"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.

no one better come foraging my eggs.

I'm having spag bog too. Also made by my own fair hand and involving (looks round furtively) 33p tinned toms....

I could top mine with a seagull.

There was a dead one at the end of the street on Saturday. It's probably still there.

ah don't cha love MN.

noone wants to discuss food catering contracts that affect hundreds of thousands of children for many years of their lives.

but they do want to repeatedly dig at the childless.

You could make 3 meals out of that seagulls.

not digging at the childless. merely pointing out that lecturing mothers about how they should all go veggie and serve lentils and tomatoes and pasta on a daily basis when you have zero experience of feeding a family or dealing with children's food issues or levels of hunger and growth spurts and god knows what else is a bit not on.

the childless are great - no problem with them - it's just when they're armchair parenting that they get on my tits.

excuse my crudity.

And a hat.

We have moved on ,Faster.

Chill.

but to do a JO seagull would take a whole store cupboard of ingredients and take 2 hours to cook.

you could stuff that seagull with tinned tomatoes and an onion and feed a family of 6 for a week - just bulk it out a bit with lentils.

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.

Seriously

Do cats taste ok? Could 'the poor' pop round to Cat's Protection and bag a meal? Bet they couldn't make it last three days though...

And a pillow from its feathers.

my teenage boys are having Tesco pizzas. 3 for £3. They will eat one each. Cheap n filling and I am too tired to cook after 6 weeks of no sleep. Darn sight cheaper than I can make. Sadly they will have to watch a cheapo telly rather than a fuck off plasma but tough.

Maybe eating seagulls is the answer, there's millions of the fuckers.

And it would stop them nicking your fish and chips on a Cornish beach.

apparently carnivores don't taste good but cats are still eaten in some parts of the world. not much meat on mine and i've grown quite attached to the dogs and the child so won't be cooking them.

The possibilities are endless.

To be serious for a moment swallowed, I piled on weight when I was put on a drug after a head injury. It had the double whammy of slowing my metabolism and increasing my appetite and it happened so quickly it was frightening and no one warned me.

It was, like you, about 2st, which when you're only 5ft 4in, is quite noticeable.

Luckily I came off them after two years but it was a miserable and confusing time - especially trying to tell people you hate your appearance when they're glibly prating: 'But at least you're alive.'

So, well done. Keep on keeping on

excuse my crudity.

This is just the kind of thing Jamie Oliver is talking about. If you were a good parent it would be a crudite.

thanks - it is a bugger and yes it can happen really fast.

some people assume it's just because we live on cheesy chips and lard on toast mind

glad you got off the meds. it's awful taking something that makes you feel better but simultaneously makes you feel shit about your body and puts you at risk of various health problems.

seasicksal. yes, a crudite with balsamic vinegar and sea salt.

Sleepy Hollow Hedgehogs27 August 2013 15:18
I have a friend works for Mr Oliver on minimum wage at 44 years of age. I went to one of his restaurants and bought 2 drinks and 2 cakes and it came to almost £17 which is why Mr Oliver is a multi-millionaire and my friend uses payday loans to manage.
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What Jamie Oliver pays at least one of his workers, it seems.

SAF - i am not an armchair parent. i am not pretending to be a parent.

but i would now be a parent if i had not spent years where the only two things i did was work and care for my father who was unable to move his arms or legs or sit up or feed himself.

so carry on if you like.
i live a good life but i also know what shit looks like.
my contribution is valid. i know that there are very few people in this world that you can count on. it saddens me when people want someone else to do anything for them - because my experience is that we all have to look to ourselves to solutions because no one else is coming to help.

and i wont be put down by your references to my childlessness.

MN is not only for parents.

yes jamie should pay his staff better than minimum wage.

eh?

how does that come in? emotional blackmail and shindiggery now is it?

i'm not putting you down for being childless, i'm asking you to consider that you don't have a fucking clue what feeding children day in day out on a budget is like when you've just been and spent £47 on coffee and pizza bases and organic veg.

relook at what this thread was about.

shall i pour out my life's troubles for the peanut gallery?