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.

How many crisps?!?

And making risotto in a microwave NO

I wanted to cry when she put the stock cube in.
DH got very excited when he saw the risotto only taking 25 minutes as last time he made one he took every instruction completely literally (science graduate) and it took over two hours

BUT

It tasted mind-blowing. Best risotto I have ever tasted in my life.

They snack so much because the portion sizes are so small! Put some food on the plate woman!

Tbf if I was eating cake all the time I'd not be hungry for dinner!

They don't eat salad with their meals ... perhaps this is normal, I don't know (I am half German and we eat loads of salad, insane amounts).

Boffin if I have salad it will be a big salad for a meal. I don't have it as a side, but I rarely snack. Literally ince/twice a week!

But he eats the cake after dinner, and dinner is one burger on a bun! Put some chips and salad with it and there'd be less room for cake surely?!
And the pathetic bowl of curry and that was it? Get some rice with it, whack up the portion size of the curry and they wouldn't want Wotsits
Breakfast was a bowl of cereal - just a bowl of cereal! Have yoghurt/fruit/toast too and no-one would need biscuits half an hour later

Blurrghhhh this is putting me off quorn. And I'm a veggie

Greg loved seeing it slop about though, didn't he.
That smile

The butter thing riled me too, and the microwave risotto- there are loads of healthy, cheap recipes that take half an hour or less and don't involve stock cubes. I agree that these families seem very easy to help- eat less frozen shit, eat less crisps. Job done. And the kids magically loving everything that's put in front of them?

Yes newborns - all squishy :) hence haven't seen yet as working

Will watch later today

I love this programme. So much to judge.

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

Me too. Their 'Margarine is great. Honest!' section felt like one of those awful info-mercials.

Dunno why, but this programme winds me up - It's so patronising. And soya is not great really. As for the butter thing...arghhhhh.

Margarine is really quite evil.

The risotto looked good. May try that this week

Also not sure that children should be brought up as vegeratians - they should be able to chose to eat meat if they want

Agree portions small and more likely to eat less snacks If ate a better meal

They were probably a Hindu family, hence the children being vegetarian.

The soya mince part was a little confusing. Yes, it's lower in fat than standard mince but lasgane itself isn't exactly a dieters meal choice. Why not show how to make the sauces from scratch and use stronger cheese so you use less of it (therefore saving money and cals) instead? Beef mince will be more expensive than quorn because its meat, one of the few things worth spending money on for quality/farming standards.

Just watching last nights.
Quorn makes me ill, so would never eat that.
The snacking was amazing. And I speak as a dreadful snacker. I'd be embarrassed to buy that many crisps at once.

The kids were very enthusiastic. Mine are grumpy teens would grunt.

I was laughing at the trailer for next week commenting that the family already had seven types of cheese in the fridge, that's a poor stock in my house

Agree with all that's been said. Love the programme but find it infuriating...

Unilever dietician trying to get us to eat spread instead of butter...biased or what!

The little girl in the last family eats like a pig! Why don't her parents tell her to eat with her mouth shut FFS?!

The Dad stuffing his face with loads of cake and biscuits...gluttony is not big or clever mate, and carry on like that and you'll be heading for type 2 diabetes. Idiot.

Why are they only showing families who aren't struggling financially?! Of course if you don't buy branded or £100 worth of cake and crisps a month you'll save money. It's not rocket science is it

"Butter in butter dish. It doesn't go in the fridge"
Doesn't it go off though?

No. You don't put the whole block out. You cut a piece roughly what you use in a few days and replace

Butter in a butter dish is definitely the way to go. I'm pretty sure supermarket own brand butter is cheaper than most margarine too.

But the family in the last program - how on earth are they so thin??? I would think that all those crisps, cake, and biscuits would be terribly fattening, and they all look like they're a fairly healthy weight.

"No. You don't put the whole block out. You cut a piece roughly what you use in a few days and replace"

Thanks Artandco, it's so obvious now you've said it I think what threw me was when I've seen butter dishes in photos, if they had butter in them at all it's always been whole packs