The Rising Cost of Food

parsonswife8

There are so many cookery programs on now...some of them show you how to cook basic food.
I was taught at school from the age of 8 and this continued until I was 15.

We were shown how to make a white sauce, a cheese sauce, how to bake rock cakes and sponge cakes and how to make mashed potatoes and beef stew and how to poach eggs, etc. Good basic stuff.

I also learned to knit and to sew at school. And how to cut out a dress pattern and sew a dress, putting the zip in and hemming the dress. I remember it was blue with little white polka dots on it.

Most kids don't seem to learn things like that anymore.

slowlyfading

To be honest, it scares me a little. I've recently been made redundant and have not yet found another job, so money, although we are managing, will begin to get tighter and tighter if I don't find a job. We do keep meals from scratch and I plan our food menu for the week, but I am finding that we are spending more and more on food each week, and we don't eat extravagantly at all.

I would agree with the poster about educating people. I'm 24, and when I did food tech at school (and not everyone picked it as an option) i didn't really learn about cooking anything valuable at all. In fact, half of the year was a project on a cake (I picked carrot cake) and we had to make different variations of the same cake for 24 weeks in a row. Thrilling. I have friends who can't cook at all and who live on convenience food and I don't know how they do it. But, they don't know how to cook and, I think, scared to begin to try, in case it all goes wrong.

I worry that eventually, people will start to go hungry just to get by, especially those who are already stretched to the limit

lollyfin

I am teaching my kids how to knit and they know about shopping wisely and cooking
i am teaching myself how to crochet and use a sewing machine and will pass those skills on as well ( once i know what im doing!)
my eldest daughter is a chef and is surprised by things other chefs do or ask, these people have been to college , one asked her if you put water iin scrambled eggs he was second chef! and the amount of waste in the kitchens is unbelievable. I did ask her if the staff got to take food home or was it given to homeless charities or something but she said no it is just put in the bin. I think that is a disgrace but i think the same anout supermarkets throwing stuff in the bin as well

tessie_bear

i think its a shame peeps dont learn to do proper cooking as it were at school...i did it was great...also learnt bits from my mum.....i often look at other peoples shopping and i find it depressing ....i hope nobody will need to go hungry but with the prices rising and in some quarters lack of food prep knowledge i suspect they might

beemuzed

It is very worrying - especially as I can't see my pension keeping pace with the increases! Have to say as a grammar school kid in the 60's I didn't do anything like cooking at school, so it's not just nowadays. However, my Mum and Gran both taught me and we've always cooked from scratch. I have my gran's wartime cookbooks (recipes written by hand) so will be digging those out I think. Feel so sorry for all trying to bring up families on decreasing incomes.

lollyfin

Oh beemuzzed would you mind sharing some of those with us please

Pink.

Hi parsonswife,

As your thread has dropped down the board I've added it to your existing one on the rising cost of food.

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Going4TheDream

goodgodthatonesevenbigger wrote: »

In regards to Allotments, is there not a way to push the government or local Authority to provide more? Surly there is a demand for an increased number of sites?

l

I am sure it was Hugh F Whittingstall who got involved with or started
'Landshare' where like minded people can find land to grow or give land for others to grow on etc, its still in its early days but might be worth a look

Rummer

The prices seem to just keep jumping up every week!

mesh

A bit off key but having read the the whole thread I wanted to add my bit (if you don't mind!)...

I live in a small market town in Suffolk and we have a number of supermarkets.

I was in my local Mr S at the end of the day and they had a large number of single bananas which were bruised and said looking, I asked if I could have them cheap and was told no, they go to the local zoo for monkeys and chimps!!

I had to smile cos I said straight faced, do they pay for them and the young lad said I dont think so.....

I couldn't begrudge the primates their nanas now could I??:rotfl: