Eat Well For Less Series 3

Butterfly_Brain

Agave nectar can only be bought from Holland and Barrat around here, Asda stopped doing it and I rarely go to Sainsbury at £3.99 for a 250ml bottle I think it is an extortionate price.

As a diabetic I tend to use brown sugar, honey, molasses or maple syrup. rather than anything produced from aspartame, sucralose, HFGS,or other manufactured sweetener. Since I have gone back to cooking and eating from scratch I have lost weight.

jlhmd666

catkins wrote: »

Well I have looked at "mysupermarket.com" and block cheddar cheese is £5 a kilo whereas grated cheese is £7 a kilo for the cheapest.

Obviously if your supermarket has grated cheese cheaper then it makes sense but usually, as stated in the programme, you pay more for grated cheese.

Tesco everyday value grated cheddar is £2.50 for 500g, which would work out at £5.00 for 1kg.

pelirocco

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Agave nectar can only be bought from Holland and Barrat around here, Asda stopped doing it and I rarely go to Sainsbury at £3.99 for a 250ml bottle I think it is an extortionate price.

As a diabetic I tend to use brown sugar, honey, molasses or maple syrup. rather than anything produced from aspartame, sucralose, HFGS,or other manufactured sweetener. Since I have gone back to cooking and eating from scratch I have lost weight.

As a diabetic you should know that a sugar is a sugar is a sugar ......and if you are a type 2 you should be especially wary of anything that comes under the carb umbrella

maman

jlhmd666 wrote: »

Tesco everyday value grated cheddar is £2.50 for 500g, which would work out at £5.00 for 1kg.

I find that most grated cheddar has potato starch in it so prefer to grate my own. It's OK in sauces but in sandwiches I'd rather have 100% cheese.

VfM4meplse wrote: »

She must have had a good relationship with her husband, because he agreed that she should give up her job which I would imagine have previously covered the luxury of her excessive food shopping.

I've read the comments about her deprived childhood but surely if she had serious mental health issues they wouldn't have chosen the family to be on the show.


I think she was being very selfish. She'd given up a part time, term time only job to 'spend more time with her family'. Yet the girl was a teenager and would have been at school all day and her DH worked all hours. You could see from his face that he didn't want to spend all that money (£15 000+ after tax takes some earning) as if they spent less he could work fewer hours. He also longed to come home to a hot meal bubbling away but she found cooking savoury things boring and couldn't motivate herself to cook a proper evening meal.


I know this programme focuses on food shopping but it must be so hard to be in a relationship where one is a profligate spender and the other is mse. It seems particularly harsh and unfair where the profligate one isn't earning!

Pollycat

maman wrote: »

I find that most grated cheddar has potato starch in it so prefer to grate my own. It's OK in sauces but in sandwiches I'd rather have 100% cheese.




I've read the comments about her deprived childhood but surely if she had serious mental health issues they wouldn't have chosen the family to be on the show.


I think she was being very selfish. She'd given up a part time, term time only job to 'spend more time with her family'. Yet the girl was a teenager and would have been at school all day and her DH worked all hours. You could see from his face that he didn't want to spend all that money (£15 000+ after tax takes some earning) as if they spent less he could work fewer hours. He also longed to come home to a hot meal bubbling away but she found cooking savoury things boring and couldn't motivate herself to cook a proper evening meal.


I know this programme focuses on food shopping but it must be so hard to be in a relationship where one is a profligate spender and the other is mse. It seems particularly harsh and unfair where the profligate one isn't earning!

WOW!
Such different views.
I'll watch it with an open mind

But tonight my priority is Celeb Masterchef.
I have last night's episode to watch as well as 90 minutes tonight

I may be late on parade tomorrow morning.

catkins

jlhmd666 wrote: »

Tesco everyday value grated cheddar is £2.50 for 500g, which would work out at £5.00 for 1kg.

Yes the Tesco every day value grated cheddar cheese is £5.00 for 1kg but the Tesco every day value block cheddar is £4.33 for 1kg

greentiger

I enjoy this programme. I think the idea is to point people - not just those in the programme - in the direction of better planning, nutrition and financial management. Take a baby step, then another, then another ... It's hard to go "cold turkey" (sorry about the food ananlogy) sometimes, but making a start is better than sticking to what's not wise. I think the families on the show need to be ones who are extreme overspenders to allow the programme to highlight - and reinforce from one programme to the next - what opportunities for change there are.

And I loved the tea giggles. She realised that what she was saying about her tea and its box was ridiculous. And she said she'd discovered a love of cooking that she didn't know she had.


As for me, I can overspend. And today I bought grated mozzarella & parmesan and diced precooked chicken and cans of condensed soup and a whole lot of stuff I wouldn't normally buy. BUT I'm having a wheen of visitors on Sunday who are invited to dinner and I'm out all day tomorrow (including the evening). We are having the paper fish recipe for tea as it'll be quick to have when we pass through! I'll be minding my grandchildren on Sunday morning, while prepping a chocolate fudge pudding, making banana & raisin muffins and some bread. The ready prepped stuff is to make a chicken lasagne which will feed at least 10, along with a salad and the crusty bread. It's better than the alternative - ready made lasagnes from the supermarket.

And tonight we had takeaway. I lost my wedding ring when out for my groceries and I cried all the way home - it'll be 45 years next Saturday since I first wore it. I was in a terrible state when I got home. Luckily my husband found it in one of the shopping bags.

I am retired. I enjoy cooking and trying new recipes (but not clearing up afterwards, lol). I do a meal plan for the whole week (breakfast, lunch & dinner) and usually cook from scratch. There is no shop in our village, so I always have to drive somewhere a couple of times a week. Circumstance sometimes means changes are required but the food's never wasted. I have a not very big fridge/freezer, which I fill with leftovers (often cook 4 portions for 2 of us), fresh meat/fish that I can't use right away and odd veg. I would love to do proper batch cooking but there's no room. I 'd buy more ys stuff but usually there's no room. Another freezer would be perfect, but I've nowhere to put it And I buy a mix of branded and basic goods.

I am lucky to have a pressure cooker (40+ years old), 2 slow cookers, a microwave, a food processor and a bread maker. I use them all, but I dare say I could do without all of them, although I'd kick up a fuss if you tried to take my breadmaker!

To sum up, it's all about balance for me - balance of time & space as well as budget!

JIL

I know it was a different programme but what about celebrity masterchef and using chicken soup as a coating on chicken?
So flour, buttermilk, seasoning and chicken soup and then coating the chicken with it and deep frying. Was I dreaming? Did that really happen?

Pollycat

JIL wrote: »

I know it was a different programme but what about celebrity masterchef and using chicken soup as a coating on chicken?
So flour, buttermilk, seasoning and chicken soup and then coating the chicken with it and deep frying. Was I dreaming? Did that really happen?

Nope, it really did happen.

It was the condensed soup that John used.

pelirocco

Im not a great fan of ready grated cheese , I've not found with with a great deal of flavour , but I do buy it to take into work ( along with other stuff ) so we can making lunches up through out the week .
I have in the past used my food processor to grate large amounts of cheese , kept it in tub in the fridge , but find it goes mouldy pretty quickly.
But at the end of the day i, buying ready grated cheese isnt really a budget breaker