"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.

I don't think a lentil based nappy filling bears thinking about.

gosh with increasing childhood obesity i don't think too many lentils or carrots is a major problem in the uk.

not that i was actually suggesting a pure lentil diet anyway but don't let that stop you!

try having the children and feeding them for a few years before you think yourself an expert.

you are clearly an expert so that must be true!!

no you're just the expert on how to feed a family and how terribly easy it is when you don't even have one.

at least jamie nobface has kids.

would love to be a fly on the wall in your kitchen in 5 years time and have you prove how easy it is to feed kids on tinned tomatoes and onions

wow there can I just interupt and take the blame for the tomatoes - thats me not faster.

I have bought tomatoes. They'll be going in the bolognese later.

oh yes faster was throwing in a carrot and some lentils too.

may be we can stick to adult nutrition - as clearly i cannot comment on anything else.

can i ask posters for their height and weight?

i am 5 foot 7 and 9 stone 10.

We can only really be experts on our own children though.

Although experience does give you more of an idea about these things generally.

yes of course but i spent years looking after my paralysed father.

so i have some live experience. and live has not always been a bed of roses.

Faster I want to stand up for you here becasue its all got very personal, but fear that theres now too much anger to post anything. Poor Jamie will have to never speak in public again if this is what happens. I think he should be taken off the web chat thing for his own safety.

no, sorry love but i'm not fat same height and roughly same weight as you.

nice try though.

I'm sure you have and that must have been tough for you.

But it isn't the same as having £20 to feed a young family with.

I noticed the value ready meals today (not usually something I'd look at). 75p for a cottage pie. Bung some veg with that and that's not too bad and probably cheaper.

Those of you going on about what your mums and grandmas did - get a grip and engage your brains. There are massive differences in society now.
Firstly, the amount of money poor people have to spend on food has decreased because of artificially high housing costs.

Secondly, a lot of people really don't have access to shops selling affordable healthy food. Because they have neither the spare cash nor the time to travel miles in the course of the day to somewhere other than the chippy or the Costcutter that sells nothing but convenience food. A generation or two back, there was likely to be a butcher and a baker and a greengrocer within walking distance. If you don't have a car, as most poor people don't, the big supermarkets are simply out of reach.
Then there's the long-hours/zero hours culture, which make meal planning and having the time to cook anything complicated more difficult.

And if you are longterm poor, living in cramped accommodation, even if someone gave you afreezer, where would you put it? You might be living in a hostel or a bedsit with nothing but a two-burner camping stove to cook on.

If Jamie Oliver had more to say about the crisis of poverty and less in the way of poor-bashing, he might be less of a useless dick.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/fasting_diet/a1820028-The-5-2-thread-number-25-One-year-on-from-Dr-Mosleys-Horizon-ep

ah but you have just lost 2 stone.

nice try.

to SAF

Why does that matter?

Swallowed, well done on the weight loss btw.

if you need to lose 2 stone, its a strong indicator of an unhealthy diet.

and probably not an expert on adult or child nutrition.

well done for losing it though

Well hasn't this got bitchy!

What has posters weight and height got to do with JO been a penis?

about as much as me not having children and jo being/not being a penis!