“I don’t think any household should have a deep fat fryer. I never fry a doughnut! I think it’s quite unnecessary. If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon.
“It’s about everything in moderation. It isn’t what’s in children’s lunchboxes, it’s when they walk around the corner from school with money they’ve been given and buy all the other things.
“I honestly think there shouldn’t be sugared drinks. All my grandchildren drink water all through the day. I’ve just had them to stay and at breakfast they have water. They don’t even know what sugary drinks are.”
So writes Mary Berry, as reported in The Daily Telegraph, The Sun and The Daily Mail amongst other leading papers ; ironic statements really, as she is known for being the queen of baking, (not sugar free!) and she enjoys notoriety as one of the main judges on “Great British Bake off”.
I also read that on the days she eats so many forkfuls of the contestants’ baking on “Bake off”, she eats little else.
Not a very healthy way of eating, and I’m not sure that either weight watchers or slimming world would agree with it, but helps her to keep that trim figure!
But does Mary have a point in what she says? Do you agree? Wouldn’t this be a good way to stop our children from consuming so much sugar?
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Pink Icing, Blue Icing – do you really care?
Pink icing, Blue icing – do you care?
So our beloved Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood of Great British Bake Off fame are caught up in a situation where people objected at the implied sexual discrimination because very recently a man was photographed with blue icing, and a woman with pink.
I have to ask – do you really care?
And do these objectors have nothing better to do with their time, or have nothing better to worry about?
Then I started thinking deeper – for many decades, we have bought blue babygrows and blankets for baby boys, and pink babygrows and blankets for our baby girls.
Birth Congratulations cards, birthday cards, birthday cakes, all go down the same route.
Are we all guilty of implied discrimination and / or stereotyping because of this?
Should the entire baby industry be changed, and we should perhaps only have yellows and purples for both sexes?
What absolute, complete and utter tosh.