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Hey 'Mums', I have to share this very patronising press release

146 replies

edam · 15/05/2013 14:58

My inbox has rarely been so insulted... patronising, sexist and ungrammatical. Wow.

"New Campaign to give Mums the confidence to get organised, save money and improve family health
"The Five Million Mums Campaign launches today with a call to challenge Five Million Mums to create Five million healthy families by embracing organising and cooking skills and passing them onto the next generation.

"The 2013 Confident Mum survey found that 1 in 3 mums says that they can?t provide healthy meals because they are not organised.

"The new survey of 1,132 Mums across the UK and Ireland reveals that while all Mums know the importance of healthy meals, and most can cook a meal from scratch using fresh ingredients, 1 in 3 have replaced the amount of fresh vegetables and fruit they buy with unhealthy, ?cheap?, processed foods in order to combat rising food prices. Supermarket ?deals? encouraging multi-buy are leading 1 in 2 Mums to admit to wasting more food than they would like, and not getting the intended savings they needed.

"Sian Breslin, home economist and the driving force behind the Five Million Mums Campaign explains that this down to a lack of simple organisation skills in the kitchen. She said, ?I?m not surprised by these figures. Rising trends in poor health is no longer a cooking ability issue, nor is it down to a lack of health education. With the 21st Century Mum being busier than ever before, and with supermarkets and food brands influencing our every food decision, Mums need to be more organised in the kitchen. The alternative is unhealthy, processed, convenience foods and poor family health. We have to take action now to combat the rising epidemic in family obesity, diabetes, and diet related disease. Five Million Mums is aimed at giving Mums the confidence to take the lead and get organised in the kitchen?.

"On an optimistic note the survey, conducted in partnership with My Family Club and Mummy Pages, reveal that 8 in 10 families do eat together, at least 3 times a week! So contrary to popular myth, the family dinner remains a cornerstone for many families.

"The Five Million Mums Campaign launches today with a call to challenge Five Million Mums to create Five million healthy families by embracing organising and cooking skills and passing them onto the next generation. The campaign embraces technology believing that modern Mums can make use of it to organise their kitchen. This makes meal planning and organising skills, which our mums and grannies did so well, really relevant to todays Mums.

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YoniTime · 16/05/2013 14:08

Whenever I see the word empowering I know somebody is trying to convince me that something sexist is not, in fact, sexist.

Wise words!

TheFallenNinja · 16/05/2013 14:09

The whole basis of this call to arms of 5 million women is based in a survey of 1100 where one third claimed not to be able to cook. Hardly an outcry for help.

My mum and my man couldn't cook worth a shit, my overwhelming flavour of my childhood was burnt.

She can feck off out of my kitchen. I feed our family, somedays well and we get our five a say, somedays it's fish finger sandwiches.

Cooking isn't alchemy. It's making cold stuff hot.

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 16/05/2013 14:09

decided against my FB rant because at the moment she's only got 55 likes and one comment and I can't be arsed to name change for such paltry self-publicity. I'll wait till she's closer to 5 million (snigger) before I launch my attack

lisaro · 16/05/2013 14:28

EduCated you can borrow one of mine to serve that purpose. Grin

GoodbyePorkPie · 16/05/2013 14:28

Fallen "The whole basis of this call to arms of 5 million women is based in a survey of 1100 where one third claimed not to be able to cook. Hardly an outcry for help."

Were all those women 'mums'?

RichManPoorManBeggarmanThief · 16/05/2013 14:44

yes, and here are the shocking stats that will shake the very bedrock of UK society, and in particular mum-society

90% of mums are aware of rising food prices
77% prefer Facebook (although prefer it to what was not disclosed)
Apparently the 3rd most popular use of the internet by women is finding recipes (they so lie- they just don't want to admit to looking at those nudie pics of Prince Harry for hours a day)

GoodbyePorkPie · 16/05/2013 14:45

"77% prefer Facebook (although prefer it to what was not disclosed)"

to cooking, surely?

MzPixielated · 16/05/2013 15:02

#fivemillionmumssayfuckoff Smile

GrandPoohBah · 16/05/2013 15:45

Huh. I think my DM and DGMs (who were: a senior civil servant, a radiographer and a business owner, respectively) will feel that I'm following in their footsteps better by having a life outside the kitchen than by cooking up a three course meal for my DH every night...

DH and I share the cooking. And the responsibility for ensuring that no one dies of scurvy under our watch.

Five million mums say fuck off, indeed.

Lavenderhoney · 16/05/2013 16:34

She charges for this? Well, its got her some publicity. I expect the daily mail will be signing her up as I write. They love all that imflammatory bs.

I hope there won't be any government money spent on this tosh because ' 5 million mums' sounds ominously like a political campaign.

What about all the people who aren't mums? Don't they get patronised as well, or is it just us feckless disorganised mums who are responsible for the nations health problems?

K8Middleton · 16/05/2013 16:57

Snigger at the dubious survey Grin

I suspect the finding the recipe thing may be true. Certainly I use the Internet for social networking, titting about on Mumsnet and Googling recipes. In that order.

TheFallenNinja · 16/05/2013 19:40

I love unscientific statistics, that survey could have been carried our at The Peckham hostel for wayward men :-)

scottishmummy · 16/05/2013 19:44

home economist that's an oxymoron
family club and mummy pages thats a club I'd not want to join

edam · 16/05/2013 20:30

how about oxo-moron as in the Oxo family? Grin

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Weegiemum · 16/05/2013 21:08

Evening meals in our house this week.

Sunday - roast dinner, made by dh (though it was me that put the gammon and coke in the slow cooker).

Monday - I was working all day and dh on call, so it was fish fingers, mash and beans at top speed!

Tuesday - ds (11) made meatballs. He likes to do this as he uses a Gordon Ramsay recipe ( ... take a pound of fucking mince and one fucking egg ... ) which makes him giggle. A lot.

Wednesday - not feeling well. Tea delivered from Just Eat.

Today - chicken korma, made by dh.

I hope that the comments my lovely ds gets for cooking (you'll always get a girlfriend etc...) will be obsolete before he leaves home.

Dd2 (9) and I are making fish pie tomorrow. Dd1 vomiting, so banned from kitchen. All my dc cook once a week. All I'm responsible for is the shopping list, but lists are a strength of mine!

MrsWembley · 16/05/2013 22:37

Well, fuck me, I've just found the fb page, with all the stats, and apparently 97% of women, sorry, Mums, know what's in their pantry.

I only wish I had a pantry. My grandma had one. It was a thing of beauty. My granddad knocked a hole through one wall so we could have easy access to the outside loo, which he had conveniently put inside his lean-to greenhouse.

Sorry, all this talk of pantries has taken me right back to the 1950s.

MrsPoglesWood · 16/05/2013 22:54

What a load of old patronising, sexist bollocks! DP does 90% of the cooking here and always has done. I can cook and do but find it duller than dull. He loves it so I'm more than delighted to let him indulge himself.

DP was away last night so me and DS had Domino's pizza Grin

Disclaimer - DS is 25 and offered to cook slow roasted pork belly with mash, veg and gravy. He can cook too! Him being a young bloke and everything. Who'd have thought it?? I really wanted pizza though....

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 16/05/2013 22:55

CashmereHoodlum, incisive post.

MaryMotherOfCheeses · 16/05/2013 23:03

My goodness. Hmm

And Shock at a website called Mummy Pages. FFS. That's is seriously grim.

TheDoctrineOfSnatch · 17/05/2013 09:22

Bump.

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