Eat Well for Less? — Season 5

Gregg Wallace and greengrocer Chris Bavin help families across the UK sort food fact from fiction and eat well for less. They visit the Atkinson family in Blackpool. Michelle and John live with their three boys, Gary, 22, Liam, 19, and Kyle, seven. Despite working 50 hours a week, feeding the family has fallen to mum Michelle, and she is fed up. With the older boys in their twenties and earning their own money, they prefer to get takeaways, and the whole family are now regularly relying on fast food, even though they do a weekly supermarket shop and always have a fridge full of food. The Atkinsons have the biggest food spend Gregg and Chris have ever seen, and it is up to them to put a stop to it. It is not going to be easy, but can they get the Atkinson men feeding the family, reduce the amount of takeaways they are ordering and get them to save some much-needed cash?

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin help families across the UK sort food fact from fiction and eat well for less. They visit the Dye family in Bedford. Jon and Lisa Dye don't cook and while car part specialist Jon lives on a diet of convenience food and crisps, flight attendant Lisa has a sweet tooth. With Lisa often away with work, meal times are haphazard. They often miss meals and they rely on their microwave. This lack of organisation means their shopping bill comes in under the national average. Could this be the first time Gregg and Chris push a family's spending up in the hope of improving their health and nutrition?

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin help families across the UK sort food fact from fiction and eat well for less. Chris and Gregg head to Reading to help the MacDonald family. Part-time administrator Jo and her sons, 14-year-old Zennon and 9-year-old twins Tayon and Zain, are stuck in a food rut. After-school clubs and activities mean the family spend a lot of time out of the house, so when Jo gets everyone home she needs quick meal fixes. Luckily for Jo, her retired mum Denise is always on hand to help-but not with the cooking! Jo and Denise rely on big brands of jarred sauces and pre-prepared freezer food and a lot of snacks. This all comes at a cost, and Jo's much-needed garage conversion has had to be put on hold, meaning Denise is forced to sleep in one of the kid's beds.

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin help families across the UK sort food fact from fiction and eat well for less. The duo head to Newport to help the Howell family, whose busy lifestyle means they are reliant on ready meals and takeaways. Full-time pastors Donna and Robbie are desperate to get their four children to eat nutritious meals, but with conflicting schedules and a variety of tastes to satisfy, ready meals and takeaways have become the easy option. With so many people to cater for, can Gregg and Chris get everyone working together and saving money?

This week Gregg and Chris are in Hertfordshire to help two very busy mums, part-time physiotherapist Poppy and school teacher Emma. They have three-year-old twins, Piper and Beckett, and like many parents their evenings are ruled by the toddlers. Emma and Poppy are exhausted by the time the twins are in bed and regularly eat whatever they can throw together quickly. Cooking has fallen by the wayside in favour of nachos or platters of cold meat and salad, which means the food they buy for the week often goes out of date and is instead given to Poppy's self-sufficient mum to feed to her chickens. Can the boys get Poppy and Emma cooking one meal a night that they can all eat together and that's nutritious as well as cheap?

Gregg and Chris travel to County Down, Northern Ireland, to help the McKinstry family. Videographer Gary and school teacher Louise love using their local butcher and spend a fortune on the butcher's ready meals. Add this to a weekly supermarket shop and this family of six are spending some serious cash. Gary and Louise want to save money but they also want to lose some pounds and start eating more healthily. Can Gregg and Chris help them get their portion sizes under control and wean the family off expensive premade dinners and on to cheaper home-cooked meals?

Gregg Wallace and Chris Bavin are in Buckinghamshire with the Venter family. Fitness instructor Kim is on a mission to get her lorry-driving husband Martin eating healthily when he is not on the road. As a pescatarian she likes him to have meat-free dinners with no carbs. Kim and Martin have two sporty teenage boys who eat the opposite to them - protein-packed meaty meals with plenty of pasta or potatoes. So Kim is faced with cooking at least two meals every night. Not only is this time consuming, it is costly too. Can Gregg and Chris put an end to these habits and get the whole family eating vegetarian, protein-packed, nutritious meals together that would give them more money in their wallets for a family holiday?

Gregg and Chris are in Cheshire to help the Saynor family, whose work is taking over their kitchen. Kelly and Justin have been married for four years and have two businesses together, but their successful careers have come at a cost. Work for these two is 24/7 and accompanies them home every evening which means their kitchen table has been taken over by their home computer. As a result the family rarely eat together around the table. Life for the Saynors is fast-paced and often Justin and Kelly miss breakfast and lunch - and dinner is all about speed. When it's not one of two recipes they know they can cook quickly, it's a ready meal, a takeaway or their absolute favourite option, a meal in their local restaurant. Not only is this expensive but it's not a healthy way of eating. If Gregg and Chris can come up with quick, easy, nutritious recipes, this family could start enjoying healthier meals together, but will they get the Saynors to slow down long enough to get back to basics, cooking and dining in rather than eating out?