Agree. Time would be far better spent in school learning how to cook basic meals and maybe basics of looking after a child or household budgeting rather than learning bloody German or something. I know its covered in home economics but very few do that
Learning about calorie balance would be a start. You get kids eating 90% of their daily caloric needs in single meals and then having no idea why theyâre gaining weight. Calories in vs. calories out is the most basic principle people need to know when it comes to weight management and itâs not too difficult to impart either. The challenge comes from the fact that the most calorie dense convenience foods tend to have large companies behind them who are not too enamoured with the idea of customers learning how terrible their product is for their health.
Eh you wouldnât need to teach anyone attending the ICA anything about feeding the family for fuck all. Itâs more like an ICA outreach program for townies
Too fucking right.
A lot of kids are also given money to buy their own lunch, it doesnt take a genius to figure out what they are going to do with it.
If you are in a shop thatâs near a school youâll see them filing in at lunch time getting breakfast rolls, coke and chocolate- thatâs their daily intake there.
Some lad was on Matt Cooper yesterday about this topic and the adverse effects of fizzy drinks - he was saying that drinking one can of these drinks would require two hours of physical exercise to burn off the calories. 
I drank loads of coke and I am still in pristine condition, get the fat lumps out exercising
[quote=âSidney, post: 842997, member: 183â]Growing your own food as a hobby is a great way to instill good eating habits into kids. If you grow your own food, you appreciate it more and it also forces you to become more creative in how you use it, as you tend to get a lot of it coming ripe at the same time. Iâve had a great year with tomatoes, chilis, beans, onions and lettuce this year with the fine weather. Thanks to some over zealous pruning last autumn my plum tree failed to produce anything, but should be back to form next year. However the best harvest yet from my apple trees has more than made up for this.
If you any kind of room at all in a garden, an apple tree or a plum tree is a great way to get kids to appreciate fruit.[/quote]
We had no plums on our tree either, my local fabulous harem- scarem garden centre lady told me there were very few plums at all this year- bad spring to blame apparently
Has anyone read the A Girl Calked Jack blog about budget constrained healthy eating- she should be rolled out to 15-16 year olds across every school
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Has anyone read the A Girl Calked Jack blog about budget constrained healthy eating- she should be rolled out to 15-16 year olds across every school[/quote]
Its great stuff. Also serves as a stark reminder how much more expensive groceries are here.
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If you are in a shop thatâs near a school youâll see them filing in at lunch time getting breakfast rolls, coke and chocolate- thatâs their daily intake there.[/quote]
Youâre lucky to get to lunchtime for that, most will arrive into school laden with breakfast rolls, red bull or coke
A lot of people canât cook nowadays and that is a big part of the problem.
Good point. My gang over here wouldnât get the sliced pan. But when they are back home they would wolf down a loaf in a few minutes.
Including a few of the limerick team! 
Is all white bread bad for you? Like in Spain, they wolf it down as if thereâs none left and doesnât seem to be a problem. Is it that the proper fresh crusty stuff is ok but the Brennans and Cuisine de France stuff is full of the bad shit?
The sliced pan is full of sugar and salt and additives. The stuff in those countries has a one day life at best.
I eat wholemeal/wholegrain bread.
Still bad yeah?
Thatâs kind of what I was asking. If you eat the stuff fresh out of a bakery that is usually not edible by the evening its made, is that all that bad?
[quote=âfarmerinthecity, post: 843173, member: 24â]I eat wholemeal/wholegrain bread.
Still bad yeah?[/quote]
Most of the stuff from supermarket wouldnât be much better than white. Home made is prob ok
Any of the supermarket stuff ok, or reasonably ok?
Spelt bread is apparently ok Iâm told if you can get your hands on it.
It would be preservative free⌠so would be better than the supermarket stuff.
However the more research being done on wheat the more its been highlighted as the route of alot of health issues in the western diet⌠the cross breeding of wheat in the 60s has left a protein so complex that the human body hasnât evolved quickly enough to break it down.
I read âWheat Bellyâ earlier this year and some of the findings are startling. The effect of wheat on your blood sugars⌠the brain fog, the growling stomach after a grain based cereal etc⌠well worth a read if your into this stuff.