OMG - Ive just watched new Jamie Oliver Prog and cant believe a 5 year old's fave meal is a Kebab!!!!

[mumma2cjh]

I felt soooooooooo guilty the other day as in a md rush I gave my 3 year old fresh pasta nad pesto followed by strawberries, grapes and apple slices....After watching JO's new programme I feel totally relieved.

Im not a great cook but would never, never, never feed my 3 year old kebab meat or chips and cheese from a take a way!!!!

Hmm that mings. I'd rather not wash my hands after I go to the loo in their bathroom it's so rotten (I pack that alcohol rub in my trousers and use that instead)

i'd rather not use the loo in there at all.

well the thighs get a work out (all that hovering) I can't not go after 8 hours there, I have a bladder that's smaller than a flea's clutch bag.

ah, we live about 90 miles away. and it's a lllooonnnggg 90 miles .

oK SO i watched the repeat, thought the program was a big pile of shit - JO is the height of patronising TWUNTISM!

I don't know if anyone else spotted this The woman who had "never cooked for her children" had an eight burner hob; all singing all dancing cooker, proper coffee maker on the side, saucepans i would kill for! DOES THAT LOOK LIKE THE KITCHEN OF SOMEONE WHO HAS NEVER COOKED TO YOU? Well DOES IT???

i must say, that was the only thing that got me about the programme - her house (to me) looked like a show home. I could never afford anything like what she had in her house, she was dripping in gold but still she says she hasn't got enough money to buy food? You can get potatos, veg, fruit etc off the market pretty cheap, much cheaper than takeways every night anyway. That's the only thing that really annoyed me - I've met a lot of people who insist they haven't got the money to take their kids away for a couple of nights or do packed lunches for their kids but yet have every electrical item going - even if I had nothing, I would make sure my kids were fed to the best of my ability and she knew she was failing them - that was what was so sad......

What about chicken on a glass plate? Has nobody mentioned that yet? It's very easy to prepare and make.

I wasn't commenting on what she may or maynot have had in her home. I am not interested in judging people on benefits. I just think that someone who would buy a cooker like that MUST have an interest in cooking.

Chicken on a glass plate? intrigued

'I just think that someone who would buy a cooker like that MUST have an interest in cooking. '

When you rent you get the cooker that comes with the place, IME. Regardless if you cook much on it or not.

When it breaks or needs replaced you get what the landlord puts in.

around here, where chippies are VERY popular, a small doner kebab is about £3.50.

it doesn't normally come with chips.

a poke of chips is about £1.20, for salt and vinegar. if you got cheese, as featured on the show, then about £1.50.

that's why i'd posted earlier that as there were four of them in the house that would be between £10-£20/night - the Chinese is usually more expensive.

so yeah, pretty dear for every night fare.

sorry lucyellensmum - i wasn't aware i was judging anyone on benefits either? just commented on how much electrical stuff she had in her home - never mentioned benefits.....

Ah, that is a good point expat - i didn't think of that.

i only say that, LEM, because we hate the cooker that's in here now.

we hate it so much, we'd gladly buy another one and fit it in and then take it with us and fit the old one back before we go.

but this old piece of shit is so ancient they don't even make that size anymore!

it's 3cm smaller than the smallest one now available, and that means you'd have to cut into cupboards to fit a new one, which we can't do.

fecking hate ceramic hobs. all electric hobs, for that matter.

chips here are £1.60 for a small. but that serves 5 of us!

i got a deep fat fryer off Freecycle .

i wont get a deep fat fryer. used to have one. loved it. got very big!

we loves it!

the chippy is just so far away, and when the craving strikes at midnight, the fryer fits the bill.

Not read the whole thread BUT have to say I am a young mum. We are not rich infact 2 years ago I'd say we more than poor neither did we have an oven. We had a steamer, a George forman type thing and gasp a fryer for lovely big homemade chips. My ds ate a healthy balanced homemade meal everyday. Now we have an oven etc we eat even better. It us not only young mums who would benefit from cooking lessons (whch really was my point inthefirst place!) but a lot of parents from a much broader spectrum.

Rant over!

ah but yummymummy, it would seem, according to JO that if you are : A young mum, a single mum, poor, or even worse from up north, you are blatantly really stupid and can't even knock together beans on toast. My SIL is not a young mum, she is a soft southerner and they are definately not poor - she cannot cook for toffee, her DH does the cooking and during the day, the children eat packet microwave shite. They look quite healthy to me though.

Oh I love kebab meat and chips obviously it's not the healthiest meal in the world but it certainly won't kill you.

My kids love it too but only get it to have it once every 3 months or so and they share one between them.

Nothing wrong with it as a treat, everything in moderation.

Ah Lucy that must explain it as I am a southerner and. My family isn't what you would call poor so I must be the exeption!!!!!!!!!!

LEM - again, it's not a case of 'can't cook for toffee' - it's a case of 'doesn't want to learnt to cook'. If she has a dh who can show her gently how to boil water, peel potatoes, read instructions on the packet of pasta/noodles/lentils then she just doesn't want to. I admmit to using fish fingers and oven chips, sausages etc. My dc don't have home-cooked from scratch every day, but I would never get on J.O.