My children are fed up with OS :(

squeaky

Maybe it's time to point Jamie Oliver at a new campaign...

How to teach cooking in schools.

HOLsale

i think something that would be valuable is to teach kids how NOT to cook using recipes

teach them about spices and different flavours

how pork tastes really good with fruit, chicken not too bad, beef not so much

teach them what flavours tend to blend well and how to make something cheap taste good with some cheese and a few spices that sort of thing

arkonite_babe

My 12yo DD is coming home from school HEc classes frustrated, so far they have managed to make: smoothies, porrige, toasted sandwiches.

At home she is cooking loads of stuff from scratch. :mad:

Oh and a pizza which wasn't really a pizza :rotfl:

half a soda (irish bread) condensed chicken soup, sweetcorn, ham and cheese.

Yuck!!!!!!

geordielass

When my 2 oldest lad do cookery in school I never taste what they bring home(I've watched them go to the loo and not wash their hands if they can get away with it) I tell them I am too full but will try it later then just pretend to have had some and say it was delicious.

Sofa_Sogood

mattt44 wrote:

An old style way of cooking, is mostly just good cooking isn't it? And far from being cruel you are giving them a better start in life than the kids who get chips and pizza everyday.

This is an issue thats bothering me as well. My two year old had suddenly started not wanting to eat alot of foods, which bugged me as I've always eaten anything my whole life, I started to get annoyed and tried to make her eat the food, which made it worse.
So I changed tack and tried to make mealtimes more fun and started eating my food in a funny way and she copied. Result!

Won't work on older kids though

Cruel was probably the wrong word to use - maybe 'archaic' might have been better.

What is cruel, and it's only my opinion matt44, is when kids refuse to eat a meal (and by kids I mean those that aren't old enough to cook themselves), yet some parents insist on putting it back on the table until they do.

Math and others have posted replies too, so I'll try to elaborate what I mean in a later post.

Sofa_Sogood

MATH wrote:

Thanks for a post that offers another perspective Sofa Sogood.

I agree that force is not the best way to train our children in healthy eating and a lot of the earlier posts (mine included) are tongue in cheek. But we have to remember that they are children and we are adults - the responsibility ensuring they are eating a healthy, balanced diet which will give them the very best start in life is ours not theirs. If we do not train them to eat well and they grow up to have weight, health and nutrition issues the blame will be laid at our door not theirs.

The comment about what our grandparents went through I do not understand.

Now: Overprocessed, chemical laden food with little nutrition and causing blood sugar spikes and hyper activity.

Then: Fresh produce full of vitamins, no colours, no chemicals.

I'm very lucky that my kids have had a healthy diet from birth and beg me to make stew and dumplings and love cabbage (they do - really) they also love Maccy D's but understand that this is a treat (yes I'm guilty of making junk a treat too:o ) I can understand that it would be much harder to steer a child away from a junk food diet if that is what they have been used to.

I can't disagree with your post MATH, but in other posts, and not necessarily in this topic, there can , imho, be too much 'stodge' introduced to bulk out meals - purely to money-save.

The reference to Grandparents I made was in regard to such things ... like bulking up meals with potatoes (as an example) and pulses. There's nothing wrong with this to some people, but I'd imagine kids would get sick of it (as I sometimes did with some of my Grandma's stews )

I've had some very strange responses to the posts I've made about buying M&S ready-meals ... but I'm not too hot on cooking. My 'better' and other half sorts out all of that anyway - and after reading this site, it's more likely to be Tesco's ready meals Yet I was made to feel guilty for even thinking about buying M&S ready meals. But I find some OS'ers strange in the way they'll live on miniscule food budgets, yet look for ways to 'stooze', or card tart for example. (But that's just me maybe.)

Although this ultimately saves money that can be spent on 'treats', I think some people should live in the 'here and now'. I've always said that time is our most precious commodity, so time spent cooking can be time wasted. It could be spent on things like days in the park, giving kids 'treats' by giving up our time I suppose. (And I know people can and do do this by cooking and freezing in bulk - but not all. Some of the posts I've read about people getting up in the early hours to start breakfast touch on this). It seems to me that sometimes, and I only mean sometimes, there's some sort of competition going on to see who can 'boil the most bones at the earliest hour'. But that, again, is just how I read it.

But as the OP has said, their kids are fed up with OS. This is what I was getting at MATH. If you fed kids crisps and sweets, they'd be begging for something different, which is what the OP seemed to be looking for.

I'd probably do as the OP did and revert to other means out of frustration - which I know isn't the long-term answer ... but it all boils down to, (forgive the pun), time imho.

Good luck ...

Sofa_Sogood

Queenie wrote:

:think: Oh I don't know ... serving up Pigs Trotters certainly puts a new spin on "This L'il Piggy Went to Market (and *that* l'il Piggy would have been better off staying at home!" ...

... and a Sheep's Head on a platter now and again to the rendition of "What d'ya wanna make those eyes at me for ... ?" is hugely entertaining.

They only really complain when I send them up the chimney (with no supper) as punishment for not eating up their Bread & Pullit

I wanted to snip all of your post Queenie, 'cos I suspect that the ham I had dished up was probably parts of an animal I'd rather not eat (but might still be for all I know )

And what's up with sending kids up chimneys? Get 'em to collect that soot that my Dad used as tooth paste

Queenie

Sofa_Sogood wrote:

I wanted to snip all of your post Queenie, 'cos I suspect that the ham I had dished up was probably parts of an animal I'd rather not eat (but might still be for all I know )

And what's up with sending kids up chimneys? Get 'em to collect that soot that my Dad used as tooth paste

:eek: He didn't use bicarb?? :eek:

Sofa_Sogood

Queenie wrote:

:eek: He didn't use bicarb?? :eek:

If we ever had bicarb, it probably ended up in scones ... But as I get indigestion from anything but home-made scones .... even that was probably beyond our means

Sofa_Sogood

RichyRich wrote:

I remember when I was in middle school and they taught us...wait for it....

How to make up a Cup-A-Soup in "Cookery".

That's the good old British Education System

It beats my first home economics/cookery class. We were taught how to wash socks

Adding mince to them came later