Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

PasturesNew

Just about to watch it on iPlayer

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00m2790/Economy_Gastronomy_Episode_1/

Edit: Oh, it's not available yet, but that's the page when it is.

And a link to a summary of the programme: http://hubpages.com/hub/Economy-Gastronomy-TV-Series-Recipes

PasturesNew

Bongedone wrote: »

How was the Willow butter 50p. Never been that price in my ASDA.

I just googled that. It was a special (2 for £1) that ended on 23 June.

WASHER

Gigervamp wrote: »

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!

I too loved her kitchen, I thought it would add an lovely addition to the thread "where the OS magic happens".

Excellent programme I thought, and I liked the cheffie man, good looking and can cook, his he single? Maybe I should sign up for the next series:D

cw18

WASHER wrote: »

and I liked the cheffie man, good looking and can cook, is he single? Maybe I should sign up for the next series:D

Unfortunatley it would appear not The write up on the book says he's married with two children



I've never seen either of these cooks/chefs before, and have to say I liked them both. They didn't seem to be overly "fussy", nor did they act as if they "owned the world" (which is how I feel about most of the celebrity chefs)

Gigervamp

He did some BBC/Open University food programmes which were quite interesting, about the science of food and I'd seen Allegra on the first series of Supersizers.

meanmarie

Just finished watching the programme. Enjoyed it, would think that it is geared at people who don't realise that they could eat much better for much less money rather than MSE OSers, and feel that as such it worked very well...if even some families with young children change to cooking from scratch it is a worthwhile achievement, although young man who spat out his food would have had a good clout in the ear and gone to bed without anything to eat in this house, but that's really not a money issue.

I did feel that not a great effort was made to include more veg in meals...no grated carrot included in mince concoctions for example...will be interesting to see how they get on with next week's £17k family.

Marie

Butterfly_Brain

cw18 wrote: »

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

No I had to record it because went out for the evening just watched it and to be honest most of us could do better varied and cheaper meals with our eyes closed:D

cw18

meanmarie wrote: »

will be interesting to see how they get on with next week's £17k family.

If they reduce the spending by the same percentage as this weeks family, then they'll bring it down to a little over £10k a year (around £193/week).

Personally I'd love to see it dropped further than that, but without knowing the size of the family (and whether it includes the cost of entertaining linked to business - they somehow looked as if they could be self-employed/business owners, but I can't explain how ) it's hard to say how far it should be possible to reduce it......

Butterfly_Brain

The chefs were good but used a lot of ingredients which most of us can't afford such as wine, and some of the oils

One good thing though it was the best comedy I have watched in a long time.
Bet next week is even funnier.... Have to get some Tena Lady in!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

maman

I enjoyed the programme - mainly in a smug way because no one on these boards would have learned much!

I agree the chefs were nice down-to-earth people but the wine/butter/double cream/artichokes/lardons etc weren't really necessary for everyday family meals.

Squidgeworth your children were right about his manners. I also hated seeing him eating on the floor and picking at kebab meat carp with his fingers. Also I think she made a big deal of being busy and tired. She has a part-time job and the programme was filmed in the school holidays with her husband off work to help her!! How do they think ordinary people manage??

My main query is why they didn't do all their shopping in one hit in Asda. It's not that I object to using local shops but we all know that going out midweek for bits and pieces (like a £14 piece of beef :eek:) is what can run away with the budget. And it did!!