Moneysaving tv programmes

Siebrie

A long time ago Country File had a section where a Farmer's wife would cook a favourite recipe; if I remember correctly, they were frugal recipes, too.

chirpycheap

Siebrie said:

A long time ago Country File had a section where a Farmer's wife would cook a favourite recipe; if I remember correctly, they were frugal recipes, too.

Lots of the old cookery programmes seemed to be more useful to me as they were aimed at home cooks and used accessible ingredients. Does anyone remember Farmhouse Kitchen with its lovely homely recipes?
 I seem to remember another programme from the 1980s showing thrifty recipes but I can't recall its name. There was a Scottish lady who would announce at the end of recipes with great glee 'total saving for this recipe was 25p'.
If Jac Monroe had her own TV show I would definitely watch that one! I'd like to see thrifty recipes with everyday ingredients and I don't care whether they look Instagrammable so long as they taste good! 😁

pollyanna_26

Siebrie said:

A long time ago Country File had a section where a Farmer's wife would cook a favourite recipe; if I remember correctly, they were frugal recipes, too.

Was it Grace Mulligan? Not sure if it was Country File, I have both thick heavy hardbacks by Grace inthe 80s from the Farmhouse Kitchen TV series. One book was Farmhouse kitchen the other another large book.

Grace was a real life farmers wife cooking from her Yorkshire home.

First book was published in 1984 when I had four hungry offspring to feed . Real cook from scratch filling food in both books.. I.still use them from time to time.

The show was on Yorkshire TV.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

I've just googled Grace. She passed away 3years ago aged 91. A life well lived.

My other book is the Farmhouse Kitchen Baking book. There are other books after I wasn't aware of. Although produced and filmed in Yorkshire  each series was shown on ITV and I remember watching many.

pollyx

MandM90

On the subject of food, I really enjoyed Monty Don's show Fork to Fork. It's on YouTube if somewhat fuzzily. Shows him and hiss family growing, cooking and eating fresh produce. All pretty simple recipes or preparations (e.g. eating the first new pots dipped in butter and salt!) but just really heartwarming and cosy. One of my favourite meals in the summer, when growing tomatoes is tomatoes on toast with a drizzle of olive oil, fresh thyme salt and pepper (and a sneaky glass of wine). So simple and cheap but a real 'champagne moment'!

pollyanna_26

chirpycheap said:

Siebrie said:

A long time ago Country File had a section where a Farmer's wife would cook a favourite recipe; if I remember correctly, they were frugal recipes, too.

Lots of the old cookery programmes seemed to be more useful to me as they were aimed at home cooks and used accessible ingredients. Does anyone remember Farmhouse Kitchen with its lovely homely recipes?
 I seem to remember another programme from the 1980s showing thrifty recipes but I can't recall its name. There was a Scottish lady who would announce at the end of recipes with great glee 'total saving for this recipe was 25p'.
If Jac Monroe had her own TV show I would definitely watch that one! I'd like to see thrifty recipes with everyday ingredients and I don't care whether they look Instagrammable so long as they taste good! 😁

 Sorry I missed your post while typing

. Not sure if it was Bazaar or Pebble Mill but Shirley Goode was on TV in the 80s . Very frugal but imaginative too. She could feed someone  for very little cost.

I have her paperbacks from the 80s. Mainly £1.95 from the bookshop. Those were the days. We were talikng about her over on the Garden fence recently and our memories. A number of us have started rereading her blog. It's been left open by her family to read in her memory.

pollyx

carriebradshaw

cuddlymarm said:

Hi guys
Can anyone remember a moneysaving programme where the whole family got together to save for a specific thing ( holiday, new bathroom etc) They got extra work, made do with a small grocery budget, cut back on electric and nights out etc
Ive been trying to remember it’s title all afternoon. 

Was it Money Spinners  with Lorne Spicer ? I was thinking about this the other day myself,it was good and would be a good idea to bring it back

Pollycat

carriebradshaw said:

cuddlymarm said:

Hi guys
Can anyone remember a moneysaving programme where the whole family got together to save for a specific thing ( holiday, new bathroom etc) They got extra work, made do with a small grocery budget, cut back on electric and nights out etc
Ive been trying to remember it’s title all afternoon. 

Was it Money Spinners  with Lorne Spicer ? I was thinking about this the other day myself,it was good and would be a good idea to bring it back

Money Spinners - Lorne Spicer - looking for families — MoneySavingExpert Forum

p00

Its sad that today moneysaving programmes are not aimed at 'ordinary' people. They show families who apparently dont know where their money goes then its highlighted they spend £300 a month on takeaways and £200 a week on shopping, plus huge Sky contracts etc etc. I couldn't even afford to live that way anyway.
This week a family that have 5 holidays a year costing thousands and endless expensive parties and clothing - and they want to know how to save for their wedding? Maybe these are ordinary people now and I'm out of touch.

It would be nice to have a get back to basics programme to help people to even manage the simple things like basic cooking. 
p00 x

Wraithlady

Unfortunately, doesn't make 'good telly'.

And you'd probably get complaints about it being 'patronising' as it assumes 'people can't cook'.