Schools must teach cooking...parents can't, laughs Prue

BAKE Off judge Prue Leith is cooking up a storm by calling on the “nanny state” to teach children how to cook healthy food – because parents aren’t doing it.

- David Stephenson

Labelling herself a “bossy boots”, South African-born Leith, 81, said the Government must now step in because “children are eating worse and getting fatter”.

She told the Soil Association: “I think the state should take a hand and teach children how to cook because parents can’t. We have lost that. We have lost generations of people not being able to cook.

“Lots of grandparents are now in their 50s and will probably not have been taught how to cook at school.

“It is an absolute tragedy as these things should be passed down from parents to children, but we have missed that.