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 ridiculous. It ought to serve somewhere between 8 and 12 people.

Good God, I’d be pretty annoyed at that. It may seem unkind, but I rarely have things that Ds cooks/makes at school and certainly nothing meat based. This is a vast amount of curry. That’s dinner sorted for the week if you’re not like me! What container to you have they’ll hold it all, a bucket?

@Sirzy
"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."
I so agree. It would be much more useful.
As it is, the other ingredients can also end up with a lot of wastage.
1 red chillie? They often come in packs, so what do you do with the rest?
4 cardoman pods? I have never used cardoman in my life, so what would you do with the rest of the jar/packet?
The list goes on.
In my day, cooker lessons were more about teaching you skills; ie some sort of pie, but the object being teaching you how to make pastry, which you could then use for other things.

Also 15/20years ago teachers weren't working 70 hours a week so had time to do that they also had food technicians in abundance to help with all that

I'd send 1/4 of the ingredients, so 2 chicken breasts, with a note for the teacher 8 chicken breasts would feed a family of 8 and you'd prefer just to feed 2 people.

The banana cake has no flour, that must by why the extra eggs..

When I was a kid I remember a recipe that used chocolate and sour cream for the topping. It was foul have her try someone else's before using sour cream (I'd be tempted to take normal cream, that's basically ganache then and guaranteed to taste nice)

Schools have salt and pepper so they don't ask kinds to bring that in.

WOW that is a very expensive shopping list! The school should be aware of the cost of living crisis. That's a nightmare for less well off families. It should be budget foods. The spices alone would be expensive.

My Foster Son did Food Tech GCSE for 2 years and we all had to pay £10 once a term for basics like salt, pepper, herbs, spices, milk, a teaspoon of this or that. We only had to send in main ingredients like chicken in a name labelled container and the kid had to go straight over before school to put it in the fridge. He used to collect meal as he left school. He made some lovely things

That's crazy. i use 4 breasts to feed the family of 4. I'd send in 4, tell her to make half the quantity. My school have introduced an upfront kitty of £25. This covers all the food ingredients and boxes. It has been a god send, as I don't have to buy anything!

I'd ring school to check.. that is far too much.. one large breast in a curry would feed two people.
What happened to making pastry and baking cakes?

that is far too much meat

No flour in the cake recipe?

YANBU

Bloody expensive IMO.

ds1 was at a special school and they supplied all the ingredients. Surprisingly, good food got sent home too. Not many bonuses of having to go to a special school but this was one of them.

Could you not just contact the school and ask?

@milveycrohn , they're cardamom not cardoman. Cardamom - Wikipedia
They're delicious but if you don't use them normally, you'd be buying a pack. Same goes for the other spices. Ground spices don't keep very well.

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-tikka-masala

It's this recipe, serves 20! The curry paste lower down the page plus main ingredients all match.

Well done @HelloMist .

I think the chicken recipe is a mistake, I'd use four for four people. I wonder if it meant 8 thighs which would be smaller? The rest of the recipe looks like the quantities are for four. Are you or she able to email the teacher?

Serves ten not 20.

Though if it's Mumsnet chickens it might serve 20...

Still, a meal for ten is a bit of an ask in terms of recipe cost!

Blimey!

If the gallant defenders of Khartoum had seen your daughter arrive carrying this lot, they would have "huzzahed" her to an echo and known they could last out until Christmas!

EIGHT chicken breasts? Hells teeth!

My DD is doing GCSE food tech and the amount of ingredients that we have to buy is ridiculous. Last week I had to buy a jar of sundried tomatoes so she could use two in a recipe. The waste is incredible. Why are all parents buying individual bunches of parsley so they can add one chopped tablespoon to a recipe?

That MUST be an error. Let us know what the teacher says!

Were they supposed to work out how much for 4 as part of the lesson. Have you spoken to teacher yet?