"Eat Well For Less?" - thoughts?

Floss

Just watching the latest BBC monry-saver offering, "Eat Well For Less?" and wondered what other MSE'rs thought?

I was pleasantly surprised to see the boys eating sausages with boiled new potatoes, broccoli & gravy, albeit with mushy peas _pale_, but was quite tickled to see top-up shops at Booths, a Lancashire chain similar in range & prices as Waitrose ...we can spend £s in there quite easily!

The taste tests are quite revealing, and some results surprised those taking part...bet regulars on here weren't at all surprised

AnnieO1234

I've got this onto record, although I've been keeping up with comments from various O/S groups I belong to. It's making me cringe personally. Don't get me wrong, we're a family of 4 (one is an infant) and I couldn't spend the £260 odd that some of them seem to be spending a week. But then at the same time I never really imagined that spending around 120 on average a week was also over the top for some os'er's!

It's going to make me take a long, hard look at what we spend and where!

x

Bobarella

I found it a bit of a wasted show really. It didn't teach the viewer anything truly useful. And they plan to trot the same thing out week after week?

rosie383

I enjoyed it but mostly because I felt quite smug watching it. I didn't learn anything new except that morrisons cheapo cornflakes were as good as kelloggs! Who'da thunk it? Dd1 was cracking up at yer man with the jam though!

cheerfulness4

I really enjoyed it and what a likeable family! The kids were so good trying things without whinging and for adults that are used to having exactly what they wanted I thought it was so refreshing not to hear exaggerated moaning about the swaps, albeit that they didn't know which was cheap or dearer.


I found it very interesting to her the comments about concentrated orange and the different bread types. I also was intrigued by the Savers cornflakes. We will try those again and see what the verdict is.


Glad I spent the time watching it. It reminds me that food hoarding can get out of hand, and having been there and done that I know. Only just coming to the end of my mountain of stocks now!

good_advice

Why is it that these type of programs always show a family with OTT spends and then the big drop.
Cupboards/fridge/freezer overflowing with food.
It would be more of an interest to see how people manage with a lot less.
No mention of slow cookers, steaming veg or batch cooking.

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It's not teaching anyone anything unless they're complete half wits. How can anyone spend £13,000 a year on food and not even know that they're doing it???? That will buy 32,000kcals per day!!!! 8,000kcals per person per day, including the children!! They had £1000 worth of food in stock, that's nearly what I spend in a year!!

About a year ago they had a program about eating on a budget in which they paired up celebrity chefs with people on low incomes to show them how to eat cheaply. One of the idiots blew the whole budget on one piece of fresh salmon!!! Another wandered down the supermarket aisle and said "Ooh, it's not easy buying the quantities you need, is it." Duh.

A saving of £75 PW? If Wallace and his sidekick think they're good at saving money let's see them knock 29% off my bill instead. If that family were eating my diet it would be costing £63.50 PW for the four of them, a saving of nearly £200 PW.

candygirl

Haven't seen it yet, but OMG Booths:eek:I live right near one, n it's a complete rip off;)

bsms1147

I disagree that they were eating 'well' at any stage of the process. From the title I took it that they would be eating healthily.

cheerfulness4

Judging by the trolleys ahead of me in the queue at the supers, I'd say there are a great deal of people that could benefit from that programme tonight.


I know I'm certainly in the minority with my shopping habits in my locals but it would make interesting viewing to see just what they'd do with one of us, or even better, popping one of us into someones home doing a 'Super Nanny, Jo frost style food wise' with the parents to try and help them find their way.


Do you think there'd be as much trauma for them as there was changing their parenting patterns?

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candygirl wrote: »

Haven't seen it yet, but OMG Booths:eek:I live right near one, n it's a complete rip off;)

Booth was the name of the family, they appeared to be shopping in Tesco.