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School cooking lessons

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Ncforthiscms · 07/10/2025 12:02

School cooking price of ingredients!
Dc new to high school, cooking this week.
Cheesecake:
Butter £1.08
Biscuits £0.60
Soft cheese x3 £4.02
Strawberry £2.48
Cream £1.40
Chocolate £2.87

Other bits from kitchen- icing sugar, vanilla essence, tin etc.

Shocked at the cost tbh. Not a problem here but lots of families couldn't afford this fortnightly could they? I grew up in poverty and couldn't afford school cooking ingredients.

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IndigoFlamingooo · 07/10/2025 12:10

Bikechic · 07/10/2025 12:08

I agree. That's a lot. And there's actually not a lot of cooking skills involved in cheesecake.

The first few lessons are more focused on familiarising them with the kitchen, measuring, knife skills etc and safely using appliances. DD’s first practical lesson was making a cheese and bacon toastie with a hot chocolate.. 🤣‘Real’ cooking skills are developed over the years.

herbalteabag · 07/10/2025 12:09

Our school would provide ingredients for families who received free school meals. Also, we eventually had a system where you could bring money instead towards the ingredients, which was considerably less than buying it (less than £2) as presumably it could then be bought in bulk. That only worked if there wasn't free choice over what to cook though.

Bikechic · 07/10/2025 12:08

I agree. That's a lot. And there's actually not a lot of cooking skills involved in cheesecake.

IndigoFlamingooo · 07/10/2025 12:06

Strange! DD’s school asked for £30 at the start of the school year which covered shared ingredients for all pupils. For a typical class everything was provided.

The only things we had to buy were occasional optional bits and pieces that they could add in for exam practicals (eg: icing, berries, different veg etc).