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?

Surely there's a mistake there? When my DC has food tech the recipe usually makes enough for 2-3 portions. Last week's bolognese used 250g mince.

It must be an error.

My school allows us to pay a contribution at the start of term and they supply the rest. English large state school.

It sounds like a mistake. Image with 30 kids they'd have 240 chicken breasts to cook! Don't do it and check with the school

What else would it say? 8 chickens?

x-posted. A mistake by the teacher perhaps?

That's enough to feed two families! Four onions per student?! So many tears.

Sorry but I'm laughing at suitable sized leakproof container...it would be MASSIVE

Your leak proof container will need to be a bucket to bring that much curry home.

Thing is, that recipe is so easily halved!

Surely they mean chicken thighs? 8 chicken breasts?!

800g of chopped tomatoes is ridiculous! What's going on - why are they making them make enough curry to feed themselves for a week.

we have this with school all the time - the recipe they send home is for a family sized meal. The first week i sent what they said and then realised what a waste of food it is. Now i usually reduce down to a single serving wherever possible and DS eats what he makes at lunchtime as food tech is pre lunch. There has never been a problem with sending a much smaller quantity - far too much food waste otherwise.

let’s see what it says…. 🤷‍♀️

oh sorry just seen

Have you checked that they weren't asked to source and select their own recipes? And this is one found on the internet without enough thought / guidance about quantity and cost?

That’s a recipe to serve at least 8. The items are in proportion.

what year op?

all that raw meat in a no. professional kitchen environment 🤒

Wondering if they mean the "mini" chicken breast fillets... 8 is about the size of a pack, and they wouldn't have to chop them

good point.

could it be that each group divided up the ingredients

have you spoken with your daughter?

Family sized meal for a very large family! And as a pp said could easily be halved.

Schools should be giving children the skills to make wholesome meals on a budget. It shouldn’t be about a long list of ingredients that will hardly be used.

OP, tot up the actual cost of buying all that, cream, spices (new jar of each - not everyone uses spices and will have it in the cupboard), everything, then email the school with your list and costs. It's outrageous. They can't even justify it by saying it will provide a meal at home. A noisy, chaotic kitchen at school doesn't always produce good or even edible results. Which year is your daughter in?

That's ridiculous and it's an odd recipe. It would be so bland with all that chicken there aren't enough spices. Someone needs to check. I would just send in 2. Even the food hygiene aspect of trekking the chicken into school on a warm bus....unless it's going to a fridge straight away I wouldn't fancy eating it. Never mind bring it home again 🙄

They must mean thighs. Curry isn’t made from breast meat

Yet weirdly no where near enough spices for that large a meal.