to be annoyed by Hemsley and Hemsley

[Eachpeachpearplum1985]

Just been watching 'eat well with hemsley and hemsley'. Their thing appears to be cooking healthy, gluten free food and being hip. Tonight they went to a mega fancy shop that stocked ridiculous ingredients like bee pollen at ridiculous prices. They also won't touch refined sugar, instead using maple syrup and date syrup. AIBU to think it would bankrupt you to eat like this and it's completely unnecessary? Sugar is sugar in whatever form no? What harm does gluten do to people who aren't ceoliacs?

Will check out the angry chef thing. I thought tonight was the first episode but seems I've been spared a few

I think the subliminal message is that if we eat like them we can be young, posh and pretty too.

They recommend cooking stock for 14 to 18 hours?

Bugger that.

They are the emperor's new clothes of chefs, peddling half-baked pseudo science under the guise of healthy eating. I despise them.
But they're pretty and marketable. sigh.

I hadn't heard of them, and turned over after a couple of nauseating minutes. Are they related to anyone famous?

The title of the show irritates me beyond words, who the hell are they?

I cook broth in my slow Cooker for 3 days on low until the bones break down - bone broth. It's delish and makes house smell great

Ella Woodward gets on my nerves.
I want a cookery programme that shows me new and easy and filling and not too expensive things to make in my slow cooker and that my houseful of teenage boys will like.
I do not want to prat about with clean eating.

Copper, you need to sell your bone broth to the Guardian and all the others. Make a mint. And nourishing to boot.

I am fed up with the pretty-girl + instagram + eat kale bollocks.

Hemsley and Hemsley

Who?

I am unimpressed. The current vogue for clean eating basically has no evidence base as far as i can tell ( in fact, is there any evidenc e for anything bR general healthy balanced diet being probably a good thing? )

I also think most of this stuff is rather pathological. And i say that having worked in an eating disorders unit as part of my psychiatric training,

Low carb, gluten free ( studies show about 1% prevalence coeliac disease, so not the 10% claiming intolerance needing expensive sugar/fat ladened replacement products), dairy free (similar to glurn issue), fruit is bad for you cos it contains sugar etc.

i am a cynic.

Smug fuckers. Can't stand the simpering pair. Turned it off last week. Tonight, cringed when I spotted them in the TV listings.

Bone broth? Stock. It's called stock. It's tasty, it's useful but it's not a magical, health giving compound.

Hemsley always makes me think of that horrible Helmsley (yes, different spelling) woman who said that, "Taxes are for the little people."

Not just a fad: the dangerous reality of 'clean eating'

www.spectator.co.uk/2015/08/why-clean-eating-is-worse-than-just-a-silly-fad/
To become a clean eating guru, a cheery demeanour seems to matter far more than proper qualifications. Ella Woodward, Madeleine Shaw and Tess Ward all studied History of Art. The latter two then studied an online course with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition.

They are my mate's mates. She says they are really lovely but perhaps it just doesn't translate to telly. Haven't watched it. Prefer Nigella.

PMSL at History of Art.

There is an absolutely amazing food blogger (Shannon's Kitchen) who said the following...which I think is a good way to look at food:

'A while ago, I said "You know someone who has transformed their life with a paleo diet. Someone else tried it and got rewarded with a big, fat kidney stone they had to piss out of their tiny dickhole. You know someone who went vegan, and now they’re backing fruit puffs out of their glowing arsehole. Some other poor bastard went vegan and became so deficient in vitamin B12 they had to get shots in the arse. And I’m not talking hot beef injections. You know a skinny low-carb fucker who loves it and thrives. Someone else tried low-carb and had breath like an anus and a brain slower than Tony Abbott’s. And then there’s that fuck-knuckle who eats and drinks whatever the hell they like and never gets sick or fat. You tried that, got so pissed you spewed up your McDonald’s and then shat your fat-pants. So what does this tell us? Fuck all, except that everyone is different and there is no single solution. The thing nutritionists and dieticians seem to agree on is your diet should be varied, and should contain a fuckload of plants (mostly vegetables - sorry dudes) and water. BORING! But also liberating and wonderful. Happy eating, freshlords".'

HanYOLO - the Hemsley twins probably are lovely people, but I know lots of really lovely people whose advice on food and nutrition I would never trust, and who would really irritate me if they started spouting evidence-free stuff about how cutting out a vast range of decent foodstuffs and switching to expensive, obscure ingredients was essential to good health.

My degree is in History of Art. I had no idea that it also qualified me to give nutritional advice!

(I shouldn't really take the piss though as I'm yet another bread avoidant, kale loving, quinoa munching vegan and love Ella Woodward's books. I get the impression that Hemsley & Hemsley aren't for the likes of me though what with all the bone broth etc they've got going on!)

History of art? Are they deluded? No chef school or nutritional training. This sounds like Gillian mckeith.
I think this sort of fad is quite unpleasant because in the end the average person cannot afford it. Furthermore the pseudoscience spouted is cringe worthy and inaccurate at best.
These programmes make me long for rich buttery French sauces and patisseries.

Bone broth is different as it takes longer than stock as you have to break down the bone to get the good stuff. I'm very unpretentious and not pretty btw.
It's made all over Asia for thousands of years.

steamykitchen.com/39418-slow-cooker-bone-broth-asian-style.html
My Taiwanese mate from the US told me about it and I usually have some bubbling away now.
Don't think I said it was magic just yummy for soups etc

YADNBU.

I'm with Nigella on "clean" eating. It implies everything else is dirty and bad, which is such an unhealthy attitude.

Article in today's DM about this. Coincidence?

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3607736/How-TV-s-new-queens-healthy-eating-serving-hogwash-Collagen-soup-Eggs-astrologically-harvested-Hemsley-sisters-don-t-shred-expertise-them.html

I bet they love a nice chip butty, washed down by a Dr Pepper when no-one is looking.