Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

rosemary54

helyg wrote: »

Come and live with me...

We have 2 "proper" butchers in town, one of them also has his own farm and slaughterhouse so you really know what you are getting. Town is about 5 miles away, but there is also a butcher in the next village to us (about 2 miles away) who supplies our village shop with basic stuff like mince, chicken, sausages, ham, homemade pies etc. If you want anything else you can order it in. There is also a proper fishmonger in town, a couple of proper greengrocers and a few proper bakers. One of the bakers also supplies the village shop. That's before you get onto the farmers market, which is quite well priced, and the ordinary market. Ooh and the local organic company who will deliver boxes of meat and veg etc.

We don't have: Tesco or Asda.

Nuff said

ok where do you live and do you have space for my 2 cats?:j

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purpleivy wrote: »

It's all very well having a bedrock recipe, but they don't allow for the unforseen...the kids and their friends demolished a large amount of 'left over local leg lamb ' while I went out to the post office earlier..

My children would never have DARED to that. They even asked if they wanted some bread and jam :eek:

helyg

rosemary54 wrote: »

ok where do you live and do you have space for my 2 cats?:j

:rotfl:Mid Wales, and my daughter would love to adopt your two cats...

LostSocks

Just caught up with this program and one of the things they suggested was eating altogether. I just don't know how they managed this if the hubby always worked late. Did he stop working late to be able to come home and help with the cooking? Did he lose out on more money doing this? Granted he's the boss of his own company and maybe he can chop and choose his hours. Unfortunatly we aren't in that position and my hubby doesn't get in till after 7 and my daughter goes to bed at 7. I end up making a meal that can be re-warmed up for hubby and I always eat with my daughter. Still don't think these programs work in real life.

Gigervamp

I think it's important to eat together at the dinner table whenever possible. Does your hubby come home late 7 days a week?

It's good though that you eat with your daughter. Watching how adults behave at the dinner table is how children learn table manners.

LostSocks

Gigervamp wrote: »

I think it's important to eat together at the dinner table whenever possible. Does your hubby come home late 7 days a week?

It's good though that you eat with your daughter. Watching how adults behave at the dinner table is how children learn table manners.

Fortunately he doesn't work at weekends (just the odd time), so we always eat together at weekends.

I also think it's important to eat together at the table and our rule is that our tea is ate at the table with no tv. Dinner I'm a bit more relaxed about and we sometimes have a picnic in front of the tv.

helyg

My sister in law's partner works late (or at least it is late by the time he has commuted home) so she just eats with the children at the table then he eats when they have gone to bed. It still sends the same message to the children: whoever is in the house at that time eats together at the table. We eat breakfast after my husband has gone to work (he leaves at 7am) but the rest of us still eat breakfast together at the table, and at lunchtime it is only my daughter and I at home as the boys are at school, but we still eat lunch together at the table.

atrebor

my DH often gets home after 8 and never before 7. We do have breakfasts lunch and supper together at weekends if he is not working but during the week he is out by 6.30. My only exception is sometimes I don't want to eat with the kids as I think its just as important to sit down with DH and eat with him so I will wait to eat with him, but i make a point of sitting with the kids with a cup of tea while they eat and talking to them about there day. Its perhaps not ideal but everyone has to do what feels right for their family - right??

LostSocks

atrebor wrote: »

my DH often gets home after 8 and never before 7. We do have breakfasts lunch and supper together at weekends if he is not working but during the week he is out by 6.30. My only exception is sometimes I don't want to eat with the kids as I think its just as important to sit down with DH and eat with him so I will wait to eat with him, but i make a point of sitting with the kids with a cup of tea while they eat and talking to them about there day. Its perhaps not ideal but everyone has to do what feels right for their family - right??

I think you are right, what's best for you. But then you do sit down with your children whilst they eat, which is a good thing. I just know that I would end up having two meals as I would nibble before hubby got home :rolleyes:.

I guess the problem is that the family was cooking two meals, one for kids and one for parents and this was costing them more money than it needed to. I just thought that they suggested the family ate together in the program, so that they were cooking the meal together and only cooking once, was an ideal for most people. We don't always have the means to be able to do this and I couldn't understand how the family suddenly were able to do this??? Sorry, I realised I hadn't explained this in the first post.

MrsE_2

That virgin cooks has some recipes

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m9jmk#related-links