Warm boot recommendations please

[Guest]

Don't let the grown-ups grind ya down lost-sheep...

 

 

 

you might like this site: http://psjk.homestead.com/JamieOliver.html

 

but i guarantee not many of the grown-ups will

 

Phil

[Cinnamon]

Hee,hee - Phil, you are wicked

[Egluntyne]

I have never understood why kids in school or people in hospital expect to be fed for free (or at a stupidly low price), surely it is time to charge a sensible fee for school/hospital meals in order to provide something good..?

 

Well said Rhapsody. I have often thought that myself.

 

Would a parent expect to feed a child at home for 21p per meal?

 

Hospital patients would be eating if they were at home and probably spending more than hospitals can afford.

 

As well as extra sport in schools they should as a mater of urgency reintroduce cookery or Domestic Science as it was called when I was at school, to give people some idea of how to cook.

 

A generation of people in the UK have never learnt how to cook and they are now parents themselves...so we need Jamie to keep banging on and inspiring people to learn...although I agree that his cockney sparrer accent does grate a bit.

[Guest]

 

As well as extra sport in schools they should as a mater of urgency reintroduce cookery or Domestic Science as it was called when I was at school, to give people some idea of how to cook.

 

 

my boys both have/had cookery at secondary school and junior school, they both enjoyed it.

 

to be honest, though - if every call for "they should teach this as school" was heeded - then there would be no time for maths, english, sciences, languages and humanities...

 

Phil

[Cinnamon]

I thought cookery was part of the cirriculum?

My girls have both done it up to year 10,when they choose their options, & have both loved it too

[Egluntyne]

Maybe mine were all unlucky...the school they went to only had it as options for GCSE along with graphics electronics etc. Mine all wanted to do the cookery option but as it was oversubscribed they were fobbed off with subjects they didn't want.

 

Ah well at least their mother can cook and taught them the basics!

[Chocobo]

I've done it for years 7,8,9 and i'm carrying on doing it for 10 and 11 at least. My school has really good food tech teachers and equipment, and we cook proper food as well- not like in a magazine where i read someones daughter had made a smartie sandwich at school!

[Geoid]

I have never understood why kids in school or people in hospital expect to be fed for free (or at a stupidly low price), surely it is time to charge a sensible fee for school/hospital meals in order to provide something good..?

 

The thing is, at my school, they used* to charge really high prices, for really bad healthy food (overcooked, used too much %$^&*"£ coriander in food, making food look like vomit [its true] etc etc)

 

 

 

 

* see eariler posts for details

[chelsea]

 

...if anyone stops that ice cream van... there is no telling what i might do

 

LOL

 

Im partial to a mr whippy myself you know !

 

Ok, but back on the the debate - I think the main reason for overweight kids is not so much the food - but the lifestyle. When I was growing up back in the 70's and 80's we spent most of our time as kids outside playing, the school holidays - we were never home, we were out building dens, blackberry picking, fishing, bike rides etc. There is too much tv, internet, playstation etc and too many parents are happy to let their kids sit doing this for hours.

[Geoid]

Ok, but back on the the debate - I think the main reason for overweight kids is not so much the food - but the lifestyle. When I was growing up back in the 70's and 80's we spent most of our time as kids outside playing, the school holidays - we were never home, we were out building dens, blackberry picking, fishing, bike rides etc. There is too much tv, internet, playstation etc and too many parents are happy to let their kids sit doing this for hours.

 

Too true!

[chickencam]

I like a nice HEALTHY debate.

 

Glad to see I am not the only one fighting the battle that is my ( and all parents ) very serious duty to get my kids to eat nourishing food.

 

I am proud to say that all three of mine hate McDonalds and I hope that like me they will grow up to eat a reasonably good diet because that is what they developed a taste for in their early years.

 

There are times in life when only an apple will do and there are times when it has to be chocalate,wine,beer,chips,crisps & cake ( all at once of cause )

 

It is all about balance.

 

HAVING SAID THAT MY ORIGINAL CHICKENS HAVE BEEN SPOILT ROTTEN AND WILL ONLY EAT CORN - what happened to my principles!!!!

[James H]

 

...if anyone stops that ice cream van... there is no telling what i might do

 

LOL

 

Im partial to a mr whippy myself you know !

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Mr whippy is ok but that Kelly cornish ice cream is REAL ice cream!!!

[Chocobo]

cornish clotted cream icecream is best!!!

