Jamie Oliver on Answers
“How can you eat delicious, fresh food at home on a tight budget?”
– Jamie Oliver
Having a little less in your pocket should not mean you scrimp on healthy food, or so says chef extraordinaire, Jamie Oliver. In posing his question to the Yahoo! Answers community, Jamie reaches out with a dilemma that so many of us face: can we shop, prepare, cook and eat in smarter ways?
As the man who successfully rallied against unhealthy British school food, bringing the expression “Turkey Twizzler” into the national consciousness, if anyone can promote change in our culinary behavior, it’s Jamie. Cheap doesn’t have to mean fatty, salty or processed. Fresh, tasty and healthy doesn’t have to mean expensive. But if you have tips on what this means in pratical terms, why not answer Jamie’s question and share your knowledge with the community?
Answers itself is a hive of amazing cooking know-how, based around the Food and Drink category.
Is it healthy to eat broccoli raw? Nikita thinks so. According to her medical sources, “not only is this cruciferous vegetable high in vitamin C and fiber, it’s also a rich source of compounds known as glucosinolates which are broken down in the body to form sulforaphane. Sulforaphane has been demonstrated in numerous studies to have potent anti-cancer properties.”
On a slightly less serious note, Aurora asks for some tips on how to bake bread. T?R is on hand to offer some of his 25 years of experience with dough: “Kneading, letting it prove well and getting the mix just right. Use fresh yeast, not dried, and a good quality bread flour. Strong flour means it has lots of gluten.”
Est wants to know how to make quiche. David J offers a great way to combine bacon and mushroom with a little bit of Swiss cheese!
And finally we can’t forget our Knowledge Partner in the Food & Drink category, UK TV Food, who have answered some great recipe questions recently. While home cooked, some of these are a little on the naughty but nice side. Just don’t tell Jamie!
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I love Jamie Oliver.There are picz of him in my room with all the other famous celebrities too!!!
I want 360 to stay………..It is diabolical that it will disappear!!!!
Many of my friends are gutted and so am I.
Aurora
How can you make a delicious stir-fry for a light lunch?
”Having a little less in your pocket should not mean you scrimp on healthy food” – did you stick to what you preach when you cooked up the ‘mega’ FEAST for G20 meeting Jamie???
Because surely you should practice what you preach. There is ‘THEM’ and then there are ordinary people. The sooner you realise that, the sooner people will take you seriously.
His question was basically a P.R. spamming exercise to sell his books – and has had at least 10 ‘reports’ since the – er…’question’ was typed. Wny hasn’t the ‘question’ been removed?
roast lamb sunday dinner for family = £25.00
fish fingers chips and beans = £10
it’s the shop prices and goverment that force us to eat rubbish because it’s cheaper. can’t afford healthy food
you removed my post? truth hurts eh?
lol
too many cooks spoil the broth.
and we have way to many t.v cooks.
hello i love jamie oliver he is an amazing chief i watch his programmes all the time.
he is well class
keep it up as them say if you being with good tire to end it with good i love you
keep moving i’m by ur coner
Jamie should try living on £64 a week Jobseekers Allowance,see how many delicious nicemeals he can make out of that.Just another PR advert to sell his latest book,wait till it’s on Piratebay get it for free.
I echo the sentiments about Jobseeker’s Allowance. The majority of benefit claimants NEED the money and get very little. It’s even more difficult if you have special dietary requirements, if you suddenly have extra expenses, if you need to furnish a new property, etc.
Also considering tha fact that Jamies was cruel to chickens on television to demonstrate that being cruel to chickens is cruel (yep, however he wants to dress it up, that’s the reality of what he did), I’m also inclined to think this is just a publicity stunt.
Also he doesn’t no much about healthy food – meat eaters (at least some of them – there are now independent studies to prove the following) have finally caught up with what vegetarians and vegans have known for decades – meat is not healthy; it’s very unhealthy.
LUV U JAIME OLIVER!!! brillaint cook!!!!
