"Eat Well For Less?" - thoughts?

Pollycat

fairy3 wrote: »

For HM burgers I make two thin burgers with a slice or lump of blue cheese/cheddar in the middle which makes a lovely melt in the middle burger and goes down well.

I do it slightly differently, I make a ball of mince then an opening and stuff blue cheese inside and then flatten.

Whichever way, blue cheese in burgers is yummy.

Pollycat

I tend to buy Tesco Finest sausages - they do a massive range of different flavours with high meat content (usually around 90%) - and was very interested in the comment from the butcher about the quality of meat in sausages.
Some of the stuff he showed that would be minced up and put into cheaper sausages looked awful.

I've seen some sausages that says 'pork shoulder' (can't remember the make) which should be good.

With a meaty sausage we find we only want/need 2. That's around 5oz.
Funnily enough, a friend who was brought up in the war won't have high meat content sausages because he says they are tough. I think it's because they are more meaty than the (ahem) rubbish ones he eats.

jackel

We watched it for about 5mins . Could see it was just going to be for amusement only. My main objection is that our money goes towards paying for it. Switched over to Location - at least the houses were less money this week from £120K - makes a change to see properties ordinary people can afford - much more interesting. jac.xx

iris

Nikkisun wrote: »

Does anyone know what brand the ketchup was? We've tried loads of cheaper ones but always end up back with Heinz cos they don't taste right!

It looked as if it was from Aldi. We use the one from Aldi and have to say it is very good.

PlymouthMaid

I didn't actually agree with the advice not to hoard. I like to have a cupboard (or under bed) filled with beans and tinned tomatoes when they are at their cheapest. No good hoarding if you never actually rotate stocks and eat stuff but possibly unwise to run stcks seriosuly low each week just in case of a zombie apocalypse. But that is just me (and everything on the preppers board).

I also thought their diet was quite poor and very reliant on cheap meat every day. No idea how they could have been spending that much each week although of they all have cereal and juice each day that adds up. I am a porridge disciple.

Nikkisun

iris wrote: »

It looked as if it was from Aldi. We use the one from Aldi and have to say it is very good.

Thanks - unfortunately they've only just got planning permission for a local aldi so I'll have to wait til they've built it to find out!

ALIBOBSY

I agree with alot of the comments but there are still alot of people like this who simply throw the brands/expensive stuff in the trolley and go home so it may be helpful to them.

I enjoyed it as they live not far from us, we used to live in Chorley and go there frequently-my sister lives there, so it was like spot the places we have been in.

The butchers they used are really good, the sausages are lovely and if they look across from the butchers there is the covered market with a brillaint cheese stand, deli style shop and grocers. Also there is the flat iron market on certain days where again you can get great priced veggies/fruit et al.

Shop wise they have them all nearby. Aldi, Lidl, farmfoods, poundland, iceland, Booths, morrisons, and the new asda superstore and all in the centre of town and Tesco is actually further out.

TBH when we lived in chorley I used to shop on foot with the trolley as there are so many good places to buy stuff.

BTW the guy was called Booth, but they also showed him shopping in the Booths store in Chorley.

Would have liked to see more talk of when/how cooking from scratch can save you money. Like with yorkie puds which are so easy to make and so much cheaper and nicer than store bought.

Also I was a bit annoyed about the not storing stuff comments by GW, I couldn't cope without my stores (waves at others from the prepper threads lol). Oh and I are self employed and he has two businesses one of which is very seasonal, so there are times in the year where we have extra cash and times when its tighter, so a good bargain when we have the cash gets snapped up for tighter times, we save as well of course, but I always want to know we can eat and feed the kids no matter what.

Ali x

haras_nosirrah

I am a horder of food and also disagree with what they said

Have a huge freezer stuffed with half price weekend and 30% off meat from lidl. This week it is turkey steaks - I will buy the max of 6 allowed and put it in the freezer. I don't ever pay full price for meat

I usually spend £40 a week for a family of 3 and also do a monthly order at approved food - 10 packets of cous cous for £1 = stock piling

maman

I realise that people on here are not the target audience but like others probably the only thing I learned was about the orange juice. Good to know that we're not missing out nutritionally by buying the concentrated one.


I eat wholemeal for the fibre so not interested in the bread article. It was good to have the 'processed foods as a treat' message reinforced.


I was amazed that they described the dad as a 'foodie'. Their food seemed very basic almost junk food to me.

candygirl

ALIBOBSY I also live not far from Chorley, Penwortham, and agree about the fab cheese stall on Chorley market:p Also spotted the Booths in Booths:rotfl:;)