So, for the fifth week running dd1 (yr7) has come home with instructions to bring in ingredients for baking cakes. So 4 weeks of krispie cakes/fairy cakes/rock buns/something else, and now just general instructions to adjust one of the previous recipes to change the flavour. i asked dd1 what she meant and she shrugged and said cinnamon or something.
I don't bake at all, ever, so have had to buy all the flour, sugar etc, which isn't hugely expensive, but is still an expense to be accounted for. The first week I didn't realise there would be a series of cakes, so bought small packets of stuff, and told her to share the rest with anyone who didn't have some. So i ended up buying the same stuff the next week and weighing it all out. Despite naming all the pots, apparently everyone had helped themselves to her ingredients in a free for all, and we lost all the tupperware.
But mainly, why are they repeatedly teaching them to cook things that they have been told are evil right through primary school? We eat plenty of shop-bought crap here, so no judgement on that front, but it just seems completely bizarre to keep doing virtually the same things each week, with a very sweet result at the end (Extremely sweet in fact, I swear the recipes have too much sugar in, and I've got a sweet tooth).
If we're trying to improve kids diets, and give them life skills why aren't they peeling potatoes/boiling eggs/learning safe meat handling/making pasta sauce? I get that's really the job of the parents, but I still think it's a darn sight more useful than baking cakes which is a niche skill that's not important.
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Enough of the cakes!
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SEmyarse · 05/02/2014 16:26
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