Jamie Oliver is a twat!!!

[MrsMertle]

Discuss......

Just doing online shopping at ASDA - they sell basil plants for 78p, hardly a huge initial outlay JO could have explained that...

frozen veg is brilliant i think

chillis are cheap

tinned tomatoes

lentils

wtinned chick peas

lol shabster

it's even harder to change if you give up at the first hurdle.

and forget olive oil use sunflower oil or groundnut oil or rapeseed oil

Or you could scrape out the polystyrene trays which had the doner meat in - plenty of oil in them

My Mum used to save butter wrappers for greasing baking trays etc.

or squeeze the oil from the tobacco in yer fag

we got a deep fat fryer on Freecycle.

oh, yes, it is handy to have.

still cheaper to buy McCain's chips and fry them in there than get a poke of chip in the chippy.

or your hair

i think a lot of people are scared by the idea of cooking from scratch, take something like a sausage casserole for example, it's much cheaper (and healthier) to make a sauce with a (value range) tin of tomatoes and a handful of lentils (naturally adding a handful of fresh basil towards the end of cooking ) , but many would go for a packet sauce mix instead.

even cheaper to cut up a potato and shove in the oven with some olive oil

tin of toms 20p in asda today

bargoon

I LOVE Jamie Oliver. He's quite clearly a good bloke.

it is cheaaper to cook without all the extras like bits of different fresh herbs butter etc etc

but you can add flavour with tesco value brown sauce (19) mixed with honey (or sugar tbh) and sunflower oil lol

on potatgoes etc

jamie can come across as a twat on the outside, but inside, he's genuine imo.

19p

yes reduce down tin of tomatoes slowly with sausages in the oven

natural yougurt with curry poder on any veg or meat in the oven

Soren - PMSL my mum did the same.

Right Im off to bed....take my lardy Northern arse up the stairs, just leave the chip pan on the cooker.......burp, fart, those last 10 kebabs were a bit over the top.

See you all in the morning when I've done 10 hours up t'chimney!!!

Ah, well, Shabster - she (and I) are "thick Northerners" too Umpteenth generation Mancunians, to be precise.

I think he's basically got the right idea and encouraging adults to learn to cook is going to do a hell of a lot more to tackle obesity and general health in this country than improving school dinners. Not that I don't think they need improving, but they're just 5 meals out of about 21 a week, so quite a small proportion of a child's food.

What I think needs to happen is for the government to set up free cooking classes for adults in the evenings, teaching how to cook a dozen cheap, healthy meals with tips on how to buy ingredients cheaply and setting out the cost of making them so people can see just how much money they can save. I'd aim them at parents with young children and provide a creche if necessary.

I liked Jamie's idea of getting people enthusiastic and telling their friends and I would get these sort of people to act as paid 'mentors' at these cooking classes so people are getting encouragement from their peers and not just an outside teacher/tutor who they don't know.

I don't think the government is far-sighted enough to cough up the money for this sort of scheme though, which is a shame because diet-related health problems are costing this country a fortune.

Soren - I bow down before you!!!!! Lived all over England and in USA but Lancashire is a magic place, full of rough diamonds.

Oh yes and nutters who cant cook!!!

Pass us me fags Maxine - Im gasping!!!!

I haven't seen the programme and am sorry if Northerners are badly represented on there

But Jamie's good. I invoked him to our head who was giving the children hotdog and chips for their lunch ... It's now only on the menu once a month. Ooh the power of Jamie

If you've spent your life being treated like shit and labelled a scrounger and a pleb and a moron, it's quite likley that you will feel too paralysed with misery to be inventive in the kitchen (particularly if you've never been taught how). Or is being depressed something only the educated and comfortably off are allowed to do?

Salmon is really cheap in sainsburys - I buy salmon in their basic range for dd.
I steam it in the steamer I brought for £7 from Argos.
Add a potato and some frozen veg and my dd (10 months) has a heathly filling meal.

I am a real beginner with cooking and had no idea how to steam food. When it came time to wean I researched all about weaning for her benefit. I read that steaming was the best way to get nutrients from veg so I brought a cheap steamer and learnt how easy it is.

There is no excuse to feed your children crap