Angel delight cheesecake wtf?

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Very possibly BU with staff pressures, lack of funding etc but Dd yesterday was excited to be making cheesecake in technology at school. We love cheesecake so all good. The ingredients are provided for them. She came home and it's a digestive biscuit base, very thick, with a layer of chocolate angel delight mixed with cream cheese on top. It's tasty in an emergency food kind of way but cheesecake it is not.
Should schools not be teaching the children how to actually cook and to use proper ingredients for things? Luckily dd knows how to make a proper cheesecake and comes from a family of good cooks and bakers but others will think this is what cheesecake should be like and won't have the benefit of culinary knowledge at home. Why can't they teach proper dishes and techniques? Ok year 7 isn't cordon bleu but come on, angel delight cheesecake ffs. It's an abomination and an insult to cheesecake. I might make one of my chocolate cheesecakes and send it in to the teacher along with the recipe to show him or her what a cheesecake actually is. And don't get me started on the use of take away style plastic pots and cardboard boxes to bring things home in.

So far dd has made pineapple upside down cake-all good. Apple tart using ready made pastry-not good. And the angel delight abomination. Oh and some couscous.

Yes ok IABU, teachers, stress, budgets, Tory governments yada yada. And maybe I'm
A food snob 🤷🏼‍♀️

Please share with me your child's school food tech abominations. Please note I don't mean if your child has made a mess of the recipe but rather that the school has given them a shit recipe for bastardised dishes.

I feel better for that

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I was once supporting an ESOL learner in a Y8 cooking class. They were making something with chopped tomatoes and practically the whole class had to be shown how to use a tin opener.

TBF, I had to show my DC how to use a tin opener when they went to uni, despite the fact they did their share of meal planning, shopping and cooking at home. Nearly everything has a ring pull nowadays. I cook from scratch every day and probably only need to use a tin opener once a year.

TBF, I had to show my DC how to use a tin opener when they went to uni, despite the fact they did their share of meal planning, shopping and cooking at home. Nearly everything has a ring pull nowadays. I cook from scratch every day and probably only need to use a tin opener once a year.
actual agree with this, cant remember when i last had to use a can opener

Only about half the tins in my cupboard are ringpull.

I used to cook with teens once a week when I was an OT in an adolescent pysch unit. It was actually fun. We planned the menu, made a shopping list, went shopping with a couple of them, divvied up the tasks and went at it. Lots of lasagnas and pastas with salad and garlic bread.

The kids looked forward to it, and it was a good activity to assess them for concentration etc. it was also therapeutic in many ways.

But we never made pastry.

I'm 32 and I made a cheese sandwich in Home Economics, but also a trifle and a pasta bake with about 600g of cheese

Most ring pull tins are the expensive brands which not everyone can afford, I couldn't.
Tbf Dd does struggle with a tin opener, but that's because she's left handed, she can do it it though, but it takes her ages

Gosh I still remember a school recipe . Make pancakes ( from scratch)

Fry some corned beef and onion

Put in dish

Cover with tomato soup

Bake

It’s lush , called toreador pancakes ?

But we did make cakes and biscuits and easy main meals .