Martins programme last night on ITV

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I'm afraid that if that was my 12 year old she would be told that if she wanted the more expensive shampoo then she could jolly well pay for it herself.
It is sad that so many parents are dictated to by their children.My late husband bless him, always said that Schweppes was the only lemonade that he could drink with his Vodka. I soon learnt to half & half a bottle with the value stuff ,then increased the percentages over a few months at a time until he was eventually drinking a cheaper brand out of a Schweppes bottle. I also substituted a value vodka for Schmirnoff. Same strength, same effect,more cash in my purse.
It was an interesting experiment though and proves that we are often paying for 'brand-loyalty' as opposed to quality.
Supermarkets make their millions by clever marketing.There's very few that go broke that's for sure

Jet

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi,

I think that's such a good policy Pen and others. When I was 12 my Mum and Dad turned my child benefit over to me, and I had to clothe, shoe and toiletry(!) myself and all fun things from this one pot. School trips and school uniform included.;)

I can't describe how good a tactic this was for building me into a responsible budgeter.

I haven't got kids, but I admire any parent who would show tough love to their kid in this way.:A

Weezl

That's exactly what happened to me - all my friends thought I was rich getting £25 a month pocket money. :rotfl:But when they realised that everything including shoes, clothes, even sanitary protection had to come out of the money, I don't think they were so envious.

As for the programme - I didn't watch it but my ex was adamant that he would only eat branded weetabix, I used to put Asda own brand in the weetabix box. Six months later, after listening to him rant about how tight I am, I pointed out that the bottle of wine he was drinking was paid for out of the savings on the weetabix.

How smug did I feel?

jellycat40

I enjoyed the programme and will have a go at the down shopping thing. But I recently bought some Basic brand cereal and it is awful. I will try the next up the shops own brand but how can no one get the same quality as Kelloggs?

I love to shop in Waitrose and M&S too so maybe the first thing I need to do is down shop my shop! It is always so peaceful in there though not like the bun fight in Morrissons or Tesco.

Louise

moanymoany

could kick myself for having missed it!

The idea of a 12 year old screaming about shampoo is a bit strange. I wonder what else she controls in that family.

Instead of all the cheffy food programmes I would like to see some on cooking frugal food. By that I do not mean - 'Oh wow! I can cook a sunday lunch for for 4 for £10'. I would like to see meals for 2 adults and 2 children cooked for £25 for the week.

In France I saw a programme about frugal living. How to get bargains. I understood about 15% of it, but a similar programme would go down well here.

Programmes about food shopping and cooking cheap, nourishing meals might start to fill the huge ignorance gap there seems to be regarding such things in the country.

ilovegreatdanes

couldnt believe how she could spend £160 per week on shopping.re the daughters shampoo, id just pour the cheap stuff into the dear stuffs bottle and not say anything.i know that years ago i try alot of the cheapos and they were really awful but i buy lots of the shops own brands and they are deffo much improved.the only thing that i will buy is kellogs cornflakes and neinz tom soup cos i have ried all the others and they still havent come up with a palitable alternative.
hes doing another prog on mis sold and rubbish ppi plicies later on so that should be good.

trying-very-trying

Hime wrote: »

we are using all the techniques already, so are now looking for ways to cut the bills further.

I've tried that, but we became quite poorly on fresh air:rotfl:

csarina

The programme was not on where I live, so cannot comment, but I have been a dedicated own brand shopper for years, and it has certainly saved my pocket.......

MATH

I've cracked open a bottle of wine (Supermarket own brand LOL) and am watching it now.:cool: Thanks for posting the link:beer:

thriftlady_2

moanymoany wrote: »

Instead of all the cheffy food programmes I would like to see some on cooking frugal food. By that I do not mean - 'Oh wow! I can cook a sunday lunch for for 4 for £10'. I would like to see meals for 2 adults and 2 children cooked for £25 for the week.

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Great idea

passion8

For starters, I thought they were a lovely family and the 12 yr old just seemed typical of many 12 yr old girls I know, and I didn't see it so much as 'screaming', more like a fun reaction but I agree that it's all in the packaging. Like asking kids to wear non-designer trainers.

I was shocked at the amount of saving Martin made on his trolley load of food, but I buy, or used to buy, Tesco Finest and M&S foods, some of which we didn't even like that much. Too much convenience involved, but now I've got time on my hands and I've read how good the alternatives are on this site. My DH 'forgot' that on two recent shopping trips and came home with a ready cooked chicken, and M&S jacket potatoes! I'm embarrassed just typing about it but it won't happen again, unless the chickens are cheap

The need to shop carefully was cleverly highlighted with the carrots, for instance. It worked out cheaper to get a higher brand, on that particular day. As was the blind tasting test. It was a blinder and I agree that the packaging needs to be clearer about its ingredients. It sends me dotty comparing like for like. Some things I won't compromise on are Mellow Birds coffee, Heinz tomato soup, as mentioned, ditto for ketchup, and tinned salmon has to be red and preferably John West. I'm not sure why though lol.

Thoroughly enjoyed the programme and can't wait for the next similar one.

I'm off to make a curry with the left-over chicken now, something I'd never have dreamed of before finding all the recipes on here.

(Good idea about the home-made versus shop bought too r.mac! )