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 😂😂😂

Was that cucumber sticks in the jelly??

He also never bought food for the two of them. It was all for him, and she had to eat the food she'd made for the kids. Going round the shops every night must have added about 30 minutes to his journey home, then putting that Sainsburys tapas in the oven another 20 minutes. He could have helped her out, but apparently the whole problem was her not cooking anything he wanted to eat! Maybe the food was a bit boring, but it's disheartening when you take ages cooking something and people turn their noses up. He was a twat spending half her salary on food for himself!

The woman in last night's episode seemed lovely but that DH was an absolute twat. He seemed to consider himself some kind of foodie yet lived off crappy ready meals and pointed out frozen paella as looking 'nice' FFS. And apparently was absolved from having to cook, even though he was the bloody problem in the first place?

Bit of a pointless episode really. The problem wasn't that they were buying wildly expensive brands, so why did all their food need swapping? The DH just needed to stop being a special snowflake and spending £90 a week on his shitty supermarket snacks.

I enjoy this show but that man are me really cross. I do more of the cooking in our house as I generally enjoy cooking. At the moment I make things a lot less spicy than I used to due to catering for a toddler plus horrible pregnancy heart burn. He just adds spicy sauce or some extra chilli. I think you eat what you're given or you do the cooking. I am guessing he refused to cook as the show usually gets both parents cooking one of the dishes. It did feel very sexist and she said at the end she had felt quite anxious about the pressure being on her to change.

I think she has enough on her plate abd he made such a fuss over her cooking. Really unaffectionate man I felt. Ughh

I'm overthinking this - but I think it is ridiculous it was all on her to come up with the goods. He was just selfish.

She is also childminding. They let him off lightly.

Just watching now - looked like cheesey pasta bake going in the bin. Why didn't she freeze it? Or any other stuff she chucks

Or as others said add a bit of chilli sauce etc

They let him off incredibly lightly! He was made to make some chickpea burgers [boak] but the result of having two blokey blokes telling a family how to save money is the woman in the family feeling even more put upon, and sticking up completely for her twat of a husband. Why did they, instead of telling her she should whip him up a Thai green curry say " On your million shopping trips a week, get some green curry paste, some coconut milk and some chicken and whip up a meal for your wife, who has been working and cooking for kids all day??"

My other half doesn't eat with me and our boys often but to be fair he make his meals from scratch and offers to cook for me now and again it's just he likes to eat after the gym so too late for the boys, I tend to eat with them some nights and with him others and often he will have a bit of our meal, say I'm so doing a chicken pasta with salad he might have some salad so he can still sit with us at meal times without filling up before the gym. He does do separate shops but never ready meals and more because we are disorganised than anything else.

Where did this programme go? Is the series finished already or is it on a break for the bloody olympics?

My sky box says it's scheduled for next episode, but it doesn't have a date yet, so the series hasn't finished but yes it must be due to the olympics

Bloody olympics 😡😡

Sport always takes over.

How is it that none of these families seem to have a food waste bin and chuck it all in the black bags? Not a good example in a. chucking it away and b. Not recycling food waste.

Not everywhere has food waste?

Possibly. Our bin collectors are always leaving reminders about food waste.

Back again tonight :)

Gluten free meals tonight

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The Hoyland Family
Eat Well for Less?, Series 3 Episode 5 of 5

This week, Chris and Gregg journey to Edinburgh to meet the Hoyland family. Dad Derek, who has coeliac disease, has not eaten the same meal as his family for nearly six years, living off salads to avoid any gluten in his diet. Mum Clair is brand obsessed, filling the trolley with frozen convenience food, diet-ready meals and litres of bottled water every week, spending over double the national average for a family of four. Their two children, Connor and Amy, long to sit down as a family and all eat the same meal, but Clair's fear of gluten-free cooking means she cooks three separate meals every day.

Can Chris and Gregg conquer Clair's gluten-free cooking phobia and finally get this family to sit down together and eat the same meal, as well as save them money?

I tried gf bread once

Didn't taste of much. Must be hard to find nice foods :(

Talks to her self 😂

Thought this Episode was lovely that the family ate the same meal together

I really enjoyed this one but was a bit bemused. 6 years since being diagnosed and nobody seemed any the wider about what foods were gluten free. Loved that the kids biggest wish was to all sit down to a roast dinner.

6 years of salad??! how ignorant stupid can one family be?!

I enjoyed this one. Cr hey just seemed a lovely family just struggling with how to manage the. GF thing and normal family life.

I am beginning to think - well, have thought for ages- that the producers find the thickest families they can.

I mean honestly- gluten free flour and so on have been available for years. I've been gluten free for 20 years , DD more recently, and we eat 'normally', using cornflour for gravy, gluten free pasta and so on.

Had this family been living under a rock? Why didn't he make use of the online support groups for coeliacs and find recipes?

I just can't believe that in 6 years- yes 6 years- they didn't even try to work out what to eat and his wife had never made a roast dinner without buying everything pre-packaged.

I just don't understand how they have got to this point? Even if you don't know how to google 'gluten free recipes' surely you could work out that chicken and potatoes and veg doesn't have gluten in it? Why was he eating so many onions? So many questions. They seemed like a lovely family, I guess things just got a bit out of hand

Also 😱 when they discovered the gluten free rice

Personally, I think she's just got so worried about making him ill she's got scared of cooking anything and then they've just dropped into the convenience habit. I think calling them thick is rather harsh.