What has happened to people cooking!

Sarahsaver

Ooh my inner narrator is on my head (if / when I ever set foot in a large supermarket) having a good old rant...'no wonder you can hardly push the trolley you are so darn fat from all the cakes/pies/fizzy pop in your trolley. Can you not SEE your fat **** children, couch potatoes the lot of you. Children are not supposed to look like that. Don't have TIME to cook but you will spend at least an hour plodding around mr tescos chosing BOGOF frozen processed meat, spend less on all that rubbish food and you could join a gym or get some clothes that fit AAARGH!!!'
Judgemental? Moi? LOL But really it's up to them if they want that lifestyle...

Happened to pop into a tesco (it's near the swimming pool where we took the boys today), although other supermarkets are just as full of the great 'non-cookers' DS saw some chocolate cornflake cakes 99p for 4!!! Daylight robbery!

frizz_head

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Ooh my inner narrator is on my head (if / when I ever set foot in a large supermarket) having a good old rant...'no wonder you can hardly push the trolley you are so darn fat from all the cakes/pies/fizzy pop in your trolley. Can you not SEE your fat ugly children, couch potatoes the lot of you. Children are not supposed to look like that. Don't have TIME to cook but you will spend at least an hour plodding around mr tescos chosing BOGOF frozen processed meat, spend less on all that rubbish food and you could join a gym or get some clothes that fit AAARGH!!!'
Judgemental? Moi? LOL But really it's up to them if they want that lifestyle...

Happened to pop into a tesco (it's near the swimming pool where we took the boys today), although other supermarkets are just as full of the great 'non-cookers' DS saw some chocolate cornflake cakes 99p for 4!!! Daylight robbery!

There really is no need for that. How on earth can you expect to educate people when you are so rude and judgemental?

If people cook fom scratch everyday fair play to you. If people don't, fair play to you too. What right does anyone have to judge someone on the basis of what goes on in their kitchen? There are some really sound arguments both for and against, so for whatever reason people choose to live their lives, there really is no justification for insults.

shell2001

Sarahsaver - not sure what you would make of me then. I cook from scratch but am a size 18 - too many HM cookies, muffins (plus 2 littles & 2 c-sections in 18 months)etc. Home-cooking is a double edge sword where weight is concerned. It taste so good I eat twice as much:D . But you know what my kids are healthy and definately not overweight, they have sweets once a week on sweetie Friday. So as I am fat does that make me a bad person , I dont think so and lets face it there is much worse i could be than FAT!:p

Sarahsaver

frizz_head wrote: »

There really is no need for that. How on earth can you expect to educate people when you are so rude and judgemental?

If people cook fom scratch everyday fair play to you. If people don't, fair play to you too. What right does anyone have to judge someone on the basis of what goes on in their kitchen? There are some really sound arguments both for and against, so for whatever reason people choose to live their lives, there really is no justification for insults.

Like I said my inner narrator - I would never say that to anyone's face! My home cooked tongue is firmly placed in my cheek!
But has anyone not ever wondered the same? Why are the people on 'honey we're killing the kids' often so oblivious to their input into their childrens' unhealthiness?
Never said fat people were bad either, anyone of any size has that capability. People who fatten up their children that is a different matter.
There is positively no 'sound argument' with which anyone can convince ME to eat highly processed food.
Back to the OP what has happened to people is a good question, and the time argument does not swing it for me at all. Why would you spend £100 a week on processed food when you can have home cooked everything for £30 beats me. We are all entitled to our opinions.

rosieben

No, not helpful to be so judgemental.

I do sometimes notice what people have in their trolleys, but I try not to judge (even in the case of several bottles of whisky and 48 cans of beer!) as I dont know others' circumstances.

I would tend to think more of how much money they are spending unnecessarily, but I was chatting to someone last week who has the job of teaching basic cooking skills to those I supppose you might call disadvantaged young mothers. she said its difficult to persuade them that its worth buying flour and all the other ingredients to make a cake when you can buy one for 99p in Morrisons! it isnt always easy to get these girls to take on board issues around health and nutrition.

It would help if schools would teach domestic science as they did when I was there (and my dd too)

frizz_head

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Like I said my inner narrator - I would never say that to anyone's face! My home cooked tongue is firmly placed in my cheek!
But has anyone not ever wondered the same? Why are the people on 'honey we're killing the kids' often so oblivious to their input into their childrens' unhealthiness?
Never said fat people were bad either, anyone of any size has that capability. People who fatten up their children that is a different matter.
There is positively no 'sound argument' with which anyone can convince ME to eat highly processed food.
Back to the OP what has happened to people is a good question, and the time argument does not swing it for me at all. Why would you spend £100 a week on processed food when you can have home cooked everything for £30 beats me. We are all entitled to our opinions.

You're missing the point. Who's trying to convince you otherwise? It's nobodies business but your own what you feed your family - I would never dream of criticising you nor the content of your shopping trolley.

What I objected to so strongly, was that you referred to the children as UGLY! Totally uncalled for IMO.

Sarahsaver

Well I know if I saw my kids obese I would not like it!

emma396

i'm currently renting a room in a family's house. even tho i'm only cooking for one, i never buy ready meals. i will either either cook something myself, or defrost something that my parents have cooked for me and frozen. the family i live with eat a lot of ready meals, and it just seems sooooo expensive!! it's not healthy, not cheap and u dont get much. why would you do it??

Jennifer_Jane

Yesterday I bought 5 ready meals in Tesco for £4 - so that's most of next week's meals sorted. I also buy vegetables and fruit but do that in Somerfield. I don't think you can judge a person's shopping habits by one supermarket alone. Living on my own and getting home from work tired and hungry, I am obviously going to use a lot of ready meals. And sometimes I just cut up a whole bunch of vegetables, all in one pot, stick some tomatoes and herbs and season the lot, seven minutes in the microwave, and nothing could be quicker or easier than that. And yes, I also remember rationing.

Love
Jen x

Softstuff

The week I'm having I could really murder a few ready meals... my part time casual sales assistant job turned into a full time assistant manager job... I showed up for a body corporate meeting and got voted on the committee

But then I think about the home made steak, chips and salad with mushroom peppercorn sauce last night, and I know a ready meal wouldn't have come close... oh hell, looks like I'd better get back in the kitchen!!