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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to think this is unrealistically short notice to provide food tech ingredients...?

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hatesponge · 14/10/2009 20:46

DS is in Year 7.

He has food tech (or cookery/domestic science as it was called back when I was at school.....) tomorrow. He has to make a fruit crumble or pie. He got the list of ingredients in his lesson today

I think it is entirely unrealistic to have less than 24 hours notice. DS was at football practice after school, his dad brought him home to me at 7 - which was when I first heard about it. I then - after we had dinner - had to run down to Asda (which as I dont drive is luckily is 10 mins walk down the road) & buy it all. Frankly having been out since 7.30am at work, the last thing i wanted to do was have to bolt my dinner down to go back out to the shops!

I have asked DS if he had any earlier notice of this. He says not - and given that I have told him I intend to phone the school about it, I know he wouldn't lie as he would so easily get caught out.

So AIBU..........?

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OrmIrian · 15/10/2009 15:21

No. I can beat that though. Tuesday morning I got asked' Mum what do you make crumble out of?' I guessed the rest.... Thankfully we had all the stuff in the house. Not unusual ingredients.

But DS was told the previous week, he just forgot

MadameDefarge · 15/10/2009 15:38

but passata is not the same as tomato puree. I would cry if someone tried to feed me a pizza made with tomato puree.

ChunkyMonkeysMum · 15/10/2009 18:39

hatesponge - Are you there ?????? Did you speak to the school ?
I'm sure I'm not the only one who is being nosy wants to know whether the teacher actually did only give your DS overnight to get the ingredients, or whether DS forgot to tell you sooner

borderslass · 15/10/2009 18:54

both my childrens schools provide the ingredients daughters is a pound a lesson and sons £10 a term alot easier I think.

bellavita · 15/10/2009 19:01

DS1 does theory one week and gets given the recipe for the ingredients then and he does the practical the following week. So a week's notice.

kittycatty · 15/10/2009 19:09

My daughter usually gets a weeks notice but at the moment its driving me mad because they made a cake and are spending the next 4 weeks baking the same cake just changing it slightly every week. Wouldnt mind so much but none of us eat cake so im paying out every week just to put it in the bin!

charmander · 15/10/2009 19:20

DS1 in Y7 gets all the ingredients provided each week for free.

I would not mind paying as he eats whatever he makes.

We are asked to pay £20 a year school fund which goes towards running the school coach apparently and possibly also the food.

johnthepong · 15/10/2009 19:39

I am also a Food Tech teacher (cant believe how many of us there are on here- thought we were meant to be in short supply!).

If the teacher did in fact only give the recipe with 1 days notice, I would say it was a bit disorganised, in fact, I would probably postpone the practical rather than only give 1 days notice.

It is likely the child is on a 2 weeks timetable and has food tech 2 days in a row, and then nothing for 2 weeks. Our school works in a similar way.

The only time I have given a child a recipe with 1 days notice has been if they have been absent when I have given out the recipe to the rest of the class- with the proviso that if they cant get the ingredients then its not a problem.

Schools dont provide the ingredients because not only would it cost alot of money and time, but when kids dont use their own ingredients- they very often dont tend to care about their work and it gets dumped at the end of the day.

johnthepong · 15/10/2009 19:42

kittycatty- it sounds like she is doing her GCSE coursework- they usually get to choose their own products to develop - i wouldnt have recommended she chose cake if she dosnt like it!

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hatesponge · 15/10/2009 19:55

ok am back!

I spoke to DS this morning to double check his story & remind him I would be phoning the school....at which point he backtracked slightly & said that they had been told what they would be cooking on Monday (they had the same teacher for another subject that day), but only got the ingredients list in their lesson yesterday

Anyway, phoned the school & as you cant ever speak to anyone directly, left a message for the Food Tech teacher to call me......and am now awaiting a call back (which hopefully will be tomorrow).

Will update once I have spoken to her - obviously a couple of days notice is a lot better than one, so DS was being a bit economical with the truth , however I still think they could give a bit more warning - certainly I dont see why they only give the actual ingredients list out the day before!

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Pyrocanthus · 15/10/2009 19:56

FT teachers: lest you should think you are unappreciated, DD just said of hers, 'Mrs XXXX is brilliant with clingfilm!'

Lilyloooohhhh · 15/10/2009 20:11

hate will look forward to teachers version of events

BexieID · 15/10/2009 20:34

I used to hate having to cart ingredients to school and lug them round all day. Most extragavent thing I ever made was a bakewell tart!

ChunkyMonkeysMum · 15/10/2009 20:46

Bakewell Tart ???? Wow, you were lucky !! All I ever got to make was Meatloaf & Chocolate Cornflake Cakes

SarfEasticated · 15/10/2009 21:17

I used to love cooking/HE although I do remember the swiss roll being rather tasteless. I used to love packing everything into the cake tin the night before. happy days

Goblinchild · 15/10/2009 21:22

This is a very odd coincidence.
I was in the queue at the supermarket on Tuesday about 9.30 when I overheard a parent ranting about this precise issue, with the boy in question making muffled noises next to him. And I recognised the boy as in my son's DT group.
So I dropped X in it by saying that his group had been given the list last week, because DS had put it on the noticeboard next to my shopping list and we'd bought the stuff on Saturday.

kittycatty · 16/10/2009 10:03

johnthepong yes she is but her teacher is very strict about which deserts the kids can make (they have to be whats on the menu at the restarant where the teacher goes) then it has to be something they can change four to six times and because money is very tight cake was the only thing we could come up with.

Pyrocanthus · 16/10/2009 13:09

Could your DD not flog the cakes to the restaurant, kitty?

dilemma456 · 16/10/2009 14:12

Message withdrawn

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