I’ve just watched Jamie’s Ministry of Food programme. Can someone please explain to me how buying the ingredients to cook your own food, costs more than buying takeaways every night! Can someone also explain how someone can get all upset about not having any money and then light up a cigarette! How much are fags these days? Maybe it’s me. Maybe I am the only lone parent working 40 hours a week, getting home at 6pm and still having time to cook a healthy meal for my family every night. Please tell me I am not alone.
I watched it last night too. I also don't understand how you can buy takeaways cheaper than raw ingredients. I've just been on the Tesco website and 20 cigarettes range between £4.00-£6.00 a packet. We can easily feed four people for that. As for paying bus fares to the supermarket, there are shops other than supermarkets. Our local Asda runs a free bus once a week and the driver drops my 75 year old neighbour off at her door and carries her shopping in for her. Just checked with Tescos again and they still have delivery slots available between 8.00 and 11.00 tonight for £3.50, less than the price of a packet of cigarettes. I believe Somerfield deliver for free.
I admire any single parent who can get and keep it together as well as you are doing. I have a number of friends in the same position and have nothing but respect for them.
I think it has as much to do with a state of mind as any financial or practical issues. With these individuals, it's going to be more about creating a can-do/want to attitude and then sustaining it.
I agree. I have been signed up to a organic vegetable box scheme for over a year - I am actually not that bothered about buying organic, but what the scheme does give me is fresh, locally picked produce direct from the grower.
When I talk to my friends about it, they tell me how they would also do it if it wasn't so expensive. They then go out and get a takeaway that costs more than my week's supply of vegetables, delivered to my door.
Good to see that Jamie has another worthy task, however I do think that he needs to spend time understanding the lifestyle and problems that people have rather than just preaching.
I also want to express concerns about his language and the use of expletives especially the F one. He seams to have lost his ability to express himself in a way that is both informative and passionate without falling into using Gordon Ramsay-isums.
The most powerful weapon to encourage parents is from their children. By them asking “why can’t you cook and why do we have to have takeaways? Etc. Making this program more accessible to the “whole” family rather than just the adult who will put up with his poor language. My children are interested in cooking and enjoyed some of the content of the show, but their opinion of Jamie is low from his inability to express himself. He does not have drop to these levels and my family believe that channel 4 have a responsibility to put out a program that is aimed at expressing high values for food and food preparation to move away from junk food yet the “junk language” down grades the program.
It should be about the good food you put in your mouth not how foul mouthed Jamie can be.
I'm glad to hear I am not alone. Well it's quarter past seven and my lot are just tucking into the homemade cottage pie I started when I got home from work at 6pm. It must be great having fresh veg delivered to your door. Could do with that around here. I have to confess I use frozen carrots, swede, cabbage and onions in my cottage pie but that's mainly for speed and also the fact that I only have time to shop once a week. I think Jamie really had his work cut out with that lot in Rotherham.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by the power of one: Good to see that Jamie has another worthy task, however I do think that he needs to spend time understanding the lifestyle and problems that people have rather than just preaching.
Hi I totally agree with this statement He has to start at the grass roots of the problem The source of the food I have replied on another thread about where he gets his ingredients from (sainsburys) where most of us shop in Netto!
I was really sad to see that Jamie used 3 types of fresh herbs AND olive oil and balsalmic vinegar- he has really missed the point of budgetting. As a Food teacher we have just started using recipes from Licence to Cook whihc sadly the government has not yet made freely available to all schools let alone the public...and this week we made meatballs using mince, onion, chilli, cumin and garlic- cheap and cheerful - kids (and OH who has to eat what we make) all loved it! I am also teaching these basics to year 13 before they go off to uni and run up huge debts.
