to feel like my friend manipulated this to make me sound like a food militant

[knittynoodle]

She said 'my friend only gives her 3yo jam sandwiches for dinner, every night as thats all he'll eat'

I said, 'I dont think DS will ever be anywhere to try jam until hes older, I dont like it and neither does DP. In fact I dont think Ive ever seen my mum or DP's family eat jam?' [ponders jam]

Friend, out of nowhere : WELL! Id like to think Id let MY child eat anything they wanted. At least let them TRY things!

She set me up! I wasnt saying he couldnt bloody TRY jam! Just that I couldnt think of a situation where he would get to try it seeing as no one in our families eats it! Other than me buying a jar just for him to try and then it going off because no one else will eat it.

Shes always doing things like this, starting to critisize someone else (I couldnt care less what her friend or anyone gives her kids to eat) and then when I say something back, making out like Im a food militant.

That was passive aggressive of her, wasnt it?

[superjobeespecs]

haha haha pump up the jam made me laugh your friend sounds mean and like she's trying to be better than you, maybe she's jealous of you and wants to belittle you ? next time even when you know she's winding you up just agree with her and go 'my, how terrible let us all take a trip to tescos so my DC doesnt miss out!!' and watch her face fall flat (evil ) hate stupid friends like that i do

[droves]

Every night i cook various ,nutritious meals for my children.
Almost everynight the twins refuse to eat .

ds4 has chocolate spread sandwich instead or jam instead, as i scrape the untouched meals into the bin.
dd4 has a cheese sandwich/cheese & toast instead.

Its driving me nuts , but they have to eat something !

.I think your friend is more pissed off with the fact her child wont eat anything else and is resigned to it.

[Scholes34]

Oooh, had a jam sandwich as an energy boost before a race on Sunday. Lovely. Just go and get some jam! It's especially nice on brown bread with salted butter. And in a victoria sponge with some buttercream. And in tarts. And in rice pudding. Not to mention doughnuts.

[Journey]

You definately need to get more.

I think your reply to your friend was a put down which is why your friend said what she did. It implied (to me) that you thought jam was disgusting and that you would never let your child near such a horrible item!

[Lizcat]

Surely this is possible to discuss with any food stuff. I don't like plain eggs (they are okay in cakes) so didn't feed DD any kind of egg until she was 5 and went to stay with my mum who gave her boiled eggs. I do occasionally cook these works of the devil though I can't cooked a soft boiled one - can make a souffle though.

[zipzap]

A whole load of replies on this and not once has anybody explicitly commented to say jam sandwiches every night?!?!?!

what is MN coming to? (wanders off shaking head and muttering...)