I have a friend who left the railways a few years ago, just before his 64th birthday – he has written a concise manuscript of the change of BR (complete with pics.) from 1960 until 2004. Could he ask a ‘question’ concerning the electrification of the Manchester-Crewe line in the late 50’s…but sneakily add his work, called ‘All Change’, just like Mr. Oliver does with his- er – ‘question’…or is my friend, Jerry not well-known (or young and sexy enough) for you to squeal in joy over his appearance yet?
thank you jaime oliver .
be smart in the way you shop. easier said than done i know but butchers are good as you can get cheap cuts of meat for quite a reasonable price. i used to do this when i had my eldest and i was on income support
Hi, Jamie I really need a cocunut cream pie recipe if you have got one that would be great!
Food should not be so expensive anyway!
If Jamie Oliver did not get paid so much promoting Sainsburys, they could afford to reduce more of there food. Why not have a J.O Free section for anyone on the dole, paid for by his wealth we helped to create by his silly bit of Bish, Bash. Bosh, whatever that is, supposed to be! What rubbish!
Also, I would like Jamie to forget about School Diners, Yawn!…and concentrate on the amount of waste that is generated each day by all the Supermarkets.
I use to work for one of them and the skips, over flowing with good, bread,cakes,sandwiches,etc,etc, every day would make you want to cry.
I would like to see a mandatory chart for ALL supermarkets to have to complete, for the consumer to read, just how much they throw away each week, and the cost, Why should we be penalised for them overstocking, so that they then make a loss, and the food is then sent to the Landfill Site.
This is a stupid idea, and needs attention now!
This is just blatant self promotion and advertising.
i love cooking and used to cook all the time but now i live alone porton control is a pain in the ass ..i find i cook way to much for one person..we could do with a show that caters for single people.
so i now cook rarely…
just a thought..
sorry your question..im on incapacity and i eat healthy like i said before i have a problem with portion control ..i freeze anything i make to much of..
i do have an addiction with salads and homemade soups.
I just want new ideas for single portions.
so no there should not be an excuse for junk food..
sorry again just read some off the comments….they should bye some beef or lamb and make stews full of goodness plus will go along way..try buying veg from farm road side stores if you can you get more for less money..why they say suppermarkets are cheaper? yeah i don’t get it..now i have been house bound i find i can’t buy as much…but i do manage to keep a healthy diet.
cassroles are also a good one to try as you can split and freeze whats left over..fresh soups also freeze really well..far better to make your own frozen meals that to buy the rubbish ..their full of salt and they taste bland..
a bag of plain flour is really cheap and some lard and cooking marg in your fridge..a bag of mixed fruit …makes a great cornish heavy cake and its better for you…
im with you olliey and wish some people would stop and listen…
id grow my own veg if i could but im not really able at the moment ..but i will as soon as im able to. more money saved…
ok i had my rant im really finished now..lol bye.
SPAM SPAM beautiful SPAM
Book early for Jaime’s next blockbuster “Pukka-Spam”..available only from Sainsbury’s
Why do TV chefs ever sow a really good Vegetarian recipe,without that ghastly nut roast thing/..
let’s make Vegetarian food sexy
Yet another layabout mockney who can trouser a million or so making phoney ads for a supermarket chain he neither uses nor believes in telling us that it’s possible to live for a month on the kind of money he spends in a single day. We’ve heard this pompous drivel before, and it’s both tedious and patronising. Go away, Jamie.
easy for you to say some of us have to live on tinned corn and bread, get real jamie
Jamie shows us all how to save money by advertising his book for nothing onm Yahoo Answers.
Hi,in the 80’s we got clobbered by mass unemployment.I come from the era where we knew how to cook & did not have meat & fresh veg every day.We lived to be healthy none of us over weight.I blame all the junk food also we do not know what there feeding animals or what is sprayed on fruit veg etc.Anyone from the 50’s etc do not need advice.
great stuff jamie love your ideas of healthy fresh looking food
I am no chef but enjoy cooking. I can make a delicious meal by just throwing anything suitable into the wok or onto a pizza; I just add what I like, and what I think will be good to eat, it usually turns out fine; it’s no big deal..the only difference is that I have no audience to watch me at it. Today I find 2 carrots and 2 parsnips in the larder, I will add an onion and one potato which will make a delicious soup. Hey Presto!
