To think the human race is doomed?

[EleanorHandbasket]

Bit dramatic but bear with.

I was in another forum earlier, a budget one, and a mum was asking for ideas for food for her 8 month old.

She posted a list of what the baby currently eats and it was all, without exception, orange and processed. From fish fingers and sausages to crisps and dairylea.

Several people suggested a different range of foods, and a couple of people politely pointed out that too much salt can be fatal.

It all went a bit tits up from there, lots of posters piled on to say 'your baby your rules n don't listen to the haters' and she came back to say the whole menu was cooked from scratch as she was in fact a health fanatic.

The thread went on in that vein, loads and loads of good suggestions for food. No nastiness at all except for people telling the haters to stop being judgy.

And then the op had a shit fit and deleted the lot.

Aibu to wonder how on earth people are ever going to become informed when that attitude is so prevalent? When did telling somebody they choices are ill advised and dangerous become 'being a hater'?

Oh, on case it's not clear, she doesn't cook it from scratch, that was a big ol' backtrack, I'm certain.

And this is absolutely not a judgeypants 'ooh I'm so much better than her' post, my kids have just chowed down on chips n gravy.

But more a comment on the 'you know your bubs Hun' nonsense.

YABU. Orange sausages?

OP was embarrassed clearly. I don't think the world is going to end on this basis. Most people have a fair idea of what's healthy and what's not.

Because people don't like being judged and get defensive, some more eloquently than others! But yes, there should be a common sense test applied. The race is most definitely doomed when babies grow up thinking that's the only nutrition available and adults know no better...

I make my own dairylea btw.

I suppose you could make fish fingers, sausages and crisps. I would love to know who you could create home made dairylea triangles.

I wasted my time once making Nigella's chicken nuggets. If you are going to have nuggets have birdseye nuggets for a quick meal and be done with it.

I don't believe it was home made, surely she'd have said that from the off?

It was literally sausages, nuggets, fish fingers, chips, crisps, dairylea sandwiches and pizza. You'd say from the outset if you meant home made, and if you were making home made food they wouldn't be what you'd go for first, surely?

And tbh none of that is great for an 8 month old even if it is home made. Whatever happened to carrot sticks and scrambled egg?

I just don't understand all the defending of it that went on. No one was being mean.

But every single sensible post about it not being ideal was jumped on.

Internet rage is more irrational than real life rage.

Who really cares, I think even at 8 months you would have to eat multiples of your own body weight in sausages and ready salted crisps to risk salt poisoning. Yes it's not ideal, but are you so annoyed that this person wasn't made to feel duly shit for giving her child foods that millions of others do .

I agree people should try to be better informed about nutrition. But this scaremongering is doing no good. Salt poisoning from eating fish fingers and crisps. Not likely. Though I agree eight month old shouldn't be eating these.

I saw that one Eleanor. That forum is driving me batshit, any post where the OP isn't getting a million and one "yor doing yor best hun" [sic] gets deleted by th OP in a huff. That diet was shit, high in salt and sugar and no fucking veg at all...and the kid had tried chips but not mashed potato. Give me strength.

I got told off on the debate version today - apparently I was trying to start an argument by asking "what is a tart, exactly" of another poster saying that certain clothes make a child look like a tart. Admin are going to hate me within a week I think.

When I read the title I was thinking more of firing missiles at trapped people and blowing planes out of the air.

Thing is, the inability of people to think objectively, debate, weigh up criticism and accept responsibility is EXACTLY the sort of thing that leads to firing missiles etc thewoman. Obviously inability to reason takes very different forms...but I really do believe it is all on a spectrum and it only takes the right conditions for people to begin to behave abominably.

Which forum is this? The Huns?

Fair point princess. It's just from the title I wasn't expecting the op

True, thewoman. I guess "petty gripe about another forum" wasn't as catchy a title!

Good advice is seen as "patronising" by some.

It sounds like a very odd forum.