Dear Ame'cuh. Stop eating pooFollow

Home ec was offered by my high school but I never had the time to take it.

Same here. I took Home Ec in Jr. high and the most noteworthy thing I learned was that you can't take dough for twenty cookies and make one giant cookie and expect it to cook evenly.

A lesson which I use daily in feeding my child.

Edit: A quick gander at my old Junior High's website shows they still teach it only now it's called "Family & Consumer Science". Which I guess makes as much sense as "Home Economics". Same class though: Sewing & Cooking.

Edited, Mar 8th 2010 9:37pm by Jophiel

I seem to remember my junior high course called "HACS" but I think it was a home ec class. I don't remember anything about food, but balancing checkbooks and sewing fuzzy dice (and soccer balls for those who didn't injure themselves too badly with needles).

Jamie Oliver won't change much on his own, but good on him for trying.

He did the same thing here in the UK. I was personally shocked to see the **** that gets served as "food" in state schools in the UK. It's borderline criminal to a) for the state to be feeding this to kids on a daily basis b) create a normalised behaviour of eating junk food daily c) counter-productive because it ends up costing the state a lot more on the long-term due to all the health problems.

I went to a french state school, and the food we were served was quite disgusting but extremely healthy. If that's the food you get during the day at school, and in the evening with your parents, it informs your future eating habits. They don't teach Home Ecs in french state schools, they don't teach nutrition, nor anything like that, but you're surrounded by a culture of cooking fresh food. I have a balcony in London, not even a garden, and I grow tomatoes, chilli, olives, basil, dill, and a few others when the weather permits.

And I still go to McD's like once a month.