to be shocked by the way this family eats?

[lotney]

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.

lotney we have a lot less than £45 a week for food so a chicken is an expensive luxury

How come people get in such a middle class lather over a bit of sugar or a chicken nugget when their elderly relatives are fed utter rubbish in hospitals and care homes. On top of that, many people in their own homes only have a carer come 3 times a week to heat up a micro meal. In my 3 years experience of district nursing, most people live on Ritz cracker and strong tea.
Such double standards make my blood boil, as do the stealth boast "aren't we healthy" brigade. We all all sorts of rubbish in my family but we are happy.

lotney you have realised YABU , and you admit to frozen pizza etc . perhaps these toddlers eat fruit etc so their breaded dinners really are not doing them any harm , perhaps the mum feels over whelmed while her husband is away , who knows what goes on it peoples homes eh ,

Also lotney my pasta and truffle comment was aimed at Marianne not you.

apologies lotney you had already agreed you were BU before i went off on a rant.

btw did anyone read the link i posted? it brought tears to my eyes.

with regard to a chicken though unless its gone in one sitting i can get two dinners out of one and sandwiches and stock. then again am in ireland so depends on your budget also.

I keep trying to batch cook stew for lunch. But it all gets eaten the same day. I think I need a bigger saucepan.

I shop in Lidl as it and the Coop are the only places within walking distance and the Coop is too expensive. To shop anywhere else would mean a £8.50 return bus journey which is a large proportion of our food budget.. Oh wait I get it!, I've just remembered what Marianne said, I'm stupid. I should walk to the other shop, I mean 24 miles at the normal walking speed or 4mph would only take 6 hrs plenty of time to do a shop and get back for afternoon school run. How stupid of me not to have worked that out before.

I buy whichever fruit is on offer BTW so dd does get fruit.

Some of you with your 'at home, and love to cooking husbands' obviously are not reading properly... she has three toddlers on her own, most of the time!

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My DS usually has freezer food for dinner - fish fingers, waffles etc.
By the time we get home from work (just after six), there just isn't time to start cooking.
He does, however, have school dinners, which gives him a bit more variety.

Should read love to cook husband... trying to occupy twins whilst dh working away until next week!

I am proud to say I have NEVER fed my DD a chicken nugget...... But then again we are veggie and that for some means my DD is malnourished and neglected.

Your experience was exactly what I was trying to say a few posts up Hecuba - not everyone has the luxury of a car or easy access to shops!

when i couldn't use the car it was a nightmare to shop.

lucky it only 1 bus trip into town, where iceland do free home delivery :)

I don't think enough people are taking this seriously.

The terrible diet of imaginary people is a grave issue.

Let's treat them with the pity they deserve.

The terrible diet of imaginary people is a grave issue.

That made me snort out loud!

Wow, the list of things inappropriate to feed our children grows daily.

I can't keep up.

I wish someone would start a little sticky thread containing all foods you will be judged for feeding your children and update it regularly. I had no idea pre-filled pasta was now on the naughty list. Must try harder.

I just do not see anything wrong at all with fishfingers.. or even certain chicken nuggets for that matter. Just because something has come out of the freezer before cooking, does not mean it is shite or "bad for you".

It is all about the ingredient content of the food and how you cook it, not the storage department that it came from.

All those "fresh" veg in the shops were not plucked freshly from the fields yesterday anyway.

whats not healthy about fish fingers they are brain food , fish is frozen when its caught its stuck in ice when caught to keep it as fresh as possible so the fresh fish that people eat has been frozen then deforsted . ( i watch to much deadliest catch )

Potatoes is kept in storage for supermarkets as is root veg so its not that fresh either , how else can you eat new potatoes in december

It's blinkered thinking.

Everything from fruit and veg aisle - good
Everything frozen - "processed"
Tinned food - salty and processed

Et cetera.

are kept not is kept sigh

Jessie that's a little unfair. Most frozen main meals are processed. And salt content is surely important for very small children. Yes, there is good and bad amongst tinned and frozen foods but who has time and knowledge to compare all the nutritional information?