Who decides what they eat? The kids or their parents? Any reason they choose to give them junk food and ready meals! Too lazy to cook?
That's debatable - not everyone has access to a functional kitchen with fridge, cooker, microwave, pots, pans, utensils. Not everyone has the knowledge and/or confidence to cook even simple meals like beans on toast. In parts of this country, and in great swathes of the USA, the nearest shops do not stock a range of healthy food basics and only sell frozen pizzas and other processed foods.
Very few people don't have access to most of those things in this country. They seem to manage to cook in Italy, Spain, France etc. These are all just excuses for tbe crap state this country has got into down the years. Some people don't want to make the effort and have no intention of learning, as can be seen on many TV programmes on the subject. If people don't have the knowledge or ability to cook beans on toast they shouldn't be allowed out unaccompanied, to marry, have children...
Poverty Ill health Working long hours Affordability Caring for others Disability Knowledge/education Invalidity Advertising Availability There’s lots of valid reasons.
People worked long hours years ago and were hard up but cooked meals. They also cared for people, had invalidity and disabilities. Affordability? A lot of junk food is no cheaper than cooking for yourself and takeaways are a lot more expensive.
I remember years ago working in an office with a good looking lass who wasn't the brightest. She used to a lot of parties with City players. Apparently Billy Wilkinson could drink everyone else under the table. This when Bustling Billy kept missing games due to groin strains. Say no more. Anyway, she was wanting to impress a new boyfriend and asked an older woman in the office for advice on doing a meal for him. The woman told her the starter was easy. Just get a tin of soup and warm it gently in a pan whilst you get the steak and the rest ready. She came in Monday and said it had been a disaster. The pan had burnt and the soup was cold. The dozy bint had followed instructions literally. She had got a tin of soup and put it in the pan and put the pan on a low heat. Hadn't opened it, just put it in the pan.
Yes, all those people down Hessle Road 50 years ago cooking on their Agas in their utensil laden kitchens in Le Creuset cookware.Those were the days.They had it easy...
Food as a proportion of income is cheaper now than it has ever been, which is why a chicken lives a short live in a shed with 20,000 others, eggs come from battery hens living in a space not much more than a shoe box, your 10 for a pound 100% beef burgers turn out to be horse meat. At christmas time the supermarkets sell biggish bags of vegetables for 20p which are too big and half gets thrown away. Somehow imported bananas and kiwi fruits are cheaper than apples and pears.
Do all schools these days have domestic science facilities? I don't know, genuine question. And even if so, are the kids able to translate what they learn in school to whatever facilities they have at home, particularly if their parents don't cook and just bung them a couple of quid to get chips or Maccy D's
When I was at school I wanted to get into Hotel Management (wish I had)... so I did Domestic Science or cookery.... there were the benefits of course, scones and bread to take home and me and one other lad in a class of 20 or so girls...
No takeaways back in those days.My Auntie(who I lived with for a spell) in Bev Rd,had an aga and cooked for a house full of lodgers who went to de-la pole on a daily basis.At least a dozen of them,all well fed and watered. Home cooking was all we knew,all we could afford. This Country was always in danger of being 'Americanised'...****ing hell,you can't walk 10 yards now without dodging a deliveroo or just eat cyclist,there's absolutely no excuse for that!! They're eating junk food and can't even be bothered to go and get it??? W T F?
