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.

I was annoyed that she was flinging all her 'out of date' food into landfill bin - they weren't even putting it into recycling bins.

My mil does the same.

Not everyone has food recycling facilities rooftop. We don't. Landfill is our only option for waste cooked food or meat for example.

We do have a composer for vegetables and fruit waste, but you have to buy them separately, it's not a council thing.

That's true worktolive not everyone has doorstep recycling - but they did! She went out on the rubbish collection run. She was shown the food recycling - going to compost or electricity generation. The presenter/narrator said her food was adding to this - no it wasn't, she was throwing it all in the same bin, packaging an all - so off to landfill.

Were they even a real family. They seemed to be impossibly thick?

think was said in s1 but shame they dont find poorer families who would really benefit from saving £20 a week rather then stupid families who spend £100+ who can afford to spend silly money on food and dont appreciate the savings iyswim

Well exactly Blondes, I spent ages developing healthy food plans for people really up against it for my blog, with the help of other Mnetters who updated the costings. We are talking less than £50 a week to feed a family of four. That programme didn't tell anyone anything they didn't know already, surely? Very dated.

It probably did educate some people, I know people who wouldn't dream of buying own brand or from aldi or cooking from scratch.

Boffin could you link to your blog? I'd like a look!

Me too boffin

Oh my goodness, I watched this open mouthed.
I'm sure lots of it was for the purpose on TV. Surely no one is a thick as that mum was making out to be.
Astounded at the waste if that was true.
Ready cut carrots are horrible. Bought them when I'd hurt my hand. Never again. No one would eat them.
As for cutting up a potato. Ham it up for the TV was what I thought.

Ooh great, a good moan about this programme. I caught the second half of it and was shouting at the TV. It is so patronising.
Spread is no way healthier than butter. I read an article recently about the latest research and olive oil and butter came out as the healthiest fats to use. Anyway I do not want to eat some chemicals. Give me lurpak every time.
Those children are not real. They loved all the new food and suddenly eat veg. Yeah right. Get Greg round to mine and get him to try getting my children to eat veg. Ha!
It was all very loudly and simply enunciated for us poor thickos who can't feed ourselves.
Fuck off.

Crisis diet

There is also Crisis Diet 2 and an organic veg box version,

I made the tuna burgers. They were actually really nice.... but I was also yelling at the TV about the whole butter/marg debate. Butter FTW!!!

The tuna burgers did look nice so I might give them a go.

Definitely sticking with butter as spread is utterly vile.

Stupid question - how do all you butter preferers manage in colder weather to actually spread your butter without wrecking your bread?

With a butter dish

Yep, a £5 butter dish from wilkos does the job here.

Butter in butter dish. It doesn't go in the fridge

I turned this programme off when I spotted that the 'dietician' was from Unilever.

Dreadfully biased broadcasting. Wouldn't be surprised if the programme had been sponsored by Unilever. Poor show by the BBC.

I work full time but money is tight and home cooking is actually cheaper ( we buy from Aldi). Today I have made Plum cake
( using up over ripe plums which would have been chucked out), a chunky bean and tomato soup which is really filling and cheap, and dinner was Florentine pizzas using wraps as a pizza base and topped with ham, spinach and an egg. Ds ate three!
All recipes super easy, filling and cheap ( and the pizza has green stuff on !)

I was disappointed at the first series using families with ridiculous weekly spends, I hoped that they would have listened to feedback since they were making another series but sadly not

It's not hard to save money when they are throwing half of the food away every week! They are still spending more than a normal family that size will be spending, maybe they should do a wife swap sort of thing with families who have different food budgets, the ones who spend a lot would learn a lot more than on this programme

I agree with a lot of the post in that they have chosen an easy family to save money with. They are not looking at the real families that are living on the breadline, that are using food banks, that would be a much much better programme.
Though just to say this sort of family really does exist! I'm from one, most of my meals growing up were from the freezer, my mum did make her roast joint on a Sunday but eventually stopped making the trimmings when she discovered aunt Bessie. My dad (they are no longer together) still buys his whole weekly shop from Iceland including Christmas dinner! (the meat too!!) my mum does work hard so I understand when she gets home this is a lot easier for her.
Sorry for the ramble just wanted to give some perspective that it might not all be an act...though probably exaggerated for the camera.

'Waves to boffy'

Have saved your link and will read tomorrow night while working with my
New borns

Newborns? Sounds lovely.