[lost-sheep]

i hope you guys don't think i want to be unhealthy and fat... i'm just moaning about the way they do it!!

 

they would be beter arranging a rationing system where the kids get a little book like in WWII. that way kids will be able to have some treats and some healthy stuff!! is that a good idea or is that a good idea??!!

 

i love being active and wish we had more P.E lessons at school. you do have a choice of various sports clubs that you can do at lunch but your lunch break is an escape from the lessons! i dont want to fill it up with le4ssons!!

[Chocobo]

At my school they still cook treats, just healthier ones, like brownies, flapjacks, sell ice poles in summer- and we quite often have a cake stall raising money for charities, and you can bring whatever you want in your lunchbox.

And last time i looked you could still buy pepsi max

[lost-sheep]

i think we still have cornettos in the summer (although they are a VERY expensive thing) but don't tell Jamie cos most of us cant afford them anyway!!

[Chocobo]

I expect he wouldn't mind a couple of cornettoes, as long as you all ate your greens

[Dancing Gal]

Healthy food can still be tasty appetising food - it just appears that some of the people who are supposed to provide healthy, appetising food need educating themselves.

 

It's not Jamies fault that some of the schools provide a poor or politically correct food service.

 

Agree about the annoying accent.

[lost-sheep]

i am fairly healthy!! i eat sushi quite alot, and cous cous and pasta salads!

 

and i do it cos i like it!!

[Chocobo]

I do my own lunch which is fairly healthy About three portions of fruit, a roll, and maybe a flapjack or something i've made

[Geoid]

arranging a rationing system where the kids get a little book like in WWII. that way kids will be able to have some treats and some healthy stuff!! is that a good idea or is that a good idea??!!

 

That IS a good idea!

[UkButton]

 

...if anyone stops that ice cream van... there is no telling what i might do

 

LOL

 

Im partial to a mr whippy myself you know !

 

Ok, but back on the the debate - I think the main reason for overweight kids is not so much the food - but the lifestyle. When I was growing up back in the 70's and 80's we spent most of our time as kids outside playing, the school holidays - we were never home, we were out building dens, blackberry picking, fishing, bike rides etc. There is too much tv, internet, playstation etc and too many parents are happy to let their kids sit doing this for hours.

 

 

I need to be careful here but I keep reading people knocking the likes of computers and games consoles... I'm afraid that they are not the problem. I've always had the above. However if I was indoors all day my parents used to turf me out simple as that.

[chelsea]

 

...if anyone stops that ice cream van... there is no telling what i might do

 

LOL

 

Im partial to a mr whippy myself you know !

 

Ok, but back on the the debate - I think the main reason for overweight kids is not so much the food - but the lifestyle. When I was growing up back in the 70's and 80's we spent most of our time as kids outside playing, the school holidays - we were never home, we were out building dens, blackberry picking, fishing, bike rides etc. There is too much tv, internet, playstation etc and too many parents are happy to let their kids sit doing this for hours.

 

I need to be careful here but I keep reading people knocking the likes of computers and games consoles... I'm afraid that they are not the problem. I've always had the above. However if I was indoors all day my parents used to turf me out simple as that.

 

 

Im not knocking computer games/internet completely.....just like you say - the time spent on them. Its all about moderation. With working parents, busy familys and households, lots of families spend less and less time together (ie - going out in the fresh air for a walk etc) and are quite happy to let their kids sat plonked in front the telly/computer console for hours on end because it keeps them occupied. Even my own sister is a culprit of this sometimes!

[Tina C]

We are all a culprit of letting the electronic babysitter take over sometimes! Everything in moderation though. As long as Layla also reads, rides her bike, has adventures and keeps on creating gigantic chickens out of paper as well I don't mind if she takes time out in front of the TV sometimes.

 

I am a bit confised by the 21p a meal figure - it costs me £1.85 for a school dinner - does that mean only 21p of that is spent on food?

 

(edited because I can't spell)

[lost-sheep]

I am a bit confised by the 21p a meal figure - it costs me £1.85 for a school dinner - does that mean only 21p of that is spent on food?

 

(edited because I can't spell)

 

yeah i think that is what is going on!!! ridiculous isn't it!! did any one watch jamies t.v program today?? i was flicking through the channels and cought him making cheesy mudpies ... oh sorry it was traditional english onion soup... with cheese toasties ...

 

does anyone cook that stuff?? i'd be intrested to find out if jamies cooking tastes as bad as that looked (not thast it could taste worse...could it )