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Original poster

To think this was quite a nice packed lunch I made for 20 month old.

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B4Beatrice · 20/04/2011 12:28

In brief, meeting relative for picnic yesterday. I said I would do food as she works part time so would be coming straight to park. I made our DDs both 20 months, a homemade scotch egg (very big) each and bough them a tub of strawberries to share.

Friend told me it was not an adequate lunch and that a sandwich is more appropriate??

Am I or her BU??

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pointydog · 20/04/2011 16:48

Ah. Some of it.

I don't think my kids would have eaten scotch eggs. I'd've played safe and taken food everyone could enjoy. But I wouldn't have complained about it, not to your face Wink

breathing · 20/04/2011 17:25

I wouldnt be so keen on the sausage meat ..gross

JenaiMarrHePlaysGuitar · 20/04/2011 18:13

I bloody love scotch eggs btw, as do dp and ds. B4Bea does the recipe you use happen to be online?

fatlazymummy · 20/04/2011 19:18

Sorry, personally I wouldn't call that a nice packed lunch. I'm pretty sure none of my kids would have eaten the scotch egg. The youngest 2 would probably have eaten a few strawberries.

Original poster
B4Beatrice · 20/04/2011 19:34

Jena- it's the BBC food one basically. Am sure it's online. Except where it says deep fry, I fry them off in a frying pan in a little oil, keep rotating them until all breadcrumbs are "toasted". Then I put them in the oven, for around 15-20 mins. Basically until meat is cooked.

They are lovely! Sometimes can't resist waiting for them to cool. Mine do look a bit, erm, rustic!!

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CheerfulYank · 20/04/2011 19:36

Never heard of Scotch eggs before but I just wikipedia'd them and they sound divine .

LynetteScavo · 20/04/2011 19:38

It's OK if they like scotch eggs...I would have taken some bread/cucumber/cheese cubes as well.

girliefriend · 20/04/2011 19:43

rubbish pack lunch imo!!! Sorry but if a friend offered to do a pack lunch and thats what they turned up with i'd be annoyed (and hungry!!!)

sandwiches, breadsticks and dips, yogurts, and shock horror what about a little bit of cake or something!!!!

cupofteaplease · 20/04/2011 19:43

Sounds delicious- can you post the recipe please? Smile

Dozer · 20/04/2011 19:45

Yuck, scotch eggs! I like everything except those! Dd would like it though, probably.

breathing · 20/04/2011 19:47

I suppose it depends on how people view scotch eggs. I see them as stodge and up there with cold sausage rolls.

feggyart · 20/04/2011 19:52

I would have been disappointed but would not have told you that.

Original poster
B4Beatrice · 20/04/2011 19:52

Cup- see above post that I wrote to Jena

Girlie- that wasn't ALL I turned up with!

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otchayaniye · 20/04/2011 19:53

I don't really eat sandwiches that often and neither does my daughter. Too much starch in proportion to filling, IMO.

But Scotch eggs are a bit of a marmite proposition and I'd have taken some bean salad or some crudites and maybe an avocado and something cheesy.

Careful · 20/04/2011 19:55

Sounds delicious. Your friend was rude.

pigletmania · 20/04/2011 19:58

Tbh sounds a bit limited. There should have been a variety of things, simple sandwiches, cheese, chopped carrott, cucumber, mini cheddars or the like, maby cocktail sausages, the scotch egg, tub of strawberries to share.

pigletmania · 20/04/2011 20:02

It was very nice of you to offer to make lunch though, my dd would not have eaten it as she does not like egg, but then again I would have brought some things with me anyway just incase there is nothing she likes Grin

EmmaBemma · 20/04/2011 20:12

"lacks starch"?! who said a lunch had to have starch in it?

littlemuckypups · 20/04/2011 20:19

Sandwiches probably would have been a safer option.
Better check with her next time, but at least you tried.

washngo · 20/04/2011 20:24

Worzsel mummage - I have to comment on your post because at ten months my ds would eat literally anything and everything, but now at 2y7m he has developed his own (stroppy) personality and (fussy) opinions which, try as I might, I really do have no control over. I was super smug in the early days "my child eats everything I just wouldn't stand for a fussy eater" and all that annoying stuff. Now here I am rejoicing every time he eats some carrot and having been taken down a peg or five. So I Do think there is an element of luck of the draw in the fussy eaters lottery.

pizzadelivery · 20/04/2011 20:39

washngo Same here except DS would eat everything without complaint until 6,is now 14.

Now doesn't like fish or red meat unless mince, also some veges that he doesnt like but that isn't so bad as I put them in the mince Wink

Just need to find a way to hide the fish!

ongakgak · 20/04/2011 20:51

My DS would have maybe eaten them, same for a sandwich, I would have been delighted that you had offered and then made a lunch and if it was not to my DS taste, then he would have had some other bits to snack on and I would have sorted him out later.

You mate sounds like she needs a little lesson in manners and not have been so ungracious!

heliumballoons · 20/04/2011 21:04

My DS wouldn't have eaten that. But then again I wouldn't be fussy over food someone else provided as its rude.

We went to beach today for BBQ. 6 dc's and whilst the others tucked into sauages/ burgers etc DS had one burger and just ate loads of breadsticks/dip and Ensaladilla.Hmm

Thing is dc's have very varied taste, maybe more 'choice' would have been better but I still think she should have bought something just in case.

LifeOfKate · 20/04/2011 21:10

Like someone else said, scotch eggs are a little like marmite, some people love them (DH) and some people hate them (me). On the basis that they were one of those things that a lot of people don't like, I wouldn't have had them as my sole source of food at a picnic (strawberries are yummy, but not very filling so can't be counted really). Yes, I know you say that there was other food provided for the adults that the children had as well, but your OP didn't make that very clear, and why didn't you just say that all the food was for everybody? Did you tell the friend that there was chicken salad, samosas etc on offer, or just the scotch egg and strawberries?!

I haven't got a clue whether DS (16 months) would eat a scotch egg as he's never been offered one, although I would be a little Confused if a friend offered to take him off for a picnic she had provided and brought him back saying that all she had provided was scotch egg. It's all very well saying that she should have told you if her DD was a fussy eater, but just offering scotch eggs is a little bizarre, and even if I was sending a fussy eater off to a picnic, i don't think I'd feel the need to say whether he would eat scotch eggs or not, as I would assume that in a picnic situation, it wouldn't matter if he didn't like scotch eggs as there would probably be other things on offer which he would eat.

I do think she was very rude to tell you that your food was inadequate though, I would have just made a Confused face and thanked you (and then gone home to tell DH about the mad woman who thinks just scotch egg constitutes a picnic Wink).

thisisyesterday · 20/04/2011 21:13

it's slightly unusual!

nutritionally speaking i think it's fine... but i would probably have gone for several other things too, just for variety, and in case they didn't like egg or strawberries or whatever.
they could have shared one scotch egg and the strawberries and then had some other picnic food too..

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