"Recipe book for children"

FairyElephant_2

Perhaps the OP would like to enlighten us as to why they think it is a daft idea?

I just had a quick look at the website and the recipes seem sensible enough.

I do agree with other posters that children don't learn very much useful stuff in 'Home Ec' in school - my DSKs can make toast!!!! flapjacks and mini pizzas courtesy of their school lessons.......

Dazi

It sounds like a great idea to me. My SD (14) told us she had to take stuff in to school to make a snack, I asked her if she would like the recipe for Twink's hobnobs as she loves them, I offered to scale it down and give her the ingredients incase her mum didn't have them. She said ok, but then said she wasn't sure when she needed them.

Turns out she took a pot noodle in, along with most of her class .

She shows no interest in cooking at all, I often ask if she wants to help but she never does. I find this quite strange as both my DD and DS helped me from an early age, grey pastry shapes :rotfl:and both are now good cooks.

recovering_spendaholic

I think it is a great idea. My 2 DD's have quite a few cookery books - I particularly like the Aldi ones, of which we now have three, and both of them are quite good at cooking basic stuff. DD1 surprised me last night by making scotch eggs from scratch which were really really nice. She even worked out how to "make" sausagemeat by skinning some low fat sausages, and then she didn't breadcrumb them, just put them in to the oven to bake. I was totally gobsmacked as she is usually really not interested as much as DD2.

thriftmonster

Ds1's school have their own recipe book for Home Ec and I'm quite impressed this year - pasta dishes, kebabs in a HM marinade, pavlova, HM strudel, chow mein, mediterranean bread, couscous with bacon & veggies, coleslaw etc. Last year he had 2 periods a week - this year they have 4 a week which he enjoys.

For cooking at home, he loves the "Good Granny Cookbook" - starring Twink!

Idiophreak

roddydogs wrote: »

Of all the daft money wasting ideas thought up by this government, this must surely rank as the daftest.:mad::mad:

Want to expand on why you think this is so daft? Seems quite a good idea to me...

peb

I am another one who likes the sound of this book.

I keep showing (at her request) a friend inexpensive recipies which she adores when I cook them but won't do for herself. She went to a course run at the local school and some of the things they cooked were ok but most were what I would think of being leaning towards dinner party food and she felt outfaced. She lives on a sink estate and most of the folk on the course did not recognise the ingredients and the tutor seemed to have no idea of the budgets these people have. Bad planning. Her sons enjoy cooking when they stay with me and she has tried to recreate meals that they have got for school lunches - but the reality is that chips (homemade to be fair) and peas/beans are more easliy available and cheaper especially when you have to factor in bus fares and a longish walk or taxi fares when going shopping.

pennyocs

my son who is 16 has made fresh fruit salad and bread well i say bread when i asked about it he told me the teacher had got everything ready weighed out and into individual bowls before they arrived in class so all they did was mix it,they then picked it up at end of school day cooked.

he is quite capable though only through watching me cook everyday my 9 year old boy quite often peels veg for tea.and chops fruit they can both make cakes and bicuits.

i think the book is a good idea even if it only gets a few more kids involved in cooking. its got to be better than nothing at all its a start.

thriftlady_2

I think it's a great idea too, I just hope that schools aren't going to assume that all children eat ready meals. The idea has spurred me into action regarding getting my kids to cook. I hate people messing about in my kitchen so it's a real effort for me to let them loose in there:D I'm determined my oldest will be able to cook before he has these lessons at school. So far the only thing he really knows how to cook are scrambled eggs (which he does perfectly 'cos I've taught him to take them off the heat before they go hard and lumpy).

Penelope Penguin who is that on your avatar -he looks really familiar?

Penelope_Penguin

thriftlady wrote: »

Penelope Penguin who is that on your avatar -he looks really familiar?

He's a rather easy on the eye (he's easy on the ear too) particle physicist He was everywhere yesterday so I made him my avatar

Penny. x

peb

I agree with thriftladt - we have heard some OSers comment on the fact that their children have been to "cooking lessons" and made things from jars ertc - didn't one lady have a child whose teachers idea of a homemade pizza was a prebought base, jar of sauce and pregrated cheese?

At least at school we were taught to think recipies out and cook accordingly although we once were told to cook a dessert using bread - I found in my mums cookery book (preinternet!) a receipe for an apple pie which had layer of breadcrumbs with honey; she had hoped for a Summer Pudding but had forgotten firstly the cost of summer fruits when buying them for a dish (as opposed to using them up!) and also the small point that most recipies need to be left for a few hours or overnight in the fridge!