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What a total shambles of a programme. 'Here's how to cook for less. Start by buying three kinds of oil and three kinds of vinegar. Here's a simple macaroni cheese. With a fucking jar of artcichokes in it.'

It couldn't make up its mind whether it was Jamie Oliver, Supernanny or Beat the Takeaway. Bobbins.
 
It was a perfecely laudable idea....with terrible execution. And really like all these programmes it states the obvious - plan your shopping list and don't get 3 takeaways and you'll save money! Wow, revoluntionary idea there.
 
I know! It was fucking stupid. Allegra McThingy has got some good recipes, I was hoping for actual nice stuff made with cheap cuts or whatevs. Not fucking hotdogs and noodles :confused:
 
Santino said:
That looked grim.
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AND YET if she replaced the noodles with some kind of bean (cheaper than the fresh egg noodles she was using) and the hotdogs with er, anything edible (cheap pork, chicken thighs, homemade meatballs, normal sausages, ANYTHING but hotdogs) it would have been fine and dandy.
WTF?
 
The Sainsbury 'Meal Ideas for a Fiver' ads were more informative that this.

Allegra is a completely batshit posho tho, lovely but mad, so it's not surprising her idea of 'economy' is somewhat skewed...
 
I tuned into this thinking it was just going to be a cookery programme. Not a fucking social experiment. Why must every single show on the box be shoe-horned into one of about three basic formats? :mad:

I didn't actually have a problem with the "3 types of vinegar and 2 types of olive oil" thing - it was supposed to be about how you could cook GOOD food and still do it more cheaply than cooking crap.

It was all the unnecessary rubbish stolen straight out of "You are what you eat" that annoyed me.

Damn shame as I like Allegra's batshit posho thing. "Get in the kitch" indeed :D
 
It was bobbins, wasn't it. The kernel of a good idea, ruined by gimmickry. That hotdog thing was :eek:. And I like those frankfurter things.
 
it was basically an advert for fucking Asda, when they went out shopping they managed to get the Asda logo into shot about 3 or 4 times, i don't know why they get away with such blatant product placement tbh...
 
I thought it was rather daft the way they gave prices for ingredients. Surely the cost of stuff depends on where you live in the country and where you go to do your shopping.

The Mrs wife lady in the subject family was pretty good telly. She seemed keen and got stuck in. But for the love of God woman, leave your children at home with your husband when you go shopping. It's not like you can't add up by yourself, now is it? And you'd get round the supermarket in half the time.

I thought it seemed like a good idea but the forced terminology of "bedrock" recipes and "tumbledown" recipes made me squirm. Whoever came up with those needs to be sacked. Why not say you start with your basic recipe and use it to make different dishes? Or is that too easy?
 
I didn't think it was so bad........saved the family a lot of money which was one of the things they wanted and they were eating better !
 
rubbershoes said:
was it about saving money, eating more healthily or getting over a fear of the kitchen?
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Sort of all 3 yet did none of them well, hence it being a very odd show.

Yeah the familly saved money but it was nothing more than common sense....a shopping list....fuck me :eek::rolleyes:
 
Paulie Tandoori said:
it was basically an advert for fucking Asda, when they went out shopping they managed to get the Asda logo into shot about 3 or 4 times, i don't know why they get away with such blatant product placement tbh...
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Although in the family's actual house, many of the products on the shelves were very clearly from Waitrose.

It was an utter shambles of a programme. That hot dog and noodles thing looked terrible. I'm not surprised the boy didn't eat it, I wouldn't either. It's a shame because it's so EASY to cook well cheaply, and there they are putting a jar of artichokes in a macaroni cheese and making vinagery hotdogs in noodles.

And not a single one of those main recipes took less than an hour to cook. What mum with 3 young children has an hour every night to spend standing there making dinner? Bobbins.
 
The irony of the length of time to cook is that Allegra wrote the Leon cookbook, which is excellent food, real quick as it's the basis of the 'great food, fast' concept for Leon...
 
kyser_soze said:
The irony of the length of time to cook is that Allegra wrote the Leon cookbook, which is excellent food, real quick as it's the basis of the 'great food, fast' concept for Leon...
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I've cooked quite a few of the Leon recipes, and they're good, but definitely not quick.
 
Intastella said:
I can't see how 1kg of mince can make 5 meals for 4 people either...
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Three meals, and two adults, three kids. I can just about see how you could make that stretch to a chilli, spag bol and cottage pie, but I couldn't really see how making the "base recipe" would save you that much time.

They were a really nice family though. And the toddlers would eat anything. :D
 
Ms T said:
Three meals, and two adults, three kids. I can just about see how you could make that stretch to a chilli, spag bol and cottage pie, but I couldn't really see how making the "base recipe" would save you that much time.

They were a really nice family though. And the toddlers would eat anything. :D
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No way could you get 20 servings out of 1kg of mince (even small portions)surely?
 
That programme was rubbish. I convinced the better half to watch it under duress, suggesting that (I'm paraphrasing here) that eccentric Allegra Leon's presenting it - it'll be fun. Cue stony expression coupled with the 'i told you so' and utter disgust (at the frankfurter monstrosity) faces. I think I lose the right to the remote tonight as a result.

Interesting that some are talking about the mingy mince portions. It's certainly ties in with my couple of experiences with Leon, which I really liked as a concept. Enthusiastic staff, nice premises, good, balanced menu ... and bleeding small portions. After the last (ok) lamb curry there I ended up getting a sarnie on the way back to the office. Which kind of ruined the appeal as a lunchtime destination.
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I was going to catch this programme but I'm glad I never bothered now. If I want to know how to cook/eat/live more cheaply, I'll just speak to an old lady. My nan used to boil pigs heads and all sorts. Gone are the days of eating the whole animal. No respect!
 
It annoyed me so much that I Sky-plussed it this week so I could wallow in being annoyed by the second episode.

It delivered.
 
I saw this for the first time :eek::eek:

What economy?! :eek:

Next time they've got a family in who spend £21k a year on food 21k :eek: unless they're an army unit - how?!
 
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