It’s hard to eat healthy if you don’t know how to cook
dad is a Michelin-starred chef, if you want fish fingers for tea with baked beans, that’s it. I’ve learned – and I’m trying to teach myself – that parental guilt is a massive thing that everybody has, so it’s not just you.
“If they grow up thinking that burgers and takeaway pizzas is tea, then that’s wrong. But if you show them how to make pizza; that’s where you take control of that. You’re putting the stuff on the pizza that you want to eat. It makes food fun, and that’s great.”
Tom adds : “There are lots of positive side-effects in cooking for yourself. You cook tea, it was delicious ; how great is that? Rather than, ‘I microwaved tea, it was all right’. That leads to a new mindset and makes you feel better. It’s not like we’re asking people to climb Mount Everest here. It’s having a go at cooking.”