Gregg Wallace programme on TV

cbrown372

Well the fish cakes were good and there is a good possibility of the cake being attempted this weekend

Many reasons for people buying prepared veg, my MIL used to buy it due to severe arthritis in her hands making it impossible to hold a peeler for the time needed to peel the veg. Daughter also bought some spaghetti courgette from Tesco to use with turkey mince instead of pasta type spaghetti. Yes she could have spent some time making the spaghetti courgette but decided for a first go it was worth trying prepared for £1.

Cornucopia

dumpling wrote: »

What shocked me was the presenter said that the average spend was £84 a week for 4 people

I'm slightly sceptical about that, too - I would budget £20 per person per week, based on fairly economical shopping - so it's achievable... but not an average, I don't think.

Kim_kim

missyrichards wrote: »

I thought the bit about marg and butter was quite informative.

Im really enjoying the programme & I too found the marg butter thing very informative.
I was pretty surprised as I always believed butter was far more "real".
I prefer home made food, but I do work long hours & I am exhausted at the end of the day, so for some things I'm happy to pay for convenience, like a bag of ready cut stir fry veg for example.
But I wouldn't buy sliced or grated cheese, as one it doesn't keep so well & two I'm fussy about quality & good cheese comes in blocks.

andygb

I watched the previous series, despite not really liking mr "shouty man" Wallace.
I reckon all these families play to the camera, particularly in the opening supermarket "trolley fill", where they seem to think that 50 packets of crisps and biscuits forms a major part of a healthy diet.
There are some really lazy people though, like the dozy bint who tried to grate a big lump of cheese instead of cutting off a smaller piece, and didn't know how to peel potatoes so left the skins on the homemade crisps.
I think one of the good things about the programme, is that it gets the children involved with the food they are eating, and they get to say what is good and bad about it.
The problem is, that every time I watch it my blood pressure goes through the roof, watching the antics of the parents.

Cornucopia

andygb wrote: »

I reckon all these families play to the camera, particularly in the opening supermarket "trolley fill"...

I suspect that they are asked to do a shop "for a week", which given that most of them are used to shopping multiple times a week is always going to produce a somewhat random result. I wonder, also, if the BBC is paying for their shopping? This might also produce some unexpected results.

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.

I quite like the programme myself. I don't have an issue with Greg Wallace, except for the Quorn factory visit, where his behaviour was borderline odd. I couldn't work out whether he was embarrassed to be involved with the science, or the meat-substitute products, or maybe he thought his reputation would be affected by presenting a manufactured foodstuff.

Having said that, I think that C4 probably does this kind of thing better: the factual element is done better by Food Unwrapped, and the cooking/campaigning is done better by Jamie Oliver (though he's another acquired taste in presenters).

The basic issue is how do you tell people they are being stupid, without patronising them?

Pollycat

Cornucopia wrote: »

I suspect that they are asked to do a shop "for a week", which given that most of them are used to shopping multiple times a week is always going to produce a somewhat random result.

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 the last series, one woman had been to the supermarket 17 (seventeen) times in one week! :eek:

Cornucopia

If you're shopping more than once a day, there is something wrong.

Farway

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.

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Judging from the fatties I see waddling around my local Adsa with piled high trollies it seem seem some still do

maman

andygb wrote: »

There are some really lazy people though, like the dozy bint who tried to grate a big lump of cheese instead of cutting off a smaller piece, and didn't know how to peel potatoes so left the skins on the homemade crisps.

I think I'm going to have to own up to being a dozy and whatever the other word means. I always leave the skins on my home made chips. I thought the skins were full of nutrients and fibre and good for me.

EstherH

Absolutely Maman. Some posh crisps have the skins left on, can't remember which brand. I hardly ever peel potatoes.
Esther xx