Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

MrsE_2

freyasmum wrote: »

Oh MrsE, rampant and rabbit in the same post? :rotfl::rotfl:

I'll go away now

My Freudian slip, but you noticed it;)

gunsandbanjos

thriftlady wrote: »

Not when they're in a pie they're not;) Delicious and cheap.

I'm sure they are, actually have never tried it and have no real aversion to it. Just not something i buy I'm sure my LO will be more than happy to eat it despite the fact we actually have a pet one, she has asked if we are going to eat it when it dies!

newlywed

My mum once served us rabbit pie when we were kids. We told her we didn't like it.

Later on she served us up a "meat" pie. When none of us liked it she told us it was rabbit but she wanted to check if we didn't like the taste, or didn't like the thought of it

Gigervamp

I absolutely love clotted cream! I could quite easily eat it on it's own, straight from the tub.

But you can't beat a cream tea. Clotted cream, homemade scones and homemade strawberry jam, with tea to wash it all down. Oh heaven!

Re, sticky hands and breadmaking. You don't need a breadmaker, but if you have a stand mixer like a Kenwood or Kitchen Aid, use that to mix and knead the dough.

Oh, and regarding the fact that the book doesn't have the recipes for the dinner party food, I think that's possibly because they were using stuff that the people already had in their cupboards/freezer.

rosieben

I’m so glad there was no whining bloke clinging to his waste disposal last night! I liked the family and I loved the kids, I’d like to be their adopted granma but then I’ve loved all the kids that we’ve seen

I have mixed feelings about the messages they’re sending out. They’re pushing meal planning and shopping with a list, and the base recipe and tumble-downs which are all great ideas. But (sorry to repeat this ) I’m still in shock at the stupidity of cheffy Paul’s saying to a previous family that they had too much cheese in the fridge and had to use it up. NO Paul, cheese does NOT need using up, it will keep for next week in the fridge and for weeks and weeks if grated and frozen! And not even a sniff of a suggestion last night that half of that salmon could have been frozen for another week? I realise the family had probably used it all before they got there but the point could still have been made for viewers and for the family’s future reference. Half of the programme’s title is Economy after all

Eating together as a family is important but for most families it probably isn’t going to happen every night. What we see is staged for the camera of course, so maybe the programme makers insistence on this is the reason that a previous family including kids were eating dinner at 9pm

all in all I think it’s a useful series for people who are starting out on the road to economy and I’m really looking forward to seeing how the students shape up next week!

debtmuncher wrote: »

… they werent doing a shopping list, just a case of going to the shop and bunging it into the trolley ... they just never seemed to "click" that what they were doing was daft

Exactly what a lot of Os’ers - including me - did before they became OS’ers.

There's such a lot of criticism of the families on this thread, could we cut these people some slack please? I doubt any of us came to OS knowing everything and we're all still learning; to quote squeaky from the Welcome to Old Style thread ‘You wouldn't expect to pass your final exams after one day at school, and you shouldn't expect to be able to do the same here in Old Style.’

Imagine if they chose hard line OS’er types for this series - 'Wow, we've saved you 3p on your weekly shop ....' :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


cream tea, mmmmmmm runs off to add clotted cream to next sainsbugs order :cool:

Reverbe

geordie_joe wrote: »

And that is what annoys people, they watch something faithfully each week then they are cast aside for people who normally don't watch, just so the TV company can say it brought in a few more viewers.

This is why Barry Norman went to Sky cos they kept piggin about with his Film show that much that it was never at the same time or same day 2 weeks running..:mad:

debtmuncher

i agree rosie with giving the featured families slack (and hundreds of possible others wanting to do the same as well), we have all been at the point where we have chucked things into the trolley without a second thought and it takes a while before you get the lightbulb moment. lets respect the family for what they are trying to do but dont try and compare it to your way of life. a round peg wont go into a square hole no matter how many times you try!!:p:D xxxx

Reverbe

debtmuncher wrote: »

hmm not as good as the first two programmes. i sitting glued to the telly cos it was a one veggie -in- a- family that caught my attention

I was sitting there growling at the tv cos she was NOT a veggie.She ate FISH!!!!:mad::mad:

I dont know why I am so angry when ppl do this cos I am not a veggy myself. Perhaps I just have a massive pedantic streak. It seems to annoy me far more than my veggy flatmate:rotfl:

Reverbe

ahrimaniac wrote: »

Why not shop at ASDA rather than Sainsburys to save money right from the off? Ghastly.

The first 2 families shopped at Asda. It was commented on here that Asda was not even the nearest to one of the families home and would have made some of us suspicious as to the possibility of store favouritism or possible brand sponsorship had all the families shopped there I would be very suspicious had one of the families lived near me where there is no Asda for quite some distance.:rolleyes:

Gigervamp

It's easier to say you're a veggie that eats fish, than to say that you're a pescatorian. Most people understand what a vegetarian is but have never heard of the term pescatorian.