Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

richardw

There's a book http://www.find-book.co.uk/0718155726.htm coming soon.

attentionseeker1

Honestly though, I think I have fairly expensive tastes (tragically denied though!! :rolleyes:) but I don't think I could spend that much unless I literally ate steak, lobster and scallops every day and that would make me pretty sick I think!

LilacPixie

missychrissy wrote: »

I thought the programme was very good. I'm shocked that people buy so many take aways and don't know how to cook from scratch.

I remember when my 23 yr old son cooked his new girlfriend a meal for valentines day - he did lasagne and fresh fruit salad. She was amazed that his cheese sauce didn't come out of a packet and he didn't just add a Dolmio sauce to his mince. They are still together, but he does the cooking.

My mother always cooked from scratch and I must have learned from her. I cook from scratch and so do my sons (now all in their 20s).

I think this programme might make people think about what they are feeding their families.

I am in my 20's and I have always cooked from scratch because well my mum did I guess. I have this huge 'thing' about feeding my kids chemicals and peservatives so I would rather bake yummy things than buy a packet of biccies that have a shelf life of 2-3 years.

LilacPixie

I bet the 17k a year lot waste alot of food. probably tonnes gets thrown in the bin

geordie_joe

richardw wrote: »

There's a book http://www.find-book.co.uk/0718155726.htm coming soon.

Yes, and it was reduced to half price weeks before the publishing date. Which says it all for me!

squidgeworth

Just watched this programme with my 9 and 5 year old kids. THEY were disgusted at young Billy's "manners" and wanted to know why he was allowed to waste food without even trying it !! They couldn't understand why we were watching this because they genuinely believed that everyone cooks and eats propper food "like we do!" My 9 year old also wants to know what they were doing with a huge piece of meat in the fridge when they didn't know anyone else was coming for tea

Gigervamp

I thought £220 a week was a lot, but I simply can't get my head around £17k a year. That's more than a lot of people earn a year! I agree with LilacPixie that probably a lot gets binned.

About tonight's programme though, I can never understand why, when people have a dining table, they don't sit at it to eat. Little Billy was sitting on the floor eating his ready meal. That posture can't be good for the digestion.

Loved Allegra's kitchen with the wine crates fixed to the wall.

I could say more, but you've all said what I was going to say!

cw18

Am I the only saddo to have recorded the show?

I'm hoping that I may actual absorb some info about the meals they were cooking on a second watch -- my first (real-time) viewing was spent gasping at the comments, reactions and costs :rolleyes2

freyasmum

robpw2 wrote: »

i would love someone to walk down to the kitchen late at night and mistake chicken stock for coca cola ..lol ..

That's eeevil :eek:


But very, very funny

rosieben

I was puzzled by the cheffie saying 'you have too much cheese in the fridge so pass me those 3 packets and I'll use them up ' ......... :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

very amusing programme

edited to say the one thing I learned tonight - from the cheese man, not the chef's - was that you could use cheese rind in sauces etc, never thought about it and as I don't like parmesan or stilton totally useless information for me, but interesting nevertheless