"Packed lunches should be banned and cooking lessons compulsory" say experts - Polidicks

Man I remember school lunches. The school lunches that were less healthy, less tasty and less appetizing than the hundreds of boxes of pizza they had.

Who needs to know how to cook when you have a microwave?

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;39543506]I refuse to believe that school dinners are healthier than anything I've ever had in a packed lunch. Fucking pasta that's 90% water eugh.[/QUOTE] Water's good for you

[QUOTE=mac338;39551693]Water's good for you[/QUOTE] Vitamins and nutrients are too.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;39551702]Vitamins and nutrients are too.[/QUOTE] You're good for me. [editline]11th February 2013[/editline] Be my valentine

[QUOTE=Protocol7;39551626]Man I remember school lunches. The school lunches that were less healthy, less tasty and less appetizing than the hundreds of boxes of pizza they had.[/QUOTE] Oh god now I have bad memories of that tasteless mashed potato they used to serve. And yet I remember something super-unhealthy yet so amazing; Turkey Twizzlers. God, what I'd give for a bunch of those guys on my plate with some curly fries; even though I never had curly fries with Turkey Twizzlers, I imagine it would be awesome. Still, looking back I remember that those fuckers were SUUUUUPER greasy; if Bernard Matthews still existed, they could probably have reduced the fat content by a great deal and sold them again without a huge backlash from Jamie Oliver. I don't know what school lunches are like in England today, but when I was still in the system things were still pretty greasy, though I've heard there have been improvements in recent years...

[QUOTE=Scrimp;39543242]Cooking lessons in school are a joke. When I was there all they taught us was how to make pita bread pizza and brownies.[/QUOTE] This a million fucking times. Plus you would have all the lazy twats who "forgot" their ingredients so they borrowed the teachers.

[QUOTE=ironman17;39551746]Oh god now I have bad memories of that tasteless mashed potato they used to serve. And yet I remember something super-unhealthy yet so amazing; Turkey Twizzlers. God, what I'd give for a bunch of those guys on my plate with some curly fries; even though I never had curly fries with Turkey Twizzlers, I imagine it would be awesome. Still, looking back I remember that those fuckers were SUUUUUPER greasy; if Bernard Matthews still existed, they could probably have reduced the fat content by a great deal and sold them again without a huge backlash from Jamie Oliver. I don't know what school lunches are like in England today, but when I was still in the system things were still pretty greasy, though I've heard there have been improvements in recent years...[/QUOTE] In the U.S. everything that was a daily meal was probably mystery meat X or made with the cremated remains of god knows what. Tasteless, flavorless, bland. Pizza was the only thing you could guarantee had bread, cheese and meat.

"Let's teach kids how to cook food, to prevent them from eating junk!" "Then let's make them unable to choose the food for their own children and force them to eat shitty, unhealthy school food made for hundreds to thousands of kids at a time!"

School lunches can be very expensive for those on tight budgets And for people with weird blood sugar levels not affording lunch and having nothing can lead to such things as nearly passing out in class Which is embarrassing for all involved

A little silly,but cooking lessons would be quite useful

School cookery is a joke "we're going to teach you how to make this fancy ass risotto, but here's the kicker; YOU CAN'T USE WINE!" fuckin

On the other hand cooking class in my school was fun especially when something went wrong and the pita-bread, i think it was, turned to charcoal and there was a lot of smoke so the whole school got evacuated. I mean it set off the smoke alarms. I dont know what went wrong with it but its funny in hindsight.

I agree with making a mandatory cooking class. I left high school without knowing anything besides the microwave and toaster oven. Packed lunches should never be banned.

[QUOTE=Zerohe;39545993]Me and my friends go to A&W or Subway every day for lunch. Not the healthiest for you, but I use the excuse that I'm bulking so its all k[/QUOTE] Your arteries are going to be really bulked up soon

I had cooking lessons in Japan. They were really good. After class everyone in each group got to keep or eat some of the food they made, it was right after lunch so everyone just skipped lunch that day to eat whatever they cooked afterwards. It was a really easy way to get better grades too. I can see it working as long as it is an opt-in class, you shouldn't trust anyone who doesn't wanna be there to work with an oven.

Well, this is better than selling pizza in the school cafeteria every day and throwing their hands up in the air when kids get obese because it's all they have for lunch every day, I guess. Definitely not far enough, though. Schools around the whole western world really need much better health education just in general. So many people don't get that fitness and eating healthy doesn't mean doing new age shit like eating nothing but rice cakes for eternity.