How well do you eat?

Jade35

Jade35

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We quite often watch Eat well for less as it does give an insight into what foods people buy, prepare and eat but missed this episode. Eldest daughter recommended watching it because as she said 'it's an absolute shocker'. How can people get their food priorities so, so wrong?😩

Watch the first 10 minutes even if you don't watch the rest of the programme

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC One - Eat Well for Less?, Series 6, Episode 4

Gregg and Chris are in Nottinghamshire with the sugar-loving Walton family.
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Jade35 said:
We quite often watch Eat well for less as it does give an insight into what foods people buy, prepare and eat but missed this episode. Eldest daughter recommended watching it because as she said 'it's an absolute shocker'. How can people get their food priorities so, so wrong?😩

Watch the first 10 minutes even if you don't watch the rest of the programme

www.bbc.co.uk

BBC One - Eat Well for Less?, Series 6, Episode 4

Gregg and Chris are in Nottinghamshire with the sugar-loving Walton family.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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I got as far as the chocolate isle, but very nearly turned off when he was going on about his pain after having seen the hitching up of the caravan ....
No sympathy at all. Zilch. Totally irresponsibility towards their grandchildren.
 
I'll be honest in the summer I eat a lot of ready meals now the dark nights are here and I'm home earlier I will cook fresh food.
Blueberry muffins are a weakness too. Not really a choice fan. The other good thing is my fridge is tiny and the freezer is tinier still so I cant stock up with junk.
Probably should eat more salad but it doesn't fill me up, then I have to keep picking all day
 
haulmy said:
It did look staged to me. Did not watch after the check out
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Staged? surely not:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: doesn't everyone walk around the supermarket with a smart hairdo and nice make up 😮



What was interesting was the fact that a nurse and her husband, both with type 2 diabetes, had made no apparent effort to alter their diet before going on this show. What has happened to all the money and resources that the NHS has poured into educating people about diabetes prevention and treatment?
 
We eat very well, cooked tea every day, my downfall is the chocolate and sweets, although I am slowly eating less.
We have takeaway once a fortnight and mrs Montydog allways has fruit in the house.
The problem I find with the eat well for less type programs, is the substituting things like own brand sugar free pop in place of coke for eg.
The chemicals and artificial sweeteners far outweigh the savings
 
I'm not the best cook either, a lot of you likely learned at an early age, not only where your food came from but how to prepare and cook it too. I was in my mid fifties when i first cooked a Christmas dinner solo. I wouldn't have managed that if I hadn't spotted a turkey crown had the cooking instructions on the wrapper and though I say so myself it was suuuuperb.
Top tip if you're not sure about cooking don't ring your sil xmas dinner time and ask why yer turkey is still all juicy instead of dry like hers.
I even thought about going on a course over Hereford way to learn farmhouse style cooking.
All these youngsters who live on junk food can be easily saved if butchers and green grocers reached out a bit more. I remember walking past our butchers trying to pick my nerve up to go in
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haulmy said:
I'm not the best cook either, a lot of you likely learned at an early age, not only where your food came from but how to prepare and cook it too. I was in my mid fifties when i first cooked a Christmas dinner solo. I wouldn't have managed that if I hadn't spotted a turkey crown had the cooking instructions on the wrapper and though I say so myself it was suuuuperb.
Top tip if you're not sure about cooking don't ring your sil xmas dinner time and ask why yer turkey is still all juicy instead of dry like hers.
I even thought about going on a course over Hereford way to learn farmhouse style cooking.
All these youngsters who live on junk food can be easily saved if butchers and green grocers reached out a bit more. I remember walking past our butchers trying to pick my nerve up to go in
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The best of a good butchers is that they are quite often quickest with the jokes (y) Still laugh when I remember a (long gone) local deli's butcher telling a strait laced mature lady that he would double wrap her (pork and leek) sausages in case they 'leeked'. Straight over her head :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:
 
A friend is doing a really in depth health and nutrition course. I was asked to keep a food diary for a week, and then he ran it through an analysis programme to see fats, sugar, vits, everything. The idea was then to write how he could advise changing my diet to cover any shortfalls or high levels of stuff. Unfortunately I came back as spot on....apart from apparently I was over on salt.
I dont use much salt at all, a hangover from my ex who was supposed to had a dicky heart. The computer programme gave high salt for things like shepherds pie as shop bought ones are high in salt., but I make things from scratch.
It was interesting that although I drink a couple of pints of milk a day, have toast with my butter, use butter to cook and cream on top, it did not show I was high in this, and my cholestorol is 4.5, so there!

