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Hello, this is 6 Minute English
from BBC Learning English.
I'm Pippa and I'm Georgie.
In this programme we're talking
about saving money on food.
Pippa, 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 programme, we'll be
learning about one way to save money
on the food we eat.
But first,
I've got a question for you, Georgie.
The most expensive restaurant in the
world is thought to be a restaurant
called Sublimotion in Ibiza, which
only has 12 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 programme.
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 Programme '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 Weston,
became concerned
that people in the UK
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 UK.
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 programme that basically
can tackle all of these issues.
So what we do now is we deliver
all the ingredients to their door,
because ultimately,
behaviour change starts
with actually changing
your behaviour 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's solution involves delivering
ingredients and recipes to people
and then using a WhatsApp group
to talk to participants.
Each WhatsApp 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, mentor:
Remember to put the fridge bag
in the fridge.
Can we aim to cook recipe one
by Tuesday evening?
Our first recipe, chana masala,
is a classic.
It needs an onion,
which can be a pain to chop,
so try our way.
Video posted.
Ally: Love this method.
Chef emoji.
First 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.
Ally: I've finished making
my chana masala.
I was a bit too heavy-handed
with the chilli.
My husband likes a lot of spice
so I'd reduce that next time.
The mentor in the group, Amy,
describes the recipe for
chana 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 she describes
as 'a pain to chop'.
If something is a pain to do,
it is difficult or annoying to do.
One of the participants, Ally, said
that when she made the chana masala,
she was a bit heavy-handed
with the chilli.
If you are heavy-handed with an
ingredient, you use too much of it.
And so Ally's chana masala 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.
Well, you were wrong.
It's actually €1650, but I
think that's still pretty expensive.
It definitely is.
OK, let's recap the vocabulary
we've learnt,
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.
For example,
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 six minutes are up, but
you can test what you've learned with
the interactive quiz on our website.
Visit bbclearningenglish.com.
Bye for now.
Bye!
Vocabulary
Word 1 of 15food shop
collocation
0:09
"the regular buying of groceries for your home."
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Discover tips and strategies for eating healthily without spending a lot of money in this 6 Minute English episode.