Jamie versus the Cook Yourself Thin girls

Ok, squaring up in the garden corner, is the now, ever so slightly chunky Jamie Oliver, brandishing a trowel in one hand and a pestle and mortar in the other and in the warehouse corner, vacated by Jamie himself about 10 years ago, are the Cook Yourself Thin Girls brandishing packets of twiglets and more televisual padding than you could throw a pack of very low fat philadelphia at. Ok, ok, Jamie wins hands down, the Cook Yourself Thin girls say their food isn’t diet food but it so is! Ok, it’s better food than some diet recipes I’ve seen, tonights lasagne looked infinitely nicer than a diet lasagne I once made after following a Weightwatchers recipe which honestly looked like a cat had thrown up on it, but I can’t imagine a lasagne with just one sheet of pasta, if I were making a ‘diet’ lasagne, I’d actually up the pasta and make one like I had once in Rome, lots and lots of layers of pasta with only a very very thin layer of meat sauce in between and was absolutely delicious, I’d bung loads of veg in the low fat mince sauce anyway, the Cook yourself Thin girls cheese sauce was exactly how I make my non diet lasagne cheese sauce so no difference there either. I have to admit the chicken tikka did look nice to (omg just getting the link for that I noticed the banner ad on the channel 4 site, it was for McDonalds, very apt advertising there lol). But what really annoys me though is the padding, I’ve watched the series from the beginning and the endless same footage of wobbly bellies parading down Britain’s High Streets and that bloody bomb calorimeter is getting really really on my nerves, as are the ‘this is not a scientific test’ tests. Plus today’s ‘victim’ didn’t look like there was anything actually wrong with her, so she couldn’t fit into her wedding dress, maybe she ordered the wrong size in the first place! Still, there isn’t enough cooking programmes on TV, so I’ll watch anything and like I said the chicken tikka and the lasagne did look nice and may get me dusting down my Cook Yourself Thin book (yes, they got me to part from my money for that, however after cooking 3 dishes from it where only 1 was a certified success, it had promptly flown back onto my bookself). However, nice as the chicken tikka and the lasagne was, it in no way had me rolling round in food porn ectasy as just the mere sight of Jamie Oliver’s roast pork with the balsamic potatoes and onions (and I don’t even really like roast pork) or the english onion soup (although I wasn’t sure what the difference between that and french onion soup is), absolutely delicious, maybe because I’m (if you believe Jamie) one of the rare people who really dig the allium family as veg in their own right or probably because darn the fat, Jamie’s food just looks and tastes better and is created and formed with the idea of nourishing the body and the soul first and foremost, whereas Cook Yourself Thin food, that’s about cutting corners and finding as many ways as possible to swop an ingredient for 0% Greek yoghurt!