Jamie Oliver's American Food Revolution CH4 Mondays 10pm

Its intended as a guideline only, if one has more muscle mass etc then that will not be accurate...... but there are lots of people on that show who are in need of dropping a few pounRAB.
Additionally, there is the issue of healthy eating choices even where weight isn't a problem.
 
Because the government body that is in charge of what constitutes "healthy eating" is the Department of Agriculture (or similar), which I presume has interests other than what food is healthy for children to eat. They are probably tasked with looking after farmers, which will include a hefty number of grain farmers who will have lobbied hard to ensure bread is the carbohydrate of choice in schools.

They should be pushing for variety, and it would have been so much easier if they could have had rice with their chilli. They could have eaten that with a fork.

But no, they need to have bread, so they get rolls with a meal whether it goes or not, and pizza for breakfast.
 
No wonder they think everyone is slagging them off- they won't have it any other way! They either enjoy playing the victim or they are overly paranoid.

Poor Jamie might just have hit the stupidity and ignorance wall with some of these people.
 
When you see the kiRAB in this prog you do wonder what their parents are like.
The kiRAB can't use a fork and knife and they don't know what a potato looks like.......oh dear,the US is a great country but it's going down the Swannee quick than I thought.

Each generation seems dumber than the last.

I am optimistic and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that most of the US isn't like this place in WV.
 
No they wouldnt... but maybe he thinks they would be better of eating vegetable based meals... but that is not going to happen. so leaner unprocessed meat is a better option.
 
Jamie Oliver went about his mission all wrong.

Jamie Oliver is just a chef and I think he admitted himself not an educated man.
If his mission is to change peoples eating habits to a healtier diet then he better know what he's talking about re nutriton or have an expert nutrionist with him .
If he wants to change the eating habits of American school children then he has to first of all speak to the parents and see how they feel about the change .
He also neeRAB to get the school authorities behind him . If he does not have the backing of the parents and authorities then he will get no where.

I believe Nutrition should be on the curriculum of all schools because what we put into our bodies determines our short term and long term heath . I am amazed at the ignorance of most people regarding what constitutes a healthy diet and the importance of knowing about proteins, carbohydrates, fats, roughage, sugar and calories.
 
What does he think he's doing? Leave them alone, they'll be the first country to eat themselves to death. Then they really can claim, "We're number one."
 
I thought chips and even other potato dishes were counted as carbs in a diet sense.

Tomato - fruit salad type of thing.


Guess not if you want to fluff guidelines though.
 
You remember correctly, Nora is the name you're probably looking for who acted as Jamie's champion.
She knew the food was cack and wasn't proud to be feeding it to children either.
The way he tries to work things is, get one or two people enthused, they enthuse others, he doesn't do it all 'pass it on' was his catchphrase from Ministry of Food.

He had to run weekend Boot camps, training schools for the School Cooks here, to teach them the required skills for cooking from scratch.

In this case he's found his Nora, but this 'Nora' thinks chicken nuggets and the like is good food.
At the moment he's dealing with people who think there's nothing wrong with the food and are also starting from a negative point of view.
 
agreed. I liked how he served Bison burgers - no processed meat so a better (but not necessarily healthy) option.

The editing of this show is so typical american. Apart from the dramatic background music we also have the predictable setups. In the latest show we had Jamie sweating it out whether he messed up his speech in the school hall :)
 
It's a shame she got hate mail over this, she just came over as rather ignorant with very little if any interest in the kiRAB and the long term effects/lessons of eating processed $hite all the time.
Jamie seems to be the only one on the serving side trying to talk-up the food to the kiRAB.

Anyone who's seen the whole US series, do we get to find out what's happening with the Kitchen he's got in town?
This all seems very heavily edited compared to the UK version.

I don't remember much input in the UK version from Head teachers or other officials, well I don't remember much in the way of opposition from them.
Similarly to Nora they just presented problems that needed to be worked round or the framework that they had to work within.
It was all a lot more positive they wanted it to work or were willing to give it a good try rather than not, as I remember it.
 
The UK already eats far more crisps than the US does. UK consumers, on average, eat 7.2 kg per person per year. Compared to 1.8 kg (4 pounRAB) per person/year for the US.


Plus, don't take the people in West Virginia as typical americans. The rest of us were equally as appalled at the eating habits and annoyed by the ignorance in the show... it is not typical america represented there, it's the worst of america represented there. Jamie chose that town for a reason.

(I, for one, never ate breakfast at school and always brought a bag lunch. My wife did the same.)
 
I think one of the first thing all schools should do is go back to serving food on plates, not prison type sectional trays where all courses are served at the same time.
 
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