A quick tasty meal for me would be a baked potato covered with grated cheese and some ham or sweetcorn, yummy!
thanks jamie love all the healthy cooking and loved the programe pass it on easy and cheep for my big family thanks again
what a shame all we can eat at school is cabbage and “healthy” quorn burgers. I’d rather die at 20 from heart disease
Many people are on tight budgets these days and many large food outlets have their own “Saver Brands”, but are they really good value?. I have found that the taste of many of them is poor and i also have concerns about the nutritional value of them has well.
How do you make fairy cakes? i always mess it up when i make them!
It’s seem very odd to me, that Jamie Oliver promotes healthy eating one minute, the promotes a supermarket next minute, Jamie please do tell me where this junk food is being bought from?
Folk on low income can not afford to live like you, if one day you are asked to do a show on low income, please remember out of the £64 you get, there are things to pay for first like electric, gas water and a whole lot of other thing before you start shoping for food!
Don’t you just love being told how to live by a multi millionaire.
Hi Someone once told me that Chinese Chicken Curry has less fat than an Indian Curry is this true?
is it much healthier to cook currys by yoursellf rather than go to Takeaways?
Oh and is it healthy to be eating Jars of honey everyday? Im Addicted!
Have no idea what world Jamie Oliver lives in.
I know i can make a cheap & healthy to my knowledge meal but you have to buy everything that is cheap.I have no respect for him he lost it when he sold his soul to join the money men.
I would rarther strarve than buy the meat they sell it
is nearly all intensive farming.We do not need meat
or chicken every day.When i was a kid we were lucky
to get meat at christmas.One thing i do know we were
a lot heathier.My grandad also blamed the spraying of crops for cancer.Wonder what he would say now about the way animals are reared.Its not farmers its
the greedy money men.Which he is now one of them
I just want to tell u i got into Gifted and talented for food tect i have always loved cooking and i have been watching your american road trip . Ur Funny
im 13 so im in year 9 i was the only person in year nine to get in 
x
By the way sainsburys are sponsering the foodtech
i got for kids and wont to no how do i get more good food in to them with out the fight
I go back to the £64 a week income, which has to be spent extremely cautiously on a range of things, certainly not just food! Why can’t someone like Jamie Oliver produce a slim book of affordable meals, plain food, but good food … he is clever enough to do it, and there is an increasing number of people who need just such a book.
Up to last August i had a great job, and then my 3 year old had a huge accident and was left disabked and now i am a full time career and rely solely on benefits. I still in the same places, but i now buy the ’shop’s own’ brands. Not many of them taste any different and i am able to cook lovely healthy home cooked meals everyday of the week. I have a family of five and we manage on around £40 a week, i often make my way over to the ‘yellow sticker’ aisle’s first to see what bargains i can pick and stock up the freezer.
Too all the benefit bunnies out there complaining, who have spent the last 7 years on JSA how about getting a job? Or not smoking? Or not supping on your can of Tennants Super outside the dole office? Or not having acrylics/gels done ever week?
If me a married mum of 3 can cope and still produce healthy meals on a BUDGET. Then so could you.
And lastly to whoever said about Jamie’s budget at the G20, the question is IF you have less money….
Obviously they are well off enough. Live to your means, or do the overtime!
Oh dear aren’t you lot moaning about your benefits ,Jamie is trying to educate YOU into cooking healthy without all the rubbish that’s added to our food that’s sold as convenience foods ,just because he earns a big salary you are up in arms (you wouldn’t like to have a wage like that would you )?
