"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.

Supermarkets could lower fresh food prices.

you cant pick on faster for the tomato thing, I feel guilty every time! That was my meal of choice, not hers. And no one did ever say that a child should live on a diet of tomatoes, onions & lentils - although Im still unsure what exactly is the objection to any of these items - as a Part of a diet.

usualsuspect he used to feed them turkey twizzlers himself but that bastard JO stopped that so less money for HT exchange trips to the Caribbean. shit happens

Why the fuck am i wasting my life arguing over whether lentils are a staple fucking diet with a bunch of strangers ???

Think they call this a lightbulb moment

J0 ate all the turkey twisters himself.

He dips them in balsamic vinegar bish bash bosh.

Usual I have shared my JO TT theory. A room of freezers where he stores them all and cooks them on a portable cooker.

Or maybe his oils and herbs are just ground up and liquidised Twizzlers

I'm losing the will to live on this thread tbh

Thick I'll go and order a kebab.

ohdearnigel - god knows. tbh i really don't give that much of a fuck about what i eat let alone complete strangers and i cannot get over the knicker twisting over poor people having televisions.

i will however find the whole feed your family on a can of tomatoes and an onion thing very memorable and the poster who claimed her children had never eaten a takeaway but had been allowed to dirty their fingers on fish and chips by the cornish sea once

incidentally despite the assumptions that i'm a big fat processed food eating monster today i have eaten a small home made from scratch vegetable risotto and i am now boiling some fresh from the garden eggs which i will have for tea. i am also getting one of my five a day from the large glass of gin and orange that this thread has driven me to pouring.

(again, never said i could feed my family on a can of tomatoes and an onion....that was a meal for one - me. How many times do I have to explain myself blimey!)

and all you'll find in my freezer at present is frozen salmon and tuna and random 'white fish' bought whilst on offer in bulk and peas and prawns and some casserole beef. oh and a packet of cheapo frozen mussels that JO would be proud of. not even a packet of fish fingers in sight as we very rarely eat that kind of food as ds isn't into it.

i have no desire to judge anyone else for how they eat though unless their children are obese, clearly being overfed crap and are not given any exercise. even then i won't resent them owning a television.

My favourite bit of the thread was someone telling poor people to go and shoot a dear.

I did like how the no takeaway poster holidayed in Cornwall though.

Do Headteachers dictate the school meals or do the county decide?

And to go fishing, usual.

I went down the Tyne with my little green net and caught nothing though. Not even a kebab.

yes the just go hunt deer comment was a classic indeed

also all the naive comments about driving to farmfoods and bulk buying meat. it really doesn't occur to some people that not everyone has a car.

when i was living in town my cat's idea of hunting was to drag a half eaten kebab through the catflap.

twisty there are nation standards but they don't apply to academies (why you might ask)

DP inherited an outsourcing contract but does not think the provision is any good - better after JO but still not great. he eats the food. but it cannot be changed until contract renewal time.

Blimey, you go out to the park, have a bit of a sunbathe, and this happens.

dahlen I don't know for sure, but I'd guess that processed food can be produced cheaply because of buying power and economies of scale.

swallowedafly I'm not sure whether it was the offending appallingly fatty food, but your Aldi toad in the hole sounded quite appealing.

There's no Aldi near me, unfortunately. I like toad in the hole, it's a tasty, cheap and reasonable source of protein, and it's not particularly fatty as part of a varied diet, which is what some of us are banging on about.

Tonight I am eating huevos rancheros. I'm so cosmopolitan, me. The bacon is Sainsbury's Basics smoked back. The kidney beans are Basics 21p jobs, there is a tin of tomatoes in there and I'm topping it with gulls' eggs.

I am 5ft 4in and so vanishingly slender my weight doesn't register on normal scales.

it's really handy once in a blue moon limitedperiodonly. and it literally just is yorkshire batter and sausages frozen. gives ds a big stodgy meal that he loves of a winter evening sometimes when i'm not in the mood to eat besides which i can't stand toad in the hole and wouldn't know where to start cooking a toad in the hole for one - wouldn't even merit a whole egg i don't think.

well done for your slenderness apparently it makes you markedly superior than if you have lost 2st this year after getting ill and putting weight on due to a combo of medication and inactivity.

You had a cat swallowed? Luxury.

My mum said that during the war, rabbits were sold with their heads on so you could tell it wasn't someone's ginger tom.

i haven't lost any weight for the last few months because i had surgery and it's been summer holidays and 24/7 with a child has it's stresses that obviously someone without children would know much better how to cope with than us mere mothers.

still i'll be back to work next week and juggling working, school runs, housework, shopping, cooking, washing and ironing, homework and all the other minor differences between only having yourself to care for and having dependent minors so it'll be easier to not have time to feed myself and i'll no doubt be waifer thin like yourself shortly.

yes. and now i have 2 dogs, a cat and two chickens. and i have a telly but it's only a little one so i guess that's allowed?

That's good to know.

I am having a spag bol (made by my own fair hand).

well done you because apparently processed meat with refined carbs and satans testicles aka tomatoes is really healthy

and I'm topping it with gulls' eggs
Foraged, I hope, dahling