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another parent commented negatively on the food i gave to their children when they came to our house for tea

this has really got to me

i serve this food to my kids and they love it

i'm not jamie oliver but come on, we live in the real world here

any advice would be great

Assuming you ARE genuine you need to seriously cut down on the McDonalds.

well i would suggest you start making some food instead of buying processed crap to start with

last time i went into sainsburys a bag of potatoes was a lot cheaper than the same weight of potato waffles

To find mumsnet i googles help for mums or something lol

Why lol after fish and broccoli? How is that funny?

Sapphire - my post still stands. Please take my child for the occasional meal. But only occasional. If you are genuinely looking for help, then I'll try.

Those sorts of processed foods tend to be really high in salt and full of things you probably don't want your child eating. As a treat, or if a friend comes over, then fine, but they really shouldn't be the basis of their diet.

I hate cooking, and I'm crap at it, but I can get by well enough for my dd to have a decent selection of fresh foods that I make. So, tonight she had a bit of beef left over from our dinner last night, and I peeled and boiled a potato, a carrot and threw in some broccolli to go with it. Another day, she might have a bit of pasta with some veg (all just boiled) and I might make a bit of cheese sauce to go on it. If she's having a 'snack' tea then it might be a ham sandwich with a cherry tomato, a slice of cucumber and a small chunk of red pepper. Usually she eats a bit of whatever meat we have the night before - I save it and warm it up, and throw a few fresh veg. Puddings might be a piece of fruit, followed by a chocolate biscuit if she's still hungry. It's not much harder than heating up processed stuff - honest!

this is a wind up.

i don't earn a lot but still treat the kids to or 3 times A WEEK TO A takeaway or mcdonalds, greggs etc

In that case YABU. Shit like that for almost half the week!!!!!

You don't have to be Jamie Oliver to cook healthier than that. Plain food is easy enough - meat, potatoes, rice or pasta of some description and veg doesn't take long.

I find it very hard to believe that someone who is so worried about what the feed their children, worried enough to google help, would keep replying with lol.

This is clearly a joke thread and i dont get it...

You give your children hot food and this in itself is fantastic.
Mine get hot food on xmas day and sometimes on their birthdays.
Big up to you

OK - ignoring the possibility of triptrapping...

Processed food bought in frozen food shops/sections are often full of salt, E numbers, sugar, colours, and fat and are processed beyond 'normal' cooking would need.

Feeding your children that sort of food every day, or more than once or twice a week is unhealthy.

Others have tried to help you, MORE fresh food, vegetables and dips and fruit will help their diet (not to mention their digestion)

HTH

If this/you are for real, then stop wasting money on junk food and takeaways and buy proper food.

No you don't have to be Jamie or Delia to cook good food, you just have to try.

YANBU to serve the food you would normally serve because if the other parent is a total food nazi then she should have discussed meals before letting her child stay with you so she could be sure that she'd be OK with the food.

Instead, she probably assumed that you cook as she does and probably almost died when learning that her kid got processed food because a LOT of people look at processed food the way most look at arsenic.

Incidentally, we DO have meals mainly from scratch. DH is a chef and is a complete kitchen tyrant so it's all got to be home made stuff.

That said, if my kids were going away to someone's house and they ended up getting something a bit cheap I wouldn't really care. They enjoy a balanced diet and I don't see the odd potato waffle causing them to keel over in class the next day from a heart attack.

I think Sapphire is pulling our legs, but sadly I have worked with parents (usually mums) whose idea of a healthy meal is to serve baked beans with their deep-fat-frier cooked sausage and chips.

I met one mum who was totally clueless about food and nutrition, and having never been taught by her own parents really didn't know what to feed her children. She really didn't understand about 'real' food and thought everything came out of packets and tins. She fed her young children at McDonalds at least once a day.

Sudge- McD's once a day???!!! Can we say "hardened arteries?" Maybe there's a cookery class she could go to. If she can afford Mickey D's once a days he can afford a cookery class!

Yup, they had their breakfast, lunch or dinner at MDs every day of the week.

The mum actually came to see me for weight loss advice, and I quickly realised I had a lot of work to do! She was literally clueless about food and nutrition. I did a lot of work with her in the surgery, and then was able to refer her to her HV team for support and education. The HV got her on a course at the Sure Start centre, the sort where they literally start from scratch teaching you to mash a spud and boil some carrots.

She really enjoyed it and did really well, the day she brought me in some cottage pie she had made was a good day!

It's good that there are sure start courses for people who are less than knowledgable in the cooking department. Bad food education for our generation and previous generations is probably the reason that some don't know how. I know my own Mum taught me nothing about cookery and if it wasn't for DH being so nimble in the kitchen I'd still be an ignoramus around food.

my parents worked ft,we came home from school started dinner until they got home. different graded tasks according to age and safety,but we always did something.proper latch key kids with key on ribbon around neck til they got back

YANBU the woman was very rude and should have not commented on the food that you gave her dc.

Just because you are on a budget does not mean you cannot eat properly, in fact processed food costs the same or more than home cooked food and you dont have to be a trained chef to cook it, do you think that we all are .

A few ideas for you:

Spag bol/meatballs in spagehtti
Stir fry
Stew
Lasagne
Fajhitas
Chilli con carne
Roast dinner
Curry
Lamb kebabs, rice and veg
Fish, vegetable mash and beans

I also give this my first ever rating with a 3/10 for the OP. The follow up post's let you down. And here is a yummy processed just for you OP

I do not know if this is a 'joke' or not (in fact I hope it is for the chilrens sake)!
But if you really connot cook OP, then give them fish fingers (not minced fish) with sweet potatoes, brocolli and carrots.
That is easy enough for anybody to serve up!

That's good Zuki, it's not everyones cup of tea but just gives a few examples, of course you can adapt them to your taste. Get a student cookbook they have cheap and healthy recipes in them