Carrot cake made in school

Becles

When I did GCSE Home Economics, you had to write your own recipes down, then you were supposed to order the ingredients through a form you left with the teacher, and she calculated how much money your were supposed to bring in. I soon worked out that I was paying too much for cheap Makro own brand stuff, when my Mam had much better quality ingredients at home. I told the teacher I'd rather bring my own ingredients in, and she was fine with that.

When we had a student teacher covering she was interested in why I was the only one in the class bringing everything in from home. I showed her the prices for things on the school list and knew all the prices for marg, flour etc. I explained it cost less to buy better ingredients than buy from the school. She was really impressed with that :cool:

I still don't think it's right that the school should make a profit from the ingredients, but it really annoyed me at the time.

pollys

thanks catowen, thats the recipe, i made it was yummy.

bulchy

Hi Becles, thats an interesting point, I didnt realise the school would be making a profit out of my daughter buying the ingredients from them. I should have realised this I suppose, I feel so naive now :embarasse I'm definitely gonna bring this up at the next parents evening. My daughter chose her own project, and she picked planning a menu for young children and the last 'meal' she made was 3 types of milkshake and cookies. The milkshakes were made with crusha, so its not too healthy IMHO, if we make milkshake at home, its made with fruit, I wish she hadnt chosen to take this subject now, I can teach her better at home.
Sue

diamondcatz

My son who can cook quite compently at home was given a list for stirfry and noodles inc 1 pack of mixed baby veg and pouch of noodles to pan-dont have time to cook noodles in lesson aarrggghhh. How is it Im preparing them for life and they are heading them to the ready cook and heat aisles. Big letter of complaint went in.

bulchy

diamondcatz wrote:

My son who can cook quite compently at home was given a list for stirfry and noodles inc 1 pack of mixed baby veg and pouch of noodles to pan-dont have time to cook noodles in lesson aarrggghhh. How is it Im preparing them for life and they are heading them to the ready cook and heat aisles. Big letter of complaint went in.

Good for you Diamondcats, did you get a reply???

Sue

bulchy

In the words of Vicky Pollard,'Oh my god I so cant believe I just said that!!!!!!
In an earlier post on this thread, I said it's half term next week, and even though I mentioned that it was Easter, it still didnt occur to me that its the end of term, how embarrasing :embarasse What must you all think of me??? You will all have to get used to me and my failing memory, I'm hopeless :rotfl:
Sue

tr3mor

Quackers wrote:

Thats nuts!! How are they going to learn?

You're expecting kids to learn anything in school? Very optimistic methinks.

diamondcatz

That was their reply along with my complaint to junior school who give out small sweets to be exchange= 4 small for a mars etc for correct answers to practise SATS and getting rid of vending machine but sell choc muffins at tuck bar. Oh and mine can't eat a wholemeal cheese roll at morning break as they have brekkie at 7 am but can eat those hideous fruitwinders as they come under fruit! theyve backed down on that after pointing out a nation of obese kids arent helped with this crappy get outclause and sheer laziness I am now not flavour of the month

purplemoon

Unfortunately its too late for me as its ovened already. There's too much oil in it! After finding a 'problem' with the batter (I had added a bit more flour to try and compensate) I found catowen's original recipe, posted the 18/3 which states 150ml oil, not half a pint. (Done this one before- worked great). Have used nearly twice as much now, and have not enough carrots to make another if, as expected, its a flop.
Dunno if anyone else had tried this version yet, but thought I better point it out so as nobody else makes the same mistake.

comping_cat

purplemoon wrote:

Unfortunately its too late for me as its ovened already. There's too much oil in it! After finding a 'problem' with the batter (I had added a bit more flour to try and compensate) I found catowen's original recipe, posted the 18/3 which states 150ml oil, not half a pint. (Done this one before- worked great). Have used nearly twice as much now, and have not enough carrots to make another if, as expected, its a flop.
Dunno if anyone else had tried this version yet, but thought I better point it out so as nobody else makes the same mistake.

Sorry!!!! Checked it again, and i shouldve put 1/4 pint, not 1/2!!!! have edited it now, so hopefully it will be ok.