Super Scrimpers

patchwork_cat

We always used to put sugar on eggy bread. I don't now, used to call the bits of egg (like batter bits) cobwebs!

I am sure that some of the car tips were flawed. If you accelerate up to 4 th at 40 mph as quickly as possible that is not economic for fuel, also I am in 4 th by about 30 - 34

mmmsnow

JackieO wrote: »

So I wasn't the only one yelling make the pizza yourself.I have no idea how much a take away one is but I bet its dearer even with a BOGOF than making one.

Pizza dough is so easy to make, I'm surprised that it hasn't been featured in the show. Having said that, the home-made pasta seen in the first episode looked disgusting. It gave budget cooking a bad name!

Anyway, I think there's space on the TV schedules for a budget cookery show. Not like Economy Gastronomy, which I found uninspiring and not particularly "economy", but a series that teaches you how to make basics on the cheap. I know so many people who have no idea how easy (or cheap) it is to make bread or a simple pasta sauce.

I would like to see some of the celebrity chefs challenged to cook a little more frugally. Give Gordon Ramsay a fiver, send him into Asda and just see what he comes up with!

quintwins

i'm just watching last nights now


oh ilona my hubby would hate to be married to you lol, our youngest pinched him toothbrush so he started using a kids one, but he didn't tell me after 3-4 days he went off on one and demanded to be bought a proper toothbrush - what am i a mindreader :rotfl::rotfl: your tip just reminded me

oldtractor

I enjoyed this weeks episode. It was informative. I am particulally keen on the cycle to work tax break thing. Has anyone here bought a bike this way?

alec_eiffel

oldtractor wrote: »

I enjoyed this weeks episode. It was informative. I am particulally keen on the cycle to work tax break thing. Has anyone here bought a bike this way?

My DH bought a bike this way last year, I don't know if everywhere is the same but the scheme was only open for a couple of week during May. It was pretty straightforward and the people at the bike shop were very helpful. After the election the scheme was altered at DH's workplace so instead of paying £25 when the payments ended he now has to pay £120 so it's not quite the great bargain it appeared to be at the start!

Worth a look I'd say but in our experience it's not quite as good a deal as it seemed.

vasseur

candygirl wrote: »

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We had it too but never with sugar on,that seems plain wrong to me:eek::eek:

I think that sounds nice although I would probably prefer it with the cheese (and loads of it too, not very MSE...)

thunderchild

mmmsnow wrote: »

I would like to see some of the celebrity chefs challenged to cook a little more frugally. Give Gordon Ramsay a fiver, send him into Asda and just see what he comes up with!

No I can't stand Gordon but if he did this I would gladly watch him! Better than watching him eat bugs in the far east!

Let see how far he'd get swearing when he can't get some posh ingredient that he wants.

Bet he's not got the balls to to Gordon's Great Budget Escape! :rotfl:

THIRZAH

My children used to like cinnamon sugar on french toast.

Aril

We used to do eggy bread when we were younger but we spread marmite on the bread before dunking it in the eggy mixture
Aril

toasterman

Ok now watched this week's. I hate the name "eggy bread". That doesn't sound nice. It sounds like a kitchen disaster, as in the popular phrase "oh no! I've got eggy bread!"
or "we can't serve this to the guests.. the bread.. it's gone eggy".

I still like the DIY guy. I've never heard the paint string thing before. And the using paper on the window, when painting... thing, seems so obvious, now he mentions it (although my girlfriend was more concerned with why he was painting upvc window frames in the first place?)
The ceiling paint stain thing was a problem in a house I used to rent a room in - the local handyman came round (paid for by the landlord), and painted over it with emulsion, and the stain came back.


The car tips guy irritated me from start to finish, moaning about students not being able to afford a car.
Drive with the windows down instead of the air conditioning on?
I've done some online research and apparently it is cheaper, if you're driving below about 40mph to drive with the windows open, than to have the air conditioning on. On the motorway at 70mph, the drag from the windows being open uses more fuel than just switching the air conditioning on. And it's also very windy.
That said, sitting in stationary traffic on a humid day with the windows open, isn't going to help you cool down much.

While I agree with using vinegar to clean windscreen wipers (it was featured on an advert for the AA years ago, if my memory serves), I don't agree with the suggestion of how much new wipers cost. I'd sweart they said £20, or something ludicrous?
You can spend a fortune on windscreen wipers, or you can buy cheap ones. I bought a set of both front wipers for £2 at a market, last weekend. Worked fine.
Your local car accessory shop will likely sell you the individual components (you can buy just the rubber bit that always splits, for example) for under £5.

But what really got me, was one of his tips - which I could make no sense of, at all.
How is it possibly cheaper to water down windscreen/glass cleaner, for cheaper screenwash?

I'll take all these prices from Halfords (which we all know probably isn't the cheapest place).
Their concentrated screenwash is £6 for 5 litres. Halfords recommend that in the summer, you water down the screenwash 5:1. So that 5 litres gives you 30 litres of screenwash, for £6.
20p a litre.

Their screen cleaner is £4 for 500ml.
Now, even if you water down the screen cleaner 20:1 (surely more like Homeopathic screenwash by this point?), that's still only going to give you 10.5 litres.
38p a litre.
Less effective, and more expensive?

Can anyone explain this to me in a different way, or correct my (probably wrong) maths?