Future of Food - BBC2 Monday night

Lifeisbutadream

Did anyone see it last night?

Now I found most of it very interesting - especially the part where they were saying that the UK may have to completely re-think how we eat.

Then George Alagiah had dinner with a family in the UK - the family were 'on a budget' and for the meal they had 2 frozen lasagnes (£2 each) some frozen potato waffles (£1) and some value beans (35p each). They had some no added sugar Robinsons juice (the family said they wanted the healthy option)

Now I find several things wrong with this.

1. 2 x 'budget' lasagnes @ £2 each - you could make your own cheaper than that and it would taste a hell of a lot better!
2. Potato waffles @ £1 (with lasagne !!!!!!???) - 'real' potatos would have been less than half the price
3. Value beans fair enough, but surely frozen peas would have been cheaper/better with lasagne?
4. Robinsons no added sugar juice is NOT the healthy option ! its full of carp!

Sorry but I am fed up of watching programmes like this :mad: people who are 'on a budget' should learn to eat properly!! not packaged expensive rubbish...

cajef

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

1. 2 x 'budget' lasagnes @ £2 each - you could make your own cheaper than that and it would taste a hell of a lot better!
2. Potato waffles @ £1 (with lasagne !!!!!!???) - 'real' potatos would have been less than half the price
3. Value beans fair enough, but surely frozen peas would have been cheaper/better with lasagne?
4. Robinsons no added sugar juice is NOT the healthy option ! its full of carp!

Funny you should say that, it was exactly the comments we made as we watched the program, it is no wonder we have an obesity problem, a healthy diet seems to have disappeared over the horizon.

underlay_guru

Sounds like they're on a time budget rather than a money budget: Money is just their hapless excuse for eating ready meals, when in reality its because they can't be ars*d to prepare and cook anything.

Idiots.

Ps if they were on a budget they would've bought Aldi's juice rather than Robinsons....

butler_helen

also... my thoughts were around portioning- didnt everyone get the same sized portion? giving children child sized portions would be cost beneficial and waist line beneficial... I have had to learn that with my boyfriend and i's food!

Lifeisbutadream

cajef wrote: »

Funny you should say that, it was exactly the comments we made as we watched the program, it is no wonder we have an obesity problem, a healthy diet seems to have disappeared over the horizon.

Probably since cooking in schools was abolished (for some unknown reason!)

cajef

I had to laugh when the guy was asked if he knew what was in a packet of crisps, and he replied ' I Dunno, potato's I think'.

A year in Cuba may have done them good, seeing how the other half have to survive.

Lifeisbutadream

I would like a year in Cuba! I thought that the beans and rice looked really nice!

cajef

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

I would like a year in Cuba! I thought that the beans and rice looked really nice!

May get a little monotonous after a while and George was definitely not impressed by the breakfast.:rotfl:

underlay_guru

cajef wrote: »

Funny you should say that, it was exactly the comments we made as we watched the program, it is no wonder we have an obesity problem, a healthy diet seems to have disappeared over the horizon.

Hi,

IMO its the mixture of 3 factors:

1- 'McDonalds Effect': Parents take their own kids for a fast-food meal more often because it reminds themselves of childhood.

2 - Virtually every food item sold in a supermarket is also available in a convenience form: Once upon a time, ready meals were the nasty, unhealthy alternative, tucked away in the freezers. Nowadays, every possible meal imaginable is available, frozen or chilled in a box from a factory, with all sorts of hidden fats and nasties that people are too thick to check for.

3 - Lazy, dense, uneducated young parents who have not been taught right from wrong themselves yet...


PS Some young relatives of my in-laws eat nothing (and I truly mean nothing) but fast food, crisps, sweets and fizzy drinks. Their mum was once even heard to tell her 18 month old child to eat up all her tube of Pringles because quote "They will make you big and strong" :eek: Yes, I was genuinely shocked to the core, but what can I say? Uneducated kids giving birth to kids of their own is a real recipe for disaster (not to mention a virtual guarantee that the next generation will have the same lazy, uneducated ways).

underlay_guru

Lifeisbutadream wrote: »

Probably since cooking in schools was abolished (for some unknown reason!)

Rubbish!

All I learnt in school cookery was how to make cakes, bread and pizza!

Sorry about the Cliche, but would you not say that lazy parents are the sole blame for this, after all, they ultimately control what goes in their childrens mouths.


There are too many parents who want someone else to blame for their children being unhealthy, when in reality, it is them who has taught their child that is perfectly fine to eat nothing but crapp. Blame blame blame: Why can't they take responsibility for their own actions !!!!!!?

Lifeisbutadream

underlay_guru wrote: »

Rubbish!

All I learnt in school cookery was how to make cakes, bread and pizza!

Sorry about the Cliche, but would you not say that lazy parents are the sole blame for this, after all, they ultimately control what goes in their childrens mouths.


There are too many parents who want someone else to blame for their children being unhealthy, when in reality, it is them who has taught their child that is perfectly fine to eat nothing but crapp. Blame blame blame: Why can't they take responsibility for their own actions !!!!!!?

True.

I wasnt taught much more than pizza and cakes in school either and I didnt learn to cook from my Mum (she doesnt eat crap she just isnt a very good cook ) I taught myself to cook.

But I still think that it would be a good thing to be taught cooking in school, alongside budgetting, housekeeping and basic DIY.