To give my two year old a ham sandwich?

[BlackholesAndRevelations]

i mean, really?! In her buggy as I wanted to get somewhere fast, she was eating a ham sandwich from tesco. Cue disapproving looks. Or maybe I'm just paranoid as ham causes cancer and is full of salt?

My DS' both had chocolate cookies yesterday. From greggs. Ds2 was sat in his buggy to eat his.

[proud bad mummy]

Me and dc5 worked our way through a share massive bag of thse flame grilled crinkly crisps yesterday.
In tesco
Before we paid
He is 2

Gasporama

surely the only way to get through a supermarket with a toddler is to feed them?

or have I been getting it very wrong for the last 9 yrs

I bought DD a Gregg's sausage roll for her breakfast on thursday. (Well, it was her birthday )
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Ooo MrsDV Aldi do those crisps in family size bags, in Thai Roast Chicken and Flame Grilled Steak and they are only 79p and are delicious

OP I agree with you soooo much. I used to love cooking, now I barely do it at all because it is such a fucking monotonous chore! Such a shame because I really did used to LOVE it and DH always loved the meals I made... Maybe I shou.ld start again...

God I hate these competitive 'look how much rubbish my child eats' threads.

In fact I hate the whole ham sandwich, fruit shoot, sausage roll thing. It's just so smug.

Either be properly embarrassed about what your child is eating and don't tell anyone, or openly brag about your child's healthy diet.

Or Eff Off Cheddars

Ivana love it!!

Cheddars I was genuinely concerned, believe it or not. I think she has a healthy diet generally but as she's getting older I'm relaxing the rules a bit. some of my friends are really fussy about food; one doesnt allow her dc to have pudding at nursery. Granted its usually cake but she makes him have fruit whilst the rest tuck in. I woukdnt ideally want mine to have cake every day but i cant deny her something when everyone else is having it. We did blw and made sure not to eat things around her that she couldn't have. Anyway I'm digressing!

Surely motherhood is all about the guilt and self-doubt?!

I can't believe anyone, anywhere in the world, would give disapproving looks about a ham frickin' sandwich.

Honestly, I bet no one even looked or noticed. You obviously have feelings of guilt about feeding ham (why?) and were projecting your feelings onto others.

blackholes I think your friend needs a new nersery if they eat cake every day!

I give my 1 year old ham sandwiches. Im sure the strange looks I get from passers by are because she rubs it in her hair first before she eats it!

Was just about to make my 21 year old ham sandwiches for his packed lunch today - better find something better in the fridge!

(cue comments on why can't he make his own packed lunch.......)

Lol beck - for a minute I thought you wrote 21 month old! Still cue comments about how he doesn't make his own... Hehe!

Yes I know I'm paranoid. Like I said I am def more relaxed about it but I'm still second guessing myself a lot.

DS (15) and I had had a heavy morning taking stuff to the tip. Near the tip in our local town, they have a DRIVE IN GREGG'S.

We had a pastie each AND a bun sitting in the car outside Gregg's. Total cost £3.78. I said 'you are a cheap date DS' and he laughed like a drain (sometimes you forget that Dc haven't necessarily heard cliches before)

I am mostly low carb. DS is mostly home-cooked food. Those pasties were DELICIOUS, and we did feel we had earned them.a

When mine were small enough to sit in the trolley the ladies at Tescos would give them Billy Bear slices to eat whenever I was at the Deli counter. They positively encouraged toddler snacking in the shop. Sadly this encouraged a Billy Bear addiction and both my children went through a phase of cold turkey as a result. Is turkey OK?

Is this for real??

How would onlookers even know what the contents of he sandwich were - let alone recognise the contents, form an opinion and ratchett up a fully-pursed catsbum-mouth all while you were watching them?

Yes, you're paranoid. This whole thread says way more about you than it does about random onlookers who seriously - seriously - have more going on in their lives than the need to get a bee in their bonnet over a stranger's sandwich contents.

Chill. Nobody cares about ham. If you think your PFB is too good for ham, then desist with ham. It's not worth this level of stress. :)

chedders it is entirely possible to eat a big packet of crisps/ham sandwitch and have a healthy diet.
In the same way it is possible to eat in the supermarket without being a moral incontinent.

'cue disapproving looks'

From who, exactly? Did this really happen or did you imagine it?

For crying out loud, I am glad my children are all teenagers now - I'd HATE to be having a baby in an era where you cannot give a toddler perfectly innocent emergency sandwich without having to make a full public apology, explaining the extenuating circumstances re: said child's intake of salt/sugar and possible carcenogenic properties in a meagre bit of white bread and ham.

First world problem much?

Sorry. A bit PMT today. You got it with both barrels.

but I am right

For Kim147

oh for gods sake

i give up

How many disapproving looks did you get exactly? Maybe the looks were because you were trying to get somewhere fast and you were accidentally knocking people with the buggy? I honestly can't believe anyone took any notice of what a passing child in a buggy was eating!

How would they know it was ham in the sanwich? Was it an open sandwich?