YES sainsburys sell these kind of so called quick ready meals WHY because you buy the darn things out of laziness don’t say you haven’t got time ,to cook a lot of food it takes very little preparation time .and dare i say while the food is cooking you could play or talk to your children or GO FOR A WALK instead of sitting in front of the telly
I have brought up 6 children and fed them on healthy food ,none of them are overweight and i Did for a while have to rely on benefits .so get up go for a walk to help get rid of that anger put out the fag breathe the fresh air (costs nothing ) and get real .i leave you with this thought IF a surgeon is going to operate to make you better are you going to refuse it because he earns a lot of money I REST MY CASE
i believe Jamie is trying to help those of you who don’t or wont cook from scratch so instead of moaning
GET COOKING
I like Jamie
Also i sympathise that you weren’t taught to cook at school ,and if you were as today you were taught to make cakes or biscuits (empty calories )
What we need is schools teaching cooking nutritious affordable meals .
perhaps a new way would be to have a dish of the week where the class is given the recipe and a discussion about how to do it at home then the child goes shopping to buy the ingredients and treats the whole family to a real home cooked meal
a reply to one contributor since when did fish fingers and chips cost £10 where on this earth do you shop
and whats wrong with mashed pots instead of chips
a sack of potatoes from a real greengrocer costs about £3 for a huge sack enough to feed a family of 4 for about 8 weeks if you used them every day
I love Jamie’s new show where he is traveling around America, gives a great insight into the real America & food & heritage..great show & like Jamie’s style of cooking as easy & he always makes tasty easy to cook dishes…
I think Jamie’s trying to tell who will listen that good food is there for whoever wants it. You can pay a lot or you can pay a little, but the food can be good. Cooking is a great hobby, its fun, you share with family and friends, youngsters can get into it and impress their mates. When you start cooking, you think differently about how and where your food comes from. Thats why its a natural progression to gardening and growing veg and herbs. We can’t all breed animals, but we can grow parsley!
Godthis Mockey pleb get’s on my nerves.
Pukka, sorted, luvvly jubbly; you do realise no-one’s spoken like that since Only Fools And Horses right?
Seriously; with the ammount of money you con out of people how can you still look so gormless.
You say Brazil or where-ever is nothing like Southend-On-Sea in the advert for your programme; I know it isn’t, because I live there and you wouldn’t last 5 minutes here.
If I want to eat BigMacs until I have a corony aged 43, then I’m going to, but for the record, I do eat healthy, and go down the gym 4 days a week; and my body is toned; looking at Lamie Oliver’s body; have you seen the ammount of flab on him; with his money surely he could afford a gym membership and a personal trainer.
Please Yumi; gifted; more like special needs.
Gifted at 13 just means you can cook a steak without burning it; shame Jamie can’t, lol.
Hummers; not all of us are Chavs who shop at Lidl; some of us can afford to shop at Waitrose.
Whilst Sainsbury is somewhat good; both Sainsbury and Jamie Oliver are selling out here; and it ruins their reputation, not that he had one anyhow, other than being a self-centred goit.
Well, Mr Caring Oliver certainely enjoyed getting on down and branding them calves didn’t he? And wonder how he would like to be castrated with no anaesthetic!!!!! Animal lover, what a joke!
Very disappointed!! for someone who has been on tv in recent times promoting animal welfare with pigs & chickens etc etc seemed very hypocritical by participating in branding the calves & the castration with NO anaesthetic!!! we dont even do that to our pets so why is acceptable to do that to a calve maybe you should stick to your sainsburys adverts!!
All he’s done on Yahoo!Answers is advertise is stupid book!
Eat raw broccoli ? healthy yeah but tastes like $*it!.
Meat is just as important as vegetables for a healthy diet as you need protein,unfortunately it is expensive so most school meals now are protein free as most have opted for the so called healthy vegeterian menu because .
Fishfingers and beans were a better choice as kids loved them plus they were getting both carbs from the beans and protein fishfingers .
I have little money to spend on food (can’t afford drink), about £25 per week. Supermaekets are too expensive for me, so I shop in a local market. There are real bargains by buying fresh veg. and fruit, and herb. Meat is cheap if you look around, mine are Persian. Best are non-supermarket chickens, pork liver and kidney.
I never buy processed food except bread, and manage a healthy, balanced diet, full of flavour because I develop the flavours rather than adding it, sign of a good cook?