(I lied about the alcohol intake - have you seen how small a "glass" of wine is? Does not even wet the sides of the glass, let alone my sides!)
 
I said years ago that when 'domestic science' was dropped from the skool curriculum, replaced by IT stuff and drama, that we'd have a couple of generations who thought a dinner was 'open this end and microwave for three minutes'.
I think we're about there. (n)
Mind, i still buy baking potatoes as my own often have critters lurking. In fact I've almost finished a small bag of 'seconds' many of which had just a small hole on the outside, but when you cut into them, were a maze of tunnels and carp, leaving nothing for me at all.
 
My Mum bless her was a lousy cook, in reality she was one of those folk who was simply not interested in food, it was an evil necessity to stay alive.
Dad was a good plain cook, a bit to heavy on the salt and the fried stuff, but he liked good wholesome food and cooked it well, he had the need to be able to, his mum died when he was a toddler so 3 brothers 2 sisters and his dad had to drag themselves through the war years, we never had food waste.
My love of food and cooking came from my friends mum, a cordon bleu cook in the 60s she fascinated me, they ran the local pub and everything was made from scratch, from the Minestrone soup to the Black Forrest gateaux, she had a lot of time for me because I was interested, but non for those who were not, her own daughter my best friend couldnt boil and egg.
I ran a factory canteen serving around 200 from the age of 17 after the lady who ran it went on long term sick, when she came back, the factory manager suggested I go to catering college, never thinking I would pass the entrance test, I gave it a go, it was a small college and they only had one class of 12 per year, I passed, and got in, did 2 years full time and passed my exams with distinction while working in the local Italian restaurant/hotel in the evenings, once I left college I went into the industry, and hated every single minute of it, I dreaded getting up in the mornings, so went back to the Italian full time for about 12 months, working with a brilliant Chef and second Chef, then I got the wander lust and buggered off to Greece for 6 months after hitching around the south coast for a while. Came back, worked in another local restaurant and again hated it.

Most of our meals are cooked from scratch, but imo there is nothing wrong with eating a bit of junk food now and then or letting the take away do it for you, restaurants are another matter you expect much better, and are often left disappointed.
Cant be mithered with food snobs or preachy folk on social media demanding what folk should eat, but making yourself ill with your diet! Even if you are one of those like mum was and just eat to live, surely to goodness you cant avoid all the diet tips there are at every turn.
 
How could you eat like that while knowing you've got a medical condition which it's fuelling!? :sick::oops: I've always been brought up with home cooked meals and the idea that a bit of what you fancy never does you any harm, but that's taking it to the extreme- especially the lack of veg!

I love cooking and it's something I'm really enjoying experimenting with, but I get that some don't enjoy it or never had the opportunity to learn, but surely there's a wider range of food to eat that is preprepared than just the junk food they were buying?
 
I am afraid I was bad at eating sweets and chocolate but since marrying rc and his nagging me I have all but cut it out not sure how but now I go weeks with out any 😊 I must of been heading to be diabetic for sure.
don’t by junk food much and I do cook a lot my self now I don’t go out to work
 
Well, we’ve got a (750g) box of Frosties (plus Jersey milk) for breakfast tomorrow.

It‘s the eldest’s birthday and it’s a house rule that the birthday boy (or girl) can pick whatever trash cereal they like (and Daddy finds the largest box he possibly can!). Apart from birthdays, we’re only allowed sensible cereals😐
 
Multi-power said:
I was once asked by a medical professional what do I eat, when I finished I got the reply I would have a heart attack by 30 and dead by 40
(As far as I know I've never had a heart attack, and I'm pretty sure I'm still alive)
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It’s all relative but if you think you eat to much crap you probably do. I no I use to eat junk to try and stay awake / give me some Energy never really worked mind .
 
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