Would you judge a parent for feeding their 4 year old this?

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For lunch?

Hot dog with American cheese and ketchup and mayo
Handful of crisps
Broccoli
Unsweetened apple pouch

Wouldn't bother me. My mantra with DDs eating habits is "A little bit of what you fancy does you good". I'm lucky that she enjoys veg at the moment and eats loads of it, but she does still occasionally have a dirty hot dog dinner.

No judgement here!

I thought it would be clear that the statement would convey some judgement.

As an occasional thing it's fine, but hotdog sausages and processed cheese are pretty foul imo. I wouldn't judge if I saw it, because a) we all eat/feed our kids crap occasionally, and b) not my circus, not my monkeys - but I do think it's a gross meal.

No I wouldn't judge it at all. Did someone judge you for this?

Yep, I judge positively the parenting of any children that eat broccoli.

Im glad mayo on the hotdog was an error because I'd have judged the ever loving fuck out of that.

Is it perfect nutrition condensed into one meal? No.
Is it poison?
Also no now you've corrected mayo on a hot dog

It's good enough for a meal and that's fine.

I live in a city where the locals are very particular about their hot dogs. The ketchup and cheese would be considered an abomination.

Absolutely not. At that age my
fussy pants would only have had the hot dog.

I love children so much - of course your 4yo likes mustard 🤣

No wouldn't judge sounds like a lovely meal, my 3yo is obsessed with hotdogs

I judge many things but it's not your concern, your concern is providing food that you are happy for your child to eat, and your child's job is to eat what they want.
My job is to have whatever thoughts I have, and only share them where I am sure they are appreciated!
I would second the comments about being impressed about the broccoli! My 4 year old eats a lot of cereal and bread but less vegetables etc. We have a lot of lift the flap books about nutrition, for all the use it is...

It wasn't clear.

I hate hotdogs but that doesn't mean I'd judge a mother for feeding them to her kids.

That'd make be a grade A dick.

Surely noone gives a fuck that someone gave a 4 year old a hot dog for lunch?
Noone cares

😂Oh no, a poster on mimsnet thinks I'm a grade a dick. Not sure I'll sleep tonight.

Theres not really enough context. Is this daily, weekly, monthly, a one off? I’d not judge, but I wouldn’t think it was a great lunch regularly.

I'd absolutely judge the plastic cheese, that's not right.

Nope, getting any veg or non processed meat down my 12 year old is unheard of so I'm not going to judge a hotdog, especially when there's broccoli there as well

Yes, if it’s a regular occurrence.

The sausage is ultra processed, I’m guessing the bread roll is too. And if you’re serving it with American cheese and ketchup that’s two more servings of ultra processed food. The broccoli doesn’t balance out the rest.

I have mixed views on this. My own toddler had sausages tonight and won't touch broccoli so I in no way feed her a perfect diet! So in that sense, no judgement at all.

But, I've listened to a lot of podcasts on the dangers of UPFs recently and a statistic that stuck with me was that UPFs make up 60-80% of a child's diet and that really shocked me. So I suppose in that context, if this was every day I might judge a bit. I think a lot of children (not saying yours OP, couldn't judge that based on one meal) do eat too much processed food. It's very hard when they're in a fussy phase though!

So true.

No.

As far as I'm concerned, plastic cheese is only just acceptable on burgers, mustard should not exist in any form and hotdog sausages are too salty. I like broccoli though.
As for giving it to a child for lunch? Don't care. I'm impressed that they will eat mustard.

I wouldn’t give a 4 year old this kind of processed meat or cheese unless I was really desperate and there was nothing else to eat. I also don’t see the point of children eating crisps . They’re just junk food . I’d wonder why the apple pouch and not a chopped up apple

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