Mothers buy chips to get around schools healthy eating

[Blandmum]

I have just heard in the radio that some mothesr have been boycoting a schools healthy food initiative.

They have been taking orders from the kids, going to the local chippy, and taking food trollys of junk food round to the children at lunch time.

Oh FFS!

Taking out of the equation those small numbers of children who have special needs issues with food, what the fuck do these women think that they are doing?

How do they think this will help the children or the school?

Oops typo.

If you have to 'feed feed a family' then the savings could be even greater... OK now I'm talking bollocks

Not just on the curriculum but in general ... on TV... in magazines ... in books.

I mean, you pick up a supermarket magazine and it's all faffy stuff - oh but here's a ready meal that's almost as good. Or browse the recipe books in the book shops - great Saturday leisure cooking material if you're in to that kind of thing and are made of money, but not if you're looking for something to eat everyday.

The 30 min supper cookbooks that actually take an hour and a half after you've chopped each and every faffy thing.

We're a nation of Food Programme Lovers and not food lovers. We watch Jamie O, Antony Worral and all the rest, spend loads of money on their books, then go buy a jar. We've lost touch with what food is all about.

We've lost the plot. We really have. Food shouldn't be about spending lots and it being dinner party perfect. It should be every day, making the most out of everything, learning how to freeze in bulk, how to use leftovers... ekeing out the veg in the back of the fridge that is on the verge of getting a bit mushy, but is still alright with a bit of stewing and it still tastes great. That's the real world. That's what it would take for people to ditch the jars and have confidence in themselves that actually, yes they can cook.