Super Scrimpers

Taadaa

I watch it still but often think the results are awful or it wouldn't actually be cheaper to make it - the Tommy sauce recipe springs to mind

Frugalsod

Taadaa wrote: »

I watch it still but often think the results are awful or it wouldn't actually be cheaper to make it - the Tommy sauce recipe springs to mind

Yes but sometimes the objective should not always be about making it cheaper. I make my own pasta. It is almost as easy than ready made pasta and costs about the same but I get fresh pasta for a lot less than I can get it in the SM.

Pollycat

MummyBobble wrote: »

Anybody else see Food and Drink this morning with their "budget" recipes? Particularly entertained with the desert for four - bramley apple and blackcurrant souffle costing only around £2 per serving, accompanied by a £7 bottle of desert wine :eek: Wishing my food budget would allow that, I need to stretch that £15 over at least three full days worth of meals for three of us (me and two teenagers who are bottomless pits that cannot be filled) and it can be done

I watched it on Monday evening (yesterday's was a repeat).

I was bloody furious. :mad:

They (Michel Roux & Tom Kerridge) just did not have a clue about Arabella Weir's slot about 'pretentious chefs lecturing people' about food buying.

The point she made was if it comes down to the choice between 2 apples and a big pack of cheap biscuits, the choice would be biscuits because they will fill more people up.

She said some people can only afford £3 for a family lasagne to feed 4.

Michel Roux said 'but it's crap'.
Yes, Michel, but it's the only 'crap' some people can afford when you're 'time-poor' (Arabella's words) and on a limited budget.

Tom Kerridge said 'even if it's cheap you need to know where it's come from' etc.
The point is, Tom, some people can't afford to query where food comes from.

I found this article about Tom Kerridge later:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10469293/Proper-Pub-Food-chef-Tom-Kerridge-says-When-youve-come-from-nothing-you-never-want-to-go-back-there.html

I found this bit quite ironic:

Tom Kerridge has come a long way since the days when his Sunday lunch was courtesy of Bernard Matthews. “His turkey roll was big in our house,” says Kerridge, “and one of the supermarkets did sausage meat in a roll – mum used to bake that and serve it with peas and potatoes. It was a roast dinner without an actual joint of meat.”

So when Tom was short of money, did he (or his Mum) query where his Bernard Matthews turkey roll came from?

No, of course he didn't. Because it was all they could afford.

'Pretentious chefs'?

Yeah, spot on.

Both chefs have gone down in my estimation.
I was so annoyed I tried to do feedback to BBC but it wouldn't let me do it - but I'm still trying.

APennySaved

Redlady..... wrote: »

What happened to Change That, Changing Rooms etc...

I agree 100%! I loved 'Changing Rooms' & its ilk.

So useful & inspirational in many ways (in comparison to the programmes on TV nowadays, in any case!) Sadly missed . . .

Those are the only type of 'reality programmes' I have ever watched or ever will watch !

BTW: TV should - IMHO! - either entertain or inform, not BORE TO DEATH ! . . .
TV's "TOWIE" ?! Must mean: "Turn Off With Intense Ennui" !

APennySaved

joedenise wrote: »

They're currently showing an old series in the afternoons. What's that all about? Can't understand why they started showing a new series and then just continue with an old one.

Absolutely bang-on with that fact, Denise!

The broadcast schedule is confusing, to say the least.

I think most of us here at MSE forum don't like wasting our time (efficient in every way, aren't we?! LOL!)
So why would I want to start watching an episode of 'Superscrimpers' only to find it was months out of date with financial data, or even just to find that we had already watched it: = TIME WASTING! Grrr!

This isn't helped by the fact that the TV schedule for any 'Superscrimpers' episodes is not labelled (i.e. individual episodes seem to have no official title, nor even a series number or date assigned to them). This means that no such 'identifying' info is ever cited on the EPG, & thus the info re any episode's programme content or date is untraceable ! :mad:
P.S. my OH confidently informed me this "EPG" means "Electronic Programme Guide"; although of course there is always the 'Radio Times' for other info, which then has the same lack of information (if anyone can still afford the 'Radio Times' outside of the annual special treat of the 'R.T.' Christmas double-issue! LOL!).

When I find the time (ha-ha!) I really ought to write to Channel4 about this episode-info failure . . .

cornishchick

I've said it before and I'll say it again... lol. Martin needs to commission a food programme that really shows decent meals on a budget.. or perhaps us OS types should be filming stuff and uploading it to MSE on YouTube.. and start a revolution......

Frugalsod

Pollycat wrote: »

I watched it on Monday evening (yesterday's was a repeat).

I was bloody furious. :mad:

They (Michel Roux & Tom Kerridge) just did not have a clue about Arabella Weir's slot about 'pretentious chefs lecturing people' about food buying.

'Pretentious chefs'?

Yeah, spot on.

Both chefs have gone down in my estimation.
I was so annoyed I tried to do feedback to BBC but it wouldn't let me do it - but I'm still trying.

I felt the same about Jamie Olivers program. There were some useful tips in their about using the freezer and reducing waste but the budget he was working on of £1.50 per person per meal is still above many peoples budgets.