Eat well for less - wed 8pm bbc1

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Let's hope this series will be better then last one

Obviously you will save money if not buying the most exspensive items every week /spending £200/300

How about helping a family who spend £50/60 and need to cut it down even more

Tho do love the taste challenge esp when they say something is disgusting - and it's their usual posh brand 😂😂😂

I think calling them thick was quite mild really!
Honestly- she was spending £12 on 4 different ready meals of pasta. For that amount you could buy 2 whole chickens - fresh.
It's not as if he was diagnosed 6 weeks ago- it was 6 years! They obviously have the internet or how could they have put themselves forward for the programme. And why didn't his GP suggest sources of information like coeliac support groups (online) when he was diagnosed?

She was thick and so was he- gluten free rice? WTF?
Frozen jacket spuds?
She couldn't work out that fresh meat, fish, veg and fruit have no gluten in them, and that a substitute for flour is cornflour- or a branded gluten-free flour?

There really was no excuse.

Yes that's a point washerwoman surely the GP would have directed them to support and in pretty sure you can get some gluten free food on a prescription or similar so that it's cheaper, or just friends coming round asking why he's only eating a raw onion. I actually hope they were just playing it up for the cameras

I am a bit puzzled at how they have coped. Even a cursory Google brings up a fish and chip shop that serves gluten free fish and chips in Edinburgh that the dad could have been frequently over the last 6 years!

www.chipinnedinburgh.co.uk/menu_coeliac.php
glutenfreecuppatea.co.uk/2015/04/11/11-of-the-best-gluten-free-destinations-in-edinburgh/

(Adding links in case anyone else needs to know!)

DD is coeliac. I can't believe he wasn't given any literature when he was diagnosed.
I can't believe he was complaining he hadn't had sausages, GF sausages everywhere now.

Does seem weird that he either didn't eat food that was gf - ie chicken and potatoes

Or use alturnituves - gf pasta bread is easily brought

Just catching up now. It is beyond odd. Particularly as she can cook.

It was quite shocking how little nutritional understanding they had (including over her 'diet') and how little they cared.

I have no experience of coeliac but I did think surely they don't give you a diagnosis and send you on your way with just a list of foods you can't eat?! And as usual it was all the mum's fault despite the fact that she also worked

I was at the gluten free rice. Also stunned that nobody could google GF foods and simply adapt a few recipes to feed everyone, or find any support. I'm surprised he wasn't ill with such a lousy diet and wondered what he ate for lunch etc. It seemed they were more interested in disinfecting the kitchen than cooking GF food at the beginning.

I do enjoy the programme but can't help wondering where they find some of these people.

I have to agree with posters that the husband in the episode before this one (before the Olympics) was a twat, he was selfish and rude and funnily enough the bulk of the money they saved was from him not shopping every day, buying food only for him and buying stuff that was 3 for 2 and then ending up throwing it away. It is not a bargain to buy buy three of something if you only want/can eat one and then throw the others. The amount of food he bought on each shopping trip was more than enough for at least three days.

In the latest episode I am really struggling to believe that the husband had only eaten salads for the last six years it seemed to me he was being deliberately difficult. FGS surely anyone with a grain of common sense can work out that a meal of steak, jacket potato and vegetables is gluten free? As for can't have fish and chips, words fail me - batter can easily be made with gluten free ingredients and what's wrong with fish without batter? He limited his diet on purpose and made her feel so worried about making him ill that she couldn't do right for doing wrong I bet. His illness is serious and requires some adapting but not to the extent he did it, that was just ridiculous and smacked of martyrdom to me.

I thought he looked seriously unhealthy 1more and I think that was down to his largely self inflicted diet restrictions.

I bet she tried when he was first diagnosed and he complained it didn't taste as good and she had some slip ups and they rowed and she told him to fucking deal with his food himself.

I've just caught up with this last episode! I think it's a bit unfair the free from brands sell stuff that didn't have gluten in in the first place...maybe I'm missing something. And I agree with everyone else this made no sense that he limits himself to salad and onions!

So end of last episode it showed part of another episode but there are no more episodes scedualed. Anybody else confused?

Yep I thought that too!

Also confused disneymum, they definitely showed part of another episode, odd.

It's back on Friday 16th September at 9pm for the final show in this series

Thanks OorWullie1936.

Yah. Glad back on in a week

Missed this even tho it's easy each week for the couple to save money as usually buy stupid stuff

Keep saying it need a normal /struggling family
Spending £60 to save money

Anyone watching tonight?

Yes me. I couldn't find this thread so started another 😂

Yep just started watching it, was the gluten free episode the last one, that was a good one I thought, they really needed help and benefited from the show hugely I thought.

So this week will be interesting I think, £113 a week for one adult and one child is ridiculous.

Her attitude at the supermarket was, well my Mum will make up the short fall - what a spoilt brat!

That's what I thought Crumblevision, very spoilt, and for some reason I've a feeling she's not going to really change anyway, mind you in fairness there is no way I'd be buying a pasta maker, I'd just buy cheaper pasta.

Why were they eating gluten free bread (much more expensive and not that tasty) but then eating normal pasta, weetabix and pitta bread?

I really didn't see the point of making the pasta

I get that they wanted to get the girl and her mum cooking together but pasta-making for someone wanting to save time and money? Geddoutofit!