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Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Tips O’ The Week
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This week’s episode of Money Saving Meals was brought to you by the color…
I hope you guys are sitting down, because Aunt Sandy’s tips are going to save you big bucks this week:
1. Vegetables are cheaper than meat!
2. Homemade tomato sauce is cheaper than jarred tomato sauce!
3. You’ll save money if you grate your own cheese and carrots!
4. You’ll save money if you make your own burger patties!
5. And because this one is so crucial, a repeat tip from last week’s show: DRIED PASTA IS CHEAPER THAN FRESH PASTA!
Sandra also made a small pizza with mushrooms, onions, and peppers, and claimed the equivalent pizza would cost $18.27 if delivered. Yeah, sure. If it was being delivered from Italy. By someone who had to walk the whole way. Uphill. With no shoes. While listening to an audiobook being read by Noah Starr.
Next week, maybe Sandra Lee will branch out and share some household money saving tips: “If you have to go to the bathroom, go to your neighbor’s house! This will save you $.0005 per flush!”
Other posts on Food Network Humor:
---Top 10 Money Saving Tips From Sandra Lee---Sandra Lee’s Money Saving Meals: FNH Review
---The Ten Commandments Of Money Saving Meals
---SANDRA’S MONEY SAVING MEALS: Coming Soon
---More Dumb Advice From Sandra Lee
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26 Responses
To be completely honest, this show would not be nearly as offensive to me if she focused less on her Sandra-Math-in-Imaginationland prices and offered…I dunno…HELPFUL tips on saving money. But that’s beyond Aunt Sandy’s comprehension–she still has her advertisers to shill for, after all…
I’ll defer to you guys to provide the snark–I can’t watch the show anymore as it’s so f-ing dull!
sandra’s back to her matchy matchy ways, eh? look out, the tablescapes can’t be far behind.
I just got a large pepperoni pizza delivered from Dominos. It cost $12. Sandra Lee is out of her mind.
Next Sandy will tell us that we can save money if we turn off the lights when we eat the fauxd that she makes. And agreed, this show is boring. Bring back the Semi-Homemade comedy show!
I havn’t been able to watch the show.. Those were really her tips? You can’t be serious.
I know how to save money. Turn off her show.
Electricity saved….35 cents.
Brain cell saved priceless.
“I just got a large pepperoni pizza delivered from Dominos.”
We get Dominos pizzas faxed to us at work from time to time too……
A Papa John’s large one topping pizza delivered costs $16, and adding toppings just brings up the price more and more. If you get the carryout special it costs $7 for one topping.
Well, yeah, if you buy full price, Ross. However, I never buy at menu price from Papa John’s or Dominos. Retailmenot.com has nice online coupons that I use and the one here does an excellent deal during football and hockey season (Large pizza at the base price of $9.99 and depending on how many touchdown/goals the Redskins/Capitals make, you get that number in toppings. Double if they win. During this recent hockey season, I was getting 10-topping pizzas for $10, and yes, they gave me all 10 toppings).
One shouldn’t be paying $18 for a pizza from a franchise. That’s a local pizza joint price. The kind of place that you’re not going to find in every town in America.
That hideous green sweater is overkill on the green stuff. Looks like something I wore when I was 12 *correction* something my mom MADE ME wear when I was 12. Maybe if they payed less attention to the “greenage” in the background and gave some real and BELIEVABLE money saving tips, I would actually watch the damn thing. The sad thing about all this is Aunt Sandy just plods along and lets the geniuses over there at FN call all the shots and she probably thinks nothings amiss. Does she even contribute ideas or is she just some lame ass bimbo pouring shit into a bowl and paid to look pretty? wow
She would have to be pretty.
Anyone notice this last episode on how she assured her loyal viewers on how much effort she puts into “researching” prices? Oh, I truly truly LOATHE this sham woman and her sham show. She epitomizes just how clueless and morality-challenged TFN has become.
I’m telling you, that woman has a one word vocabulary: Like! It’s LIKE a 65% savings! It’s LIKE $5.00 cheaper! OMG, it’s the Aunt Sandy Drinking at Home Game people! Every time she says LIKE, take a shot. But hand over your car keys early ’cause she says LIKE alot.
