• Cry_in_the_Walk_In@sh.itjust.works
    283·
    11 months ago

    He’s smug and preachy.

    Pushing for healthier school lunches was fine, but his campaign to shame parents into making healthy food for their kids, without first considering poverty, available time, or other complicating factors is proof that he doesn’t care about people actually eating healthy, as much as he is about maintaining his “champion of healthy eating” façade.

    • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
      77·
      11 months ago

      I hate when people bring up the poverty angle, unless it’s more about people having to work more hours/multiple jobs and not having time to cook. Healthy whole foods are generally way cheaper than fast food or even junk food from the grocery store, at least in my experience

      • kryptonicus@lemmy.world
        81·
        11 months ago

        Not on a “per calorie” basis they aren’t. And I’m not really sure by what other metric you can compare them. But look at how many calories of broccoli $3 gets you compared to potato chips. Then you have to add in the time of preparation.

        Additionally, many impoverished people tend to live in “food deserts”, areas without grocery stores, but many fast Food locations.

        The deck is definitely stacked against the impoverished.

      • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
        5·
        11 months ago

        They most certainly are not. If you’re buying unhealthy food only as snacks, you mistake your subset as all unhealthy food.

        If you need calories and are on a shoestring budget, your options are potatos, bad bread, Coles cakes etc. You can eat for a week on a few dollars but you’ll become overweight and eventually die of malnutrition. Your options become even more limited if you don’t have a working stove due to being cut off your gas.

        • jscummy@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          11 months ago

          I guess I was thinking snacks first and foremost but cheap carbs aren’t necessarily unhealthy. Protein sources are probably the most expensive and mixing in veggies is pricey on a calories/$ basis.

          But rice, beans/legumes, and a lot of other basic staple foods are pretty cheap. Eggs are back under a dollar by me at least.

          Not having the time/means to shop and prepare food makes sense, or if you’re in a food desert and don’t have much available conveniently.

          • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
            4·
            11 months ago

            Eggs are pushing $10/doz where I am 💀

            You can absolutely put together a relatively healthy meal for reasonably cheap, I’m talking about “getting your gas cut-off” budgeting though.

  • TheHalc@sopuli.xyz
    121·
    11 months ago

    He’s a celebrity first and a chef second, unlike the likes of Gordon Ramsay, who’s a chef first and a celebrity second.

    He’s a bit worthy and his restaurants are a bit shit, but I’m sure his heart is in the right place.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
        5·
        11 months ago

        Gordan Ramsay already had a Michelin star when he started his TV career, and Ramsay’s first show in the UK was actually geared towards helping restaurants looking for help.

        Ramsay used his fame to expand, but he was a chef before his fame.

      • TheHalc@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        11 months ago

        The difference is that Oliver was a sous-chef when he was first picked up for a TV show, whereas Ramsay had been head chef at multiple Michelin-starred restaurants before he got his TV shows.

        Oliver’s restaurants have never been awarded any Michelin stars. Ramsay’s have been awarded 17.

        One of these two is a real restaurateur and chef, one of these is more of a food-related lifestyle brand.

  • Fl1ppyR34@lemmy.world
    9·
    11 months ago

    He’s the apple shagger that gave Scotland both the Irn Bru ruining sugar tax and got rid of our two for one pizza deals. So no, don’t really like him.

  • CurlyWurlies4AllEnglish
    101·
    11 months ago

    I hate how much he hates chicken nuggets. His only argument against them seems to be that they use all the bad dirty bits of the chicken. I’m like “Yeah…if we’re going to eat chicken we may as well eat all of them.”

  • garchai@startrek.websiteEnglish
    8·
    11 months ago

    It’s a boring answer but I assume you’re looking for a consensus? I don’t know much about him, but I like cooking videos and I’ve enjoyed his content in the past.

  • maporita@unilem.org
    7·
    11 months ago

    It’s all very well telling people what to cook. The problem is many don’t know how to cook. By that I mean they don’t know the logistics and workflow, so a meal that should take 15 minutes to make instead takes an hour or more. When I enter the kitchen the first thing I do is switch on the stove. Then I prep in the order that I need ingredients. I’ve noticed a lot of people do all the chopping and dicing first and only when they have everything prepared they put pans on the stove. If you’re going to make potatoes get the water on the boil first, then get the potatos out and clean and chop them. There are lots of things that save time when cooking. I cook most things together in a single cast iron pan, and I add leftovers to the dishes I’m cooking so the ingredients go further. I think that should be taught more instead of just handing out recipes.

    • GARlactic@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      My house is going to be halfway burnt down by the time I finish chopping vegetables if I turn on the stove first.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      1·
      11 months ago

      I’ll remember that just as soon as I work out how my oven works. You can’t just turn it on, it asks what mode you want it in, I don’t know I wanted on. Hot, I want hot mode.