"they ate fast food and junk food but had splashed out of a plasma TV."

[ConfusedPixie]

This comment just came up on the radio news, supposedly said by Jamie Oliver about one of the families he was working with in his new TV show.

AIBU to wonder how the fuck what you eat relates to what TV you have?

Surely this just reinforces stereotypes of the people likely to have bad diets through lack of education on the matter? What a bullshit statement.

Is gin and tonic slimming then?

I've met Jamie Oliver too. He's a fat bastard. Though not as fat as he was. In the main his calories of choice don't come from alcohol.

Who cares?

He is lecturing people about their choices while making what to my mind are rather dubious choices of his own.

I havent thought about dinner as one of the spawn has turned 20 and wants takeaway. Its the only time we have them but I cant as I have coeliacs. So I will watch them tucking into chinese while I have a peice of cheapo cod and something.

Mince and new potatos here.

I agree the issue isn't trying to make the nation healthier it is focusing on one particular demographic and trying to suggest they don't care/have the wrong priorities.

twisty it is if that's your only source of calories.

I do know people like that. To tell you the truth, they tend not to last long.

We once had a debate at work about how if heroin makes you thin, why was it that Boy George was so fat?

And then someone pointed out that if you're rich, food and heroin isn't an either/or situation.

No idea whether that's true of heroin addiction, but it seemed to make sense.

mackerel and beetroot couscous here.

I looked at a recipe on JO's website for mackerel, it comtained olive oil. Is a large % of JO olive oil? he's obsessed.

I did like him when he tried to change school dinners and hospital food but it seems like hospital food is still crap and school dinners are too expensive, especially now FSM will only be available to those on £135 a week or less, which pretty much means only families with one parent and one child. When mine were at school it would have been £30 a week for sub-standard crap out of our food budget of 60 quid a week. I now have one child at school and she does (currently) qualify for FSM but the school cannot cater for her medically specialised diet and from what I've seen it's still carb-heavy and the kids leave most of it.
Maybe JO should go back to campaigning on that? Or hospital food. The last time my mum was in hospital she got a bowl of yellow gloop prtending to be ice cream followed by cold pasta suprise, the surprise being 'guess what the red tasteless stuff might have been'. It was truly awful. Breakfast was cold toast and rockhard butter no elderly lady could spread. Lunch ice cold ham and cranberry sandwhiches (she is jewish and vegetarian) and some pink stuff in a bowl.

seasick I had rib-eye steak from my independent butchers on Saturday. Like butter, it was, and it was reduced to a mere £7.50 for two because he was going on holiday and needed to flog it off.

We ate it with chips because my mum, brought up in war time on rabbit they raised themselves, can't abide salad.

It's what the French eat. And they crumbled before Hitler, the cheese-eating surrender-monkeys .

Jamie does like his olive oil
It always reminds me of that Catherine Tate sketch, Aga Saga mummy where she shrieks about being down to the last few gallons

Oil on mackerel? Is he mad?

Beetroot tastes like mud, but each to their own

hahaha never seen aga saga mum before! love it!

see out of my 4 oldest ds would live in toast. ds2 is a fucking whizz in the kitchen and the dds teens are a fucking disaster, think boiling milk in kettle to make a hot chocolate!!

dh is fabulous and I am crap.

you either like cooking or you don't. dh out tonight so I will have cubes of cheese and wine. fantastic!!

I have met Jools Oliver. She is a crashing snob and doesn't like 'ordinary' children speaking to her 'special' children.

But I am also vair posh but skint and thought her rather common and arriviste.

YY Amberleaf it isnt the first time hes said something ill informed and not the last.

Here he is on "Youth of today too lazy to work"

www.psychologies.co.uk/work/are-the-youth-of-today-too-lazy-to-work.html

What i meant was it probably wont be the last time.

yes i take your point Chunderella

I do find it irritating that the obesity crisis is always characterised as 'the poor' eating cheese and chips in front of Jeremy Kyle when there are plenty of organic smoothie guzzling, chorizo sausage snaffling, wine and cheese poncing middle class people who are costing the NHS a fortune with diabetes, gout, high blood pressure and joint problems.

Just read that Darkesteyes, god, he really is an idiot.

wonder why no one lectures them, eh

hmmmmmmmm

Seasick, you made me sick in my mouth a bit, mentioning that Pickles thing. I just ate.

Had a lovely (from scratch) beef casserole done in the slow cooker with homemade bread.

Styrofoam. That's the nub of the problem.

Omg you're right.

So if they would just ban styrofoam, everyone would be thin?

Ah but 69p for pasta sauce just proves the point - if you get 33p chopped tomatoes and a 10p onion youve got the same meal with a saving of 26p - you dont need to add basil its still delicious without any of the herbs/seasoning.

If you live in shitty b+b accomodation with no fridge and only a microwave to reheat food, how are you going to cook that ?