The reviews won’t be complete until they realise what the hell is going on.
Im actually furious.
Thanks to the posters on here who posted about the As ever products and having seen all 8 episodes, I now know that every single recipe she shares. EVERY SINGLE ONE. Has been designed around an As ever product.
Now at first I thought it was strange why everything was so basic and very repetitive. We knew she wasn’t a great chef. But still. Basic bitch doesn’t even cover it. We also knew that she would include jam somewhere but I never realised what a complete grift the whole show is
Now it did jump out at me that the recipe mixes for the cake, doughnuts, biscuits, crepes was given VERY little time or was even a cut away scene. It would be 30 secs max. She then spent the rest of the 5 mins telling you how to decorate etc.
Obviously, because shes trying to tell the consumer …..don’t worry about the baking part. That she’s not a fan of baking and she’s also at pains that she doesn’t like measuring etc. Because the main part is the decorating guys! Plus she has these wonderful mixes you can use so you can spend all your time decorating. You don’t even have to measure! It’s all done for you!
So for example. The shortbread. Super quick run through of the recipe. She spends the whole time telling you how to add the edible flowers on and then how to wrap them. So that’s at least two products there- the As ever biscuit mix and edible flowers.
The french crepes, super quick run through again. The whole time is the technique and how you decorate the plate (with jam of course) so that’s another two products
The cake. Same story. That has at least two As ever products
The doughnuts, that she tells us she making for the Korean chef because he loves doughnuts, and remember Meg is always thinking about other people needs….we are repeatedly told that throughout the episodes ….is really just to sell the mix and yet again the As ever edible flowers. I’m guessing icing sugar too. So there’s 3 products.
But what is most infuriating, is how she used the other chefs. Not one recipe that Meg shared is authentic, every one is a grift. So she relies on the Korean chef, Mexican chef, her friend Vicky and Alice waters to share real, tasty receipts. But these people also explain how these dishes are important to their family/culture etc and Meg just uses them to break up the infomercial and try and give the show some credibility….and grift. Meghan never shared a real recipe. Like her mother’s gumbo or her famous roast chicken. If it doesn’t have ingredients she can sell, she ain’t sharing it.
I genuinely feel sorry for her friend Vicky. She shared her mother’s potsticker recipe. That her mum taught her. She even brings her mums recipe book. Meg uses Vicky’s family recipe to sell her chilli oil. She shows the recipe she makes for the dipping sause. As ever chilli oil coming to a store near you. Imagine using your friend like that!
Even the conversations are fake. Kelly and Abby talk about Megs love of hot sause when serving with the fish. As ever hot sauce is clearly going to be sold. The salad she serves has flowers and the flax hearts. So again at least three products.
There two very basic pasta dishes, again I’m sure she will have As ever pasta.
Even the kids gift bags contents …absolutely will all be for sale.
You can also see the grift for wrapping, candles , calligraphy pens.
The whole thing is a hustle. But she sells it as she’s soooo thoughtful and thinks about everyone and it’s all the little personal touches she’s made. It’s not, it’s a hard hustle. It’s QVC in the sunshine.
I don’t know why I’m so shocked. I knew there would be the jams etc. But the whole thing is just the recipes you would get at the back of the packet of the crap she’s selling.
It’s so fake. I’m bloody annoyed I wasted hours watching it.