Changes to school lunches

[Lilith7]

Yup. Supply the makings and let the kids learn to feed themselves. Double pay off...

A big part of food poverty is the inability of much of our population to prepare a meal from basic ingredients. Give them a kilo of mince and some basic veges and they don't possess the skills to turn it into a nutritionally dense meal. Unless it comes out of a can or packet with reheating instructions printed on the back they just can't cope. And most are more likely to dial up a takeaway through sheer ignorance or laziness, or both.

Back in my high school days 'home economics' was a base subject for the girls at least, and an elective subject for us blokes. I thoroughly enjoyed cooking up a storm back then and it proved to be valuable knowledge into my flatting days. It seems that such basic skills aren't part of the education system nowadays but they bloody should be!

There are basic skills which ought to be taught in schools - budgeting, parenting & cooking so that every last person is capable of making a meal of some kind.

And empathy too in every school throughout all their years of schooling.