Eat Well For Less Series 3

grunnie

drinkupretty wrote: »

Does anyone else wish they had £300 to spend a week, never mind on food? :rotfl:

Yes me. I spend about £200 every 5 or 6 weeks for 2 of us and a cat. 3 meals a day and snacks. I never waste food. If I cook too much it's either the next day's lunch or labelled put into the freezer for a day when I have better things to do than cook. I would sit down with all that family ask what their favourite meals are and meal plan round the list. My DIL is a vegetarian and I don't cook separate meals she just gets the rest of the meal and if she wasn't happy she can do the cooking. There was no mention of soya mince for a chilli etc or peanut butter for a snack. I wish that family would come and stay with me for a week and I would teach them how to save money.

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drinkupretty wrote: »

Does anyone else wish they had £300 to spend a week, never mind on food? :rotfl:

My budget is about £115/week. That's for everything, not just food.

Blackbeard_of_Perranporth

Crash tv!

If this is all the BBC can produce, I am glad they no longer do golf.

ash28

Well I really like the programme, it's entertaining and occasionally educational, for instance last week they showed portion sizes of protein and on top of that some of their recipes are not only decent but not too expensive to make.

I made the puy lentil dish from last week but made it into a chilli instead of a bolognese and gave it a couple of tweaks to get a richer sauce. It was cheap, nutritious and tasty and I'm not a vegetarian. There were about 8 servings and it worked out about 50p per serving. And I had all the ingredients in the cupboard.

cheel

maman wrote: »

One of the things I do is to serve the majority of our meals at the table in serving dishes. That way, if we're hungry, then we can eat it all. If we're not then leftovers aren't on people's plates and can be saved for another meal. I eat LOs most days for lunch.

Thanks Maman that's a great idea. My son I eight and growing so fast you can almost see it. I never quite get the amount right on his plate, he is either leaving some or asking for more. So I think serving dishes ate the way to fit his appetite as he grows. :money:

Cheel xx

luxor4t

drinkupretty wrote: »

Does anyone else wish they had £300 to spend a week, never mind on food? :rotfl:

I could spend £300 a week - I'd be living in a tent in the sand dunes quite soon though !

JIL

This weeks 70 packets of Crisps had my chin on the floor.

candygirl

JIL wrote: »

This weeks 70 packets of Crisps had my chin on the floor.

What amazed me most , was someone who has an obvious R problem, named their kid Hawwy:eek:

GreenBitterfly

jack_pott wrote: »

It's been done. A few years ago they had three celeb chefs mentor three people who were living off benefits.

James Martin moaned that it was too difficult finding foodstuffs that you can buy in quantities for one person, and another one blew the whole budget on one piece of smoked salmon.

Edit: Just found it on You Tube (7m55s).

I remember that series, I think Angela Hartnett was the most sympathetic of the chefs that took part.

VfM4meplse

drinkupretty wrote: »

Does anyone else wish they had £300 to spend a week, never mind on food? :rotfl:

I'd rather have £300 per week to save! The sense that money must be spent just because it's there is ludicrous.

Looking forward to catching up with brain-dead TV overnight.