"Eat Well For Less?" - thoughts?

Mat_Lock

The woman on this program making me wanna throw the remote at my tv.

Moany whingy bint.

candygirl

Mat_Lock wrote: »

The woman on this program making me wanna throw the remote at my tv.

Moany whingy bint.

Can't believe Greg justified her laziness, by saying it's cos she has 4 kids!:mad:

meritaten

my DIL is sort of the typical person this programme is aimed at. she could easily spend £200+ in Hasda a week. BUT - its the way she was brought up - she couldn't boil an egg and had never even tasted potatoes which had been oven baked or didn't come out of a packet. She has slowly got better at cooking over the years - but, I think she could reduce her food bills a lot more by not impulse buying and sticking to a list. I think its people like her the programme is aimed at - not us OldStylers. Still, I could think of lots of ways the programme could be improved.

Bobarella

I've just been tweeting along with the show. Most people's reactions? Horror at the thought of spending £350 a week on food. Or going to the shops 17 times per week.
I will say that neither this family or the one last week seem to have money problems due to their spending on food so they are obviously high income folk who have just never needed to worry.

Gillyx

candygirl wrote: »

At the amount they're spending?

Yes on horrid food too. I'm also amazed that the programme is called 'EAT WELL' and all they replaced was processed food, so it's not really eating well is it? Frozen pizzas, sausage on baps etc, the kids didn't seem to be offered much veg other than carrot sticks.

Islandmaid

No wonder she didn,t have time to cook - 17 trips to the supermarket takes up alot of time.

£350 a week *faints*

Bobarella

Gillyx wrote: »

Yes on horrid food too. I'm also amazed that the programme is called 'EAT WELL' and all they replaced was processed food, so it's not really eating well is it? Frozen pizzas, sausage on baps etc, the kids didn't seem to be offered much veg other than carrot sticks.

I suppose one thing they have done both weeks is to show how going for the cheaper option in the case of concentrated OJ last week and pasta sauce this week, were both better health wise than the cheaper brands. So in that sense they are showing how to eat well on less. But agree it's hardly super useful.

haras_nosirrah

How can anyone go to the supermarket 2
3x a day?

Floss

And why show Tesc0 for the pricing...it's not the best example of fair pricing for supplier or customer...

Brambleberry

Am I the only one who was getting annoyed at "the one that's not Greg" doing his mock-horror about the sugar in the pasta sauces as the nice-but-dumbed-down nutritionist spooned out the white heroin onto a saucer?


...mooches off to crunch anger out on a bendy pre-cut carrot from a bag...