Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

...but to do it for three months, and after a couple of weeks in, say to them 'the electric bill has come in sky high, and the children need school shoes now, so your budget is now £20 for the next fortnight'...

spendaholic

Idiophreak wrote: »

hand-massaged sun-dried tomatoes

Where do we get them from, then?
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Idiophreak

spendaholic wrote: »

Where do we get them from, then?
:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Didn't you read my post?

You get them from the larder - everyone should have them al the time!

Maitane

Well perhaps it won't be completely terrible and we'll be able to take some of the ideas and adapt them to be less stupidly expensive.

I am being hugely optimistic here but I am with you all on the chefs thinking we're all idiots, especially as the five years I was at university I earned my keep by working in kitchens - I think I know the difference between a leek and a cake, but the basic truth is; if you're a well trained chef with an eye for ingredients, surely you'd be better at creating cheap and tasty dishes than anyone else? :rolleyes: That or you'll be the one gold leafing your childs first birthday cake and calling it cheap chic *facepalm*

foxgloves

I'm definitely going to give this programme a go. Am hoping it will be a 'cook your own' type of programme and that it shows ordinary families doing it. When I learned to cook at school, we learned how to make proper meals, what to do with leftovers, cooking on a budget, etc, and this seemd to change more recently into food technology rather than cookery with kids learning how to make a sandwich and design the packaging then who they'd market it to, instead of how to cook which is a lifeskill they'd have with them for ever. A friend's 12 year old daughter was recently told to take a breadroll, a cheese slice and some tomato ketchup into school because they were going to 'make pizza'. Why couldn't they learn how to make a proper pizza? At the same age, we were learning how to bake and how to cook proper meals......and in case you're all thinking I must be about 105, I'm really not! My Mum didn't cook at all if she could possibly avoid it, so it was ready meals most of the time at home when we were kids. My cooking skills all came from school and then having a go at home. In practical terms, it's by far the most useful skill I learned at school and it really does need to be back on the curriculum for everyone, so that people have these simple lifeskills. Am hoping this programme will be the start of many similar ones. There used to be several good money programmes such as 'Spendaholics', 'Bank of Mum & Dad', 'Your money or your wife', etc, and it's odd that now we are genuinely in hard times, they all seem to have disappeared! Rant over....I'm off to make some BBQ sauce now as planning family BBQ tomorrow if not chucking it down with rain.

Reverbe

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

just looked on the BBC website and it's billed as "the cook's answer to the credit crunch" and the 2 chefs who'll be presenting the show are Allegra McEvedy and Paul Merrett. That's all the news they've got at the mo!



WHO???????????

Allegra Mc Evedy is a top female chef and runs the affordable but tasty Leon restaurant. She is often on Market Kitchen as is Paul Merrett who is often on a lot of tv shows such as Ready Steady Cook, Saturday Kitchen etc etc etc.

Both do not produce airy fairy meals like John Burton Race does on Cooks cheap challenge..:rotfl:

BTW have you tasted butternut squash?

Essex-girl_2

I have also seen Allegra on Market Kitchen and everytime she has produced a lovely meal not what I would call a 'cheffy' meal.

I am looking forward to seeing the first episode then will decide whether its worth keeping watching. I did enjoy Kirsty's Handmade Home even though a large part of it was totally unrealistic.

Loads of us on here are profficient (sp?) cooks, especially of good, thrifty wholesome food but I do know people who spend over £200 per week on their shopping & takeaways and havnt a clue - I guess thats the target audience.

BitterAndTwisted

Both of the cooks run their own businesses and it's actually running a business to make a profit which would have honed a person's skill to make every penny stretch like elastic, I would have thought. It could be a useful and interesting programme and I fully intend to watch it and make my judgement about it then. Who knows, if this is an Old-Style Lite series and it proves popular, the Beeb might commission a new, authentic Old-Style More Hardcore series in the future. Lord knows, there's probably a demand for it

Butterfly_Brain

Reverbe wrote: »

Allegra Mc Evedy is a top female chef and runs the affordable but tasty Leon restaurant. She is often on Market Kitchen as is Paul Merrett who is often on a lot of tv shows such as Ready Steady Cook, Saturday Kitchen etc etc etc.

Both do not produce airy fairy meals like John Burton Race does on Cooks cheap challenge..:rotfl:

BTW have you tasted butternut squash?

Thanks for the heads up on the chefs, but still don't think that any of them live on £14,000 a year.
I love fresh veggies, and yes I have tried Butternut squash and I hate it.

Butterfly_Brain

I will watch, and I am sure we will all have a lot to say next Wednesday/Thursday