Lady Jenkins Apologises.

[DTCwordfan]

Lady Jenkins apologises having declared that one of the principal causes of food poverty was that “poor people do not know how to cook”.

Is she right or wrong about the cooking skills of the UK....?

Secondly 4 million tonnes of food are wasted in this country because customers are so picky. How do we change this? Or how do we divert some of it into the foodbanks - a quarter of it would make a huge difference? Ideas?

[Mamyalynne]

Daisy, a little tip for you - both Asda and Tesco do frozen cabbage (£1 a 750g bag) is lovely steamed and no waste.

[DaisyNonna]

Farm shop?
Farms imply country, out of town.
Transport not exactly on demand.

[askyourgran]

Frognog you are the perfect example of a knowall who knows nowt. I still have to watch what I buy and I'm thankful for the experiences in my younger days of how to cope with little money. Something that wouldn't go amiss today. You make me angry with your idiotic posts I take it you enjoy McDonalds.

[janbee]

Not so many people cook these days. For the majority, it's a 3 minute PING! in the microwave.

[Retrochic]

askyourgran I think you are being very unfair to frognog he made some valid points. It always amuses me when people say things like 'all ready meals are inedible' or 'eating disgusting MacDonalds' mostly said by people who have done neither. I am a food snob -I admit it-and can cook anything from scratch if I feel the need but...When the children used to come back from boarding school we always stopped at a MacDonalds on the way back and their burgers are actually quite nice -now I would not eat them every week or every month for that matter but they taste good and I could not buy the mince,buns and extras for twice the price it cost.. A few months ago I took Son shopping and we stopped at MacDonalds and I had a chicken salad wrap and at £3.99 was good value and tasted better than the one I'd had up town the week before at a Bistro for £7.50. Some lower income families can't cook - I know a lot of high income families that can't either - No difference in a low income family buying all their ready meals from Iceland or a high income family dining out 3 times a week and buying ready meals from Waitrose or Harrods.

[yansee]

Typical snobbery from a Tory peer,shows how out of touch they are,my grandparents were poor but my grandmother was a superb cook,poor people go hungry today because of tory cuts