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'junk food' banned in schools
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http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4287712.stm
even though all foods are alright in the right amounts, and theyll still be getting crap quality, poorly cooked food from ndertrained staff and would have been brought up on supermarket ready meals etc
all starts in the home im afriad and most parents on the whole are lazy sods as in they dont even teach their kids how to cook even just simple food like eggs etc
this place had the right idea
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4286096.stm
simple, nice and good food
even though all foods are alright in the right amounts, and theyll still be getting crap quality, poorly cooked food from ndertrained staff and would have been brought up on supermarket ready meals etc
all starts in the home im afriad and most parents on the whole are lazy sods as in they dont even teach their kids how to cook even just simple food like eggs etc
this place had the right idea
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4286096.stm
simple, nice and good food
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Kids should not need to cook.
I think something good has emerged from the current haze of Labour's Draconian policies. Schools could easily serve food like chicken soup made in large quantities and bread for lunch instead of the Mc Donald’s type of crap they get now. Personally though I would give my kids a packed lunch whatever changes were made.
okay i didnt quite mean it in that context
exactly packed lunches are often a good idea - but on the tv all i see are adverts for cheese strings etc and dairylea lunchables etc which are okay treats but not a regular lunch material - some nice sandwiches, some fruit and a can of drink or bottle of juice/water etc would be perfect - well id like that
and i meant children arent taught where to cook anywhere these days, and i mean secodnary school kids in particular, food tech classes were about mass producing crap with free promotional vids from manufacturers - and parents dont show their kids how to cook even if by example
one simple problem i reckon, people rely far too much upon convenience, yes its good every so often
Life skills are indeed very important, especially cooking as it's what your putting in your body and we only have one body. My granny taught me everything I know at a very young age, I was very lucky. One of my previous mates at halls only knew how to cook noodles - other times he'd eat out (mainly junk) and he didn't know how to look after himself in terms of cleaning his room, so the majority of the time it was a pigsty and fast became a health hazzard. I found it quite sad to be honest.
word :thumb:
i dont know how to make many things ie recipies, however i can make up new things like that since i was taught all the basic ways of cooking (other than pastry thingscause im terrible at that)
We eat quite healthy & when old enough James will learn how to aswell. I doubt everyone does this but some do.
They are going to be adults one day fuckwit. You think we knew how to cook the day we turned 18.
Sure kids shouldn't have to fend for themselves but childhood is for learning and there aren't many more important lessons than learning how to ensure that there is decent food on the table.
shock horror all my kids can and do cook.
how so?
cos the state the media and the consumption companies had less influence in my families life than the parents did ...oh shock horror ...i should be locked up!
I think they should all get milk and biscuits, like in Nursery. But remeber, you can't dunk the buscuit in the milk, or the people go mega spack out.
i dont exactly understand. though i wasnt raised here. and i love food. i love to eat. i love to eat. i love to eat. i love to eat. and we always had quality home cooked food when i was young. but because i love food. i also love junk food. like the horrible ones, mcdonalds, kfc. mmm yum. but since i always ate proper food before, i dont always eat chips with mushy peas and crap curry sauce. in fact i dont eat that stuff at all. and because theres no quality food in fast food places i cook me own food. which is something a lot of people here cant do. so they always go to the chippys and eat deep fried whatever. its a pity i think. but hey thats england for you. you gotta love what is there and not what youd like to be ther.
whatever man.
if you cook your own food and was brunged up on home cooking thats different.
slagging off the fast fat outlets is fair game and yes many people actualy believe those fat places represent english cooking!
i blame all this education.
that nude cook jamie must be proud.
we had a choice ...history ...with a giant evil scary old bastard or cookery ...with a very pretty young thing in a short skirt ...i chose cookery.
yeh in the school canteen
Food Tech. at school was useless. Rather than teach us useful, basic things like boiling an egg, or what goes into a good pasta sauce, it was all puddings instead, like jam rolls and apple crumbles. And you'd have forgotten the technique by the next week anyway.