Jamie Oliver

[npmommie]

Is anyone going to watch tonight?
I think we will watch

 

[briannesmom]

Didn't know that was starting tonight, thanks! I will be watching.

 

[suejai]

I like Jamie Oliver. What is starting tonight?

 

[kacaju]

dvr-ing it because I have a meeting tonight

 

[JessicaR]

I like Jamie Oliver. What is starting tonight?

I like him too and didnt know what it was that was starting either. Looked it up. I'm going to dvr it too.

The Emmy Award-winning series, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” takes on Los Angeles when it returns for its second season on Tuesday, April 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/news/food-revolution-season-2-returns-to-abc

 

[rchristiansen]

I loved his show last year. Really inspired me! We'll be watching tonight.

 

[melmar136]

DD and I watched last year. She hasn't eaten a chicken nugget since last year's show!
We'll be dvr-ing it, since I always have to see Biggest Loser on Tues night!

 

[onelilspark]

I can't stand him. I'd like to see him do something realistic with school lunch, not bring in chefs and provide food on an unlimited budget. Let's stick the budget the schools get for free & reduced kids and then see what he does.

What a crock.

...let me tell you how I really feel...

 

[Harley Quinn]

I can't stand him. I'd like to see him do something realistic with school lunch, not bring in chefs and provide food on an unlimited budget. Let's stick the budget the schools get for free & reduced kids and then see what he does.

I've not seen the American Version of this but What Jamie Oliver has done in terms of educating people in what they feed both their Children and themselves has been amazing in England. Most schools now subscribe to a healthy policy that makes sure that each child is eating a balanced meal. He has tried to get people to learn to cook rather than just eating take away's and ready made meals.

If you can you tube I'd highly recomend trying to find the scene where he is talking to a Mum with a baby in her arms giving the baby Coke out of the baby bottle and arguing that she doesn't need to be told what to fed her child.

He does also put his money where his mouth is to set up Fifteen a training restaurant where disadvantaged youths can be trained to be chefs he put his own house up as security in case it all went wrong. They are now searching for the 10th group I believe.

I admit he can be slightly annoying and a bit too much but he does genuinely care about food and how people are feeding their children.

 

[shortbun]

I'm recording the series. We've loved him since The Naked Chef. Jamie's Food Escapes on the Cooking channel are marvelous. He's done Greece and cooked outdoors with the Parthenon behind him, cooked in an underground oven in Marrakesh after loading up a pot in the markets, weird stuff in Stockholm. Anyway, yeah we'll watch.

 

[dngnb8]

Ive enjoyed his shows, his recipes, but I think he is getting a bit big for his britches. It seems his attitude is on the same level of Bobby Flay.

 

[GinnyEmma]

I don't believe he provided food on an unlimited budget when he was in Huntington, wv. Nor dianne use professional chefs. Did you watch the show or do you have a burr up your backend for some other reason?

 

[rchristiansen]

I can't stand him. I'd like to see him do something realistic with school lunch, not bring in chefs and provide food on an unlimited budget. Let's stick the budget the schools get for free & reduced kids and then see what he does.

What a crock.

...let me tell you how I really feel...

I'm pretty sure that is what he did on the show last year. The school lunch ladies and the district person were all over him about the budget, but in the end they were able to do it. Food made from scratch costs less than packaged foods. It was the time and efficiency of cooking the food that were the bigger challenges, but they did it.


Our DD's school has made great strides this year in providing more lunches like the one in the show. They even have a website that posts the nutrition facts and also mark on the schedule when an entree is prepared from scratch, which many of them are.

 

[disfan07]

I'm definitley going to watch it especially since I live in LA.

And to the PP who was talking about unlimited budget, etc. Did you actually watch when he was in WV? Because it sounds like you didn't.

He worked with the lunch ladies who were at the school and he had to stay within the allotted budget

 

[NMAmy]

Jamie Oliver taught me an easy way to carve a turkey and for that I will always adore him.

I loved the show last year. I can't believe some of the crap people feed their kids. I'll be watching this season, as well.

 

[TB'sWidow]

I can't stand him. I'd like to see him do something realistic with school lunch, not bring in chefs and provide food on an unlimited budget. Let's stick the budget the schools get for free & reduced kids and then see what he does.

What a crock.

...let me tell you how I really feel...

I'm a lunch lady at a middle and we don't have the budget to do what he proposes. Very unrealstic Mary

 

[DSNY4ever]

Oh I love him! I will have to watch. We ate in his restaurants in Bath and Oxford and they were soooo good!

I don't see how anyone could be against this show...? I saw it a couple of times last season and even if you didn't have the money to make ALL the changes, isn't learning something new always beneficial? And maybe schools could pick just a few small things/changes that would work for them within their budget even if they couldn't do it all. I don't ever see someone trying to help as a negative thing, even if not everything works out in the end

 

[suejai]

I like him too and didnt know what it was that was starting either. Looked it up. I'm going to dvr it too.

The Emmy Award-winning series, “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” takes on Los Angeles when it returns for its second season on Tuesday, April 12 (8:00-9:00 p.m. ET) on the ABC Television Network.

http://www.jamieoliver.com/news/food-revolution-season-2-returns-to-abc

Oh great! I didn't realise they had another season starting. Will be definitely be watching. I watched the first one he did in Britain and the first season in Huntingdon.

 

[JenM]

I'm pretty sure that is what he did on the show last year. The school lunch ladies and the district person were all over him about the budget, but in the end they were able to do it. Food made from scratch costs less than packaged foods. It was the time and efficiency of cooking the food that were the bigger challenges, but they did it.

Exactly. The big push on the show last year was that they would make the healthier food and stay in line with the school's budget, which they wound up doing.

I think it's a great show. You don't have to make all of the changes, but just learning to swap out fast food for healthier food (which tastes great) more often and get into a better eating routines makes such a world of difference. Jamie's a pretty cool guy.

 

[cinabug]

OK, I liked the idea of this show, but there were some things that bugged me. When he was quizzing the kindergartners about the vegetables, all kinds of hands were up and he would call on the few who clearly had no idea. Then he would act like the whole class had no idea what potatoes were. When he made the nuggets he said that they weren't actually allowed to be made that way (with bones and other gross parts ground in) in America. What was the point of doing the demonstration then, other than to gross kids out? Overall I thought the show was decent, but I wasn't impressed by those exaggerations.