EAT WELL FOR LESS - thur bbc1 8pm

[Blondeshavemorefun]

Hope this is a new series

Let’s see if each family does the usual of no no no that’s horrible and their usual brand 😂😂😂

Sure it’s on demand /I played

It’s the usual thing. Family buys the most expensive brands

They swap for economy

Some nice. Some not

Usually they pretend to swap something and the family say yuk this is horrible and not my brand - yet it is 😂

Like the Yorkshire tea couple.

Re the son not cooking at home - that didn't surprise me as its a case of the cobblers child having no shoes - nobody really wants to come home and carry on working.

It's interesting the response on mn though where mners are apparently either junk food addicts or quinoa knitters who bake daily! Truth is most of us are somewhere in between and have bad habits as well as good.

Ah now I love junk but that trolley is actually ridiculous, can't get over the amount of crisps and I bloody love crisps.

But to be fair to them she works very odd hours and he's on his own so I can see how snacks and ready meals become part of your life, its an easy trap to fall into to I'd say.

I love this couple already. Cake instead of a meal sounds great to me.

Is that £44 on the junk or minus the junk

She's irritating.

Is this couple for real?

Yea I can see how they've got here.

Feeling quite emotional, as the health aspect is even more worrying than the caffeine addict last week.

But - and I don't think this will come up on the programme, no children and they look to be late 30's? Now if that's their choice grand, but if they've had fertility issues I wonder what part diet may have played in that?

First one where spending will increase they think, interesting to me as I spend about the same, but on healthier food.

Wait what?! Rectangular knives??

How does anyone get to their 30s without having heard food sizzling in a pan?! Can’t get my head round anyone finding their kitchen so alien.

Me either.

I can't believe they are a real couple

This is the reason we stress about weaning our kids and making sure they eat their veg 🙈

I'd scoff that omelette

She is so annoying!

I'm sorry is there anyone in the whole world who sees chopping fruit and veg as a joy ffs. I hate the way these cooking shows assume you have or want to spend time arsing around with ingredients when you can buy it already done

I know people like this. Rarely couples though. Singletons definitely.

Baked eggs are much nicer than a regular omelette - the thing I like is I've learned it'll keep in fridge for 3 days! Dd not an egg fan so I don't often have them, but I may well try that recipe (are the recipes online?)

Would you eat it cold the next day Graphista or heat it up, I've never done it in the oven before.

Not sure if the recipes are on line but I know you can buy the book

Wouldn't bother me eating it cold, if I've done baked eggs in the past I've eaten them hot and they are very tasty.

@graphista that’s quite a sweeping statement to make!! Having gone through many rounds of IVF, 3 rounds watching every little morsal that went into my mouth only to have shit results, to our 4th round thinking fuck it I’ll just eat whatever I like and getting our best results yet, there isn’t always a correlation between bad diet & infertility.

A few of the recipes are online. The baked eggs one is the only one from tonight on the site.

Lots of eggs this week.

I am finding her very annoying. That silly giggle and acting like it's so funny that they only eat crap.

The slow cooker made me laugh. Her "9 hours, that can't be right surely it should be 9 minutes"!

Why don't any of these couples ask their family for advice or look online or go to the library and get some books? No they go on tv for their 5 minutes of fame and look like idiots in the process

Agree with pp, these two seem to be especially proud of their ignorance. Cooking tips and nutritional advice is readily available...supermarket cookery cards...health centre leaflets...online.....magazines...tv shows.....even previous series of eat well for less!

Well at least they're learning so that's good, they'll probably do loads more now and enjoy it.

Not a sweeping statement a wondering, that's literally what I said I WONDER what impact that MAY have had. And I'm not saying there's always a correlation, but the guy was only having enough calories for a toddler! The sheer lack of food we know has an effect on health.

It's a complex issue I know and many factors can affect it (not least pollution which as individuals there's little we can do anything about).

I didn't have the easiest route to motherhood myself. Following 2 mc I did a lot of research (early internet days but we didn't have a computer at home) and after doing the research, checking with dr I decided before ttc again to cut out alcohol, caffeine, certain artificial additives, the foods we're advised not to eat while pregnant (because women don't know if they're pregnant straight away) soft cooked eggs, Mayo, soft cheeses, beansprouts and started taking folic acid & vitamin d. Despite being veggie blood tests showed I was fine on iron, b vitamins so decided against an all in one ttc vitamin supplement.

All that said I am sorry if my comment upset anyone, certainly wasn't my intention. I hope that 4th round - best results yet mean you now have your hard fought for family and I'm sorry you had to go through all that.