To have my judgey pants on.

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DD went to a friends house for tea today (DD and friend are both 6 years old)and has just been brought home by friends mum who said 'DD didn't really eat a lot so might still be hungry later'.

Not like DD at all as she is not fussy in the slightest and will generally eat anything put in front of her. Thanked the mum anyway, offered to have her DD for tea the next day and they went on their way.

Anyway asked DD if she was ok as she didn't eat a lot, was she feeling a bit ill etc. and she explained that she didn't like it so tried a bit and left the rest.

What did she have?

A pot noodle!

Aparantly DD was offered a choice of 2 flavours of pot noodle but there was nothing else when she said she didn't like pot noodles so she chose one to try.

Now nothing wrong with pot noodles but do people really invite children's friends over and give them a pot noodle as a meal? Bearing in mind this invite came from the mum on Monday afternoon so had time to go shopping etc.

To me it's more of a snack food and not a meal and I would be mortified to offer that to someone as a meal. I know i'm being judgey but seriously

AIBU to think it wouldn't have killed the mum to at least make a sandwich?

I remember my dad being wild with jealousy when I was about 6 because I was given Real Chips for tea at my friend's house.

Pot Noodle is not dinner, YANBU!

YANBU

Even those packet Supernoodles would be better (snob).

Disclaimer: I love PotNoodles in a furtive sort of way - chicken and mushroom

God haven't had a pot noodle in years! Really want one now. I think the worse thing I've fed someone else's child is a jam sandwich but in my defence he was very fussy (so are mine so never really bothered what other People feed them)

I hardly have the strength to reply, I've given up all really fatty food :(

Yes I do eat the forbidden foods on Sundays. Lent is over 40 days long but Jesus was only in the wilderness for 40 days and 40 nights. This is because Sundays are a feast day and you can't fast on feast days!

Maybe I could eat a pot noodle, are they high in fat or just MSG

I'd be too scared of being judged to offer a pot noodle really... and i would judge it as a WTF choice if my child was offered that when he'd been invited for tea, I'd also giggle and it wouldn't change my view of someone if I liked them anyway.

I don't care if IABU either.

I'm probably too far the other way when the DC's friends come over. I like the event itself. The disco lights might be a little too much.

Id dip the sausage roll in the potnoodle I think its really lazy she couldve given her something breaded she chucked in the oven over a pot noddle oh well nowt as queer as lazy folk

Eaglewings. No, low in fat! High in salt. There's nowt wrong with MSG. The tuff about allergies is myth, according to my QI book

I would judge!

She's obviously training her DD for the day she becomes a student and lives on the things.

If she had decanted them onto a plate and called them Ramen Noodles you would have been none the wiser, and probably a smidgen impressed too :o

Seems an odd thing to offer, and surely she could have found some alternative even if just beans on toast!

Student nosh,mostly males,munchies/breakfast food. My DDs can't stand them.
Bought some for the holidays once and they were just ignored(till DH saw them

Beats the time I went to a friend's house and for tea we had... an onion. I kid you not. A large onion. Baked. And that was it. I manfully (girlfully, even) struggled through an entire plain onion. Another time we had spaghetti. A bowl of plain, overcooked spaghetti. I'm afraid I had to admit defeat half way through and I was so humiliated as my friend's parents did not look impressed that I was clearly so fussy . I can still feel the torture of trying to swallow mouthful after mouthful of the bone dry stuff.

Blimey that takes me back to 6th form. Very odd thing to offer kids for tea.
I used to go out with someone who liked pot noodle on toast! [Why is there not a nausea smiley?]

SWG, given the info that a pot noodle is low in fat you are clearly BVU and have a dd that is far far too fussy.
Widen her diet to include such cultural delights

YANBU - Pot noodles are student food

Bluddy Donner kebab is the only ones I eat, don't like any other.

Gramery I once was given dry pasta shapes at a relative's house. It was a huge bowl too!

My pants are round my ears.

I buy six packs of pot noodles for DS1(20) ( disclamier - he lives in a shared house, works and is a student)

YANBU

I love a Pot Noodle. I even a have a Pot Noodle Horn in my kitchen.

Everyone (grown ups) knows The World's Best Pot Noodle is the Bombay Bad Boy.

Also good for dealing with any hangover situation you may care to mention. Don't knock it till you've tried it.

It was a sweet and sour one.

Wonder if the friend will now turn her nose up at tea here tomorrow and I should make an emergency pot noodle dash so she can have something she likes.

Clearly my 6 year old is already a food snob to not eat it.

I miss chicken curry pot rice, my student days staple.... Not been able to get it for years oh and YANBU

Yuck YANBU!

I'm pretty sure they're fattening too. A girl I lived with in uni used to eat them all the time. When she started doing WW she was horrified by how many points they were.

I love chicken and mushroom pot noodles but I had one for the first time in year or so the other day and had to pour salt into it before I could taste it!

Have they cut the salt content over the years?