Jamie's one pound meals

i have stopped using Waitrose less and less their prices are silly now, Like you Naanan2 I just buy the things that I cannot get elsewhere

Growstuff- well they might? IF they were actually taught it i'm sure SOME of it would stay in some of them's heads? Even if it was only half of them it would be something would'nt it?🤔

I made a shepards pie as very first thing i ever did at secondary school aged 11- and i did a very good filled crépe suzzette (with a sauce over) in the DS exam- came 2nd as i got 1 answer wrong- 2part- we cooked/did theory) and i can still do them now and have loads of times over the years since, as well as quite a few other recipes i learned then.

Jamie's brilliant. I've only eaten twice in his restaurants but the meals and service were truly impressive. Okay he's a bit 'bumptious' but he's taken on food ignorance and has told people that should not be feeding their kids junk food - and how not to do it. We need more people like Jamie.

What annoys me is they assume you have everything already. He used turmeric, 1 tsp, at 3 or 4pence. However, to make your £1 meal, you need to pay for ajar or packet of turmeric. They all do this, assume you have 100g or this or 2 tips of that, if you haven't your £1 recipe simply isn't

Nannan2

Maybe high schools should go back to this regime and have the whole class do cooking or woodwork etc so that they ALL learn something of use to them for when they're uni students or have homes of their own? A few lessons that teach them budgeting/value of money or about tax/banks/insurances/bills etc would be useful as well.(THATS what lessons for life should be- not just the basics of sex)🤔

Indeed.

Maybe parents could teach their children to cook and budget as well.

DianaLouise

I am just about to make his crumble with frozen fruit again the fruit cost far more than £1.00 a portion at Sainsburys

Goodness what are you buying that costs over £4 a bag?
Quick google search shows £1.90 for 400g bag of mixed berries

Treetops05

What annoys me is they assume you have everything already. He used turmeric, 1 tsp, at 3 or 4pence. However, to make your £1 meal, you need to pay for ajar or packet of turmeric. They all do this, assume you have 100g or this or 2 tips of that, if you haven't your £1 recipe simply isn't

Valid point.
When first married we purchased 1-2 small packets to a weekly shop; grew the spice cupboard. We also substitute some spices.

Treetops05

What annoys me is they assume you have everything already. He used turmeric, 1 tsp, at 3 or 4pence. However, to make your £1 meal, you need to pay for ajar or packet of turmeric. They all do this, assume you have 100g or this or 2 tips of that, if you haven't your £1 recipe simply isn't

But part of the message is showing how important a few store cupboard basics are. It's hard to cook tasty and economical meals without. If it's bought little by little it soon builds up.

People will be complaining next that he doesn't include the cost of the flaming frying pan!

Nannan2

I made a shepards pie as very first thing i ever did at secondary school aged 11- and i did a very good filled crépe suzzette (with a sauce over) in the DS exam- came 2nd as i got 1 answer wrong- 2part- we cooked/did theory) and i can still do them now and have loads of times over the years since, as well as quite a few other recipes i learned then.

But I can make shepherd's pie and crepes, despite never having had a cookery lesson in my life. They're really not that difficult.

Nannan2

Growstuff- well they might? IF they were actually taught it i'm sure SOME of it would stay in some of them's heads? Even if it was only half of them it would be something would'nt it?🤔

But what would they have to give up? There can only be a limited number of lessons in the school day.

Treetops05

What annoys me is they assume you have everything already. He used turmeric, 1 tsp, at 3 or 4pence. However, to make your £1 meal, you need to pay for ajar or packet of turmeric. They all do this, assume you have 100g or this or 2 tips of that, if you haven't your £1 recipe simply isn't

To be fair to JO or any other TV cook - they have to assume that you have access to the very basics such as fuel, a few ingredients and a saucepan.

Anyone living in a tent or car is not likely to be looking for cooking hints.

growstuff

Callistemon21

Germanshepherdsmum

I was at grammar school in the 60s. ‘Domestic science’ was done by those considered unsuitable to learn a second foreign language so its absence from the curriculum is nothing new. I believe it should be taught - it’s a valuable subject which I didn’t get to take.

Me neither but thank goodness I had to help my Mum sometimes (at least I knew how to make a basic white sauce by the time I was 10!!).

When friends and I were 16 we thought we'd join an evening cookery class as we'd not done domestic science at school but were told we couldn't enrol as the course was for married women.

My school didn't even offer DS, but my father ran a pub and I learnt from an early age how to cook Christmas dinner for 40 - five days running.

I'm quailing at the thought 😲

I think Mary Berry is still 'having her day' and I do like a lot of her recipes.

Delia isn't on our screens any more but I think she has an online cookery site. Her recipes always worked.
I like the Hairy Bikers' recipes.

