have some meals in bowls, but in my book, if you need to use a knife then it should be on a flat plate. Bowls are for "fork or spoon only" meals.

blibblobblub · 02/10/2015 10:59

Oh yeah we eat out of bowls too, but not things like fish and chips. Though DH probably would, he is a bugger for putting everything in a bowl all piled up and weird Confused

I just can't get on board with "alternative" pizza bases. There's a guy at my work made some kind of Slimming World pizza where the base was made of Smash. Everyone was going on about what a good idea it was but it just looked gross!

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LovelyFriend · 02/10/2015 11:08

ooh I love eating out of a bowl!
I may put fish and chips in a shallow one (I have an assortment).

I agree with mother that if it needs a knife then it really needs a plate, not a bowl. But then I would eat fish with a fork so it could work in a bowl.

I thought cauliflower was the go to low fat, low carb pizza base alternative? I've been meaning to try it:www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/cauliflower-crust-pizza

I don't see how using Smash as a pizza base would be that much different than using flour calorie wise?

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SoupDragon · 02/10/2015 11:08

I like the idea of alternative pizza bases because too much wheat makes me feel ill. Other than that, I don't think I could be bothered.

Although if the chickpea one really is one of your 5 a day it's tempting!!