to have given my 2 yr old and 4 yr old a Tesco sausage and mash ready meal for their tea?

[troubador]

I have norovirus and the DC needed feeding.

Feeling guilty about serving up such crap, but really couldn't face cooking :(

Bedmonster. Seriously unclench, it will do you the world of good.

Shop built filled last to me equals cooking from scratch btw.

I think you might keel over watching Friday night dinner at my house. Bt for what it's worth we're all very healthy.

Yes lady, there was a wedding in Scotland that a lot of guests got stomach bugs from food contamination. The only ones that didn't get ill were the ones that had a few drinks.
I have of course been using that as an excuse ever since.

Cheekydevil, if that's true I'm really not sure how I could have picked this up

Like my BF always says, if it doesn't work you are not trying hard enough OP

The fact you have to ask that question makes me feel like a terrible parent!

So, a sausage & mash ready meal isn't cooking then?

I'm guessing there's no need for a Dominos menu in your house OP? That's really not cooking!

You bad mother you, your DCs will surely have you on Jeremy Kyle in years to come . Hope you feel better soon .

I should never get ill then...

Pssst: All my health conditions have been shite for the week or so, DS has either had kids ready meals or a picnic for dinner.

Better than him eating nothing because I feel too crap to cook.

Fret not, there's a special circle of hell of Mothers Like Us, will see you there

I sometimes just throw the Chinese takeaway menu in the general direction of the teenagers and tell them to knock themselves out.

Tonight we are having chicken and chips from the best chicken shop in north London bought home by my DH.

It's all good.

They have eaten thats the important thing!

I always keep a ready meal in for DS for rush nights. He has a thing for asda moussaka at the moment!

My 3 yr old is sat here now sharing a pepperoni pizza with me.

All she has eaten all day has been rubbish. Sausage rolls and crisps for lunch, banana and apple for breakfast.

She doesn't eat like this all the time. Sometimes when I am really tired or struggling, she has a massive bowl of porridge for dinner.

She is never ill and is always disgustingly bouncy and healthy.

your illness is making you feel guilty you are allowed to be ill even though it is rank, it was a ready meal honestly not poison I hope you are better soon

YANBU. DD1 had sausages with pasta, peas and broccoli. Needless to say she only ate the sausages. At least yours ate some mash too!

Give yourself a break! And hope you feel better soon.

I know ruby I know! And I am trying! It's not really that i think if will do any damage but I was totally raised on ready meals and freezer food and it has taken my dh years of cooking to show me how home cooked food should taste. Now i just don't like the taste of ready meals.

For give me for I have sinned many times on the ready meal front! Sometimes needs must! Running a busy farm and having 6 yr old son plus being pregnant I do just sometimes dish out the ready meals,
Hope you feel better soon!

Well done for feeding the kids when you are feeling rough. sausage and mash is the kind of high fat, high carb food small children should be eating. It's just overweight 40 years old like me who should avoid it.

Sending get well soon wishes.

I would do definitely do this anyway if DS wasn't fussy and would actually eat ready meals!

My son had sausage and own chips for lunch and I am fit as a fiddle. Hth

Oven chips lol, that typo made it sound like they were home made which they certainly weren't.

Bangers and mash with baked beans. I ask you - does British cuisine get any better?

I actually like the tesco chilled ready meals. Theres not too much crap in them and they taste lovely

Particularly the Cumberland Pie one. Mmm.

M+S curry. Mmmmmmm

I use ready made meals a lot occasionally.

I use ready made clothes.

YANBU