Super Scrimpers

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

me too, I love Alvin Hall (he was on Jamies dream school tho')

Maybe next week they'll do a clip on how to clean Lady Muck's kitchen?!

£10 says it will be white vinegar!

SunshineBear

Lily_The_Legend wrote: »

I'm not sure I'll watch again next week, as far as I'm concerned they haven't helped a family who are actually in the real world yet!!! Tonight's family are living on a redundancy package of £3,000 A MONTH for god's sake!

Hear hear. My wife kept telling me off for shouting at them. (she couldn't hear the tv over my rant)

I think my dog could have explained how to save them money. What a dim couple!!

They were simply not in the real world at all.

welshmoneylover

Thats_Me wrote: »

BTW, nettle pasta is delicious and nothing like the disgusting pap her ladyship dished up!!

Recipe please!!! :j:j:j

I'm really curious about this and I'd love to try it out.

ps, what's this about adding porridge to mince? What does that do?

Ida_Notion

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

BTW, I only put a couple of spoons of porridge in my mince NOT A WHOLE PACKET!!!!

I thought she was adding mince to the oats to make the oats go further To be fair, her homemade handcream managed to look more appetizing than the nettle pasta she dished up last week

The father in the family annoyed me a lot at first with the way he kept grinning from ear to ear every time it was pointed out how wasteful he was being, but I did warm to him a bit when I saw him pitching in and cooking cakes for the kids. To be honest, it's the 'experts' on the programme that irritate me most of all, which is odd since they're the ones that are supposed to be 'on our side'. They should be showing that a thrifty lifestyle can easily be one that anybody would want to emulate, and is something that's lived by a lot of the kind of people that many would happily aspire to be just like. Something that can be achieved with no loss to the average quality of living, and can see massive gains.

Instead, a thrifty lifestyle is portrayed as one lived by the kind of people that no-one is any rush to become - dusty, dotty old ladies, a woman who knows to the penny how much each of her children have cost her (how joyless), and a woman that feels the need to mention that she dyes her underwear every time you meet her. In the world of Super Scrimpers, a thrifty lifestyle is not seen as something that everyone can benefit from (in more ways than financial), but only as a cure for those with more money than sense.

The programme is falling short massively (so far, at least), but I will probably still keep watching it in the hope that discussing it adds to any buzz so that it becomes clear to The Powers That Be that there is such a demand for similar programmes that they could easily replace some of the Xfactor-type tripe we're being fed instead... and... oooh... idea...

'Thrift Factor', in which Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Louis Whatsisname judge contestants on their winning ways with white vinegar, their ability to stretch a chicken and similar frugal talents... 'BOGOF Brother', in which contestants are given thirty-five quid between them and told to feed the BOGOF Brother Household on nothing but BOGOFs, oopsies and multibuys for a week - and bring back change. Or... Celebrity Mincing On Ice, in which a clutch of B-list has-beens are each challenged to fill a freezer with the most exciting variety of home-made mince dishes they can think of, for the lowest cost...

The future of television suddenly looks *so* much brighter

jumblejack

TAKEN FROM COLOUR IT GREEN WEBSITE:

nettle pasta

3 litres of nettle tips (or the nettles left over from making nettle beer)

500g fine flour

2-3 eggs

pinch of salt

use of a pasta machine.

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I made this by saving the nettles from making nettle beer (removing the lemon peel afterwards)- ideal: one picking session results in two recipes! To start from stratch, pick only the nettle tips of young nettles. Cover with two litres of water, bring to the boil and boil for half to one hour. Strain. Squeeze the nettles to remove all the water - you should end up with two egg sized lumps of nettle pulp

In a mixer blend the flour and nettles together then add two eggs. The mixture should resemble sand.. and a pinch of it squeezed together holds, if too wet add more flour.. if too dry add more egg.

Turn the sandy mixture onto a board and squeeze together into a lump, then need for a few minute. Then use in your pasta machine, following its instructions, making whatever pasta you prefer - we made spagetti. Cook or dry for later use




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sistercas

Desperate_Housewife wrote: »

Maybe next week they'll do a clip on how to clean Lady Muck's kitchen?!

£10 says it will be white vinegar!

:rotfl::rotfl:

i was disappointed again , these people dont live in the real world . i want to see some real help for people who really need it

Rage_in_Eden

Ida_Notion wrote: »

'Thrift Factor', in which Simon Cowell, Cheryl Cole and Louis Whatsisname judge contestants on their winning ways with white vinegar, their ability to stretch a chicken and similar frugal talents... 'BOGOF Brother', in which contestants are given thirty-five quid between them and told to feed the BOGOF Brother Household on nothing but BOGOFs, oopsies and multibuys for a week - and bring back change. Or... Celebrity Mincing On Ice, in which a clutch of B-list has-beens are each challenged to fill a freezer with the most exciting variety of home-made mince dishes they can think of, for the lowest cost...

The future of television suddenly looks *so* much brighter

:rotfl::rotfl:I do hope we're going to hear about their struggle with vinegar and mince and the chicken is going to be wearing sequins....:D

sp1987

I'd much rather see a family on £20k who spend well cut down a bit and end up spending only £19k a year than these dozy fools who are amazed how much 20tons of fuel costs 'wow, really?'. At least that would be realistic and would involve someone mildly articulate using a bit less petrol or cycling to work or something. A genuine bit of assistance to someone who could then go on holiday or something with the surplus.

Though, I will watch it because I feel better about myself when I watch people who have more money than sense but then refute the comment by having much less money than sense in the end (that not being complimentary).

LJM

hmm i think i watched 5 mins before i got bored i think i will stick to reading and posting on here

snookey

I missed this tonight as I forgot it was on. I dont think Iv missed anything though from what posters have said. I think we should do one ourselfs on the virtual world second life. They have tv chat shows on there .