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Gigervamp wrote: »

Did anyone see this tonight?

It was an almost carbon copy of BBC's Eat Well For Less. Get a family who have no idea what they're spending on the weekly shop and show them how to be smarter with their buying choices, stop throwing away food, and how to cook meals for under a fiver.

They did an Indian "feast", dhal, chapattis, pork curry, spiced roasted cauliflower and rice, which they reckoned cost £5.

I'd like to see the costings, because I don't believe that came in at £5.

Certainly not with that slab of pork used and the cauliflower. When that was filmed cauliflowers alone were over £1 each

Pork was shown as £3.06 a kg, they had at least that Cauli was fresh out of the supermarket,mans it's only now they have dropped in price since Christmas so we can say 99p.


What they showed was what they spent at the supermarket for that meal, pork, Cauli, bulb of garlic, large bar of chocolate , bag of flour, an onion

What they didn't count in were the herbs and spices , tinned tomatoes, the bananas , the pomegranate

It was pretty misleading tbh. Sure when you have store cupboard ingredients things do start to cost pennies per a meal , the the initial outlay can be very expensive. One meal they made to be very cheap had saffron and arborio rice

Now us oldstylers who cook from scratch more then likely have these ingredient so can knock up a meal for pennies. Yet this family supposedly spent nearly £200 a week on convenience foods before they were shown the error of their ways

I didn't know it was on until I'd missed it.

When I look around supermarkets these days I've realised it's almost impossible to buy "food". They don't sell "food" any more - they sell brightly packaged products.

Years ago you'd go into a supermarket and there'd be, say, an aisle that had ready made food .... a treat, the unusual. Now it's a struggle to track down ingredients/food ... indeed, a lot of "common ingredients" are simply no longer stocked as they pump out more "products" at people.

This means that the generations coming through will have less idea of the difference between food and products.

Food: a spud with dirt on it ...maybe spuds in a plastic bag.
Products: cellophane wrapped half baked jacket potato with cheese.

Then the gentrification of the product. It's no longer a jacket potato with cheese that's the product on offer - now they're offering organic hand raised award winning potato topped with organic hand strained cheeses blended with an award winning cream....

Spud's gone from 30p for a spud and a lump of cheese to £4.50 for two halves of a spud with cheese and the printed words "organic" all over a box.