To be horrified at giving a 3 yr old crisps, chocolate biscuits, cheesy bites...

[starofastorath]

....at 10 in the morning? After having sugary breakfast cereals?

SPFanjo That sounds like a plan.

Fanjo..have you just watched room 101!??
:)

Where I work, we regularly, and I mean regularly give youngsters choc biscuits, cakes and other high cal foods. If in the morning, we offer biscuits and refused we offer other junk. Same with afternoon... Judge away, instead of finding out why we give high foods.

I also give the toddler sausage rolls and tinned ravioli. I accept that I am off to hell

I gave my 10 year old a curry pot noodle;e in a flask for school today for his lunch. Disclaimer: he also had water melon, grapes, cucumber, yogurt and wholemeal bread and butter.

YABU - that's all.

Another one here with a tiny 6 year old. He is 2 stone 8 and lighter than his 3 year old brother. Both of them and DD get whatever the fuck they want in the morning, I CBFA arguing.

Bad No I'm watching a John Bishop thing. Why do you ask?

Shes I don't have a disclaimer

curry pot noodle even, god knows what a noodle;e is

I had a sex dream about John Bishop once [random]

I had sex dream about Sheldon Cooper

fanjo

Well my brownie points will go down Im afraid when I admit he liked it so much I went to Asda and bought more in various flavours because they are only 50p just now

50p?! Why don't I know about this?! Are the Donner Kebab ones 50p? I will full a cupboard with those and dine like a king on them. I would be having pot noddle for breakfast, snack, dinner,snack,tea and supper

Beaten children/kids using food banks in Britain/kids with no home=horror

Biscuits and cheesy crisps=survival parenting

My 6 year old is also about 2 1/2 stone and lighter than his 3 year old cousin. As I said earlier he gets pudding after every meal and whatever he will eat.

Badvoc that's a sneaky stealth boast isn't it? Go on you know it is. Homemade cake being the only naughty? ? Puts me to shame

You were asked to give these snacks to the child? Are you a childminder then?

Yanbu in my humble opinion. Good luck!

now people hold your horses

it appears that it is not on one but possibly at least two separate days that a chocolate biscuit has been offered as a snack.

When I posted originally I hadn't appreciated that

you know, ricecakes do actually have zero nutritional value. They are basically (pricey) squashed together rice-krispies, for the hippie-mama-generation.

Suppose it all depends on what time said child gets up & has brekkie doesn't it? Wouldn't give mine shit that early on but they don't get up til 8ish (yes stealth boast, meh) but if they got up at say 6 then 10am is a fine time for some choc & can say would probs feed myself some also

Ha! No, honestly it isn't! :)
It's still full of jam and buttercream! Yum yum.
(He had ice cream too...)
So much angst re food...:(
What happened to the phrase "moderation in all things" ?...

honest to fucking god...rice cakes!!!! that is child abuse!!

This thread has also reminded me of the excellent Steiner parent and toddler group that I used to take my kids for, entirely because in the break, after we'd all cavorted around pretending to be gnomes or what have you with our auras and god knows what, they were exceedingly free with the chocolate biscuits. The children (all under 3) got "one in each hand" for "energy". Very nice.

fanjo didn't see the donner kebab flavour, I bought the equally healthy southern fried chicken and sticky rib flavour, haste ye down to Asda! Mind you Ive told him not to get used to them, when the price goes back up he will be treated to the shhh...smart price version!!

Ds1 loves mild curry flavour super noodles....the shame! :)

Fanjo...they were talking about local newspapers and various pics of the people pointing to various things..potholes, piers etc :)