“Same here Graphista, we were taught about vitamins minerals etc and which food contained them and which didn't, we were taught how to peel chop and prepare all fruit veg meat and basic doughs, we were also shown how to clean hygienically.”
Yep! Same we were taught the basic sauces too and how you make them into the other sauces.
Re parents should teach we have I believe at least one generation (roughly 30 somethings ime) who’s parents worked full time long hours and so didn’t have time/energy to teach them AND who missed out on decent cookery lessons at school (if they got any at all - for a time for this generation there were none at all)
One of dds “cookery” lessons involved 2 hours of “designing” a sandwich and then making the posters to advertise it! Ridiculous! And they didn’t even make the sandwich!!
Even if such an assignment had been part of curriculum in our cookery lessons it would have involved making the bread from scratch and learning the nutrition of the sandwich and which people would benefit most from the nutrients.
In gcse years assignments were things like plan & prepare birthday party food for a diabetic child, plan and prepare a low budget meal rich in iron...
I lost weight via ww and have attended other slimming clubs too, so I’m not perfect myself obviously but I’ve been stunned at other members who had much less knowledge than me or other older members on what nutrients are in which foods and why we need a VARIED diet.
FWIW even my group leaders agreed I eat/ate a good varied diet - just too much of it! And additional not so healthy foods on top of.
When I went veggie my mum insisted before doing so I get my blood tested and then again 6 months in (luckily practice nurse agreed and actually viewed it as an interesting experiment) and she wanted nurse to ensure I understood what I needed to eat to stay healthy, which was a waste of nurses time as I knew which surprised mum (it really shouldn’t have, but then with hindsight I wonder if she was hoping nurse would talk me out of it - unfortunately nurse didn’t at all, said it was a very healthy diet if done correctly). The 6 month test actually revealed I was absorbing MORE iron and I also gained weight (a good thing at that point, I was extremely slim, had some stomach issues which I had thought were just bad luck which mostly cleared up when I stopped eating meat. I discovered accidentally that I cannot eat red meat or any “derivatives” they upset my stomach dreadfully! Wasn’t at all surprised when red meat was found to cause bowel issues even cancer based on my own experiences)
I find food, nutrition and health absolutely fascinating.
Anyone similarly interested might like to know “secret eaters” has landed on amazon prime.