New BBC2 Back in time for dinner

Feral_Moon

You can already buy edible insects. They're really quite yummy, especially the chocolate coated ones :drool:

TravellingAbuela

I remember Stefan Gates making mealworm burgers on the first Michel Roux jnr Food and Drink series. They had people on the street trying them out - they were braver than I would have been!

joedenise

Think I'd rather be veggie than eat insects!

Denise

Gigervamp

My husband tried crickets when we went to Wahaca recently. They were all mashed up and mixed with spices though. He said they tasted ok.

The boy was the most adventurous. I think if insects are to become a staple protein, they'll have to be made unrecognizable for most people.

Butterfly_Brain

The insects made me heave, no way would I eat them, I will become a vegetarian first.

As for the beige smoothies.................... yak, I can't swallow smoothies, or milkshakes at all.

All in all it was a really good show that makes us wake up to the reality of how much of our food is doctored in some way or other.

We have always tried to eat good basic, home cooked, from scratch meals, and I will be making an even bigger effort from now on.

suki1964

Fantastic end to what I found to be a really educational programme

I love how the programme has shown how we are going full circle, we are going back to shopping locally, that the butchers and fishmongers are making a come back. That fruit and veg needs to be sourced locally and eaten in season.

I liked too how the family learned how important it was to sit and eat together at least a couple of times a week

As for the insects, not for me either. I had read long time ago that insects would be the food of the future. As so many of us are finding, meat is becoming more and more expensive and some of us are having to cut back on it already. I'm dealing with that by experimenting with more veggie cooking or using eggs and cheese more. Fish also appears on our menu more often


I love at the end how Rochelle comments on how food binds the family and creates memories

Rainy-Days

They did keep the kitchen that they had installed for the 1990's show - I had a feeling they would. They took the sofa out and put a large dark (possibly oak) table in. Interesting that they are keeping up with the family sit down meals - thats a good thing.

I shop more locally now than ever before now. We have a really good market in Morpeth and I make use of that. I always use my local butchers and I rarely buy meat from the supermarket (other than chicken).

If after the Tesco situation yesterday - it shows that more and more people are abandoning the big supermarket shop in favour of more select shopping then I think thats a good thing.

I want to know where my food has come from, if I am buying it then I want to source it locally.

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I think I would struggle with eating insects and would probably go more for vegatables and a veggie diet if meat became too expensive

I usually eat veggie a couple of times a week now anyway.after all a veggie lasange or curry tastes just as nice as a meat laden one. I am lucky that I live in a small area where if I want to I can walk around to the local wet-fish shop and buy fresh fish or drive into Whitstable on a Sunday morning and buy it almost jumping off the slab its so fresh.

I also have a independant butcher locally and a greengrocer so I don't need to use the SM if I don't want to. I find that using the local small business means you often spend less as if you only need a small amount my local traders will happily sell it to you.
The greengrocer cuts cabbages in half for sale, which, when you live alone is a boon.,and if I want three carrots and a parsnip he is quite happy to sell you that as well.Local traders need all the help they can get so I like my little local chaps and its nice to be greeted with a cheerful Good Morning instead of a grunt or a machine that adds things up.
I am of the genreation that likes the personal touch.But for a lot of folk in the bigger towns and cities its different .
The last programme I thought was perhaps the best as the lady was far more relaxed about food and it has made her think perhaps more about the social aspect of eating.The family seem happier now they eat together rather than spread around the house doing their own thing.My youngest DD insists that the family sit together to eat and it can get quite lively at time when the four boys and her OH and I all sit down to sunday dinner.Breaking bread with your family is as old as time itself and when I was little I could never have imagined eating anywhere else but at the table.

Kantankrus_Mare

In fact looking back to my childhood.....I cant remember a single time we didnt eat our meal at the table!

Oh how times have changed.

We probably split our time between eating in front of the telly and all sitting at a table but one thing remains the same....we all four sit together and I have never allowed the kids (ha...22 and 20 now) to get into the habit of eating in their rooms.

Sometimes its the only time we get to see and talk to our offspring.

Gigervamp

A lot of houses now don't even have room for a dining table. My grandaughter and her mum live in a tiny 2 bedroomed house. Downstairs there's only the kitchen and living room. Neither are big enough to have a table in.

It's such a shame that so many families never sit at the table to eat meals.