To be disappointed that COOK use palm oil?

[clairemcnam]

I but meals from COOK when I can't be bothered cooking. The initial selling point of COOK was that they only used ingredients you would find in your own kitchen. I went there today and chose a main meal, and went to choose a pudding. I chose one but there seemed to be a lot of ingredients, so read them, and was surprised to read palm oil.
COOK really need to up their game. I said to the assistant that I didn't know they used palm oil, and he confirmed yes they did.

So AIBU to have expected better of COOK?

On positive side came home and have started to make a rhubarb crumble instead.

Words fail me, so have a

Why do words fail you?

I’ve got bigger problems than to be giving palm oil a thought

Fine, you don't care about the environment.

YANBU - very disappointing

Yawn

Actually, yes that’s a bit shit, particularly for the market Cook targets. Palm oil is grim.

The title is perfectly clear. Why open the thread just to post you aren't interested in the topic?
I think some mnetters contain nuts.

Yes COOK is supposedly all about decent ingredients.

Shocking, I boycott palm oil so won't be using COOK.

Soytoi
I’ve got bigger problems than to be giving palm oil a thought hmm

Ignorance is bliss.

No you most definitely are NBU.

Palm oil is not only bad for the planet but also clogs your arteries with all that saturated fat.

For example, mcvities rich tea biscuits have 0.1g saturated fat per biscuits but most supermarket own brand rich tea biscuits are 1g saturated fat per biscuit. Only difference is presence of palm oil.

I'd be much happier if everyone boycotted the stuff!

The industry is linked to major issues such as deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses in the countries where it is produced, as the land and forests must be cleared for the development of the oil palm plantations.

Do words fail you a lot moistmolly?

Some strange negative responses on this thread. OK, so if you don't give a shit about the environment why bother commenting? Even more strange to give OP a biscuit for being conscientious about what they eat.

YANBU OP. So hard to avoid palm oil now.

And it tastes like shit and is bad for you.

Looking at their website it seems to be the products they buy in from other suppliers (some cakes/puddings, tartlets, some nut snacks) rather than majority of the stuff they make in house?

Still really disappointing. And worth raising with them - I will be.

@MerryInthechelseahotel

How's the view from your horse?

This was a pudding. But surely they can buy in decent puddings that don't use palm oil?

The views from the moral high ground on this issue are lovely, Merry. The food is tastier and healthier, it isn’t fucking the climate, and indigenous people aren’t displaced and orangutans and tigers aren’t slaughtered so we can get our fat fix a few pence cheaper.

I agree OP, they should use their pretty significant buying power to do that.

@MoistMolly how is the view from the gutter?

That is a shame, I must admit to not checking the ingredients too closely because of the ‘home cooked’ spiel and their efforts with recyclable packaging. I assumed they were some of the good guys!

As I’m having a lazy day I might just check if it’s used in all the meals I normally buy.

Thanks for flagging that up OP, as others have said I buy without checking on the basis of their "ingredients from your kitchen" line. If this is no longer the case I may as well buy ready meals from M&S...

I'm surprised but it makes more sense if it's already in ingredients they use. I avoid palm oil as much as I can, but reading this link www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil apparently it's the 'most widely used vegetable oil on the planet' and there is such a thing as Responsibly Sourced palm oil, which is given an RSPO label, so that's worth knowing.

I think it's definitely worth contacting them and I really don't understand the negativity shown towards this thread, or the antagonistic way it's expressed. Then again it's those kind of attitudes that got the planet into its current predicaments.

YANBU.

I agree with you there. In this day and age, I'm genuinely shocked at how many companies still use palm oil.