School cookery, very expensive

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I’ve just checked what DD needs for cookery tomorrow. 8 chicken breasts!
AIBU to thinks it’s too expensive and too much food?

That’s rediculous! Is she feeding the 5000?

Eight?? Has she got a side job in the canteen?

Yanbu my husband was saying this the other day. If they put them into groups and got them to pool ingredients it would work out much better. But they don’t do that. Just glad it’s only two terms out of the year that my son does food tech.

what year?

Why so much! What's the meal? Pure chicken?

Send her with 4 and tell her to make half

8?? Are they pooling their ingredients and she's been chosen/has chosen to bring everyone a chicken breast and the rest are bringing 2 peppers/a bag of rice/tin of tomatoes?!

That's insane and yes, far too expensive for school cookery. I was impressed with DD's school's approach to this.... Everybody pays £15 at the start of term and school provide the ingredients. It's far better, and means nobody is going a while jar of something when the recipe calls for a teaspoon.

It’s a chicken curry, there’s a long list of ingredients and so much of it. Just going to send in half which is still plenty.

That's insane! DS1 is making Christmas dinner in school today (he's doing Nat 5 hospitality- Scotland) and I don't think we've been asked for any money at all. Although they're having 2 turkeys between 12 of them.

The problem is that some would forget or be off sick and they wouldn't have the ingredients

Chicken doesn't last that long in the fridge, they really should not be cooking more than four serves, many families are just two.

that amount of raw meat with multiple young people on a non professional kitchen environment. No. Thank. You.

The week after they are making a cake and the quantities for that seem too small - I think there’s been an error somewhere!

Do the veggie option?

what year is your daughter in?

screen shot the message Op

are you sure it says breasts?

This is because schools in Scotland have been told they are not allowed to ask parents for any contribution towards Home Ec classes, whether compulsory or voluntary.

This means that our school has stopped offering things like cake craft as the ingredients are too expensive.

Is she working as part of a bigger group where others are bring other ingredients? Either way 8 chicken breast js about £10. That's far to expensive.

That’s insane. I don’t use that much for curry for 4!

I moan to DH about randomness sometimes but at least the volumes are sensible! 300g of chicken for example

I would also do the vegetarian option.

How many people does that claim to serve?

I didn't know that @Stroopwaffels. We certainly paid in the past. DS1's school does do cake craft but that's really sad if schools have stopped. It's not something they're likely to use their PEF money for is it?

@idealgift definitely 8 breasts!

Not part of a bigger group unfortunately.