Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

ifonlyitwaseasier

hmmm will look at the recipes later,

who wants to join me in watching the show then coming in here and [STRIKE]b*tching[/STRIKE] discussing it afterwards?

ioiwe x

HappyIdiotTalk

I actually quite like the sound of this program. I dont have burn to burn (I'm scarily in debt actually), but I definitely believe in quality ingredients and I dont mind spending money on food. I avoid anything with value on it - value sausages should be banned under the trades description act. I've tried things like value beans and value tomatos, but I just cant get on with them. So instead I buy a years supply of Cirio tomatoes when they are on 2 for 1, big bags of rice. As much veg as possible from the local farm. All meat from the small old fashioned butcher, and as much as possible of anything else from Lidl. I avoid the big supermarkets as much as possible, but do use them for some things.

So this program sounds up my street. I'm hoping it'll help me avoid waste, and plan better. I just cook whatever I have when I walk into the kitchen, and dont even consider leftovers... So I think there will be a lot to learn from this program in my case.

It does sound as though there is a good case for another program judging by this discussion though. Maybe a feed the family good healthy food for a month on the least possible money.

[Deleted User]

It looks interesting. Difference to curry sauce and chips and crisp sarnies is that they will be making sure that all the nutrition is there to keep people healthy

beckstrous

Got to say, I think some of you guys are being a wee bit judgemental or even (dare I say it?) showing inverted snobbery! Please don't take that the wrong way - I love this board even though I am not a regular poster. I'm sure very many of you have hundreds of budget recipes up your sleeves (and indeed I often check this board for them, and have used some) but I think the general tone of this thread is a bit unfair.
As a couple of others have said, Allegra is a good chef - her Leon restaurants have won awards (from the Observer, I think) for providing good, healthy and reasonably priced fast food. I go there with my husband quite often if we are in London before going to see a gig or show and £15 is enough to provide the two of us with a good, healthy dinner. I know that isn't what you'd spend at home but I'm talking about a restaurant in central London here - great value. The food is not fancy - it is wholesome, rugged and tasty. The Leon cookbook is fantastic - half of it is all about ingredients, with really good info on different types of food, and half of it is recipes, good simple things you can easily do at home.

Paul Merrett I don't know so much about but I have seen him on Market Kitchen (which is a show I really like).

I don't think this show's intention will be to show people how to cook the cheapest food possible (and therefore should not be criticised because it doesn't do that); I think the point of it is to demonstrate how to eat well, without spending too much.

Butterfly_Brain

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

hmmm will look at the recipes later,

who wants to join me in watching the show then coming in here and [STRIKE]b*tching[/STRIKE] discussing it afterwards?

ioiwe x

Count me in :rolleyes:

Butterfly_Brain

:rolleyes:Saw Andrea on BBC news this morning and she was talking about 4 meals from 1 fish (£16) but I have 1 vegetarian and 2 who don't like fish in my house, so to me it would be a false economy.
She said that one of the programmes has a £120 budget and one has £130 for a week :eek:
I have to make that sort of budget last me two weeks.

LilacPixie

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

hmmm will look at the recipes later,

who wants to join me in watching the show then coming in here and [STRIKE]b*tching[/STRIKE] discussing it afterwards?

ioiwe x

Count me in too.

I am still astounded by the average family spending £220 a week on food and take-aways as listed in the radio times :eek::eek: I spend a little over that a month for us 4

tara747

ifonlyitwaseasier wrote: »

hmmm will look at the recipes later,

who wants to join me in watching the show then coming in here and [STRIKE]b*tching[/STRIKE] discussing it afterwards?

ioiwe x

Me.....

Seakay

Gigervamp wrote: »

Tumbledowns? Oh dear. What's wrong with using the term *leftovers*? :rolleyes:

After reading all the recipes I think that a tumbledown meal uses an ingredient which although already partly used for another recipe, has not actually been included in it (eg the chicken for coronation chicken had not been in a pie, the salmon tail for gravalax had not been poached) whereas a meal using leftovers is making use of the remainders of a previously served meal eg whizzing up leftover roast veg into a soup, mashing leftover boiled potatoes to top a shepherds pie.

cw18

Seakay wrote: »

After reading all the recipes I think that a tumbledown meal uses an ingredient which although already partly used for another recipe, has not actually been included in it (eg the chicken for coronation chicken had not been in a pie, the salmon tail for gravalax had not been poached) whereas a meal using leftovers is making use of the remainders of a previously served meal eg whizzing up leftover roast veg into a soup, mashing leftover boiled potatoes to top a shepherds pie.

I'd still call that "leftovers", as I'd cook a whole chicken and then split it between the various meals

But if I hadn't cooked any of the chicken before making either of those dishes, then I'd just class it as 'bulk buying' - same with the fish example.


Hoping I remember this is on tonight -- I tend to turn onto Five US and leave it there all evening :rolleyes2