However, I do admit I'm rather more of the Glorianny school of cookery 😁
I'm a reasonable but chaotic cook and the timing involved completely destroyed me

Chuck it in, hope for the best and take it out when it looks done - although I will use a recipe if it's something new or I'm unsure.

petunia

I believe that all children should be taught cooking skills, no matter what their background. Doesn't matter whether it is the school, parents or some other agency, even Jamie. I would also add the concept of food miles , seasonal vegetables and reducing waste into those lessons. Its a life skill.
As a society we have lost any notion of seasonal vegetables and loose our cool when a government minister suggest eating turnips instead of imported tomatoes. In winter. A point that was badly made. But she did have a bit of a point.

This is off at a tangent but I remember a TV programme some years ago, one of the first where the presenters looked at what a family ate over a week and tried to show them how to cut their bills. One of the series remains in my mind. A couple, with a baby/toddler who had had a ready cooked roast chicken the previous day. The adults had carved one side of breast leaving both legs, wings and most of the breast meat on the other side intact. One of the couple decided to throw it away because they didn't know what to do with it. This couple were affluent and lived in a nice house but wanted to curb their food spending, yet were quite happy to throw an almost complete chicken into the bin.

Hands up anyone who could make that chicken cover several different meals and provide an excellent stock.

Hands up anyone who could make that chicken cover several different meals and provide an excellent stock

Me!

I saw that programme and remember being horrified.

www.theecoexperts.co.uk/home-hub/food-waste-facts-and-statistics#:~:text=The%20hospitality%20sector%20alone%20tosses,4.5%20million%20tonnes%20is%20edible.

growstuff

Were you one of those people Germanshepherdsmum? Did you experience the help available?

We were, couldn't get a delivery from anywhere for a few weeks despite being on the shielding list but our lovely neighbours added our list to their delivery and DS shopped for us too.

There was a Community Covid group who would have shopped for us, the local vicar and the County Council would deliver bags of food if all else failed.

I find his enthusiasm infectious. I often use some of his ideas, not necessarily the complete recipe and method.
I love the way he keeps washing his hands but never seems to dry them!

Of course supermarkets put up the price of other goods when they cut prices on advertised lines. They are not charities, they have buildings to maintain, staff to employ etc etc plus make a reasonable return - and returns in the grocery trade are not enormous.

Norah

Nannan2

Maybe high schools should go back to this regime and have the whole class do cooking or woodwork etc so that they ALL learn something of use to them for when they're uni students or have homes of their own? A few lessons that teach them budgeting/value of money or about tax/banks/insurances/bills etc would be useful as well.(THATS what lessons for life should be- not just the basics of sex)🤔

Indeed.

Maybe parents could teach their children to cook and budget as well.

What if the parents can't cook or budget?

growstuff

Nannan2

Growstuff- well they might? IF they were actually taught it i'm sure SOME of it would stay in some of them's heads? Even if it was only half of them it would be something would'nt it?🤔

But what would they have to give up? There can only be a limited number of lessons in the school day.

Well, what do they study now that we didn’t do back then? Cookery and needlework or DS used to be double lessons, as was woodwork or tech drawing for the boys.

I pointed out either in this or a similar thread how many subjects we covered at our grammar school, plus plenty of PE and Games. Two languages, three sciences, art, music, RE, humanities and maths and English daily (the last two).

Our school day was 9-4, with morning and afternoon break, and a lengthy lunch hour.

It all seemed to fit in, and I dare say I left school in 1969 able to cope with life as well as they do nowadays. Went into full time work at 16.

He did say it was an average of 5 or 6 supermarkets and since waitrose is sponsoring the show I am assuming they are one of them?

Calendargirl I didn't do any "practical" subjects at secondary school, so if I were to follow the same curriculum without dropping anything, the school day would have to be extended.

With hindsight, I would have liked to have done more science (I did biology and chemistry O levels, but had to drop physics, but I can honestly say that I have never regretted not doing any cookery, needlework, woodwork or "practical" subjects.

I didnt either, growstuff but they are all subjects I've taken up as hobbies, or out of necessity.
I never did sewing at school after Y7 but made my own (and later my children's) clothes.

However, I've gone off cooking lately.

I feel Jamie Oliver’s heart is in the right place - and his family meal recipes are a lot more relevant than, for example, the unnecessary cake recipes in Bake Off shows.

HannahLoisLuke I have that book! I bought it when I left home at 16 and learned to cook from it, still can’t bear to part from it over fifty years later!!

The mans so out of touch with reality its ridiculous. he has no idea what people can afford or what people and the children in normal working families will eat. I cant stand him and his stupid ideas.