To think this dinner is acceptable?

As long as it was a Friday. We can only eat fish on a Friday!! My autistic child has time sweetcorn pasta for lunch and then fish cakes or chunky fish fingers and chips for tea. Fruit and veg are offered but not always accepted. I felt a rebel going out with friends for lunch yesterday (Friday) and having a steak sandwich!!

On the floor probably. What did your toddler do when you handed them veg?

A two year old requesting McDonalds because they want to be normal? Seriously?
Where do the Jaffa cakes come in?

Well, I just want to say hats off to you for managing insulin injections in a toddler. Because that is really difficult OP, I can’t imagine many people on this thread have ever had to deal with anything as remotely difficult. I can’t imagine how anxiety inducing subsequent food intake must be. I hope you are okay xx

@SchoolDilemma17 why are you including diabetic like it's something the OP has caused?
Children want to be "normal" and that includes the fast food. Sometimes diabetics need high carbs, you can get a meal at McDonald's with fruit and veg and milk and some fish or meat
Even the chips are potatoes and oil

Your diabetic child is not even 3 and has a fast food take away once a week. Wow I am
speechless

Zero veg? Not exactly a very nutritious dinner.

One of my DC ate bake beans for close to a year and the other macaroni and cheese, while I wasn't the happiest with their diets at the time they were healthy and happy. As long as you DC isn't scoffing down sugar I really don't see what the problem is. You're a good mum, listen to your gut instincts 🌺

Tell your husband that you would be delighted if he wants to feed the toddler again.

Please educate yourself. Managing a type one diabetic child is incredibly difficult. They never 'just eat' anything. The parent is constantly managing food and blood sugars. You do understand that type 1 diabetes is not brought on by diet. There is no reason why a child with type one diabetes can't have a KFC or McDonalds. With diabetic child sometimes a meal high in carbs and fats is exactly what they need.

Plenty enough but unhealthy as no veg or fruit.

It's mainly fish, which is not a carb, is it?

There's nothing wrong with a happy meal which can be fish fingers, carrot sticks and milk. Or unsalted fries and a small burger
Diabetic or not. She's not feeding him bags of haribo and a triple quarter pounder

🤣

I'd of done some beans or chopped cucumber/Tom's etc or peas and sweetcorn as well.

Sounds fine to me, I would be happy if my picky terrible-two-tantrum-grandaughter ate that much. And IF she did, she probably wouldn't want the yoghurt or any other acceptable desert, so I would offer some extra fruit next day. That or carrot sticks and some humus to dip them. You have to pick your fights with those little monsters ❤️

Omg
your child is diabetic and you’re feeding him KFC in McDonald’s do some research and get a grip

Jaffa cakes ? Really
fruit and vegetables are vital
sorry op but that’s not healthy

I think you’re doing a great job, I can’t even imagine how hard it must be managing insulin alongside the food that he will or won’t eat (a crystal ball?!)
My GP once told me not to worry too much about individual meals, imagine it as a table of food over the entire week and then judge the balance / volumes. My first child would eat most things / drink water and was pretty easy going at mealtimes….enter child 2, some days he eats next to nothing some days a shed load, but won’t drink water, only squash and is obsessed with snacks. Each child is just so different and everyone judging on here has either only experienced one particular type of child (so thinks they’ve got it licked, when it’s pot luck!) or is lying about how their kids really are.

Agree. Especially if the mom works outside of the home. I had the same a few years ago, jokingly talking about how my kid discovered nutella and asked for it at the store (first time ever in the home), and when I tried it, I understood.

The GAZILLIONS of war stay at home mommies piled on about how I should make a natural one.

So, as a solo mom of an autistic child who has to work full time crazy hours due to the deadbeat dad, I invited them to come over and make it for me while I was at work.

Funny how no one volunteered.........

I would have replaced the two fish fingers with some fruit slices, or cucumber, or carrot sticks, a healthy hummus dip to go with them, -One- jaffa cake and sucky yoghurt.

I'd be amazed if my 3.5yr old ate that much, getting him to stop moving long enough to eat anything is a battle.

The debate is about a dinner of fish fingers. I made comments about the content of fish fingers, you came back with the oily fish thing, you now seem to be trying to assert your knowledge of all oily fish!
So I guess yeah now you made it all about oily fish..ddd

I said a lot more than that actually.

It's grand. This place can be mental about food though, so take the replies with a pinch of salt. (Salt! 😱)