Same here Supes. We have takeaways and stuff but not every night. I love experimenting and most of the time they eat it 

I would love to make his lickable wallpaper. 

Heston Blumenthal (to me) is a little bit of a genius with his creativity with food. Yes it is totally over the top and arty and stupidly expensive and won't appeal to everyone, but I think he's ace

Karma - I was waiting for you cos I know you are a fan

Not keen on how C4 is plugging it's foodies now.

Might watch Blanc on beeb 2 at 8.30.

I like watching Heston, his mad experiments are fun.  Not the sort of thing you can do at home, I wouldn't want people licking my wallpaper.

You can keep your Ramsey, Blumenthal and Jamie pissing Oliver because Raymond Blanc sh*ts all over them

I like watching Anthony Bourdain but his shows are more like travelogues.

Cooking from scratch really doesn't take that long

What did it for me was seeing her use tinned mince meat (or something) as a way of cutting corners... oh no, oh god no

I cook from scratch most days except when i work till 7...then my daughter cooks or the husband does something with pasta. Its really not that hard.

I've never tasted tinned mince but the texture looks rank.

I did once....
It is rank  

I love watching him cos most of it is just so bonkers and brilliant

some schools don't even teach cookery...........my youngest has done it maybe twice at a push..........when i questioned why it wasn't more regular i got told........'because parents can't afford to,or won't supply the ingrediants'.........the time i do remember her doing it she was told to bring frozen ready made pastry from the shop and a tin of fruit....

i don't see anything wrong in a ready meal etc....but you balance it out....the school dinner programme is trying to educate kids from a young age,so that they realise that a bag of crisps on the way to school for breakfast,a pile of chips at lunch,and whatever for dinner isn't healthy every day

having a choccy bar or a doughnut every now and again doesn't do any harm.......you eat it every day with not much else of a balanced diet an you run into problems.that to me isn't preaching.it's common sense..

My daughters school did quite a lot of cookery...she did food tech for GSCE and i'm not sure quite what they taught but it was a bit more than basics...she is quite inventive...sometimes they had to take ingredients in (DUCK!)...other times they just gave money for ingredients cos the school had a supply of your basic and most used ingredients...the money used to be between 50p and £2.

Spot on Spongey!

Another thing that I thought was important from food tech and Jamie tried to educate the kids on was teaching them how the food gets onto their plate.  It's all fine and well having green bits in a sauce but not knowing what they are is shocking.  Some of the kids didn't know the difference between an onion and carrot (or whatever it was)

croc xx..........i think it depends on the school tbh.............my other daughters school did have cookery.......and like your daughters was more than just the basics..yet the other spongette gets nothing!!

leccy xx............exactly..........the more they're educated the more they learn the more they'll start to take an interest in what they're putting in their bodies......

i don't think anyone is saying 'you must not eat sweets or cakes ever ever again'.......it's more...'just not every day and try and eat a healthy and balanced diet'....

Yep Spongey agreed.

I'd make the little fekkers watch Supersize Me on a loop for 2 days straight - then take them to a few autopsies of really obese people. :ninja

Evening ladies xx

I'm a fan of everything in moderation

edit after seeing Veggie's post, not including McDonalds, KFC or the like

Just cos I feel like it

I'd like to see an autopsy...not of a right porker though!

Evening Veggie x

Did you used to watch those Gunther Von Hagen things Croc?

Nah I missed them,..I think they were on too late....I've helped cut up a few animals though.

I couldn't watch an autopsy :vomit smiley. I have nowt but admiration for anyone who has to do that sort of thing.
I couldn't even cut up a cows eye at school in science. I still feel faint thinking about it

I saw one in training...

It was awful - all that formaldehyde... 


I had to leave.. which is why I could never be a medic.

My sister watched a couple and said it was fascinating.

I liked the Gunther ones, I liked the animal ones too with Dawkins and that vet dude (who's usually on cars shows )

The elephant and whale ones?  I thought they were really good.

Yeah, they did a snake one too...and some others I can't remember.

I think there was an alligator or crocodile...

Anyone watching?

Starkey is a narse

I'm watching!

I'd like to have been taught by Simon Callow.

Just watched it and I totally agree! 

Loved Rolf.