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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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BoffinMum · 03/09/2015 20:51

That programme is unbelievably boring. It's all so bloody obvious.

lastqueenofscotland · 03/09/2015 20:51

Maybe I'm caught up in a mums net bubble where most people eat good healthy food.

But do people really know this little about food and cooking?!
And feed there kids this much crap?

Flisspaps · 03/09/2015 20:52

Radical changes? Is Gregg on a different fucking planet? AngryShock

goawayalready · 03/09/2015 20:52

radical changes?

i wish i could stop watching this program where is the remote anyone seen it?

BoffinMum · 03/09/2015 20:53

What a dopey pair they are.
I shall send them a copy of Austerity Housekeeping.

Flisspaps · 03/09/2015 20:53

Probably down the back of the TV, as so many people will have launched their remotes at the TV during this show Grin

lastqueenofscotland · 03/09/2015 20:53

Their kids even. Derp

goawayalready · 03/09/2015 20:54
Grin
BoffinMum · 03/09/2015 20:54

I learned to make chips when I was 10. In fact my dad taught me. We never had oven chips at home.

BoffinMum · 03/09/2015 20:55

I think the kids eat too much processed food TBH. Fish fingers, chips and beans 3x a week?! You could make a nice omelette and crudités.

goawayalready · 03/09/2015 20:56

basic pizza base flour eggs and milk you dont even need yeast

BoffinMum · 03/09/2015 20:57

pizza dough in bread machine works really well.

AesopsMables · 03/09/2015 20:57

I have just spotted a flaw in this programme

They are showing different supermarket brands Asda/Sainsbury's/Tesco

That means they will need to go to different stores for the savings, what about the petrol and time used?

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LovelyFriend · 03/09/2015 20:58

Greg you're a genius!

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goawayalready · 03/09/2015 21:00

Aesops that is just one of the many flaws

firefly78 · 03/09/2015 21:03

jamie on 4 now!!

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LovelyFriend · 03/09/2015 21:10

I just gave Jamie a quick look, but I've had enough of partronising food telly aimed at the terminally thick for the week

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NoonAim · 03/09/2015 21:11

Cynical me thinks this is made up.
The dad especially looks as though he's acting.

firefly78 · 03/09/2015 21:19

lovelyfriend im with you. going to turn it off

NoMoreRenting · 03/09/2015 21:20

I had to laugh at the left over chicken. There was only half a breast used!!! Who ate the first meal to leave 9/10 of the chicken for leftovers? A Lilliputian family? We never have any left over chicken after a roast. If we do, it's barely enough for the baby's lunch the following day.

TheSpottedZebra · 03/09/2015 21:27

Aesops - that different supermarket thing is probably so the bbc doesn't show bias to one chain or another - so they make it seem like they need to visit All The Shops to buy fishfingers and cheese.

I'm watching Jamie now. Do you think the producers made him slim a bit before he did his sugar show?

TheSpottedZebra · 03/09/2015 21:29

Did you see the same dietician popped up in the jamie show as the Greg show?

I do actually like Jamie, despite his thatcherite views and ability to state the obvious. But I like his current kitchen set the most.

Blondeshavemorefun · 04/09/2015 10:43

This programme always makes me laugh

Tbh it's sad how many people can't cook basic stuff and waste so much money

Think the show can't show a fav supermarket so has to show a balance

Grates cheese isn't that much more - and can be cheaper when bogof and tbh easier to have as can just scatter on jacket /put in sandwich

Disclaimer - I'm a lazy cook if been working nights Grin

Blondeshavemorefun · 04/09/2015 17:42

ok, have now watched it

agree marg doesnt taste as nice as butter

was Shock that mum didnt know what a lime was, and that she struggles to cut cheese/carrots/potatoes didnt we have another mum in s1 who couldnt cut carrots

love bagels, hate raisin bread so was gagging with the boy

not sure about making home made spread

and beans means heinz in blondesland

so much wasted food thrown away, course you can heat it

all the meals cooked look yummy :)

Fluffycloudland77 · 04/09/2015 20:31

Dh was devoted to Heinz until we got the aldi one's and now he wont eat Heinz.

The look his mother shot me when he said Heinz beans weren't as nice was lethal.

I grate big blocks of aldi smartprice mature cheddar in the food processor. It stops me eating it in big chunks.

It must have been bad before when a 9 year old is asking for veg and stuffing raw spinach into his mouth. I was fed really well by mum and longed for fishfingers.

I didn't have a chicken nugget until I was nearly 30.

I wouldn't swap butter for a spread either. Do not blame her at all on that one.