to be flaming angry that my 'friend' has been bad mouthing me and my parenting on the internet?

Go back to msn, do a link to this thread and see how she feels about it

I think the OP is a bit naieve. Why shouldn't someone post a conversation on msn ?
Many of the 'debates' on MN, start from a conversation......
I was out shopping and someone said.......
The broad bean / frozen veg thing is not the issue here.
The fact is, a conversation, started a thread - hello, mumsnett is the same - what do you think your thread is doing, if its not doing the same ?

I always buy frozen as fresh tends to get wasted and apparantly frozen is healthier anyway.

we got broad beans in our veg box this week and I had them last night - first time i've tried them and they were nice.

Sorry about your 'friend' goldenwings - she sounds very two faced. Glad you have had plenty of support here on mn

Doodledootoo - that's for SALAD??? I thought it was for hiding chocolate from the kids?

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any veg is good- vits etc can be gotten from most sources, the fibre in veggies and fruit is the unique part iirc. Even a rotten old carrot is better than nowt if it has fibre

Rubber duck - my DH wholeheartedly agrees with you. He's an athiest and he still won't eat broad beans.

Just not frozen carrots, they truly ming-a-ding-ding

broad beans = satan's testicles

You've missed NOTHING.

I think you're doing a fab job if you're getting ANY veg down your child My eldest likes vegetables but my youngest will only eat peas and sweetcorn (both frozen! Well... I cook them before he eats them...) - oh and tomato ketchup, does that count? He actually ATE a carrot the other day without spitting it back out and I was INSANELY proud (hasn't repeated the experience yet though).

have you heard back from her? do you think she's going to face you?

I think it's true about the green dye but I don't know about the rest.

its not true that they have to (I make my own, I use bicarb to retian- erm- greenness) butthats not to say they dont do it. They just dont have to (Asda sell the frozen peas so you can make your own)

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I do hate it when people get snobby about frozen veg. It's picked, packed and stored much more quickly than fresh. My friend who is a dietitian says they have MORE vits than fresh. Tell her to pod off!

Personally I love broad beans - or any sort of pea-type vegetables with the exception of mushy peas and not just because of the effect they can have on you but that's by the by! What a flipping cheek criticising you online and agreeing when someone else disses you. I don't think a lot of people think before they write something 'witty' on the net - they seem to think that they're immune from libel laws or just plain politeness.

I'd be fuming now - as you're a relatively new parent (I assume that you have only one LO at the mo) then it doesn't take much to have your confidence sapped. FWIW, I had much the same discussions with my old flatmates when I was pg re the relative merits of frozen vs fresh veg. My riposte was that my actually eating my frozen veg did far more for me than letting fresh veg sit there and rot (as they did)!!

AS Kimi said, frozen beats fresh unless its very, very fresh. And broad beans- loads of people dont eat them, to no ill effect. Truly bizarre

Whatever about broad beans, I do think Xenia should try hummus! It's very yummy!

I ate my first butternut squash yesterday

Funnily enough, I've never had malnutrition and sometimes when I got to the shops they have fruits and vegetables I don't recognise.

Yet I've very highly educated and do you know what, my daughter is well nourished and scrummy!

Your friend is a nitwit. She's probably feeding her kids fruit shoots and sausage rolls

I saw some broad beans in tesco a little while ago and had to ask dp what they were.

We did have broad beans when I was a kid, but as they were always out of a tin, I didn't recognise the real things.

Your mate's a bit of a twunt, btw.

Broad beans gave my rabbit the runs.
Just because something's not poisonous doesn't mean you have to eat it. Slugs are probably nutritious.

she is being a silly bitch.

tell her you hang your children upside down by their feet from the apple tree and make them drink choclate milk through a straw - might brighten up her dull life if all she can find to chat about is how her friend doesn't know what broad beans are.

I know exactly what a broad bean is but that still doesn't mean that I've ever chosen to eat the nasty smelling things ( ... though for people who do like them, blanch them in boiling water for 1 min, let cool, and then you can easily pop the green middles out of the leathery outer skins - which is a strangely satisfying thing to do).

How silly and sad this "friend" must be if she has nothing better to do with her time than criticise someone else's choice of vegetable !