To ask our nanny to not take the children to Greggs for lunch once a week?

[headfairy]

Dh thinks I'm being precious, the first time it happened I thought "oh we'll, it's just once, it's a treat" (apparently they LOVED it - nanny's capitals, not mine) but she went again today, the third week in a row. The other meal they had today was beans on toast so not exactly bad but hardly the peak of nutrition heights.

Dcs are 2 and 4 btw.

A good 20 lashes with a giant sausage roll should teach her the error of her ways!

I'm not even going to tell her about the sausage rolls, it would be the start of a very slippery slope.

This thread title should be the new advertising slogan for mumsnet. Mumsnet - for parents who don't want the nanny to take their children to greggs.

God, my childminder does this too - DD regularly gets a Greggs sausage roll and gingerbread man for lunch to eat whilst being pushed through town in pushchair. I despair and wish I could say something, but, well, she's my mum.

stresshead

Fuck my old boots. I could murder a Greggs baked product now.

lumya there was no way of posting this without sounding like an mn cliche

I probably shouldn't confess this now considering the objections I've got about my nanny taking the kids there, but I've never had nothing from Greggs.

I've never had a KFC either

stresshead - still, you survived it, I dare say your DD will too!

Jeeeze, terrible grammar.... Never had nothing? WTF... Showing my Croydon roots now

Don't knock what you haven't tried

I did think 'Croydon born & bred' PMSL

Oi, nuffink wrong wiv Croydon

headfairy, you need to get your blowhole round a vegetable pasty. Or a sausage roll if you're feeling really dirty You will not look back.

Surely it must be a MN wind-up?

Nah cheese and onion pasties. Snack of champions!

headfairy you need emergency greggs care immediately

we need to bring some baked goods to your door and give them to you intravenously,you have missed out on life

Those French bread pizzas are like crack-cocaine they are so addictive, I've managed three in one sitting and seriously thought about going back for a fourth.

Oh yeah.

I can't bupcakes, I... Just... Can't..... Bring.... Myself....to

No wind up compos but I've already given up all hope of getting a serious answer to this one

compos don't tell me that, I'm sure that's what she's giving them

:-) Alright serious answer! ;

If they were eating the French bread pizza every day for every meal it would be very worrying. I'd just make it clear that you don't mind it being a one a week friday treat or whatever, but don't want it to be a daily occurrence.

However, one meal a week of negligible nutritional value won't do them a great deal of harm, if they are eating nutritionally balanced meals the rest of the week.

Odds are in a couple of weeks the kids will be bored and will want something else to eat, ban it and it becomes the most desirable food stuff ever.

If you forbid them any sort of unhealthy snack, it instantly becomes a thousand times more appealing. A friend of mine was never allowed chocolate, crisps, chips, fizzy pop (only water and apple juice as a 'treat') and was only fed on whatever faddy health food existed in the early 80s.

From the moment he was able to select his own meals at school, he lived off chips pies and gravy. These days you can't get him out of the Curry house and he's really piled on the pounds.

There are no Greggs in Northern Ireland. Maybe they think they don't do enough potato-based snacks to appeal to a mass market I have a mad idea of opening a franchise on Royal Avenue and being known as the Michelle Mone of sausage rolls.

I'd get that little kid in from the Haribo advert to interrogate her.

Look into my eyes...

No thanks.

I'm quite partial to a Greggs cheese and onion pastie. All that hot cheesy slime.

Is this a joke? Maybe you should thank your lucky stars you can afford a nanny! I do hope she fed your darling kiddies something totally unhealthy.!
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I think the families featured un the Protecting Our Children programmes have nothing on your Nanny [evilgrin]