Jamie's one pound meals

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.

people didn't have bloody anything in their fridge or freezers.

That wasn't my recollection of lockdown.
Okay, a few things were in short supply but nothing in fridges and freezers???
Did I miss something?

Spot on, Maw.

It sounds like a case of
“I do not like thee, Doctor Fell
The reason why I cannot tell
But this I know and know full well
I do not like thee, Doctor Fell”

JaneJudge you admit you don’t like him,but from your reasons it seems whatever he does is wrong.

So when he tries to devise recipes based on least expensive ingredients he's patronising and trying to make us poor people^(🤔) ^happier with our lot

And when he cooks recipes including salmon he's being simplistic because people didn't have bloody anything in their fridge or freezers.

Or, if he tries to help improve school meals he's virtue signalling

Good grief.

What do you suggest he does do then?

No he did actual shows during Lockdown maw aimed at families

I had most of mine home and we didn’t even have tinned soup let alone celery 😩😂

The problem with school dinners is they were/are private firms part of business and capitalist model. If he wants to improve school meals why not talk to his MP friends but he did that, didn’t he? and then threw in the towel? Moved onto his next mission that was never accomplished? It all gets a bit tiresome

Is this what virtue signalling is?

JaneJudge

Of course it is. It just annoys me he is so simplistic about issues regarding food and poverty and his lockdown shows were particularly poor when people didn’t have bloody anything in their fridge or freezers and he was cooking salmon etc

Weren’t they repeats?
As for not having anything in the fridge, lockdown was not all that different !

I don't usually watch cooking shows; they seem to all be completions these days. I don't believe his latest show is televised here, but I must say that I do admire his enthusiasm for healthy eating, and cooking on a budget.

I remember years ago watching his show about British school lunches, and how he was trying to make them healthier.

While the prices may not be bang on, and those of us over a certain age probably learned food economy, there is a younger generation that is really struggling to make ends meet and will benefit from some of his recipes.

Of course it is. It just annoys me he is so simplistic about issues regarding food and poverty and his lockdown shows were particularly poor when people didn’t have bloody anything in their fridge or freezers and he was cooking salmon etc

Isn’t that precisely the point in business?

All he has done is find a USP to further his career and money

Fleurpepper I think that the cuts in Sure Start centres was an absolute abomination. I wish that there was a hint of additional funding and resurrecion in the current Government's policies. Sadly, no chance...

Babs758

I remember taking home a “Queen of Puddings” from our DS class. It was awful.

I do enjoy cooking now though.

One of my Mum's specialities!
I always found it too sweet but I like sharp, lemony puds.

vampirequeen

I can't stand the persona he projects in public. I have no idea if that's the real him.

I think any help in producing cheap healthy meals is welcome.

That said there should be no need, in a country as rich as ours, to teach this. All people should by right have a income that is sufficient to feed themselves and their families. It should also provide enough to heat their homes, clothe their bodies and put shoes/boots on their feet

I think the persona you thinks he projects in public is his natural, normal self.
No airs, graces and not at all patronising.
Just a bloke who likes cooking and wants others to share his enthusiasm.

We can't like everyone we come across, I suppose.

Just what programmes like SureStart used to do too.

vampirequeen

I can't stand the persona he projects in public. I have no idea if that's the real him.

I think any help in producing cheap healthy meals is welcome.

That said there should be no need, in a country as rich as ours, to teach this. All people should by right have a income that is sufficient to feed themselves and their families. It should also provide enough to heat their homes, clothe their bodies and put shoes/boots on their feet

'All people should by right have a income that is sufficient to feed themselves and their families.'

well yes, but how, and to what extent? Take-away meals daily? Rib roast? What Jamie is doing is to show that it is possible to feed your family very well, and healthily, without spending a fortune. What is wrong with that?

Urmstongran

I always feel uncomfortable when wealthy people (or supermarkets) point out how us poor people can feed ourselves cheaply. Trying to make us happier with our lot?
“Do as I say not as I (need to) do” always comes to mind.

We’d do much better thank you if Jeremy Hunt increased our personal allowance before paying tax.

Now that would really be something us poorer folk could cheer.

Must say I find this comment really bizarre. What Jamie is doing makes 100% sense- and no-one is forcing anyone to use his advice, or watch it.

Well done Jamie. And I am sure you are not 'poor' urmstongran.

Gramaretto-the WI had members from all walks of life. They try to support fellow women.

I can't stand the persona he projects in public. I have no idea if that's the real him.

I think any help in producing cheap healthy meals is welcome.

That said there should be no need, in a country as rich as ours, to teach this. All people should by right have a income that is sufficient to feed themselves and their families. It should also provide enough to heat their homes, clothe their bodies and put shoes/boots on their feet

I remember taking home a “Queen of Puddings” from our DS class. It was awful.

I do enjoy cooking now though.

I could cook really well when I married at 16. Domestic Science in school and a mum cooking at home.

We taught our daughters to cook, they're excellent cooks.

Home lessons don't always happen for various reasons. Any source of information is good. Well done Jamie.

Ditto, I also dropped art

Me too so I am very proud that I gained an NVQ2 in Art in my 60s! 🎨🖼

kittylester

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.

I, too, was at Grammar School in the 60s and did 2 languages plus DS. I think I dropped art.

It's funny the things that stay with one though isn't it. I'm a reasonably good cook but I must have a nicely set table with handles etc pointing the correct way - all down to the dreaded Miss Elkin.

Oh, one of my school friends was called Miss Elkin 😲
Trying to remember if she went to do Home Economics at teacher training college!