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To want the nanny to cook real fish not fish fingers

249 replies

PumpUpTheJam · 22/03/2012 17:50

Nanny to 18 mo DD says she does not like the smell of fish and will only make fish fingers. I think that on a full salary and with just one kid to look after she can occasionally force herself to do this! Any strong opinions?

OP posts:
WhereEaglesDare · 22/03/2012 21:25

Are two OP(the one with pasta and this one) the same person????

LittleAlbert · 22/03/2012 21:25

I once sat on a train with my three kids across the way from a nanny who remarked when I cracked open the iced buns "hmmm 10am , is that strictly necessary?"

To which I wanted to reply: "yes because we have had no sleep as plane cancelled due to volcano erupting and I now have a five hour train journey looking after three small children with just a Peppa Pig magazine and the contents of M&S Simply Food for back up, so wind your neck in beeatch."

But I didn't, I just gave a weak smile. Then she proceeded to bang on about how her charge ate Kale, " he just loves it!" Hmm

Mind you she sank a whole bottle of wine on that journey so I won the moral high ground. Sort of.

BarryNormansSofa · 22/03/2012 21:26

Fish finger sandwich ! yum yum Grin

if Nanny can 'occassionally ' force herself to cook fish then if you are that concerned about it perhaps you should 'occassionally ' cook fish yourself for your DD !

Get over yourself !

Chubfuddler · 22/03/2012 21:30

Oh god littlealbert you should have said that. Like when I told the woman in business class who set a stewardess on mw because ds was crying that if she could do better she was welcome to try otherwise she could piss off.

Flatbread · 22/03/2012 21:34

Seriously
Seriously, how hard can it be to cook a fresh fish fillet? Takes 10 minutes in a pan or oven, so why bother with fish fingers?

BarryNormansSofa · 22/03/2012 21:35

My guinea pigs eat kale - they love it too !

lilolilmanchester · 22/03/2012 21:37

It's thread like this which make me wish MN had a like button!!

TerrierMalpropre · 22/03/2012 21:39

Like!

Stratters · 22/03/2012 21:43

FailCat loves fishfingers. So do LittleDog and the DDs. Fishfingers are luffly and full of fish, oddly.

And fish is not imperative for health.

FrothyDragon · 22/03/2012 21:45

Thanking god I'm not your nanny. I have a fish phobia...

I'm ok with tuna, and battered fish, but anything that still looks like it may have been a fish, happily swimming along at some point scares me.

also fine with living fish.

I know, I'm a freak.

blighter · 22/03/2012 21:50

i love fish fingers, i wouldn't want a mother who was so anal enough to think they were bad. employing a nanny is one thing but to call her 'nanny', oh how very proper

BarryNormansSofa · 22/03/2012 21:50

Fish fingers are good - David Beckham says so

here

tethersend · 22/03/2012 21:52
lurkinginthebackground · 22/03/2012 21:53

By a strange coincidence I have had fishfingers for dinner.

They tasted like fish too.

MadameChinLegs · 22/03/2012 21:54

Why did you have fish fingers in the house, if no-one will be eating them?

FishfingersAreOK · 22/03/2012 22:01

Am feeling better now.

NicholasTeakozy · 22/03/2012 22:03

LittleAlbert, surely that was an occasion for a phrase MN has taught me 'Oh do fuck off!' :o

ravenAK · 22/03/2012 22:07

My dh won't cook fish other than fingers (& he moans about that).

He's vegetarian. I should probably sack him.

Seriously - if she stands there quietly boaking as she dishes up homemade fishcakes or whatever, this will just put your dc off the damn things, besides being a fairly good way to piss off the nanny for no good reason.

bramblina · 22/03/2012 22:08

TBH I don't understand how someone does not barf at someone else's child's dirty nappy yet can't cook food fish Hmm

NewHouse · 22/03/2012 22:14

YANBU, its all part of her job!

MrsBeakman · 22/03/2012 22:38

OP is it that you'd spent ages planning to cook a slap up fish finger meal on the nanny's day off and now she has stolen your idea? What about cocktail sausages and micro chips instead? Kidz luv em.

RavenVonChaos · 22/03/2012 22:48

make the nanny prepare and cook fresh squid - that should get her vomming all over the parquet....

I'd rather eat David Beckham....

Bogeyface · 22/03/2012 22:53

I would rather she cooked fish fingers as poorly cooked fish is vile and likely to put the kid off for life. She obviously wont be able to cook fish properly if she has never done it.

So YABU. And it isnt "the" nanny, but "our" or "DDs" nanny. she is a person not a bloody machine.

Haziedoll · 22/03/2012 22:56

"she obviously won't be able to cook fish properly if she has never done it".

So there is a knack to it? I have always wondered why my fish is so crap. What are you supposed to do?

rushelle · 22/03/2012 23:00

YABU but then again so is the nanny to a degree, it's really easy to stick a piece of prepared salmon fillet in some foil and bang it in the oven (20 mins), but having said that I love fish and don't notice if it smells- however if you expected me to cook pork I'd vom all over the kitchen, that really stinks.
BTW I love a fish finger butty and there's nothing wrong with them.