to think school cooking lessons are.....

[NellyJob]

a joke when the morbidly obese 'food tech' teacher ditches the healthy recipes from the school cook book and has the class make a super sugary swiss roll? when i say fat, I mean she is so heavy as to not be able to wear normal clothes or stand up straight? and she is teaching my daughter about nutrition when all these years I have been doing my best to keep her slim and fit? and this teachers daughter is also obese as are her husband and son.....
or would I sound like a twat complaining about this?

[NellyJob]

not sure tiggy, it always involves flour sugar and eggs but usually is eaten before I ever see it.
the booklet contains some healthy savoury stuff , salads etc from what I remember

[DialMforMummy]

You are offended when people tell you to fuck off but you use very unpleasant language when talking about the teacher. Is it ok to do so because she is fat and therefore deserves it?

[StrawWars]

1 slice of swiss roll - approx 70 calories.

1 plain scone - approx 145 calories.

Swiss roll = made from eggs, flour, sugar. It is your typical 'fat-free' sponge. Yes, it has sugar in. It's about the overall diet balancing. If you can't balance out one swiss roll from one cooking class in your life, you need more leaflets on healthy eating as you don't seem to get it.

[NellyJob]

yes mummy on some level.......she is enormous,not just a normal kind of 'fat', and so are all her family. and she is telling the children about nutrition?
joke.

[Lonecatwithkitten]

Swiss roll proper good old fashion technique leading cooking. If you have a good basic classic technique taught cookery skills you can learn to cook anything.
Swiss roll creaming butter and sugar correctly, putting mixture in tin correctly higher at edges than middle to get even sponge, identifying when cooked properly and finally rolling using grease proof paper.
No reason a small amount of homemade cake should not be part of a healthy diet. It is not processed nastiness just good wholese ingredients.

[seeker]

I'd pipe down if I were you before you mentally fuck up your Dd and turn her into a bulimic or anorexic
goodness me I brought out the harpies..."

You did. I think they must be following their leader.....

[DialMforMummy]

So what up to size is it acceptable to work as a food tech teacher then?

[NellyJob]

normal shop sizes mummy i would say (which go up to quite large these days), not having to drape yourself in a curtain.

[cocoachannel]

At a bit of a tangent but as I only have a toddler I am that you have to buy the ingredients. Can't remember that being the case in ye olde days.

[BehindLockNumberNine]

I just cannot believe they make swiss roll every week. Ds had the same government booklet a few years ago when he was in Y7, but it was not a study guide nor was it a lesson plan.
He has learnt to make layered salad, pizza, cottage pie, macaroni cheese, apple crumble, scones, minced pies, vegetable soup, jam tarts, shortbread, fruit strudel, individual pork and leek pies and a keema curry. Ingredients have been kept to a minimum (I don't think I ever spent more than £5) and he has loved every lesson (and we have enjoyed eating it)
With regards to your dd's teacher, I assume SLT know what she is teaching and have no issues...

[TiggyD]

Out of the one example of the food she gets children to cook we assume that every week they cook unhealthy food? Because they once cooked cake they never cook healthy food?

[Nixea]

With a lot of effort, the teacher could lose the weight if she wanted. You however will always have a vile attitude. I know who I'd prefer to be teaching my kids.

[Purpleprickles]

Maybe the teacher thought she'd teach them how to make something they'd enjoy eating and cooking? I'm making iced biscuits with my Reception Class tomorrow because they love it and we are a healthy school (gasp).

[Sparklyoldwhizzbangcatpusswhee]

OP your attitude is disgusting. How dare you bring his woman's weight into account! She is a teacher. If she teaches badly, then judge her teaching, but her weight is none of your business!
As a food tech teacher she should know exactly what constitutes a balanced diet, and be able to teach this to her students. What she does in her private life is her own concern.
Fwiw, cake is a perfectly acceptable constituent of a normal healthy diet. Moderation is the key. Fat, sugar, proteins, carbs, fibre, are all part of a BALANCED diet. Learning how to bake a cake won't suddenly turn your DD into a hideously obese fat woman!

[WorraLiberty]

Wow! And to think I got called fattist by someone who took offence to me politely pointing out that a size 14 doesn't automatically make you not fat....and that it depends on your height and frame.

You're about as offensive as one can possibly be OP

You admit to being vile, and then get offended when someone tells you to fuck off?!

You couldn't make it up....

[NellyJob]

not sure tiggy but as I said it always involves sugar eggs and flour, and I have never seen those more wide ranging recipes that Behindlocknumbernine mentioned. What is SLT?

[DialMforMummy]

Stupid Lazy Teacher

[seeker]

So they make cakes every single week?

I don't believe you.

[WorraLiberty]

You don't take much interest in what your DD learns then?

You're not sure what she makes every week and you allow her to scoff it before she gets home?

Perhaps you should actually ask her what she's making...or ask to see it/sample it.

[Chocolatephiladelphia]

I don't think you're being unreasonable OP.

[NellyJob]

yes they do, it is unbelievable isn't it?
I wouldn't mind if it was once in a while, swiss roll is great cooking, but it is cake literally every week.

[Chocolatephiladelphia]

SLT = senior leadership team

[thewashfairy]

cardibach no I do not have any idea how difficult it is to put together a Secondary School time table as that is not my field. I am sure where there's a will there's a way.
If schools really value healthy living/eating/cooking as highly as they pretend they do whilst following yet another ill thought out Government policy,or just wanting it to look good in there prospectus or for Mr/Mrs Offstead they would do it.
I just can't stand the preaching to parents and pupils from above when it comes to 'healthy' living only for that to be followed up by some halfhearted attempts to actually educate the kids in that subject. Don't bother then if you're not going to do it properly. Use the time for something else.
In my eyes it's right up there with giving a child detention for having a slightly too widely knotted tie whilst the teachers themselves look like total scruffs. Lead by example I say.......

[NellyJob]

obviously I have a great interest in my daughter's education, worraliberty,
I buy the flipping ingredients every week don't I?
You try and stop a 14 year old girl sharing her cake with her mates.
ffs.

[WorraLiberty]

As a parent, if I tell my kids to bring their cooking home...that's exactly what they do.

Then again, I'm not the sort of parent to grab the smelling salts because they've made cake.

If I was, I'm sure they'd rather eat it in peace too.