Posted on 10/18/2006 9:42:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
ROTHERHAM, England — Five months after the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver succeeded in cajoling, threatening and shaming the British government into banning junk food from its school cafeterias, many schools are learning that you can lead a child to a healthy lunch, but you can’t make him eat.
The fancy new menu at the Rawmarsh School here?
“It’s rubbish,” said Andreas Petrou, an 11th grader. Instead, en route to school recently, he was enjoying a north of England specialty known as a chip butty: a French-fries-and-butter sandwich doused in vinegar.
“We didn’t get a choice,” he said of the school food. “They just told us we were having it.”
The government’s regulations, which took effect in September, have banished from school cafeterias the cheap, instantly gratifying meals that children love by default: the hamburgers, the French fries, the breaded, deep-fried processed meat, the sugary drinks.
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Don't eat it all at once! :)
Flattery will get you.............nevermind - you've met my husband :)
I have got to write that down. I have not had any malt vinegar in my pantry in ages and it always seems that when I'm buying vinegar (I make jellies and so go thru at least 2 gallons a month) I always forget to buy some.
About as far as it will with Slip18, xsmommy, Secret Garden, et. al. Exactly ....
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Your mother must have gone to the same cooking school. My mom was a great cook for everything except green vegetables. She boiled them all to within an inch of edibility.
YUP!!!!!
LOL - that's really funny :)
Thanks for the ping!
I didn't eat vegetables on a regular basis for years, unless I cooked them.
during my last year in school, while still living at home before I moved from NYC to Delaware, I did all the cooking. Neither my mother or brother would eat the veggies I cooked because they considered them to still be raw.
I'm sorry, but I want some texture in my veggies. Cauliflower should not have the consistency of mashed potatoes, nor should asparagus. Most especially at the prices we were paying for both back then (1981-82)
Well there you go, low glycemic chip butty, boiled turnips between a couple of digestives, perhaps topped with a few peas. Cheers!
It sounds good to me too, i'd love to try one! I even put french fries in my hamburgers.
My husband had to teach me how to cook vegetables. Just recently, I found out that it is my father who insists upon eating mushy veggies. I cooked fresh green beans for my mother just the other day. She liked them, but after canned green beans, my kids refuse them.
2 cup sprouts cleaned and rinsed
1/4 cup water
1 tbl butter
Salt
Arrange sprouts in a flat bottomed microwave safe dish (I use a pyrex pie dish) Add water.
Microwave on high power 5 minutes.
Stir and add butter.
Microwave on high power another 2 to 3 minutes until stem ends are just tender.
Salt to taste and serve.
Nope.
"I can't be expected to save every under-capitalized business in the country"-- Her thighness, Hillary Clinton
I'll email it to my husband. I do NOT cook those foul things.
Cotswold is a double Gloucester cheese with chives. You can find it at most good American grocery stores in the gourmet cheese section.
I was in Cornwall in September and since I don't eat meat, I had a veggie pasty. I know....I know....never as good as with meat. But, it was still delicious to me.
Thanks for the recipe. Will file it. Who knows???????
Pease, puddings, and savaloys,
What next is the question?
Indigestion!
Food! Glorious Food!
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