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 😂😂😂

Agree the waste was absolutely obscene but at the same time, don't you think there was (and usually is) a rather misogynistic element to this programme? It's always the woman that gets the blame somehow.

Both the parents were teachers - not sure if both worked full time - but it was the mother who seemed to do the majority of the cooking. (Ok so the dad was shown pouring out cereal in the morning but really ... .) Did anyone ask why she was so keen on labour saving short-cuts? No, the solution is that she gets to spend longer in the kitchen.

I know she said that the curry at the end of the programme didn't take much longer to cook than the jar variety but I know (because I cook from scratch usually - precisely because I do have the time) that endless chopping of veg and grating of ginger etc can become incredibly boring and dispiriting after a while. And the shopping when you are cooking from scatch definitely takes longer. If this weren't the case, there wouldn't be aisles and aisles of pre-prepped food for sale surely?

Holding down a teaching job and supporting a paralympic athlete must take some juggling ... .

Surely a better solution would be for the father to step up and do his share!? [Harrumphing emoticon]

I can't believe how many people don't have basic cooking skills. No wonder everyone's getting cancer and diabetes

I've not seen it yet but will catch up.
They usually come across as so dim, not realising that buying the top brand ready made foods might just be a bit dearer than anything else.

sugar maybe you should contact them on behalf of mn and say do a series that helps all whose budget doesn't allow to buy premium named brands

Not everyone is struggling to make ends meet. I would like to go on the show in fact, my food spend is enough as i buy all brand names (no ready veg) because the few own brand items i have tried i didn't like, but was that just expectations?

I was a little irritated by the fact they swapped them own brands from 3 different supermarkets who has time to go to 3 different shops?*
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I also wondered why the dad or the girls in fact didn't help prepare the meals or take it in turns a bit! I know one of the teenagers cooked with Gregg but apart from that. Isuppose we don't know the division of labour in their house though - for example my dad never ever cooks dinner (he does a fab poached egg on toast but that's about it!) but he does clean up after dinner every night, and a lot of other bits and pieces that my mum doesn't do and they're perfectly happy with that arrangement. I guess you can't tell just from this programme. I did get the impression it was the first time he'd ever been food shopping with his wife though!

I didn't watch it all but don't they miss out meal planning, surely that's a helpful way to save waste ( we meal plan after bought depending on use by dates)

Also online shopping I find saves loads

Why the hell did they buy grated cheese it tastes like crap!!

I know these people. She's playing dumb for the camera.

Or up for the camera I suppose.

Playing dumb? How?

And yes should stick to one supermarket ir where they shop usually and use their budget - mid price - taste the diff and brands foods

This programme is referred to as 'One hour of stating the bleeding obvious' in our house.

Agree with pp, cutting the spend of people who are blowing £300 a week on food isn't exactly a challenge.

I want to know what motivates people to go on these shows. Are they paid for it?

I spend £45-50 at Aldi and £20 elsewhere. Plus milkman. I'd love to see what they would do with our budget and my poor cooking skills but I don't think I'd like being ripped apart.

Oh I missed this. We are a family of four (two toddlers) and dh gets a meal out in subsidised canteen.

That said, including nappies, I can get the whole shop for 70 to 80 euro (50 - 60pound)

Shop in aldi. Buy maybe another ten euro worth of meat in the butchers some weeks but we never get takeaway and eat meat everyday no problem on that budget.

jennifer ask your friend how she got on the show and if paid?

Tho as we always says with tv if the public aren't braying for their blood (for being silly with their money) then doesn't make good tv

I would like a kinda wife swap brought in (loved that show) when swap a huge budget for food with a family with £50/60 and see how both cope

The job I mentioned before I felt bad buying sains taste the diff everything - but that's what the family wanted and would only eat ......

Must admit their sausages were fab - but their ham bacon crisps etc didn't taste that diff from what I buy

They don't get paid to appear. There's a lot to f advertising to try to get people to appear. They're trying to recruit for Shop Well For Less at the moment:

www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtours/takepart/shop_well_for_less

By playing dumb I meant there is no way she believed, for example, that those packs of three crackers were a great idea. She was playing for laughs. They are entirely capable of budgeting for themselves. It got on my nerves that they would pretend otherwise, TBH.

I was a little irritated by the fact they swapped them own brands from 3 different supermarkets who has time to go to 3 different shops

You don't have to go to the same supermarket every week or buy the same things every week or indeed shop weekly.

If the things are non perishable rotate around the supermarkets so go to a different one each time and you just buy a few for the storecupboard. If it's fresh, maybe it could be frozen.

I get all my shopping delivered so it's no bother at all to use different supermarkets, I've had 3 dife rent ones deliver on the same day at times.

They all have minimum deliveries so you would have to be ordering a lot of food? Also paying the delivery charges?

(Won't mention your carbon foot print)

I generally go to one - the one nearest to me when I'm working - this changes

But I wouldn't visit 3 diff ones in a week

I don't worry about carbon footprint.
I have a Sanbos delivery pass, that's £40 minimum order, Asda which is £60 and Tesco is £25
It does save money if you look at what's on offer and can be done from the comfort of your couch.

Just watched this on catch up. I couldn't understand why it was all about the mother. If the husband did some cooking too, they may have not felt the need to use convenience food all the time. Cooking is a lot less arduous if you don't have to do it every day.

And they were way off with their prepared ginger. I buy frozen crushed garlic and ginger in tesco or Asda and it is just over a pound for 3 or 400 g which is probably cheaper than buying it fresh. I have no idea where they were getting it from to cost as much as it did - the naice organic grown by unicorns farm perhaps?

If you rotate round supermarkets for delivery they also sometimes send you discount codes to tempt you back if you haven't shopped with them for a while.

Yep, that too, that's how I got my Asda delivery pass.

Would be interesting to see if the cat would cope with a cheaper brand of food too. My cat prefers Bob Martin's cat food which luckily for me is one of the cheapest. Can only get it in Morrisons though so stock up OAM.

My cats can't decide from one minute to the next what bloody food they like.