Anyone watching Tonight (ITV)?

HelenYorkshire

Looks like OS could be "old" no longer... Although they were starting off gently, every change makes a difference. I've never seen someone look so amazed at the concept of re-using meat :rolleyes::p

(For those who didn't watch, it was about beating rising food costs, so family of ready meal eaters was given a shopping list and some recipes like shepherds pie. They were taken shopping and had cheap stuff pointed out to them)

Careful guys, you could all be in fashion soon :eek: :rotfl:

mary43

Oh blast ! I missed it........................hope they repeat it sometime.I saw the 'trailer' for it last week and it looked like it would be a useful programme.

mouseymousey99

I just caught a bit of it - Margurite Pattern (wonderful lady) saying in the years when food was rationed you would be fined for wasting food - I never realised that. They even printed your name in the paper.

nicky_s_2

You can watch the programme online at www.itv.com/tonight.

HTH

Nicky

Bitsy_Beans

I can't believe they spent £150 a week and she still went to the shops every day. I didn't see it from the very beginning but what the heck was she spending all that money on?

like OP says Old style will probably be old no longer. I think that can only be a good thing. Stop all this processed rubbish and bring back real food.

Westywoodpecker

[quote I've never seen someone look so amazed at the concept of re-using meat :rolleyes:[/quote]

Why have a Sunday roast & throw the remaining meat away !!

skintscotslass

It's on tomorrow, Tuesday 13 May at 10.35 pm on ITV1 in the STV area (Central Scotland). Not sure about other areas. HTH.

mouseymousey99

as no one has ever shown the lady how to cook? Freezer full of rubbish, and children who instead of sitting down eating together choose what they want?? Pressures of work, then having to start cooking when you get home??Do they still teach cookery in schools? I left in the 70s and I can remember being taught to make beef olives - no doubt ready for all the dinner parties I would be giving!!

angel

Westywoodpecker wrote: »

Why have a Sunday roast & throw the remaining meat away !!

I hold my hands up to do that a lot in the past. I would have say roast beef on sunday, put it in the fridge (if I remembered!) and on monday fancy something different or a takeaway, then by tuesday I'd be thinking that the chicken that's still in the fridge from saturday needs to be cooked and so on and the beef would get thrown away.

That was in the days of plenty when I was well off. I'm not now and I wouldn't dream wasting food like that. I think also I've now learnt over the years what can be done with leftovers and how they can be even better then the original meal.

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I watched it last night and was surprised at a seemingly smart lady, and how much she actually spent on junk food .I am pleased that she seemed to have realised at long last what she was doing with her cash. I couldn't believe how much of her food was processed stuff and ready made meals .She had a nice kitchen that she seemed to use only for re-heating this stuff.
I love a shoulder of lamb, and have always maintained it made to best Shepards Pie in the world .As she said at the end she was throwing away and spending almost as much in a year that would buy a car with !! I hope they do a follow up in a few months to see if she sticks with it .I was yelling at the screen 'Look on MSE, and see the OS forum.'
I really think it would be great if our children were taught basic cooking skills in schools. At my old school we had a 'Housecraft class' that the girls all went to,plus one boy who preferred cooking to woodwork.But my Mum taught me to cook when I was young as did most girls Mums in those days .But today with a lot of Mums having to work, the children grow up thinking that food comes from a cardboard container. My youngest DD cooks all her food from scratch but then she has five hungry children to feed so couldn't afford to buy stuff like that anyway.She also has three part-time jobs as well, so she is a very busy lady. Her lads love their Mum's cakes, and her tins get filled up every couple of days when she batch bakes for her tribe It was an excellent programme I wonder if perhaps a basic skills programme on 'ordinary family' economics and cooking would make people less wastefull. I have a Tescos Metro store near to me, and the shelves seem to be full of proccessed food and very little fresh stuff. In a world where there are folk starving and the costs of basic foods are beginning to rise dramatically it would hopefully seem that processed food will become a thing of the past. I wonder how many of the 'Greenies' who bang on about a carbon footprint actually think about cooking properly and not buying containers of 'fast food ' I 'm sure it must be ecologically a better idea to eat fresh local produce rather than something that was boxed and frozen in a factory miles away.
I am lucky where I live I can drive to a farm shop locally and buy the stuff almost from the fields.My local butcher sources his meat from a farm at Stockbury about three miles away and a twenty minute drive to Whitstable will let me buy fish that was caught that day. Support your local food producers if possible, or they will dissappear.In the big cities it is more difficult I know but there are big markets that you can go to buy stuff if you have a scout around.

purpleivy

angel wrote: »

I hold my hands up to do that a lot in the past. I would have say roast beef on sunday, put it in the fridge (if I remembered!) and on monday fancy something different or a takeaway, then by tuesday I'd be thinking that the chicken that's still in the fridge from saturday needs to be cooked and so on and the beef would get thrown away.

That was in the days of plenty when I was well off. I'm not now and I wouldn't dream wasting food like that. I think also I've now learnt over the years what can be done with leftovers and how they can be even better then the original meal.

I apologised for doing leftovers once (wouldn't do it now!!!!!) but the response from my ds (who can't have been more than about 7 at the time) was... welll everything is so GOOD to begin with, we don't mind.