"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.

...never mind the lack of seasoning!

Jamie Oliver makes people mean

Exactly! I mean where would you store all these herbs in a b and b? And as for the buying in bulk, well I can't see that working.

Herbs on a windowsill or dried in a freezer (takes up very little room even in a small fridge freezer. There is also the lazy garlic and chilli.

It is doable but not as easy as the stab and ping option.

A freezer in a b and b? Really?

Yes, because the majority of people who have to stick to a food shopping budget live in B&Bs, don't they?

Article in New Statesman
"Dear Jamie Poverty isnt picturesque in the Meditereanen either"

www.newstatesman.com/food-and-drink/2013/08/dear-jamie-oliver-poverty-isnt-picturesque-mediterranean-either?utm_content=buffera33de&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer

Brighten up, people, he's going to be here on Thursday.

Just think of all the things you can ask him.

Bet he's really looking forward to it.

The chubby little scampster.

The HA properties round here (of which one i live in) havent got windowsills its just straight up and down window and wall.

Wonder if he will still go through with this webchat.

Yes, Broken, but I'd imagine those having to live in b and bs are struggling the most.

If I were a care assistant in a nursing home, I think there's nothing I'd find more relaxing after a ten hour shift than trying to find a way to make a meal out of a tin of tomatoes and an onion. Yum.

She's right

?Drag that three-year-old into every pub and shop in unreasonable walking distance and ask if they have any job vacancies. Get home, soaking, still unemployed, to dry out in a freezing cold flat. Then drag yourself to the cooker to pour some pasta into a pan, pour some chopped tomatoes on top, and try not to hurl it across the room when your son tells you that he doesn?t like it... You?re full of rain and heartache and anger and despair and it?s starting to seep through the cracks??

That 'massive fucking TV' is the babysitter for preteens/teens who may otherwise be on the street while parents work at a low pay (zero hour anyone?) shift job. It is year round entertainment for everyone despite the weather and they don't have to own a car or take two buses to get there. That is value for money over National Trust family passes and yearly tickets to Panto. A massive fucking bargain when you can buy a telly once decade or so but have to buy tickets for those things every year.

Lets say the poor saved for 8 months to buy that big telly. Will he still be condemned for owning a big telly for the next 10 years while he is still poor? The poor can't win, can he.

He's another knob blaming the poor for their poverty.

Jack Munro knows far more about cooking on a budget than JO ever will

This all reminds me of being 18 in a hostel, and buying a cookery book in a charity shop, which advertised itself as providing economical healthy meals for one.

However, when I got the book home, it turned out to presuppose an awful lot of ingredients would be in your cupboard!

Including [I]saffron[/I]!

A few years later, when I was in a far healthier economic situation, my husband and I decided to bake a birthday cake. Nowadays, baking birthday cakes is cheaper for us than an equivalent supermarket purchase (as long as we don't put a value on our own time) but that fist one was [B]expensive[/B].

Cake tin. Mixing bowl (fortunately got that for a £1 in a charity shop because there was one at exactly the right time). Whisk. Sugar (we didn't have any- we only use it for baking now- we don't drink tea or coffee!). Whisk. Tesco value flour. Cocoa powder.

Subsequent expansions of our repertoire required investments in a rolling pin and a muffin tray. Again, not cheap.

because the majority of people who have to stick to a food shopping budget live in B&Bs, don't they?

A significant proportion of my clientele at work live in hostels, B+Bs and bedsits. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there. And being in emergency housing means that they are just the sort of people that JO is slagging off for living on a diet of chips.

I'd love to know what JO pays his kitchen porters. Or how many hours he expects them to work for their probably minimum wages. I do hope it's enough for them to be able to afford mangetout and mussels for their families after they've worked their split shifts up to their elbows in dirty plates and food detritus.

I also look forward to hearing from all J.O.'s staff who are bound to come forward in the press now to say he pays National AVERAGE wages, to even the lowliest full timer, not NMW and they can therefore afford to take on board his advice!

I would just like to declare that yes, I have windowsills, but they are either
A) covered in mould, or;
B) freshly bleached.

In either case, I wouldn't want to store anything intended for consumption on them!

He's now come out to have a go about people who whinge about working long hours apparently.

Fgs does the man not know when to shut the fuck up?

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

DD took this as an alternative to a jar with pasta, basil and some cheese to a school cookery lesson when they were allowed free rein to cook a meal suitable for a child...she was told a 'child would not eat that' 'you are being ridiculous '

she ate the cheese on the way home

I bet he banned Turkey Twizzlers so he can have them all to his self. No doubt he has a room full of freezers where these are stored with a vault door to stop others getting in and finding his treasures.

he takes a travel cooker into the room of Twizzlers and eats them while contemplating who next to insult.

YouTheCat obviously not. MNHQ should advise him to wear a flameproof suit for his webchat by the soundsof it . I used to like him but he just seems to be a bit full of himself as of late. ~

Has anyone found out where you get the Mussels for 60p from yet? I'łl just pop on a Train down South