Eat Well For Less Series 3

candygirl

Thanks for the heads up, i'll watch it later

PasturesNew

I missed the start.

Watched it from the bit where she tasted veggies on the stall and compared organic taste -v- non-organic taste.

Blimey - £110/week on food!

maman

Probably the least informative programme of the series for me. The main issue was that they got the mother to swap organic for non-organic. To be fair they did make the point that most people who eat organic do it for environmental reasons but this mum had crazy issues like there's no smell cooking organic broccoli! If they wanted to tackle the cost of organic eating they'd have been better off showing how to do that with cheap pulses for protein rather than someone who wasted money on a daft fad.

candygirl

I love home made pasta, but rarely do it, plus she's already said she is pushed for time !

JIL

One thing that this seems to highlight again and again. Their children are said to be fussy eaters, until they start helping out in the kitchen. I don't think this is down to coincidence.

mum2one

suki1964 wrote: »

Blame brexit

Seriously I think it was the Olympic coverage that messed their schedules up. I had to do without doctors for near on 3 months :eek:

same here..... then we had that 40 episode Irish police saga... never watched it...

Pollycat

suki1964 wrote: »

Seriously I think it was the Olympic coverage that messed their schedules up. I had to do without doctors for near on 3 months :eek:

WOW!
Were they so immersed in watching the Olympics that you couldn't get an appointment?

Missed last night's episode, might pick it up on catchup.

Butterfly_Brain

mum2one wrote: »

same here..... then we had that 40 episode Irish police saga... never watched it...

And we have more repeats of Antiques road trip and a rubbish game show in place of Father Brown and Doctor Blake :mad::mad::mad:

I watched 5 minutes of the first episode of that and switched off. It was woodentop "acting" in the extreme. I will be glad when the Olympics is finished, but then we will have football shoved down our throats at every opportunity :mad::mad:

The BBC should just have a sports channel that doesn't interfere with normal programming:mad::mad:

Anyway getting back to last night's programme, I thought it was ridiculous paying a premium price for veggies that she could grow herself, even indoors on windowsills. But like her I buy organic meat if I can, I tend to buy from a local farm and know that it is organic, but I also buy Chickens from Aldi.

I hate fussy eaters, I never stood for it when my children were small, money was tight and it was eat it or go without, they were cooking with me since they were 2 years old, just starting with biscuits for Daddy, cakes, bread and then as they got older we moved on to dinners, they used to pick the vegetables from the garden and prepare them Peas and berries seemed light most of the time they ate most of them before they got indoors:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

DS starts Uni this year and is capable of looking after himself and budgeting.

Money is tight this month Car insurance, Boiler check, Chimney sweep, spent too much in the Wilko and garden centre sales (My bad) but I have lots of seeds and pots for next year and an American BBQ that we picked up for £46 (was £90) plus a Kettle BBQ for £5 (reduced from £30) for DD because she is Vegetarian. and so are a lot of her friends.

So I have decided to live from the freezer and cupboards for at least the next couple of months to help our buffer get back to where it was. Luckily I have a garden full of fruit and veg, most of the Christmas pressies, £45 Morrisons vouchers and £20 love to shop vouchers.

Our shopping this week came to £23 for five of us and that included toilet rolls two medium chickens ( reduced by 30% so £2.22 each which is less than a small chicken), bacon, milk, 30 eggs, cheese and potatoes. I so love Aldi

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Farway

JIL wrote: »

One thing that this seems to highlight again and again. Their children are said to be fussy eaters, until they start helping out in the kitchen. I don't think this is down to coincidence.

It isn't, my pair used to whinge about me not peeling the apples in pies, I told them if they wanted to peel the apples go right ahead and do it

They soon stopped whinging and just ate the pies, peel and all

Wednesday2000

I just watched it, I thought the little girl was very cute. :A

I have to say that I can taste the difference with organic fruit as the taste is so different. It reminds me of the way fruit used to taste when I was a kid. Some non-organic fruit is nice too and I buy that too.

The programme has really made me crave a lovely, crunchy coleslaw, mmm.:)