Cooking lessons for kids
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Spag bol doesn't take a huge amount of effort to be made from scratch. I always make it all myself. Have you ever looked at the ingredients on those jars of sauces? I'm betting salt, sugar and lots of artifical colours/flavours. The real stuff is far better in quality and taste.
I think the reason it's being introduced is because parents don't have the time or ability to cook, thats why children are fed processed food and are becoming overweight.
I agree with that, I've been teaching my children to cook already. We make food together and they watch me cooking. I want them to have real life skills when they leave home. Sadly though most parents won't teach their children how to cook and will give ready meals or frozen food all the time.
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Trouble is in many cases the parents can't either because they don't have the time or the knowledge.
Trouble is this makes it a much harder subject to teach. You can just imagine a class of 11 years olds. Some of them regularly help their folks in the kitchen and can cook a meal with relatively little help, and some won't even be able to work a can opener.
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There's a slight theory that food with additives etc etc are causing kids to become hyperactive as well :
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^^ Agreed. Although parents are supposed to be doing this, a large amount aren't. Unfortuently we don't all live in a utopia.
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My parents never really showed me how to cook not because they dont but purely because I never had an intrest, until the summer holidays before I started uni at which point I taught myself how to cook instead of sitting around on my fat arse wasting the holiday and now im glad I did because I enjoy a huge varitity of freshly cooked food which my house mates only get if I fancy cooking up a big meal for us all.
I think cooking is one of those things you have to want to learn rather than something that can be forced upon someone.
I think cooking is one of those things you have to want to learn rather than something that can be forced upon someone.
Hmm, if you start from a young age then they would be interested though. Young children are always interested in what their parents are doing. My 4 and 5 year love helping me cook while my 12 month old pulls things out of the cupboards.
Hmm, if you start from a young age then they would be interested though. Young children are always interested in what their parents are doing. My 4 and 5 year love helping me cook while my 12 month old pulls things out of the cupboards.
Thats the thing i used to do a lot of baking sort of stuff with my mum when I was little but then completly lost any intrest until I hit 18
how far do you want to take it then ? picking the tomatos and seasonings yourself ? breeding your own cows and killing and mincing it ?
thats a hell of allot more than most uni students do....
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I was amazed when one of my uni housemates didn't even know how to cook the basics. He once even put a pizza in the oven with the plastic(not cardboard) tray still on the bottom and was suprised when it melted onto the bottom so even convenience food wasn't safe with him around.
And he was a straight A student at school, so not a complete retard.
For most people its just laziness to actually learn the basics, which is helped when they don't have to cook for themselves until they 'leave the nest', at which point they either learn to cook, or just eat microwave stuff.
But once you've made your own food its something you actually like doing.
And he was a straight A student at school, so not a complete retard.
For most people its just laziness to actually learn the basics, which is helped when they don't have to cook for themselves until they 'leave the nest', at which point they either learn to cook, or just eat microwave stuff.
But once you've made your own food its something you actually like doing.
This would be good, doubt they will learn v much but will most likely make a few more interested and theyll start to cook for themselves etc. Cant actually think of a female friend who knows howto cook, when i know quite a lot of lads like myself who love to cook and can competently(from scratch).
the most academic students can be the stupidist people in the world when it comes to anything involving some sort of common sence, ive known quite a few people like that. Unless you knew they were straight A students you would think they were a bit slow
