BBC 6分钟英语 Healthy meals on a budget

Hello. This is six minute English from BBC learning English.

I'm Pepper, and I'm Georgie. In this program, we're talking about saving money on food.

Pepper, are you good at saving money on your food shop?

I think I'm quite good. I plan what I like to cook

so I don't waste money in the supermarket.

How about

you, georgie? I'm not very good.

I usually go to the supermarket when I'm hungry, so I end up buying lots of snacks.

Oh, that's a terrible idea. Well, in this program, we'll be learning about one way to save money on the food we eat.

But 1st, I've got a question for you.

georgie. The most expensive restaurant in the world is thought to be a restaurant called Sublimation in Ibitha, which only has twelve customers each night.

But how much in Euros is a meal per person at the restaurant?

A €650? B €1650, or C, €2650?

The most expensive? I'll go with C €2650.

Well, we'll find out the answer at the end of the program.

Now, food in the UK is getting more expensive, as it has been in many parts of the world, and some people are struggling to afford their food shopping.

But BBC World Service program People Fixing the World, has been finding out about a project called Bags of Taste, which helps people save money on their food shopping and improve their diet at the same time.

Bags of Something is an informal way to say a lot of something.

The founder of Bags of Taste, alicia Western, became concerned that people in the U-K with less money found it difficult to afford a healthy diet.

People in poverty are eating the worst diets, and they are getting sicker younger, and we know that diets are the single largest cause of health inequalities in the U-K.

Alicia found that people didn't know how to cook the kinds of meals they'd like to eat, and they couldn't afford to experiment.

Imagine spending lots of money on ingredients and then wasting them by cooking them badly or burning the food.

People also thought making healthy food would be too expensive and take too much time.

So ultimately, we've been able to come up with a program that basically can tackle all of these issues.

So what we do now is we deliver all the ingredients to their door.

Because ultimately, behavior change starts with actually changing your behavior at home.

Alicia says that ultimately, she's been able to come up with a solution to help people save money on healthy food.

We can use the adverb, ultimately, to mean finally, after a series of events have happened, alicia wants to tackle the things that stop people eating healthy food on a budget.

If you tackle a problem, you try to deal with it.

Alicia solution involves delivering ingredients and recipes to people and then using a whatsup group to talk to participants.

Each whatsup group has a mentor who shares cooking tips and advice.

To give you an idea of how this works, the team at People Fixing the World read out some of the messages on one of the bags of taste Whatsapp Chats.

Amy Mental Remember to put the fridge bag in the fridge.

Can we aim to cook recipe one by Tuesday evening?

Our 1st recipe. China masala is a classic.

It needs an onion, which can be a pain to chop.

So try our way. Video posted early.

Love this method. Chefa Moji. 1st time I've chopped an onion like this, and it's so neat and easy.

Georgia I'm going to cook mine tomorrow, looking forward to it.

Alley I finished making my china messarlo.

I was a bit too heavy handed with the chili.

My husband likes a lot of spice, so I'd reduced that next time.

The mentor in the group, amy, describes the recipe for China masala as a classic.

We call something a classic to say that it is well known and of good quality.

We can also describe a particular book, film or song, as a classic.

Amy sends a video to show a technique for cutting onions, which he describes as a pain to chop.

If something is a pain to do, it is difficult or annoying to do.

One of the participants, ali, said that when she made the China masala, she was a bit heavy handed with the chili.

If you are heavy handed with an ingredient, you use too much of it.

And so alley's China Masalo was very spicy.

Bags of taste helps people learn new recipes and cook healthy food without spending too much money.

It's certainly a lot cheaper than a meal at the restaurant.

In my question, georgie, I asked you how much it costs for a meal at Sublimotion, thought to be the most expensive restaurant in the world.

Yes, I said a meal was €2650.

While you were wrong, it's actually €1650.

But I think that's still pretty expensive.

It definitely is. Okay. Let's recap the vocabulary we've learned, starting with bags of which means a lot of something.

We can use the adverb ultimately, to say, finally, after a series of events, if you tackle a problem, you try

to deal with it and find a solution.

If we describe something like a recipe as a classic, we mean it's well known and of good quality.

If something is a pain to do, it is annoying or difficult

to do, and if you are heavy handed with an ingredient, you use too much of it.

E.g., I made some soup the other day, and I was a bit heavy handed with the salt.

It tasted disgusting. Oh, that's not very good.

Okay, once again, our 6 min are up, but you can test what you've learned with the interactive coys on our website.

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