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 😂😂😂

Neither can mine brillo. At one time they even went off whiskas. 8 out of 10 cats prefer it, well mine were the other two. They seem to like again now and like some food from Aldi but didn't like that from lidl.

Yes but unless you have free delivery for the supermarkets they cost of the delivery must outway the savings?? Plus time spent doing it!

My delivery pass is £6.99 a month that's still £1.75 a week. Plus the delivery charge from the other two?

Sainsburys refund if you haven't daved money using the pass you buy,; my Asda one was actually free,:I choose a cheap £1 slot with Tesco.
It takes time, particularly at first getting to know the site layout and what's best from each store,:but then you get it set up with regulars, lists of what you like best from where etc.
I bet I can do a shop from all three places cheaper and quicker than going to one.
I'll also have it brought into my house and unpacked.

jennifer do you live locally to the family? Dd is starting high school in September and the mum will be her head of year . We watched with dd and she thought it was hilarious. Plus it was very nice to see our little town on the telly!

I thought it very odd that she does all the cooking. Pretty sure it said they're both full time. And the girls are definitely capable of helping out.

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin head to Chelmsford, Essex, where newlyweds Mandy and Adie's different shopping styles are causing arguments in the supermarket aisles. Mandy loves brands and relies on convenience microwave meals, never saying no to their four children's food requests, whereas Adie likes budget versions of products and prefers cooking from scratch

does that mean she cooks 4+ different meals daily?

micromeals means shopping bill will prob be £250 a week so course can be cut down and huge savings made

This is ridiculous. I bet in real life they don't shop together. She's like me husband and that's why I leave him at home.

How many crisps ? Coke? Just awful.

Spend all that money but never been on holiday

All the snacks are a bit crazy, and tea and biscuits for breakfast, not even tea and toast

How many crisps 😱😱😱

Agree cheap coke if kids drinking a bottle a day

I love Pepsi max abd a tad of a snob of it 😉😉 but I tried lidl version and bloody lovely and think 49p a bottle instead of £2 for the brand

This is quite painful. So much crap.

Another lesson in the bleedin' obvious....

It has never dawned on me to do bacon in the microwave, I'm going to try it and see what it's like.

I always take the string off the chicken, are you not supposed to?

The fish and sweet potato in the microwave looked nice

Plus egg muffins

Love the fact when they hate their usual brand 😂😂😂😂

The whole point of the show is to - as the name says - help people spend less. It's not called "eat as cheaply as possible". None of the families featured are in dire financial straits and need to spend as little as possible, they just want to cut down as their spending has got out of hand. A budget cooking/shopping show is something completely different.

Anyone with half a brain and a couple of years experience of cooking for a family could present the show though - make a list, stick to the list, plan your meals, freeze leftovers. Realise that branded isn't always better.

Woman tonight was very annoying with her "ping" meals and giving her 16 year old a fiver to go to the chippy every night rather than eat with the family. And she was convinced she could identify her brands when she couldn't. Throwing leftover chicken away because it's too much hassle. Turning her nose up at own brands and wondering why her kids wouldn't eat their meals when she'd spent the day feeding them Pot Noodles and Monster Munch.

So do I Blondes, it's quiet funny

I quite liked the family this week, think they just lost their way a bit, £86 a week is a huge saving.

It surprises me they never advocate a rummage in the reduced to clear section. I am queen of the yellow sticker and have trained the kids to seek them out too ;-) Got a whole chicken (one of the cook in the bag ones) for £1.39 in the Co-Op the other day, whacked it in the freezer and it will do us probably twice, once for roast chicken and another time for maybe pie or with noodles and veg. We had homemade fish goujons tonight made with fish I got 30% off last week. Always buy chicken/turkey/mince packs reduced when I see them - rarely buy full price.

And we're not even on a strict shopping budget - I just like my bargains!

I feel bargain hunting rather than not buying brands would appeal more to a wider audience.

Also brands aren't always more expensive.

I shop by £ per gram etc. Some times it more cost effective to by bigger sometimes not!

True. Can get some amazing savings in the reduces section

Not sure that chicken would feed whole family tho

A large chick feeds me DF and his 28yr ds. Unlikely to have leftover for pasta

The pea humous sounded nice and I don't really like peas

I thought that about the coke. The littlest child must have been about 9.Why are they drinking a 2 litre bottle of coke a day and 70 bags of crisps a week? I missed the beginning. Are they all her kids then? That might explain why he didn't point out that the kids diets are crap when he's a fitness instructor.

Last week I had to switch off as I thought they were playing the naive card too much but this week I could actually see my family a bit- one of us geeing the other along to buy what we want rather than need, different meals for different people.

I'm not feeding my kids crisps and pop all day but sometimes a gradual change in to trying to please everyone occurs over time and then after a while it's easy to look from the outside and think wtf! (Actually school dinners are helping here a bit but without them things might be different)

£85 a week doesn't sound that much if £45 of it is from the 16yo eating at home. Or did they just forget that bit at the end?

I missed the beginning too and not sure what the original spend was.

raised one of the kids was his.