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

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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!!!!

the mother on the programme - it wasnt that she couldnt be bothered to cook it was that she DIDNT EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START

god its so daunting for some people

give her a break

Doner meat is just plain wrong for any one of any age, really.

But then, my 3 yr old loves cheap bakery sausage rolls, boiled Viennas and curried goat, so what do I know?

OP your child needs protein too you know

what's a boiled Vienna?

A jar of red pesto in tesco is less than £1 (just looked it up) and a packet of dried pasta about £1. I don't know how much you lot put on your pasta but a jar lasts us (family of 5) ages - at least 3 meals. I use about 2 loaded teaspoons in a big suacepan of cooked pasta. I do thin it down with oil or butter (or marge, before I get jumped on) and bulk it out with peas/sweetcorn.

my nan and grandad lived in an absolutly crap area in the North of England - they had no windows, no oven, no hot running water to name just a view and lived on crap. They couldn't cook - they could afford the bills to even get the electric on - they lived on rolls from the bakers down the road and cakes. I can not stand snobbery - if there is one thing I hate in life it is people who sit in their nice comfortable middle class homes getting their Ocardo deliveries, looking down their noses at others. If you want to do change things for others - then pull your finger out and do it - if you don't, and you have no useful ideas to help people, then best to keep your opinions and your pesto to yourself imo.

Fresh pasta is actually quite hard to cook properly. Dried pasta is far easier to cook.

I admit, I can cook boiled potatoes but I wouldn't know where to start with lentils because I've never seen them cooked.

actually I would only cook dried pasta to have with pesto LOLOL

fresh pasta and pesto is just wrong
so guilt in the OP fully justified IMO

In Sainsbury's a kilo of pasta and a jar of pesto would cost about £3. That's for one meal not 3

(although I agree the pesto would last us longer too)

Am i missing the point if i say my whole family's favourite meal is kebab?

butter is better for you than marg tbh

i had a patient in my ward recently who when she came in asked her the usual questions - do you have stairs, do you ahve a bath, how do you do your shopping etc etc
she didnt have a fridge or an oven - she lived on stuff from the bakers and bananas and went to her neighbours every sunday for a hot meal

lol, we like them too Godzilla! But fortunately we have a lot of Turkish cafes near us so we get the real deal

the girl in the prog seemed to be eating a box full of kebab meat though...was not in a pitta with salad or anything

the mum knew it was not good and wanted to stop doing it to be fair

us too mercy, we have a fab ockabasi (sp)

GB I bet you don't eat them every night though...

fiofio
could you point me in the direction of a jar of pesto for less then 50p please

I'm serious, we like to eat it

I have not managed to find any at that price

seriously I want to buy it

i agree fio

i thought it was a bit off last night when they lingered on the mother crying cos she was so skint

completely irrelevant to the prog

No we don't. And when we do eat one it's between us all with chips, garlic bread and lots of salad!

"All studies have pointed to the fact that working class and middle class children eat nutritionally similar diets anyway. Ask cod"

OMG - does Cod have working class children?

that programme upset me actually

I thought it was in really bad taste

shan't be watching again

A step too far for Jamie I think.

are my kids forever working class then cos they don't like pesto?? it seems to be the staple of the middle classes/trying to prove we are middle classes, whenever they come back from tea at someone's house they've always had pesto!