Tinned hotdogs at school

The op has already said they were probably overtired

If this is a new term's after school club, maybe your DDs were reacting to other children, but I wouldn't say the tinned hot dogs ( which, compared even to regular hot dogs) sound revolting . Sugared treats are usually blamed for hyperactivity. I suppose the tinned hot dogs are just one of many snacks the kids will be offered so they don't have the same thing each time? I wonder if the club provides an alternative to any kid who really doesn't like something? There are always allergies to be aware of too. Even if they kept bread and jam, maybe your DDs could have that on "tinned hot dog" day?

@TheRestIsEntertainment I don't think mechanically retrieved chicken is an ingredient in KitKat

We are an 'eat anything in moderation' household. No worse than the odd kit kat or packet of quavers or whatever. It's not every day or even regularly.

I find MNers in the whole to be very, very uptight when it comes to food. I don't know anyone like that in real life except a few people with a very unhealthy relationship with eating.

I find them revolting too.

Why don't you care what your kids are being fed?

Eating "something" is a low bar to have.

Wow so much hate for hot dogs on here! If they got fed them at after school club it wouldn't even register on my radar tbh. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Two unrelated incidents, hyper children and hot dogs. Have a cuppa and shake it off.

I 100% would not want my children eating tinned hotdogs - gross. As you say, you only have to look at the ingredients. I’d let them know that this is not a healthy snack in the slightest.

I don’t think it has anything to do with your children being naughty though.

I know quite a few people who won’t feed them to their dogs as treats because they make them more hyper

Your children were misbehaving because they aren't the darlings you think they are.

It's got fuck all to do with hotdogs.

You blaming hotdogs is the best 'but my darling child would never do THAT with it being someone else's fault' I've seen in a while.

Ears eyes and arseholes

I was told that was what they were made out of and stuck with me 🙀😂🤮

Love a proper meaty sausage / def not a hot dog

Slimey and rank

But

You can't blame your kids behaviour on them

whatwhatwhot · Today 13:49

You want little dinos franks. They are super

Nitrites are far from ideal

Colouring in food used to send DS hyper. YANBU. I don't know but likely some of those e-numbers are colourings. Having said that, veggie sausages aren't necessarily better. The only decent ones I've found (without additives) are based on mushrooms. So it's a difficult one, asking for alternatives. We feed our kids such crap in this country.
You literally are what you eat.

You want little dinos franks. They are super

I’d be very surprised if a hot dog sausage resulted in your children drawing on a rug!

That said, I wouldn’t be happy with our grandson eating one at school. They provide a menu each week to choose from and it’s all made fresh in-house. Surprised schools are still serving such processed stuff.

I put vegan hotdogs back when I read the ingredients. Didn’t know what half of them were.

I mean that almost every part of a pig is edible - so it doesn't matter if a pork product contains ears, snout, trotters, tail etc. That's actually a good thing because it avoids waste and these parts are perfectly nutritious. The only issue really is the other non-pork ingredients.

Hot dogs are not even really 'food' in that they provide no nutrition. Nor are they a 'treat'. I'd send a polite note requesting they are not given hotdogs again. I imagine the behaviour was simple naughtiness but that long list of artificial rubbish won't help behaviour.

I don't think you can blame a single hotdog for what sounds like fairly normal (albeit naughty and obnoxious) behaviour for a "beginning of term, still adjusting to the routine" 6 year old. Especially with a sibling to egg them on.

I would send them with a snack box instead.
They will provide whatever is chep and easy due to lack of staff and funding.

But it wouldn't have contributed to their hyperactivity!

DD had hotdogs and a donut as her school dinner this week. She loves a hotdog! So much for healthy food 😂

I can’t get overexcited about what they are made of. I don’t mind them but prefer the better quality german ones.

I was once served udder - sliced cold meat udder - by my student landlady. It looked a bit like tongue (which I never liked anyway) so I asked what it was. And she told me. 😱
And asked whether I liked it.
But having been brung up to be very polite, I said yes, and ate it anyway.

This was a long time ago - the landlady had told me her family had been very poor when she was a child, and offal was often eaten, because it was cheap. (And of course very nutritious.)
She would still eat e.g. fried chitterlings (intestines) with evident relish but never tried giving me any!

I wouldn't be happy with with that. No reason why they couldn't give them a sandwich or beans on toast or something.

@susiedaisy1912 and so did the @Hotdogsarevile !