July 12, 2025 • 4 mins
Season 5 of Eat Well for Less hosted by Mike and Ganesh Raj, starts tomorrow on TVNZ and TVNZ+, and is this season the most timely of them all?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News talks'b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Reasondent chief Mike vand Alison is with us. Good morning,
good morning, Hey, congratulations. You have got a new season
of Eat Well for Less coming.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Up coming out season five.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You must be good at what you do.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't know, they just keep asking me back, so like, okay,
I'll do another one.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This season, though, I wonder is it one of the
most timely that you've done in terms of relevance of
the show, because I don't know. Foods are still so expensive,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I definitely think and and we'll this season at
six episodes, so we're working with six five now, and
they're all they're all a lot of them have different
different challenges, but it all comes back to wat's in
your back pocket and how much you're spending on food
every week really and how much and how much you're wasting.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Did that come across with the families that you're working with,
did you did you really notice that the struggles a
little more real at the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
We probably came across more challenges within the smaller folk
in the family, So that the kids right from the onset,
Right from the first family that we filmed with, it
seemed to be the kids were ruling the roosts. You know,
the kids were doing the shopping and you know, we'll
sit down and watch them meat and mom and dad
(01:29):
are preparing the delicious meal for themselves of vegetables and
all sorts of goodness within them, and then the kids
are sitting down eating chicken tenders with nothing else.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's there was a real divide between what the kids
were eating and the parents had almost in a way
given up over over a period of time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So how important I mean, that's it's pretty important we
get our kids involved when it comes to the family meal,
but also eating the family meal.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right absolutely, And and yeah, they've just fallen into bad habits.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So oh, we all get that. We all understand that
it's to be easy, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And it is. You know, it's let's just get another
takeaway tonight. Let's just get another highly processed food tonight,
because it's easy and it keeps everyone, keeps everyone happy
within the within the house. But it also that also
comes with its downside, you know, it's it's it's for
us For Gneshane, it's about going into these houses and
(02:26):
helping these families not only save some money, but eat
themselves into a bit more of a healthy way of life.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This year, it's not just about reducing how much the
families are spending, but also about reducing food waste, because
we're not really good at that, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It was it was massive in some of them. And
it's funny because in this in the six episodes that
are coming up, which starts I believe starts on Monday. Yes,
we have the biggest we have the biggest spend of all,
like our five seasons, we have the biggest spend. And
if you go back, we've had some big spenders. We've
had people spending over two thousand dollars a week on food.
(03:06):
We've smashed that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So it's like, my goodness, okay, no judgment, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And we've also had the biggest saving so you could
you could only imagine what that could be. And you know,
these we become real heavily involved within these shows, within
the within the families and find now that we're going
to and you know, we spend a week with them
and you know, we're with them for a week in
their house, and at the end of it, we kind
(03:35):
of feel like we're saying goodbye to another family member,
and we become really involved and really immerse ourselves within
this family. And hey, it's not all doom and gloom.
There's a lot of fun in there as well.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Give me some quick tips for reducing our food waste.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Super fast, Pobby is. Number one. Write a list for
what you're going to do or what you're going to buy,
and you go to supermarket. Number two, don't take the
kids with you if you can, if you can avoid that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Number three, haven't planned people, right, get up in the
morning and go right, I'm going to work. Now, Oh
what should I do for dinner? I'll pull out some
mints and so there's that mint sitting in the fringe.
And while you're at work, you got oh, I've got
that mince out, or maybe I'll make a speakingable on
instead of getting home going. I've got nothing else. I
haven't got anything started, I have no plan. Let's get takeaways. Yeah,
(04:25):
it's a small thing like that small little second in
the in the morning before you take off out the door.
Watch we have for dinner?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Tonight. Simple ass. Hey Mike, really looking forward to it.
Thanks so much. The show starts tomorrow on TVNZ and
tv in Z plus.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talk ZB from nine am Sunday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News talks'b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Reasondent chief Mike vand Alison is with us. Good morning,
good morning, Hey, congratulations. You have got a new season
of Eat Well for Less coming.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Up coming out season five.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
You must be good at what you do.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I don't know, they just keep asking me back, so like, okay,
I'll do another one.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This season, though, I wonder is it one of the
most timely that you've done in terms of relevance of
the show, because I don't know. Foods are still so expensive,
isn't it.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, I definitely think and and we'll this season at
six episodes, so we're working with six five now, and
they're all they're all a lot of them have different
different challenges, but it all comes back to wat's in
your back pocket and how much you're spending on food
every week really and how much and how much you're wasting.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Did that come across with the families that you're working with,
did you did you really notice that the struggles a
little more real at the moment.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
We probably came across more challenges within the smaller folk
in the family, So that the kids right from the onset,
Right from the first family that we filmed with, it
seemed to be the kids were ruling the roosts. You know,
the kids were doing the shopping and you know, we'll
sit down and watch them meat and mom and dad
(01:29):
are preparing the delicious meal for themselves of vegetables and
all sorts of goodness within them, and then the kids
are sitting down eating chicken tenders with nothing else.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
You know.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
It's there was a real divide between what the kids
were eating and the parents had almost in a way
given up over over a period of time.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
So how important I mean, that's it's pretty important we
get our kids involved when it comes to the family meal,
but also eating the family meal.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Right absolutely, And and yeah, they've just fallen into bad habits.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So oh, we all get that. We all understand that
it's to be easy, right, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
And it is. You know, it's let's just get another
takeaway tonight. Let's just get another highly processed food tonight,
because it's easy and it keeps everyone, keeps everyone happy
within the within the house. But it also that also
comes with its downside, you know, it's it's it's for
us For Gneshane, it's about going into these houses and
(02:26):
helping these families not only save some money, but eat
themselves into a bit more of a healthy way of life.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
This year, it's not just about reducing how much the
families are spending, but also about reducing food waste, because
we're not really good at that, aren't we.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
It was it was massive in some of them. And
it's funny because in this in the six episodes that
are coming up, which starts I believe starts on Monday. Yes,
we have the biggest we have the biggest spend of all,
like our five seasons, we have the biggest spend. And
if you go back, we've had some big spenders. We've
had people spending over two thousand dollars a week on food.
(03:06):
We've smashed that.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So it's like, my goodness, okay, no judgment, I'm intrigued.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
I know.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
And we've also had the biggest saving so you could
you could only imagine what that could be. And you know,
these we become real heavily involved within these shows, within
the within the families and find now that we're going
to and you know, we spend a week with them
and you know, we're with them for a week in
their house, and at the end of it, we kind
(03:35):
of feel like we're saying goodbye to another family member,
and we become really involved and really immerse ourselves within
this family. And hey, it's not all doom and gloom.
There's a lot of fun in there as well.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Give me some quick tips for reducing our food waste.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Super fast, Pobby is. Number one. Write a list for
what you're going to do or what you're going to buy,
and you go to supermarket. Number two, don't take the
kids with you if you can, if you can avoid that.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Ye.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Number three, haven't planned people, right, get up in the
morning and go right, I'm going to work. Now, Oh
what should I do for dinner? I'll pull out some
mints and so there's that mint sitting in the fringe.
And while you're at work, you got oh, I've got
that mince out, or maybe I'll make a speakingable on
instead of getting home going. I've got nothing else. I
haven't got anything started, I have no plan. Let's get takeaways. Yeah,
(04:25):
it's a small thing like that small little second in
the in the morning before you take off out the door.
Watch we have for dinner?
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Tonight. Simple ass. Hey Mike, really looking forward to it.
Thanks so much. The show starts tomorrow on TVNZ and
tv in Z plus.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talk ZB from nine am Sunday, or
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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