I did Food and Nutrition O Level. Lovely break with Mrs Skelton from all the academic work. I still use those skills, and hygiene was emphasised too. When my daughter when to secondary school and brought home Food Tech homework 'assembling a pizza' I was furious. Then I went back to my old school and found they'd taken out the kitchens. Ridiculous. All kids need those life skills and it has led to dominance of processed food and probably the obesity crisis. I suspect some kind of collision between 'non sexist' education combining with nasty lobbying from the food processing industry. Rather like closing down mental hospitals was a collision between money saving, existence of more effective drugs, and the desire to free people from institutions. The key was always to teach boys as well as girls to cook and clean. Well done you. I'm back on a very low cal diet as it is the only way to shift pounds - the tamoxifen effect has not yet worn off and I put some back on over covid. But I think the pounds are going down slightly faster than on the drug.
I did Food and Nutrition O Level. Lovely break with Mrs Skelton from all the academic work. I still use those skills, and hygiene was emphasised too. When my daughter when to secondary school and brought home Food Tech homework 'assembling a pizza' I was furious. Then I went back to my old school and found they'd taken out the kitchens. Ridiculous. All kids need those life skills and it has led to dominance of processed food and probably the obesity crisis. I suspect some kind of collision between 'non sexist' education combining with nasty lobbying from the food processing industry. Rather like closing down mental hospitals was a collision between money saving, existence of more effective drugs, and the desire to free people from institutions. The key was always to teach boys as well as girls to cook and clean. Well done you. I'm back on a very low cal diet as it is the only way to shift pounds - the tamoxifen effect has not yet worn off and I put some back on over covid. But I think the pounds are going down slightly faster than on the drug.