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School cookery lessons (and inedible food)

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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 19:53

DD (year 7) is doing cookery at school this term. Every week we get a shopping list. Every week we get something inedible that goes straight in the bin.

Now this isn't DD's fault. It is down to the fact that every recipe contains raw onions (or sometimes raw Spring onions). I cannot eat any type of raw onions - they give me terrible indigestion. No one in our household likes raw onions.

I've tried excluding the onion (or spring onions) from the ingredients I send in. But whatever she makes still contains them (either provided by the teacher or 'borrowed' from another child).

WIBU to complain and insist that her creations must be free of this evil ingredient?

I've now thrown out 4 weeks worth of her food - and next week looks like it is going to continue the raw onion theme and contain olives - one of the few foods I detest

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catfordbetty · 01/10/2015 19:57

Of all the pathetic gripes about schools and teachers this must be the patheticist.

OTheHugeManatee · 01/10/2015 20:00

How many recipes can there possibly be containing raw onions? What has your DC brought back so far?

Confused
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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 20:01

So you'd happily buy ~£5 per week of food that you know you are just going to throw out?

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GrouchyKiwi · 01/10/2015 20:03

Raw onion is vile so IMO YANBU.

parrotsummer · 01/10/2015 20:04

YANBU.

I love onions but hate courgettes and I hate wasting food too.

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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 20:04

We've had rice salad, coleslaw, pineapple salsa and couscous so far. Next week is pasta salad.

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CesareBorgiasUnicornMask · 01/10/2015 20:05

How is it cookery if the onions come back still raw...?

But no YANBU. Raw onions are Envy. Also chucking out your child's culinary efforts is a sort of parenting milestone, surely? I only did home ec for a term but distinctly remember my mother throwing out rock-like bread rolls (they clunked when they hit the bin) and a beef stew that was the colour and consistency of washing up liquid. She'd been to the same school as me and swore the cookery department was using the same recipes they had been in the 70s...

BathshebaDarkstone · 01/10/2015 20:05

I have the same problem with raw alliums. Why would anyone eat raw onions?

formerbabe · 01/10/2015 20:06

You are being completely ridiculous. Do you really think the school should have to cater to parents food preferences?!

fredfredgeorgejnrsnr · 01/10/2015 20:06

Yes, YABU, I would expect a 7 year old child to be able to explain to a teacher that they're not doing to use ingredient X because of a family intolerance. A year 7 child should have no problems, it is your DD's fault - or your fault.

PolterGoose · 01/10/2015 20:08

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parrotsummer · 01/10/2015 20:09

How is she being ridiculous? Confused

You have to buy ingredients and they cost money. For you then to throw the food out - it's a waste.

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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 20:10

I just want one ingredient to be left out. I'm not expecting them to change the recipes for everyone else. Yes - it is 'just' a food intolerance rather than an allergy, but I'm not going to eat anything that will make me feel unwell. It seems like such a waste.

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Chippednailvarnish · 01/10/2015 20:11

It would be an interesting curriculum if each child excluded an ingredient that their parents didn't like every week...

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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 20:13

I think it is a bit more than a 'food preference' though. Indigestion is incredibly unpleasant.

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iamaboveandBeyond · 01/10/2015 20:13

Can you sub with shallots? I struggle with onions, shallots are fine though :)

GrouchyKiwi · 01/10/2015 20:14

Confused Why? Those dishes mentioned above would be just fine (frankly better) without the addition of raw onion. If people don't like it why can't they just leave it out?

capsium · 01/10/2015 20:16

Sneakily boil the onions whole?

Titsywoo · 01/10/2015 20:17

Think yourself lucky - I made burgers at school once and gave 5 people food poisoning (handed them out to my friends).

Hulababy · 01/10/2015 20:17

Can you not send her in without the onions and a big note for the teacher/in her book saying NO ONIONS DUE TO DIETARY ISSUES?

Why are they making so many cold dishes I wonder?

So far DD's recent recipes have had the opportunity to switch ingredients - last week's was risotto.

Coconutty · 01/10/2015 20:18

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OublietteBravo · 01/10/2015 20:18

How can it possibly affect the curriculum? Confused I'm not trying to influence the ingredients in anyone else's food or force them to change the planned recepies. I just want her to stop putting raw onion in the food she makes.

Besides, I imagine that after 4 weeks she is perfectly proficient at chopping onions, how is a 5th week going to help?

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goawayalready · 01/10/2015 20:24

my dd did home ec in high school she made the food gluten free as "mom is intolerant to it and it was unfair of them to exclude me"

seriously she is that balshy

Seriouslyffs · 01/10/2015 20:24

Ewww I hate raw onion unless its very very finely chopped.

But surely after the first week DC should have said 'I'm not using onions as it'll be thrown out as Mums allergic'

pippitysqueakity · 01/10/2015 20:30

Ooh, Hulababy, so was my DD's, it was yum.
(totally misses point of thread)

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