"Eat Well For Less?" - thoughts?

HOWMUCH

I don't hoard food, but I will over buy items which I use on regular basis when they are on offer.
I have never paid full price for the last possibly 10 years on
Washing up liquid
Toilet rolls
Coffee
Drinking chocolate
Shampoo
Shower gel
Tooth paste
Butter

I find that the above come on offer every few months and I know how much we use so buy accordingly and replace the next time they are on offer. Must have saved aload over the years. If you use it and it's half price........ no brainer buy it if you have the money.

I keep my larder in rows of same items and always put to the back new purchases. I don't keep a list I can see how much I have.

missflirtuk

I watched this and quite enjoyed it, but it didn't really teach me much. I already buy the cheapest tea bags (rarely drink tea so don't splash out) and they taste OK to me, maybe I am just used to the cheaper things in life .

candygirl

catkins wrote: »

I was thinking about this programme in the night when I couldn't sleep! I can't really see how they were spending so much money on food. Yes they were buying the same things over and over again but things like baked beans, sausages, burgers - not exactly expensive items are they?


They ate very ordinary meals as far as we could see so how on earth were they spending £13,000 a year on food?


They wanted to be able to save £40 a week so that they could build an extension. Well that would be very easy. If they are spending around £250 a week they could, with some thought, planning and sense, easily cut that down by at least £100. Even £150 a week for a family of 4 seems excessive

I got the impression, that the bloke was partial to a beer or two, n also was prone to chucking random, but expensive crap into the trolley!Also think they made the £260 up, to make it look more extreme for tv:D

flea72

maman wrote: »

So perhaps we can tell them in advance that it's healthier and cheaper to make your own pasta sauce!:rotfl:

Actually they did show how to make your own pasta sauce. But when a shop bought value brand one is about 30p a jar and a homemade one would cost more than that to make, sometimes readymade is the best option

Spoiler tho, out of the shop bought ones, the value one was actually the healthiest

Butterfly_Brain

Bought Yorkshire puddings, why............

candygirl

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Bought Yorkshire puddings, why............

Lazy bums?:D

suki1964

candygirl wrote: »

Lazy bums?:D

Actually I buy ready made yorkies. For some reason. I cannot cook a yorkie in the oven I have at the moment. I've always cooked great yorkies. This oven won't even make the aunt Bessie ones rise


Cooks carp cakes as well

Pollycat

flea72 wrote: »

Instead of the OJ reveal, they do one on sugar in pasta sauces (real eyeopener) and the difference between cheap and expensive yogurt

Wasn't there a furore a few years ago about pasta sauces from the Prince of Wales's brand (marked 'Organic') that had masses of sugar in?

missflirtuk wrote: »

I watched this and quite enjoyed it, but it didn't really teach me much. I already buy the cheapest tea bags (rarely drink tea so don't splash out) and they taste OK to me, maybe I am just used to the cheaper things in life .

I look at this the other way round.
I drink no more than 3 cups of coffee per day so I don't compromise on taste, I buy what I like the taste of (usually Colombian & Costs Rican).
I won't drink coffee at my Mum's 'cos it's awful stuff.

barneydee_2

When they opened the cupboards I thought they were in my house!! & when he was just chucking things in the trolley that was how I used to be before I became more frugal.
I liked the program but as others have said I would have liked to see more information on cooking from scratch,batch cooking,using the slow cooker & using up left overs.
I work in a super market & regular look at what people have in their trollies & think how much of that is going in the bin? I only have a small frezer I am looking at getting a second one second hand so I can do more batch cooking.
I will watch it again not that I exspect to learn any thing
Dee x

missflirtuk

Pollycat wrote: »

Wasn't there a furore a few years ago about pasta sauces from the Prince of Wales's brand (marked 'Organic') that had masses of sugar in?



I look at this the other way round.
I drink no more than 3 cups of coffee per day so I don't compromise on taste, I buy what I like the taste of (usually Colombian & Costs Rican).
I won't drink coffee at my Mum's 'cos it's awful stuff.

I generally use the cuppa for biscuit dunking purposes :rotfl:.