Ok well for starters surveyors are on fairly decent wages but I don't know what their hours are like.
First of all I think she's a bit of a nerve moaning if she's NOT doing the shopping or the cooking - and yes I would and have said the same of men behaving the same!
I also think it's pretty poor parenting in a comfortable, well educated household that they have a 17 year old who can't cook! Frankly even the 12 year old should be able to do simple meals already.
£179!!! Fuck me!
The mother comes across like a whiny petulant teen!
"I'm not having a packed lunch" grow up!
There's a LOT of brands there
22 shops a week! That's 3 times a day!
The mum keeping laughing is annoying me, cos frankly both those parents should be ashamed that they've not been feeding their children properly and letting them develop really poor attitudes to food and bad habits - like chocolate cereal! And hardly ANY fruit and veg.
"The more you cook the quicker it gets" so true.
During lockdown I was baking again for the first time in years. This time without dd nosing in and I was amazed how quick it was to knock up a batch of fairy buns or a banana loaf.
Re food tech lessons they're often really crap! I remember on a food poverty thread a teacher came on and explained the problem was caused by (I'm prob massively oversimplifying) the lessons being moved from being under one school dept when it used to be home ec (and actually useful) as that dept went due to cuts and food tech is designed and implemented by teachers in the dept that covers things like technical drawing!
My dd spent 2 years designing a fucking sandwich without there ever being so much as an actual slice of bread in sight! She produced a beautifully drawn image of the theoretical sandwich though 
However, I really don't get the feeling this is a time OR cash OR educationally poor family - so what's their excuse for TWO kids that can't recognise fairly ordinary fruit and veg let alone cook them?
@Sheknowsaboutme How did you find them?
Re helping poorer families - they wouldn't be able to change much for those families cos through necessity they already KNOW to shop, cook and eat on a budget generally speaking (despite claims by some on the fsm threads! )
@Akire You're probably right re poorer families homes being too small to film in as well
What the hell was that spaghetti dish?! Some sort of cross between a spaghetti and tomato sauce and an omelette?!
@Wafflehouse I too found it offensive the way she was laughing off the obscene amount of money they were spending on food. And crap food at that!
presumably you can chop cheese for a sandwich or cut toast not this family they bought sliced and grated cheese as well as normal blocks which I suspect are mostly used by the dad
Despite being veggie many years I have NEVER made a Dahl! That looked so simple and easy I had no idea and I have most of the ingredients in I think just need coconut milk? Or cream? My concern with that is using the whole tin up in a day or 2 as it's only me here. Can Tinned ingredient Dahl be batch cooked and frozen?
Cereal bars are shockingly unhealthy and I really feel strongly about those and energy drinks that:
1 The advertising needs to NOT be allowed to even allude to them being healthy
2 certain of the energy drinks need banned as they contain ingredients that are banned in many other countries that are plain dangerous to hearts!
3 this one applies to all sugary foods really and to nutrition info - I'd have the number of spoonfuls rather than grams as I think people can relate to that more easily. I'd do the same with fat and salt too.
That's a VERY thin pizza base and really it's better to part cook the base first before topping I find.
Loving the zero waste restaurant absolutely EVERYTHING from scratch!
LOVE Broccoli stalk the best bit! Really tasty
I bet this weeks mum did performance parenting when the kids were younger.
Omg yes!