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conniedescending · 12/08/2009 21:01

Anyone just watched that utter wankage?

Their budget came down to £210 a fricken week AFTER the economy drive

thought this would be useful to me but seems I'm doing ok on my £200 a month

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GrendelsMum · 03/09/2009 09:29

I don't know how much they were trying to save, but apparently they were spending £250 a week between them all before.

Flamesparrow · 03/09/2009 09:39

They were using fresh tomatoes as one of the students was being picky and saying he doesn't like the taste of tinned.

I have a craving for mussels now.

kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 09:45

Was it just me being filthy-minded or when she said 'You're students so you must be kebab munchers' was she well aware of the double-entendre?

I've never seen this before, love Allegra.

Flamesparrow · 03/09/2009 09:50

I raised eyebrows at a few of her comments and the bloke being thrust a finger to lick!

I'd never seen it before either

It did seem a bit of a waste to do it right at the end of their course though!!!

kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 09:54

Oh well they will still need to be able to cook when they're working in the City or whatever it is they go off and do, even if money is less of an issue.

BTW Flame are you still being sick these days? Or having a nice pregnancy now?

Flamesparrow · 03/09/2009 09:56

Still being sick on and off - I had about 6 weeks break. Now it is more heartburn caused though. I seem to have hit "heavily pregnant" - the bump that was just a bit in the way when I bent over now weighs a ton and makes me waddle!

kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 10:01

Oh dear!
I have started to get the heartburn-caused sickness too, but a consultant I saw last week gave me some extra drugs for it.
How long have you got left?

Flamesparrow · 03/09/2009 13:25

6 weeks

kathyis6incheshigh · 03/09/2009 14:13

Same as me then.

passionfruity · 03/09/2009 15:16

Didn't really understand the point of teaching them to cook when they were graduating and moving out of the house the week after! Would have been interesting to see if they could keep it up for a few months.

GrendelsMum · 03/09/2009 17:37

Well, one of them at least is going to do a PhD and be poverty stricken for the next 3 years, before becoming a research scientist and being poverty stricken for the rest of his life. So well worth teaching them to cook and budget!

I think the reason for the odd timing might have been that the college wouldn't allow them to take part in a reality tv show until they finished revision and final exams?

There's more info about them here:
www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009090101

arolf · 03/09/2009 17:55

I was chatting to one of the guys this morning (turns out he works in the lab my boss runs ), and he said they signed up for a laugh, then rapidly discovered it was more serious than they thought it would be

the tomatoes thing was because they were told to use fresh, not tinned. oh, and they got some good cookery equipment out of the programme, but not a set of scales!

heard some good stories about the chefs too!

HarrietTheSpy · 03/09/2009 23:00

It depressed me. I can't abide this bedrock receipe concept. Acres of that tomato mixture. Boak after the first night. I did love the 'pasta on a bed of meat' recipe the boys invented. It sounded exactly like the Czech restaurants I went to when I was living there in the early 90s.

prettybird · 04/09/2009 08:05

It amde me remember that I was unusal at Uni (where I lived in catered residence and only had to fend for myself on Friday and Saturday nights) because I owned my own set of scales!

GrendelsMum · 04/09/2009 11:57

Pasta on a bed of meat was hilarious!

Almost as good as when the rugby-player tried to make shortbread in that flimsy bowl and stirred so hard the bowl broke .

And when they divised their own scales from a chopping board and kitchen roll.

I think it should have been students every week - partly because they were the first people who cooked without moaning, were happy to try something new, and were nice about everyone else's food.

And they were actually economical by the end - they got it down to £30 a week each.

The only odd thing was where they did the shopping - there was a bit where they appeared to go to Loch Fyne and Marks & Spencers for their food, rather than buying the same thing off the market.

extremelychocolateymilkroll · 04/09/2009 18:50

I also thought it was the best programme so far - reminded me of being a student and sharing the cooking. The great advantage they had over the mothers who usually had to do the cooking is that each student only had to serve up once a week - no wonder they didn't moan. They did seem really nice though. Looking forward to some more veggie recipes. arolf - any stories about the chefs you would like to share?

Ticketybootoo · 01/12/2011 23:22

Used to spend a 1K a month on food and groceries for 3 of us and now trying to do £400 a month for 4 inc packed lunch and eat healthily - AAGH . Due to being very skint. 210 a week - I would get the best stuff for that...

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