I had to get up and leave the bedroom (my husband was asleep) when I read your posting about the “Aunt Sandy Drinking at Home Game”! I COULD NOT stop laughing!!! There is one star on the Food Network, and that is Ina Garten. Smarts, Classy, Talented, Great Friends…….. I keep hoping she will have a contest where a viewer gets to meet her and be on her show. I could then die a happy woman!
True story. A male co-worker was talking about a “like” girl during a lunch room discussion. (The co-worker’s a lot younger than I am and I was curious what this “like” girl was.) He explained that she’s a girl who says “like” every five words. He didn’t have anything to say favorably about her after that.
Yikes. Even DiGiorno only claims the comparison price of a delivery pizza as $16-something. And at her show’s quoted price, it’s actually cheaper to get a DiGiorno than make her pizza. Gah. It boggles the mind how people can think you need a TV SHOW for this kind of “advice.” It’s like saying clipping coupons is a savings revelation.
Megan @ adventuresofacarnivore.com
this is the reason i can’t buy what she’s selling. first it was semi-homemade and buy processed food. and now it’s cheap food and advice that the biggest non-foodie would even know. here’s why Barefoot succeeds and Sandra Lee fails: Ina never lost her focus on food and friends with easy elegance. and when her new show Back to Basics aired, it was still Barefoot all the way. Elegance, friends, no skimping on food, but w/ little twists along the way. Aunt Sandy doesn’t have a clear focus on what she’s about. it’s all about the next fad or gimmick she can jump on.
Today on her old show — from back when we could all afford tablescapes and weekly kitchen redecorating — she “made” a cake with store-bought cake (which she moistened with thawed lemonade concentrate) and store-bought icing (into which she mixed lemon extract). She said she got the recipe from her grandma, “who was the best baker.”
We don’t have this woman on the Food Network Channel in New Zealand and all I can say about that is “Thank you, Jesus.”
Some other claims made by SLop this week:
1) Bean burgers cost 60% less than beef ones.
2) “Pre-sliced” mushrooms cost exactly the same as whole
ones.
2) There is a one dollar difference between green,
red, and yellow peppers.
Was it this ep that she made cheesecake in a crock pot becuase she claimed it only cost three cents an hour of electricity to run the crock pot?
I still disagree that dried pasta is cheaper than fresh, homemade pasta. I guess she is talking about some other pasta I don’t know about.
Fine, she saved on the pizza. I’m not going to argue with that, because that pizza would cost that much around here, once you throw in a tip for the delivery person.
But…the tablescapes? I could probably feed my family dinner for a month on what she pays Hallmark in two shows for paper products and tiny parasols. And how much does she spend in a week on Jordan almonds?
FNTV has really sunk to a new low with the “new” Sandra Lee show. With her “old” show, at least I could cringe and laugh at those ridiculous tablescapes and ice cream & vodka cocktails. The “crossword” puzzle motif was hysterical. Black & white little checks everywhere with a “matchy” crossword puzzle “apron”. I think the food was semi-cardboard canapes and a plastic display turkey, but it was over the top funny…albeit unintentional.
This “money saving show” is FNTV in it’s full banality without the carnival fun.
Like “Ask Aida” without the geek in the corner, how fun is that?
Mercer,
Beautifully put and right on the money.
“…here’s why Barefoot succeeds and Sandra Lee fails: Ina never lost her focus on food and friends with easy elegance. and when her new show Back to Basics aired, it was still Barefoot all the way. Elegance, friends, no skimping on food, but w/ little twists along the way…”
I hadn’t seen this post until today while I’m playing catch-up on this site. I agree with your very astute observations, MERCER, and your thoughts echo my reasons for Ina Garten being the only FN “star” that I can tolerate these days. Despite her idiosyncrasies, Ina has not compromised her principles to bow down to the wishes of FN brass. I suspect that, if they push to much, they will eventually lose the Barefoot Contessa. I’ve always thought that Ina might end up on PBS ;)
I just watched this episode again today. Aunt Sandy mentioned that red and yellow bell peppers are about $1 more expensive than green ones, and that the latter are better to buy.
She then used a red bell pepper less than 10 minutes later.
Jesus, at least space your contradictions out between different episodes.