Cath and MsMai... they're proll'y on the channels you ladies don't subscribe to! Ha!
"I watch Food Network every day even if just for an hour after work. I love Sandra Lee's recipes. "
An hour is about the sum total of new programing they have on any particular day. So you're probably just lucking out with the timing. Everything else is a repeat of a repeat of a show they aired three years ago.
What else can they do, after firing the three people who made the network viable in the first place.
The fact that you like Sandra Lee's recipes isn't the issue; although, frankly, I don't think she's really all that good even within that genre. The point is, using her approach might put food on the table that you like, but it is not an inexpensive way to go.
The very idea that she can demonstrate "money saving meals" (that's the name of her new show) is oxymoronic at best.
An hour is about the sum total of new programing they have on any particular day. So you're probably just lucking out with the timing. Everything else is a repeat of a repeat of a show they aired three years ago.
What else can they do, after firing the three people who made the network viable in the first place.
The fact that you like Sandra Lee's recipes isn't the issue; although, frankly, I don't think she's really all that good even within that genre. The point is, using her approach might put food on the table that you like, but it is not an inexpensive way to go.
The very idea that she can demonstrate "money saving meals" (that's the name of her new show) is oxymoronic at best.
Actually, I'll wait and see. She might be able to surprise us. IIRC, she grew up poor so she might have something for us beyond what her current show is about.
Going back several years to PBS there use to be a cooking show called the Frugal Gourmet.
The guy cooking was Jeff Smith.
My impression after years of watching his program was that being Frugal in the kitchen wasn't necessarily cooking cheap. It was not wasting anything.
Going back in time I grew up on a farm. When a pig was slaughtered my grand parents used every single part of that pig. The parts you wouldn't think edible went into head cheese. Now to me, that is being frugal. Knowing what went into head cheese, I could never eat it myself, lol.
Now to speculate on what a program is going to be like is one of the things I hate more than anything these days. It's like Fox news setting the hound reporters on some suspecting news story before it even pans out. There may be a story and there may not. But just in case, Fox will bring all kinds of spe******t in to speculate what just may happen. Sometimes one or two of them spe******t just may be right.
All in all, it's just TV.Some may find it interesting and some may hate it and others will just pick it a part and grab what ever blooper they can.
The way I see it, my TV has an on and off switch and if I'm not working I'm sure there are some weeds to pull in the garden.
The guy cooking was Jeff Smith.
My impression after years of watching his program was that being Frugal in the kitchen wasn't necessarily cooking cheap. It was not wasting anything.
Going back in time I grew up on a farm. When a pig was slaughtered my grand parents used every single part of that pig. The parts you wouldn't think edible went into head cheese. Now to me, that is being frugal. Knowing what went into head cheese, I could never eat it myself, lol.
Now to speculate on what a program is going to be like is one of the things I hate more than anything these days. It's like Fox news setting the hound reporters on some suspecting news story before it even pans out. There may be a story and there may not. But just in case, Fox will bring all kinds of spe******t in to speculate what just may happen. Sometimes one or two of them spe******t just may be right.
All in all, it's just TV.Some may find it interesting and some may hate it and others will just pick it a part and grab what ever blooper they can.
The way I see it, my TV has an on and off switch and if I'm not working I'm sure there are some weeds to pull in the garden.
Most analogies are poor, IC, but yours is particularly so.
It isn't rocket science figuring out how a new show will be formatted. You just look at the promos, lay them out against what you know about the host, and you're in business.
In Sandra's case it's really an easy shot, because everything tells us what the show will be like:
1. Unless she's prepared to repudiate everything she's made her reputation on, she has to continue in some version of the 70/30 mode.
2. Recent episodes of her show have (no doubt as a subtle promotion of the upcoming new series) dealt with "money saving meals." They were exactly the same as all her others---lots of canned, boxed, and frozen convenience foods.
3. The promotions for the new show indicate that the only thing different is that she'll be taking us shopping to see how she buys the stuff she uses. Oh, joy! Field trips!
I wonder if part of that will include the 28 people on her staff who actually do the shopping, prep work, set building, etc.
FWIW, my dictionary defines frugal as 1. Avoiding unnecessary expenditure of money; thrifty. 2. Costing little; inexpensive
"IIRC, she grew up poor so she might have something for us beyond what her current show is about."
That might be true, Bubba. She spares no opportunity to tell us about how sometimes she didn't know where her next meal would come from. But, at the same time, when it suits her purposes, she's always telling us how she's been entertaining "ever since I was a little girl."
Let me tell you something: I grew up dirt poor. And we didn't do any entertaining. We were too busy surviving.
It isn't rocket science figuring out how a new show will be formatted. You just look at the promos, lay them out against what you know about the host, and you're in business.
In Sandra's case it's really an easy shot, because everything tells us what the show will be like:
1. Unless she's prepared to repudiate everything she's made her reputation on, she has to continue in some version of the 70/30 mode.
2. Recent episodes of her show have (no doubt as a subtle promotion of the upcoming new series) dealt with "money saving meals." They were exactly the same as all her others---lots of canned, boxed, and frozen convenience foods.
3. The promotions for the new show indicate that the only thing different is that she'll be taking us shopping to see how she buys the stuff she uses. Oh, joy! Field trips!
I wonder if part of that will include the 28 people on her staff who actually do the shopping, prep work, set building, etc.
FWIW, my dictionary defines frugal as 1. Avoiding unnecessary expenditure of money; thrifty. 2. Costing little; inexpensive
"IIRC, she grew up poor so she might have something for us beyond what her current show is about."
That might be true, Bubba. She spares no opportunity to tell us about how sometimes she didn't know where her next meal would come from. But, at the same time, when it suits her purposes, she's always telling us how she's been entertaining "ever since I was a little girl."
Let me tell you something: I grew up dirt poor. And we didn't do any entertaining. We were too busy surviving.