AIBU a generation that can’t be bothered.

I never feel guilty.
I try to force my grandson to have a dinner at school so I don't have to bother.
Unfortunately, lunchtime is so short, and the food queue so long, he's lucky to get a bacon roll to wolf down.

nexus60 we are talking about feeding a family on a very tight budget, where most families would budget and plan carefully before they went shopping, and the reporter who did the shopping was clueless and had no idea how to approach a tae in that position wouldn't buy, unless there was a compelling reason.

Dickens
^Schools used to teach kids to actually cook - I remember rushing down to the playground to hand over ingredients to my son who'd forgotten to mention it the night before...
Now they study Food Technology. Parents, pupils and teachers have expressed concern over the value of this part of the Curriculum,^
There is an alternative which my grandson took instead of GCSE Food Technology. He did BTech Catering and Hospitality and got a distinction which he has used to good effect by working as a chef on weekends and during holidays from Sixth Form. I've tasted his cooking and can vouch for its professional quality.

Instead of a young mother they should have sent out someone who regularly cooks from scratch, not one who would be rushed to put food on the table! Lol

Don't fathers also feed their kids?

Hithere

Don't fathers also feed their kids?

no dear, they have much more important jobs to get on with <urgh>

annodomini

Dickens
^Schools used to teach kids to actually cook - I remember rushing down to the playground to hand over ingredients to my son who'd forgotten to mention it the night before...
Now they study Food Technology. Parents, pupils and teachers have expressed concern over the value of this part of the Curriculum,^
There is an alternative which my grandson took instead of GCSE Food Technology. He did BTech Catering and Hospitality and got a distinction which he has used to good effect by working as a chef on weekends and during holidays from Sixth Form. I've tasted his cooking and can vouch for its professional quality.

Trying to remember from the dim and distant past, I think Food Tech came in with the National Curriculum in 1989. Most younger secondary school (KS3) pupils each year do a rotation of subjects (half a term Textiles, half a term Woodwork, Food etc) within DT, and then they choose one subject for GCSE.
Regarding BTECs, I know Gavin Williamson was trying to get rid of them last summer, but prior to that I think they were not in the schools' interest because they didn't count towards the schools' published assessment (I may have remembered that incorrectly, or it may have all changed now!? Anyone with more recent knowledge, please correct what I've said.)

Don’t be so judgemental. You know nothing about her circumstances. We need more compassion & empathy, not judgement over such petty things.

MissAdventure

I never feel guilty.
I try to force my grandson to have a dinner at school so I don't have to bother.
Unfortunately, lunchtime is so short, and the food queue so long, he's lucky to get a bacon roll to wolf down.

I've been there when DIL has asked DGD what she had for so-called school dinner and it was a roll or some such because there was nothing else left. They have only a short break and they are in shifts so if they're on late dinners there are only a few choices left.

blue25

Don’t be so judgemental. You know nothing about her circumstances. We need more compassion & empathy, not judgement over such petty things.

It was a journalist doing supposed research.

It wasn't very scientific, was it ?

Yes, exactly the same here.
It's not really acceptable, is it?

No. DIL said she might as well have done a packed lunch. They have dinners 2 or 3 times a week but the choice is very poor on late sitting.

I feel so lucky to have had realschool dinners in the 60s/70s….yes even the rubber stew and boiled dock leaf —cabbage— with a proper dinner hour that felt much longer somehow?

I find if you go down the bottom of the garden and dig you get these lovely protein based long pinkish brown things which go well on a barbeque with a nice grass and nettle salad. And it's all free!

Nanna8 ??

MissAdventure

I never feel guilty.
I try to force my grandson to have a dinner at school so I don't have to bother.
Unfortunately, lunchtime is so short, and the food queue so long, he's lucky to get a bacon roll to wolf down.

That's awful MissA. Do you mean he sometimes has just a bacon roll at lunch time to last him until his evening meal? Which I hope is a proper cooked meal?

I think it’s a sign of the times, but it also could show that this age group haven’t much a clue how to cook. Shouldn’t we be
Campaigning for Home Economics, especially cookery to be brought back into schools, alongside knowledge of food etc?

I think proper school dinners are a thing of the past.

I went to a Girls Grammar School in Birmingham, 1948 I think it may have been or `47

an academic school, yet my first year was Cookery class, and my mother had already taught me cooking

now I admit I have not read all the posts here.
but I often wonder about the "poverty" the people who claim poverty, I would like to see the budget, what the money is actually spent on.

but then, life has changed so very much now hasn`t it,, we mustn`t forget that! technology, ie. mobile phones etc. necessities, and so expensive....

A very sweeping statement to say a whole generation shop this way . Some may but a lot don't. Its very hard as life has changed with majority of women working. I don't think it's anyone's place to be judgemental. Neither is it fair to label a whole generation.

This had me laughing out loud Coastpath. So true how some things can be misrepresented.
I think things are changing though with more people cooking from scratch and growing their own. Enjoying cooking and far more experimental with new recipes than I was bought up on.

Yup think you’re being a bit unreasonable ! I worked full time (still am) and brought up 4 children, husband worked very long hours and had a long commute, I did not have long maternity leave either approx 12 weeks and with one child just 6 weeks. Lots of people actually don’t have great cooking facilities either

Frozen onions and bagged salads and microwave rice avoid waste and save on fuel, although they seem wasteful. You don'y buy different greens that will go to waste, the rice is pre-cooked so you can add it to the salad, and the onions will do for baked food, pasta sauces, pies and broth. The reporter either does not shop for that amount, or does not do the cooking in her household.

It’s such a shame proper cooking isn’t taught in schools any more. I was lucky going to a girls grammar where we all learnt to cook. My children have been bossing it in the kitchen since they were two years old and are both great scratch cooks.

Well what can I say. Due to allergies it is safer for me to cook all meals from scratch. I cook hubby carnivore and me vegan, yes even hubbies is made from fresh products. But and a big but I have the time now I'm retired to source fresh products and cook every thing including bread. I see my children, they do try the same but with work, children, children's outside activities and so much more I can understand buying things that they can just pull out of fridge, like grated cheese, and cook. They don't buy ready meals.