It isn’t even white centric, it’s middle class food angst centric - carbs are cheap and fill you up, that’s what you need when you’re broke.
I collect food via fare share for a homeless hostel and deliver crates of potatoes, bread, fruit etc each time it’s my turn on the rota.
I find the clap back against what people with money issues feed their kids asstounding.
'Oh they don't get any fruit and veg, all you feed them is pizza'
First off all produce goes off. You aren't going to spend £3 of food that might turn. Also, pizza is about 70p to £1. That is a meal.
I was in the thread about Marcus Rashford and I had to come out because people have great ideas about what low income people should be doing.
They should be cooking from scratch , they should be doing this and that.
Yes that is the ideal, but people are working all the hours JM claims just to break even. They don't have the time. The might not have the money to run the oven for long enough to do this. They might be disabled and can't do much more than use the microwave. It might be a child having to cook for themselves. There are so many variables and nuances she is just discounting.
Also to make tasty nutritious meals usually includes a little bit of bulk buying and bulk cooking. Many people are living week by week and don't have the capacity to do this outlay or store it. JM might make a supper for 40p, but that's per portion. Don't her sausages work out to be more than a pack of you know, sausages.
The parents that are cooking now are a product of ding culture. In the 80's and 90's convenience food was king. It was the height of 'A woman can have it all'. Many people just do not know how to cook or build a menu. They took home ec out of school so people haven't be learning the basics for a very, very long time. So there is an idea for a book and campaign. Teach this generation how to cook healthy, nutritious and cheap food. Not three can surprise.
The resurgence in food and foodies is really a mid 2000's thing. In cities outside London we got more small restaurants offering more than your standard chain fare. Programs like the naked chef brought food into the TV for the masses. Keith Floyd and Rick Stein are great but they were a bit niche. To love cooking and be into that scene wasn't as big as it is now. Chicken and chips, pasta and sauce, turkey twizzles were king. We also didn't have quite the understanding of nutrition.
duck, remember them advertising the special K diet and those awful Ski yogurts.
In regards to the nutrition of the food, it's not great but it's not terrible. I'm my secondary school we had a fuel zone. I had a soggy chicken burger or a slice of pizza with that plastic cheese. These meals are more nutritious than this. Schools at the moment wont have the contacts for bulk buying. So this stuff will be coming from donations or tesco. My mum works for a charity and this is the type of stuff they are having to provide their users because it's easy to store, easy to cook and easy to eat.
There is no quick fix to feed these kids in the holidays. You could set up a canteen system but practicalities would probably only work for one or two meals on the menu a day. The children who are going to eat this probably don't have the most expansive of pallets. So the food here is probably the most like what they would eat regularly.
JM doesn't have the background in the social and economic issues that lead to this intervention being a necessity. Her experience is dated and really quite different that the problems most face. Like it or not she put herself in that position and seems out of sheer stubbornness kept herself there.
I really hope she is on it. As we've always said on these threads she has a platform, she could make change. However, I don't think we should take nutritional advice from someone who uses grated corned beef in a chilli.
), but the fact supermarkets are getting restaurant quality produce at the moment as the suppliers can't sell it to restaurants.
