Eat Well For Less? BBC1

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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.

Some people just don't think these things through though. I cant watch this till the morning because I only have catchup.

I'm sure I will be suitably outraged tomorrow.

It's daft.
I'm going to need a gin

Thank God the husband is finally cooking!

what did the kids have for breakfast? yeh why is mum getting all the stick not dad?

These programmes always amaze me how some people seem to find writing a meal plan like organising a trip to Mars.
The food waste is OFFENSIVE I don't believe in best befores etc I use my common sense.

Also a lot of ideas that women should do ALL the cooking.

Oh and she just said unfreezed instead of defrosted argh

If he wants to cook more, why didn't he? And why then are they focusing on her if he wants to cook?

I hate this programme. Why can't I stop watching it?

I don't think I can bear to watch the whole thing

Those tuna burgers look rank

tethersend, me too

I buy sliced cheese because it works out much cheaper. I can say "no more than one slice" per sandwich (two if I'm feeling flush) to family and they stick with it. It I buy a block DH carves off a massive wedge to put in (and getting him to measure the thickness with a micrometer comes across as a tad petty)!

Agree re marg and butter - butter so much healthier AND cheaper. You can get a block of butter for around 90p if you're careful.

Oh my Christ she can't use a cheese grater.

struggling to grate cheese
hahahahahahahahahaha

Where do they get their money from? I couldn't have afforded to live like this even when I was on a very good salary.

I never pay more than 90p for butter these days.

Why didn't they make their own pizza bases - scared of yeast? Making my own pizza dough has been a revelation and you can make it using organic flour for under £2, much less if you used non-organic flour, have enough for a family of 5 twice over. and the dough freezes really well.

Well how DO you defrost cheese??

they should have just taken them to Lidl

feeling virtuous watching this whilst eating homemade soup

those tuna burgers look expensive three tins of john west tuna is saving money?

programs like this always piss me off its always eat veg and of course the kids LOVE the veg and sit around a table and the kids always say its better when we do that make food from scratch because it tastes nicer and usually a parent suddenly becomes a chef then they get the kids involved and of course they are brilliant at it

call me cynical but im not convinced its not a "troll" program

and of course the children are all in after school clubs they excell at

Smartiepants... take it out of the freezer

Cant grate cheese

I quite fancy the greengrocer that is why I am watching

the husband seems to be embracing it, the wife is bitching still

wtf is bear shaped ham?

That bear shaped ham looks the pits

"ham is traditionally though of as quite a lean meat"
by whom?
It's not.

OMG there is such a thing as bear shaped ham

being honest i always sit round a table always cook from scratch as im gluten intolerant so i can have the occasional bought pizza but its all so expensive for me my kids hate veg so i hide it in there food i know how they feel i hate veg too

yes reformed ham is not as good for you as the better stuff but we don't have a butchers here that sells ham like that ours sells fly swarmed meat and i wont shop there