Jamie's one pound meals

DGS is keen on cooking and can produce a full family meal at age 14.

He'd never watch Mary, Nigella or similar TV chefs but he likes Jamie (and Gordon, who is apparently charming in RL!).

I have no idea what you mean JJ. Perhaps you could elaborate.

DDs did shopping for lots of neighbours who had to isolate. And we had neighbours and friends who shopped for us when we had to.

I’ve just realised GSM you are going down the ‘cost’ rabbit hole again, so I don’t know whether it’s worth continuing to engage with you🤷‍♀️

growstuff

MaggsMcG

The mans so out of touch with reality its ridiculous. he has no idea what people can afford or what people and the children in normal working families will eat. I cant stand him and his stupid ideas.

What do "children in normal working families" eat?

Same question?!? I know what my grand kids eat and have eaten since babies- with both parents working very hard- but still coming home to cook a 'proper' simple nutritious meal, with lots of variety and veg.

My husband wasn’t in his permanent role at the time GSM and all of this is true, sorry to disappoint you 🤷‍♀️

People in my village received help of all kinds too, without which many would have been in the position JaneJudge describes. I can’t remember anyone being criticised for being unprepared.

Germanshepherdsmum

In the case of a working couple, one of whom is very well paid iirc, I can’t think of those reasons. I expect JJ will enlighten us. In the meantime we two pensioners make sure we are stocked up.

We were contacted by the County Council as one of us was shielding, as people with a disabled or ill family member were advised to do.

The Council offered us deliveries of free basic foodstuffs. We didn't take them up on their offer as we didnt need to because we had offers to shop for us and thought someone else could benefit.

We have a Community Fridge here now and free food is available to all.

In the case of a working couple, one of whom is very well paid iirc, I can’t think of those reasons. I expect JJ will enlighten us. In the meantime we two pensioners make sure we are stocked up.

I can think of several reasons why someone might have found themselves with fridges, freezers and cupboards needing to be re-stocked at the start of lockdown, or who wasn’t able to, or indeed have the space to, keep large stocks of food, etc., none of them deserving criticism or indicating a lesson to be learned.

GSM, I wasn’t working and we wittle down the freezer after Christmas. We had two adults move back in and our shops and supermarkets had been ransacked 😩 and when our other disabled daughter had to move back we were told to stay in

Anyway, it’s over now. Maybe I should learn to live with my boyfriend Jamie Oliver

I f he read the carping here he’d wonder why he bothered,

I saw he had a recipe for a cauliflower curry and something else. My first thought was if you already had the added ingredients then I could understand the pricing but to buy the spices would be an initial outlay that could be off putting.

growstuff

MaggsMcG

The mans so out of touch with reality its ridiculous. he has no idea what people can afford or what people and the children in normal working families will eat. I cant stand him and his stupid ideas.

What do "children in normal working families" eat?

I was wondering the same? Maybe MaggsMcG will enlighten us...

MaggsMcG

The mans so out of touch with reality its ridiculous. he has no idea what people can afford or what people and the children in normal working families will eat. I cant stand him and his stupid ideas.

What do "children in normal working families" eat?

Callistemon21

I didnt either, growstuff but they are all subjects I've taken up as hobbies, or out of necessity.
I never did sewing at school after Y7 but made my own (and later my children's) clothes.

However, I've gone off cooking lately.

I can't say cooking has ever been a hobby for me, although I learnt to cook out of necessity. I control my diabetes through what I eat, so I've had to learn quite a bit about nutrition too. I'm happy with what I eat - and I can do special things, if I have to.

JaneJudge, I don't think anyone has found your situation funny, or meant to offend. I think that this thread has de-railed a bit from Jamie's one pound meals.

I don’t understand why you had no food, JJ. You’re a working person, nowhere near as old as some of us, and I believe not a lone parent? We were vulnerable too but still helped others and living in a rural area I always keep a well stocked pantry and freezer, including plenty of long life milk. I’m not being virtuous, simply practical as I have always been because you never know what’s round the corner. I hope you learned a lesson.

sorry I don;t know why I have got so defensive
if it helps, when ever he is on the television or is mention my kids say 'oh, it's Jamie Oliver, Mum's boyfriend'

we had hardly anything in our freezer or fridge when we locked down and we had to self isolate for MONTHS. The council offered to send me someone to do my shopping for me but thankfully we managed to get a shopping slot with iceland as we were indentified as vulnerable. I'm glad you all find that funny

Sizes of people 😄😄😄

My main beef with Jamie’s £1 meals is that his portions are very small. I’d have to double them to feed my husband and sons, though I guess £2 isn’t bad for a meal.

Waitrose is like any store, it has a range of goods at a range of prices.

I shop there because it is a medium sized town centre supermarket with free parking, which enables me to visit lots of other shops, banks, building societies, hairdressers, dentist etc in the same shopping trip. The cost of driving miles around to out of town shopping centres tootherwise fill my shopping needs, would almost definitely excede any extra I pay on my one stop shopping at Waitrose and in my town centre.

and looking at the people shopping there and the cars in the car park, its customers cover all types and sizes of people.

MaggsMcG

Not many families can afford to shop in Waitrose its the most expensive supermarket in the country another out of touch from a very rich man who has no idea.

No-one has to buy the ingredients from Waitrose!!!

MaggsMcG

Not many families can afford to shop in Waitrose its the most expensive supermarket in the country another out of touch from a very rich man who has no idea.

We have two Waitrose supermarkets relatively close to us, both are usually busy.

They have a very good essentials range.