Kids Cooking.
The Government has decided to make cookery lessons compulsory for teenagers. Not a bad idea if they go back to basics and avoid trying to follow the fancy plans of umpteen TV chefs.
Boiled egg and omelettes, a good spaghetti bolognese or shepherd’s pie with plenty of veg chopped up with the mince, soups and how to roast a (free range) chicken, would be a start. I hope plans to provide ingredients for those who cannot afford them will ensure that these are good quality, locally produced and free range and not the cheapest, old, vitamin dead produce.
Maybe gardening classes will also become compulsory so that schools can grow their own vegetables.
I’ve tasted my share of grey fairy cakes and gritty buns baked by the children in nursery and primary schools so it will be interesting to see how teen offerings turn out. If media coverage of teenagers is anything to go by everything will be highly alcoholic or laced with cannabis.
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21st Century Mummy said,
January 24, 2008 @ 8:13 pm
It’s about time things wen tback to basics again and I really hope the cooking classes work. Last weekend I had a great opportunity to talk with my husband,s elderly uncle, who reminisced about his gardening classes when he was at school as a teenager…there is so much merit in teaching self-sufficiency, as long as they don’t graduate into the illegal stuff ;-D
Adlibbing Mummy said,
January 28, 2008 @ 4:50 pm
I had home economics when I was in secondary school and it wasn’t a million years ago… And I remember lots of work around healthy eating too, maybe it will work better this time.
Mmmmm gritty fairy cakes, I can’t wait although maybe it will be organic carrot cake by the time my eldest is bringing home bashed up tupaware.