to be shocked by the way this family eats?

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A friend told me about a woman she knows who has 3 year old twins and a 2 year old. Her husband works away for long periods of time. She doesn't cook while he's away - the children eat freezer food like fish fingers, chicken nuggets etc and she has ready meals. When he's home he cooks, but when he's away they just eat things from the oven for convenience.

I can't begin to imagine what life is like with 3 under 3 but surely preparing fresh food at least occasionally is important for nutrition and learning about food? I find it really odd and a bit sad.

I'm not even mildly amused linerunner. We too are stuck in, for a completely different reason but DH has just asked me why I look angry.

Quotes?
just because lots of other people do something it doesn't mean it isn't silly. And I doubt very much ready meals and frozen food are cheaper than cooking it yourself.

I appreciate your life is challenging, but it just sounds improbable that you have to eat frozen veg or whatever because you are always holding a baby with one hand. And as was pointed out, the frozen veg isn't really any cheaper.

When mine were babies I carried them in a sling while doing housework, but you say yours won't go in one...

I think the judginess of a couple of the posters in this thread is the worst. Some of us mums are doing our best with the time and financial constraints we have and to be fair, some of us just can't be arsed!

I am sticking to Iceland...how else would I fill the chest freezer :o

Wow. I just caught up with this thread, after a hard day's cooking (I'd still be there, only I used frozen peas ), and oh my.

Here are some points I'd like to make. Fresh broccoli varies between £2 a kilo and £3.33 a kilo in Sainsbury's. Much of that will be the inedible stalk. Frozen broccoli is £1.30 a kilo at Sainsbury's.

You mean you don't have your shopping delivered from Ocado???

Exactly tantrum and all that was aimed at me. People then wonder why I am annoyed

I make that a minimum saving of 70p jessie, I may be wrong though becsuse apparently I am silly and stupid, I even starve my dds

I know, a lot of the nonsense was aimed at you, I thought it was wrong to judge someone when clearly she (or any of us) have the first clue of anyone's home life.
Obviously I may have made my point a little too much which is why I am being deleted but it just annoys me tbh

I'm not the perfect mum but I really can't be doing with the judginess

And I'm quite sure if I was chopping broccoli etc every night I'd also be throwing it away cos my kids wouldn't eat it every night and I don't do force feeding esp dd and ds1 who are now taller than me :)

Tantrums Oh, naturally I shop at Ocado when they send me 25% off vouchers like all mumsnetters.

Just thought Id point out my food shopping last week was £27 inc delivery from Asda with an extra £3.50 on milk,bread and carrots and £3 at the market on fruit

Not much room for organic or joints of meat in that budget

Maryz - no, you are putting words in my mouth and taking them out of context, but this is now getting a bit tiresome.

And tantrums, I don't think those quotes are judgmental. If you don't like your opinions questioned don't offer them in a discussion forum.

A lot of insecurity and defensiveness in this thread.

I hate to throw oil on the flames of Broccoligate, but in response to "but what happens to the stalk?" I just chop up the stalk of the broccoli into small pieces (smaller than the size you're chopping the florets into, as it's denser but you want it to cook in the same amount of time) and cook and eat it with the rest of the broccoli. It tastes nice. If it's particularly elderly/tough broccoli you can peel it first, but I generally don't.

I do appear to be the only person I know who cooks the stalk, but I am genuinely at a loss as to why so many people throw it away.

Yes mary I use frozen veg. I also have no idea what I can afford apparently. I also can't work out how to drop dd1 at school at 9 walk 24 miles to reach a better shop and get back for pick up at 3. Cos I is thick innit.

As I kid I barely ate anything.... once I had my tonsils out, I was not only much happier, I ate like a horse according to my mother. :)

mN is so humourless now

are you kidding this is priceless
lol

Shall I tell the joke about the termite?

Tmesis - DS would only eat the stalk at one stage because I would make them into broccoli chips! Now he'll only eat the florets

I eat the broccoli 'chips' now as i don't like to waste it

Regardless - frozen broccoli is not a ready meal and shouldn't be compared to it!

Not remotely kidding SM in what way exactly am supposed to be amused by being accused of starving my dds? Amongst the other insults.

So this termite walks into a bar, and says, Is the bar tender here?

And the bartender says, No, it's been previously frozen and never recovers its full turgidity upon consumption.