To serve this for tea?

[MrsBartowski]

So it's hot, I've had a busy weekend to end a week from hell and I have just served the DC tea in the garden.

My neighbour has pulled a real judgy face and said some PA crap about it being ok to have 'dirty food' a couple of times a year but children should be raised on good food.

Guess what I served them?

Cheese and ham toasties, cucumber sticks and grapes. They are getting watermelon slices for afterwards.

AIBU to serve them such dirty dirty food the poor lambs? Or is she a bit odd?

She needs to bog off and mind her own business - sounds a lovely tea!

That's a fine Sunday evening garden tea. Nothing at all wrong with it.

I think you know the answer to your question already

Even if you were eating burgers and chips, there is no such thing as 'dirty food'.

MrsB, that sounds beyond filthy. I am appalled. How dare you give them two different types of protein, carbs, and 3 of their 5 a day....

What's dirty food when it's out?

Sounds delish, and yes, she sounds odd though you could be serving them hot snot and bogey pie and I don't see that it would be any of her business

For about a nano second I thought IWBU for not serving a full meata nd two veg affair.

Were they eating it out of a mud put?

The answer to this is: 'Yes, 'dirty food' is fine a couple of times a year (wft) but being a PA, judgy cow every day is less acceptable'.

Mind you, I'm just waiting for some MNetters to come along and dissect the vitamin/fat/calorie content and tell you where you apparently went wrong

What a bitch!

We've just finished cheese toasties with salad and crisps. Yum

YouTheCat - I wish I'd answered that.

Instead I just said some trite about it being too hot for the oven or something.

Instead I just said some trite about it being too hot for the oven or something

See, now that's just enabling her

Did you drop it in the mud on the way out to the table? Dirty food, heard it all now!

surely you should have been drinking a vegetable smoothie. Or having a bowl of coco pops

YABU.

Cucumbers are meant to be cut up into little discs. Not long sticks.

My dd has a variation of this pretty much everyday for lunch. It's not always ham, sometimes it's turkey or cold beef and it's not always a toastie, sometimes it's a bog standard sandwich. Served with veg sticks and fruits, stick in a yogurt or/and stick of cheese or some crips and there you have it one third of my dd's daily diet. If she has a larger or hot lunch she has it for dinner instead. To problem there as you know I'm sure.

I wonder if she meant you should always serve Sunday lunch on a Sunday? Clutching at straws to explain why she was being such and outward cow.

I'm not entirely sure what is on the dirty food list.

If I'd had to have guessed before today I would have said fast food chains maybe. But now I know cucumber, grapes and toasties are on there I'm totally thrown.

Maybe we should campaign for clearer labelling on the issue or something?

I may have cereal for tea myself. Do you think she will call SS if she spies me through the fence shovelling in special K?

Who the f does your neighbour think she is? How dare she comment on what you are feeding your children! I would be raging.

Is "dirty food" a thing?

And did your neighbour really say this, or are you just a bit worried and judging yourself and want rqssurqnce?

Because I am happy to tell you that that is a perfectly adequate tea. Nobody would raise an eyebrow at you serving that for lunch.

But cucumber is much nicer in sticks. You can get rid of the seeds which taste horrible.

YABU Mintyy, the seeds are the best bit.

OP your neighbour is nuts.

She is normally fairly nice. Quite new here so don't know her well really.

And she is younger then me by a few years I'd guess. I would probably find it more acceptable if she were an elderly neighbour for some reason.

Hakluyt - yes she did really say it! I have a fairly laid back parenting style. If they survive the day and are happy for hugs and kisses come bedtime then I don't judge myself :o

I had imagined her being older

I'd eat it , it's lovely!

Why was the nosey bint commenting anyway, are you close to the fence so she could stick her beak in?