Gregg Wallace programme on TV

catkins

Deleted_User wrote: »

I would love them to come and see if they can trim anything off my food shop, it varies between £100 - £130 a month for 2 of us!! I would be willing to bet they couldn't. I shop around, Aldi, Lidl, their baked beans are fabulous, the tin is full of beans, no 2" of sloppy sauce at the top. Morrison and occasionally Tesco. If I shop at Aldi, I have to travel about 20 miles round trip, they are hoping to build one in the town, planning permission is in, if they get it, I will reduce my shopping miles by more than half.

I menu plan and also shop with a list, although if OH is with me I do not always stick to the list, but try to as far as possible. I keep a record of till receipts in my diary.......

I spend around the same, again for 2.


I can't agree about the baked beans though. For me and OH the only decent ones are Heinz. We have tried all the others and they are all pretty disgusting in our view

Kim_kim

barneydee wrote: »

I like the program , I work in a supermarket & believe me there are a lot of famies out there that do spend way over the top on their shopping.
we have one lady that regularly spends £250 or more a week I once asked if this was a monthly shop & she said "oh no weekly" I said" I could not get through that much in a week" she said "hers was a family of 6 but what didn't get eaten went in the bin at the end of the week" more money than sense .
Dee x

You're lucky she didn't complain. I don't think I'd be impressed if the checkout operator cast judgement on my shopping.

The programme is massively contrived, they never have a clue how much they've spent & they always massively under estimate. If this was a typical shop, they'd have a good idea how much is was going to be.

But I love the show - I love the taste tests. I'm always surprised how badly the high end stuff does.

Owain_Moneysaver

Cornucopia wrote: »

Jamie's Super Foods does better, more elegant recipes, and has the excellent approach of aiming for 3 dishes to comprise an ideal day's diet - both in nutritional balance, and overall calories (to my favoured 400-500-600 model, it would seem).

But never any mention of what it costs.

It's certainly a lot more than Value Pasta In Sauce (20p) which is a staple here.

Cornucopia

I doubt that his dishes are particularly expensive... Feta, Tofu, Cottage Cheese, Spinach, Chicken... none of them are "luxury" ingredients. Possibly the biggest issue is buying fresh herbs to only use a small amount in a dish - though these are available at Aldi & Lidl, too.

I've just watched tonight's "Super Foods", and I would estimate the cost of his dishes as: Breakfast Popovers - 80p per serving; Lunch Kebab - £1.50; Dinner Vegeburger - 90p for the Burger and £1 for the Salad & Sauce. (Buying ingredients from Aldi/Lidl, obviously).

Value Pasta does not a balanced diet make.

Feral_Moon

catkins wrote: »

I spend around the same, again for 2.


I can't agree about the baked beans though. For me and OH the only decent ones are Heinz. We have tried all the others and they are all pretty disgusting in our view

I never thought I'd buy anything other than Heinz beans but now I find them incredibly sweet and salty compared to other brands. My favourite are Aldi beans but I recently tried a tin from Asda and they tasted perfectly fine too. Neither were the value brands though. That's a step too far even for me :rotfl:

catkins

Feral_Moon wrote: »

I never thought I'd buy anything other than Heinz beans but now I find them incredibly sweet and salty compared to other brands. My favourite are Aldi beans but I recently tried a tin from Asda and they tasted perfectly fine too. Neither were the value brands though. That's a step too far even for me :rotfl:

I might give the Aldi ones another try, they may have changed them since I tried them.


I tried the Asda ones not long ago and thought they were awful - so disgusting I couldn't even eat one mouthful. I wish me and OH did like cheaper brands of beans. Practically everything else we do but not beans

lessonlearned

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

But never any mention of what it costs.

It's certainly a lot more than Value Pasta In Sauce (20p) which is a staple here.

Most of the recipes are based on the traditional peasant food from the countries he has visited. As such they are mainly plant based with just small amounts of meat and dairy, tofu etc. - so healthy and cheap.

One very interesting fact came out last week. That is that in Okinawa, the place where peope are really healtny and long lived, only the rich ate white rice, poorer people ate vegetables.

I did read somewhere that they ate around 17 portions of vegetables a day as opposed to our NHS guideline of around 5 to 7.

Re fresh herbs - I grow herbs and salads in pots on my window cills. I just cut off what I need.

vic_sf49

Cornucopia wrote: »

Do people really do one big shop per week any more? I hardly ever see anyone with an over-flowing trolley like I used to.

In my Asda last week, they had every till open bar two, and 90% of the checkouts had a couple of shoppers with overflowing trolleys. I don't even know how you push a trolley that full! I was worried my frozen goods would have melted by the time I got out of there and had driven home.

Just as I'm fascinated by how people fill a massive trolley, I'm fascinated by programmes like this, just to see how other people do things - especially when it's to the extreme, whether it's faked or not.

I don't care what they eat - healthy or unhealthy, as that's not going to influence what I buy.

catkins

Cornucopia wrote: »

Do people really do one big shop per week any more? I hardly ever see anyone with an over-flowing trolley like I used to.

Both me and OH hate supermarket shopping so we only go about once every 6 weeks to do a big shop but our trolley is far from over-flowing.


I do buy fruit and veg from the market or Lidl every week and we have a milkman so no need to shop for anything else weekly

fuddle

Cornucopia wrote: »

I doubt that his dishes are particularly expensive... Feta, Tofu, Cottage Cheese, Spinach, Chicken... none of them are "luxury" ingredients. Possibly the biggest issue is buying fresh herbs to only use a small amount in a dish - though these are available at Aldi & Lidl, too.

I've just watched tonight's "Super Foods", and I would estimate the cost of his dishes as: Breakfast Popovers - 80p per serving; Lunch Kebab - £1.50; Dinner Vegeburger - 90p for the Burger and £1 for the Salad & Sauce. (Buying ingredients from Aldi/Lidl, obviously).

Value Pasta does not a balanced diet make.

My DH made two of the recipes from last weeks show on Saturday. The corn pancakes and the fish taco's. Given that I am eating primally and I do have a good stock of ingredients, he spent £20 on ingredients that we didn't have in for those two dishes.

I do share your point and agree with you but when you are trying to eat fresh (primally, superfoods etc) it is more expensive when value pasta, grain based carbs is what you are used to, what I am used to. No, it doesn't make for a healthy diet, in fact it made me quite poorly which is why we've changed but I tell you I am struggling to keep my normal budget.

I agree that last nights meals appeared to be much lighter on purse strings and will be trying the popovers with cottage cheese.