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?

Mintyy - are you saying I should cut out half the cucumber before serving it? Have I been failing at cucumber serving for years?

I wouldn't know about the taste because I cannot stomach cucumber. One tiny slice and it's repeating on me all day...

I have no idea why she was commenting. We share a low fence but she's rarely out in the garden.

We were chatting about a local thing that is happening here when she noticed the food.

Fucks sake. That's not 'dirty food'. Unless you'd dropped it on the ground first, there's no such bloody thing.

Dirty food is pizza and KFC type food surely. Although there is a whole trend for 'clean eating' google it I would link but I'm too lazy busy drinking pimms.

I served chicken and vegetable fajitas and Maoam candy! Just as well she didn't see me.

Well it's a good job she didn't see yesterdays tea.

We had pizza muffins and corn on the bob.

cob

I did not serve corn on the guy that lives at number 61 honestly!

Just told DH I want a cheese toastie. Fuck off neighbour, it isn't dirty food.

OP tell her to piss off next time. She needs putting straight that what you feed your children is none of her business unless you are nicking it from her fridge.

Dirty food is a Big Mac, large fries and a coke, or a greasy kebab on the way home from the pub.

Even if you had given them those exact food items it's still no one else's business, as long as DCs were not drunk and it's not their day to day diet.

YA so NBU

What a werido and rude to boot! V.odd thing to say - food sounds lovely.

MIL gets a cob on with me if she visits on Sunday and I'm not feeding her PFB a massive meat and two veg Sunday dinner. She would object even more to eating in the garden though. She's weird. We don't listen to her

I had ham salad with cheese and some crusty bread for my tea- just a deconstructed version of yours! There's nothing wrong with that imo, and it's far too hot for much else. How does one make dirty food? I'd quite like to know, sounds thrilling! Peer in her window whilst she's having her tea and pass comment on it, I dares ya

OP Please add me to the guest list and tell NDN to sod off!

Op, you need to build a higher fence.

Ohh Hilly.... I am tempted.

I may appear out there when she gets her shopping delivered and tut and shake my head at her groceries!

I agree Lynette. I wil try and make a case to the landlord but I doubt it will happen.

We've just had sausage chips and beans followed by Ferrero Rocher
We have just been on a 6 mile bike ride so hopefully that cancels the crap food out

I so want a cheese and ham toastie with salad for my tea.

I do love a bit of dirty food :)

Sounds more than fine to me.
Who wants a big hot meal on a hot sticky evening like this.
How does she know what they had for lunch either...
I'd ask her what she had to eat today.

Dirty food isdefinitely a real thing! McDonalds or kebabs are perfect examples. An even better one is the 'Egyptian pancake' ds1 occasionally buys from the local kebab shop - donner meat, meatballs some sort of spicy sauce - maybe some cheese - all in a sort of calzone. It looks and smells vile, but he loves it. He eats the leftovers the next day, cold, for breakfast.

The thing is that, IMO, dirty food isn't bad food. You can't eat it every day, unless you want scurvy, but there's nothing wrong with the occasional bit of filth.

And what you served your dc doesn't even come close to dirty food, OP - it sounds very nicely balanced - carbs, protein, veg and fruit - sounds perfect, to me!

Can I come over for tea?! Tell your neighbour to sod off and mind her own!

Oh tell her to piss off, the silly mare.

OP - you need to get back out there and start another conversation mad neighbour lady, so we can find out what else is on the dirty list.

What !
That is dirty food ?

Is this some sort of youth talk that I don't understand ?
Does it mean good ?

Mine had cereal, toast and a smoothie. Filthy it was.

That's a good point namechangenurse.

dirty could mean good I guess...

Like the time my niece said my new shoes were 'sick' and I spent 20 minutes very offended until my sister explained what she meant :o

I would like to know what else is on the list though...