following on from Chicken conversations last night - anyone watching dispatches on C4?

[JingleyJen]

AARRRGGGHHHH
It is making me shout at the telly!!

How bad for you is a waitrose chicken pie?

It's pretty vile isn't it! I don't buy ready meals any more. I'm an avid label reader though so I'm shocked at how wrong the labels can be!

It's such an annoying piece of television!! Not only does it have that woman presenting it but it treats you like an idiot. I have had to turn it over it is so AWFUL.

And what sort of idiot when presented with sausages and Jordans cereal and asked which contained more fat would not see the bluff and go actually go for the sausages!!!???? MORONS!

I am just shouting thinking that of course high quality museli has more fat in it - because it has more produce in it.
It will also have more calories because it has more than sawdust in it!!

The chicken pie has more fat because it is made with high quality pastry and will have more meat in it

Sorry Going on now....

All it talks about is fat! What about the other parts of the meal? they talk about this low fat one having more calories but don't actually tell you where those calories come from.

I grrrr again!

Breathe!

and the thing about margin for error on fat labeling it is such a minute quantity of fat that it doesn't actually matter if it is 1.4 g of fat or 1.7grams surely?!?!?!?

Eurgh how hateful. Am not watching anymore. turned over when they acted all shocked that orange juice had (wait for it) SUGARS in it!!

What is it with the scarey music!

They seem to have forgotten that food is calories! Almost as if the ideal is to eat food with the least amount of calories possible. Just eat air!!

LLPJ - I also laughed when they said that orange juice had acid in it - yup - is this actually a shock??

Didn't you realise that calorie is a dirty word?

Oh SHock Horror Ricicles and frosties contain too much sugar!!

Did seem to be a programme for idiots. How many people are out there who eat ready meals every day and think that they are eating a balanced diet? And what have they done with their brains?

do these people not realise that its better to not buy ready meals?

as for their arguement on labelling i agree, it should be simpler.

they are I think going to say at the end of the program that the family cooking food from scratch has eaten more calories and fat than either of the other groups - just a hunch.. will have to wait and see.

Ok so I am wrong - not unheard of!

Am now annoyed that I can't get the last hour of my life back.

Did anyone else notice that the luxury museli family were enjoying their breakfast at 11.25 according to their kitchen clock.

I stopped eating ready-meals after watching the shit-on-wellies Tesco expose last year. Glopping, all of it.

yeah but JJ even if they had, calories and fat aren't necessarily bad for you, as part of a balanced lifestyle!

glad i wasn't acctually watching it, just had it as background!

And why was that woman feeding a very young child All Bran supposedly to try to be healthy? I thought small children weren't supposed to eat very high fibre diets.

I think you are right Blu - I think 5 is the youngest.

Just finished watching this as a mate of mine worked on it. When she was doing the research I asked if they couldn't look into baby foods and all the sugar and additives put in them and she said that they had to pick families without babies as they wouldn't be allowed to interfere with a baby's diet.

I think the premise behind the prog was interesting, and sound, but unfortunately they tried to get to much in and didn't cover anything in depth, and it ended up being all headline and no substance. And great long footage of primary school children dipping litmus paper into a range of juices, all listed and named...the result - juice has acid in it.

I kept imagining MartianBishop watching it and getting all frowny and harrumphy at the clunky no-news-there-then science in it.