Stafford shops opening - Turning into a boom town?

DoggedWalker

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Many reasons. Two parents working and schools not teaching kids how to cook for starters. A heathy meal and a treat is fine, an unhealthy meal and treat isn't.
That’s not strictly true either. You can have both, just as long as it’s not your routine. You’re not going to get fat, get heart disease or diabetes from the odd unhealthy day of eating here and there.

I’ve also never understood blaming schools for not teaching things parents should be teaching their kids in the first place. If you’re in the kitchen making their meals, get them involved and let them learn.
 

kyoto49

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Many reasons. Two parents working and schools not teaching kids how to cook for starters. A heathy meal and a treat is fine, an unhealthy meal and treat isn't.
Parents should teach kids cooking, and a love of cooking too! Schools are for academic things! Anything else, it's the parents role.
 
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Wormella

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Television pretty much taught me to cook, and youtube / facebook etc does so now if I want to learn something new. What schools and families need to do is to encourage good and balanced food behaviours and relationships with nutrition.
 

Cue

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That’s not strictly true either. You can have both, just as long as it’s not your routine. You’re not going to get fat, get heart disease or diabetes from the odd unhealthy day of eating here and there.

I’ve also never understood blaming schools for not teaching things parents should be teaching their kids in the first place. If you’re in the kitchen making their meals, get them involved and let them learn.

Parents should teach kids cooking, and a live of cooking too! Schools are for academic things! Anything else, it's the parents role.

Tell me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table, without telling me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table.

(Thankfully I didn’t, but doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds of thousands of families where the kids barely see their parents because they have to work to keep the lights on - I’d love to know how they’re meant to teach their kids how to cook healthy meals)
 

Glam

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I’ve also never understood blaming schools for not teaching things parents should be teaching their kids in the first place. If you’re in the kitchen making their meals, get them involved and let them learn.
Parents should teach kids cooking, and a live of cooking too! Schools are for academic things! Anything else, it's the parents role.
My No2 son used sit in his high chair watching me do the cooking. No1 was never bothered and by the time the other 2 came along, I was working.
No2 is now a chef, he ran the Wayfarer in Stone when he was 19, not for long, only while the Manager went on a long holiday, but he still did it.
He's worked at the RAF Camp at all the messes and Foston Hall, amongst other places. I have a photo of him making mince pies when he was 17 months, they weren't brilliant, but he did them.
 

bunique

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And it will be far cheaper to use a microwave than an oven or hob this winter so even less opportunities to learn.
 

proactive

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p Jr never wanted to learn how to cook at home, even though we cook fresh most days of the week. The only reason he can cook, and quite well too, is that for some reason he found cookery classes at school to be fascinating when he was in lower school and has wanted to carry on ever since then.

I was under the impression that most schools taught cookery at KS3 and that it is an option in many schools at KS4 nowadays.
 

DoggedWalker

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Tell me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table, without telling me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table.

(Thankfully I didn’t, but doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds of thousands of families where the kids barely see their parents because they have to work to keep the lights on - I’d love to know how they’re meant to teach their kids how to cook healthy meals)

I hate to break it to you but I’m from a single parent household. My siblings and I grew up in council housing (with a brief stint in a refuge) and mum always had some kind of job throughout our childhoods.

I do love how people judge others based on their perceptions of what’s achievable if you’re poor or if you’re not.
 

kyoto49

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Tell me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table, without telling me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table.

(Thankfully I didn’t, but doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds of thousands of families where the kids barely see their parents because they have to work to keep the lights on - I’d love to know how they’re meant to teach their kids how to cook healthy meals)
What? I neither had 2 parents or even one who could cook and that one worked multiple jobs to stop us getting evicted most weeks. Didn't mean we didn't get involved in the food we ate. I'm fact it was the one time we all saw each other and talked, often about what we were eating as money was so tight the only way to survive was to be able to cook crappy cuts of meat and in season veggies in some sort of stew. Unfortunately due to the said lack of cooking skills the food was often inedible. I STILL don't think schools should be where children learn cooking. I can also cook very well!
 

littleme

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What? I neither had 2 parents or even one who could cook and that one worked multiple jobs to stop us getting evicted most weeks. Didn't mean we didn't get involved in the food we ate. I'm fact it was the one time we all saw each other and talked, often about what we were eating as money was so tight the only way to survive was to be able to cook crappy cuts of meat and in season veggies in some sort of stew. Unfortunately due to the said lack of cooking skills the food was often inedible. I STILL don't think schools should be where children learn cooking. I can also cook very well!
Same, but not the same, divorced parents main carer couldn't cook to save her life but managed to keep me alive on box meals, (vesta), mince, potatoes & watery gravy, cheese salad sandwiches and our once monthly takeaway of spring roll and chips.

I left home at 17 and THEN learnt to cook, at first basic things like fray bentos pies, tinned potatoes, tinned carrots & peas.....I bought a victorian cookbook from a Carboot sale that taught me all the basics....had 2 kids as a single parent and learnt it was more economical in general to cook from fresh and to batch cook ... cooking shite frozen food is a wate of time & money ...thare are loads of things that you can batch cook then freeze to give you a tasty homemade meal...

Don't get me wrong, I can't cook a cake or pudding to save my life, but I can make any roast, casserole, stew, pie, main meal etc you can name ...desserts are not my thing.
 

littleme

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Tell me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table, without telling me you grew up in a home where your parents didn’t have to work ridiculous hours to put food on the table.

(Thankfully I didn’t, but doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds of thousands of families where the kids barely see their parents because they have to work to keep the lights on - I’d love to know how they’re meant to teach their kids how to cook healthy meals)
Kids will learn themselves, if that's what they want. If not they will carry on the same old shots that they're used to.
 

littleme

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I hate to break it to you but I’m from a single parent household. My siblings and I grew up in council housing (with a brief stint in a refuge) and mum always had some kind of job throughout our childhoods.

I do love how people judge others based on their perceptions of what’s achievable if you’re poor or if you’re not.
Same here, although I spent time in a refuge with 2 kids, not my parents. I had a hard time, but I never had to resort to 'iceland' .

Just to get this right, there's nothing wrong with Iceland for the odd thing, just not a whole meal Sunday to saturday...its just lazy.
 
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