Economy Gastronomy - new budget cookery programme; BBC

helyg

Reverbe wrote: »

Whats the book like for veggies. MY flatmate is vegetarian and i'd prob end up eating the same meal for an entire week if I cooked it with meat or fish...

also - I have been wanting to buy the first Gill Holcombe for ages.. keep looking at it in the library and checking it out on my ticket etc but there are 40 pages totally wasted with baking and puddings which is a big portion of the book. (I'd say about a third of the book)I dont have a sweet tooth and it is only me with no mates, family or guests so all the dessert bits of any cookbook are kinda wasted here.

Whats the proportion of baking and puds? The tv shows seem to be so far very heavily on the cakes and desserts which I'd never have any use for.

There are a load of recipes based around chickpeas, tomato sauce and pumpkin as the "bedrock" if I remember rightly (book is upstairs next to my falling asleep daughter and I don't want to wake her by checking!)

There aren't many puds or cakes in it, I think maybe last week they did a lot of puds just because that family bought a lot of them from the supermarket.

Trinny

I would be tempted to bin scavenge from next weeks family - after seeing how much they throw away.

Surely all they need to do is cook what they can actually eat - and eat leftovers and they would be quids in!

They wouldnt even need to look at what they actually buy. They would nt need to learn new recipes either. If they cooked less food with less ingredients and stopped chucking out food- they would save a fortune

Not much of a challenge for the cooks next week. Any fool could save them a good few quid

Trin

MrsE_2

Ishtar wrote: »

I've got the book and imo it is fantastic. There's a couple of recipes I probably won't be trying - the beef daube one springs to mind as I can't justify spending that much on beef

I reckon it would cost a lot less to make the beef daube than the lamb navrine, have you seen the price of lamb:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

tinkerbellsmum_2

i've just watching the second program on iplayer at mo and just notice both esp have been near me this ones in breaston which is 10 mins away from me and i think if i remeber right last one was derby which is half hour away
and that where i do my weekly shopping to lol

sistercas

DH has just ordered the cook book for me :j:j
after reading this thread and watching the prog , I was desperate for the book but couldnt afford it
bless him :A

cant wait for it to come

ninky_2

helyg wrote: »

Not everyone sits on their !!!! most of the day though. My husband works in a manual job, I work in a nursery school so am on my feet all the time, and I walk or cycle to work (up and down Welsh hills). The kids walk or cycle to school, and play a lot of sport etc. So, especially in the winter, a heavy meal followed by a pud goes down rather well in our house!

sounds lovely. good for you. agree absolutely that you need calories if you are burning calories. wish there were more eating shows though that mentioned the need to be aware of appetite and expenditure (energywise) when it comes to meal planning. also, people need to be less scared of feeling hungry. a bit of hunger is good for you. you wouldn't fill your car up with petrol without glancing at the fuel gauge would you?

purpleivy

hotcookie101 wrote: »

Ah you see, thats where the peril of the amazon account with stored card comes in-I can buy anywhere :rotfl:bad!

Yer, so can I , but it didnt' stop me going out on Saturday and buying myself the book as a treat when I was feeling a bit sorry for myself. Still, didn't pay the cover price, so not all lost!

MrsE_2

Ishtar wrote: »

I've got the book and imo it is fantastic. There's a couple of recipes I probably won't be trying - the beef daube one springs to mind as I can't justify spending that much on beef...and knowing my lot they'll eat most of it in one sitting...:p

Another point.

I've just looked at the recipe & I'm going to make half, as the whole lot is waaaaay to much for 3 of us.

Could you do that;)

Puddleglum

I had a LBM (several of them!) this weekend about puddings/desserts. TBH since having had children I feel a bit obliged to produce a pud although frequently it is a case of - "you know where the fruit bowl is :mad:" however.....

LBM #1 we tend to eat too much as a main course. Make it smaller and save money.

LBM #2 desserts increase the variety of foods we eat and increase (potentially) the vitamin and mineral levels of our diets.

LBM #3 as I was making a Magic Lemon Pud for 6 people - 1 lemon, 2 eggs, a bit of sugar, flour and marge - they can be very cheap and MSE!

Hope you don't mind me posting this here, it seems appropriate. From now on I am going to try and serve smaller main courses and make a greater effort with puds as I really think that it might help the budget!:j

MrsE_2

Puddleglum wrote: »

LBM #3 as I was making a Magic Lemon Pud for 6 people - 1 lemon, 2 eggs, a bit of sugar, flour and marge - they can be very cheap and MSE!

Hope you don't mind me posting this here, it seems appropriate. From now on I am going to try and serve smaller main courses and make a greater effort with puds as I really think that it might help the budget!:j

Only if you tell us how to make magic lemon pud?

I love lemon puddings.