AIBU and very stupid to say this isn't junk /convenience food?

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Right am really exposing myself for a potential flaming here but anyway...

Am making a sausage casserole today with the following ingredients:

Butcher sausages
2 peppers
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Onions
Tin chopped tomatoes
Fusilli pasta

And now for the bit a JAR of Lloyd Grossman tomato sauce

It's a made up recipe a la dotty so please forgive me if that's not what a sausage casserole is supposed to be like!

Anyway SIL was her earlier and says she wouldn't feed that to her 3 year old as it's junk food.

I'm mortified

I thought it was quite nutritious.

I've a very fussy 20 month old who loves sausages.

AIBU and deluded to serve this up and think it's not junk food?

I do hope none of the healthy food promoters on here drink any alcohol at all, ever.

signed, a feckless obese heathen

It's not junk food, just average. Sausages are unhealthy and I'd prefer not to feed my family them apart from on rare occasion. Also making homemade sauce is a lot cheaper and very easy :) But I am a bit of a food snob. However, I would really not see it as a bad choice of dinner.

(Dafuq is sungrain bread? )

Heroin is unhealthy. Sausages are not.

that's it ann do people really just drink water?

signed a feckless heathen of normal weight

sausages are unhealthy if you eat them too often.

Heroin is unhealthy?
Oh fuck, must stop giving that to dd, along with all cereal, carbs, sausages, sauce from a jar, frozen veg, anything for breakfast other than avocado and cashew nut butter, anything tasty, any food at all probably.
Bonkers as bloody conkers are MN food threads.

research has proven that people who eat processed meat have an increased risk of bowel cancer - ergo sausages are unhealthy.

research has proven that there is NO absolute "safe" level of consumption of processed meat

Heroin may well be unhealthy but it has nothing to do with sausages.

Yawn

I really fancy some sausages for dinner now.

I make that without the jar just using tinned tomatoes (cost reasons, I'm not against yummy jars) but I put chopped apple to sweeten naturally and a dash of Worcester sauce yummy. But your way isn't unhealthy.
tbh with dd1 I was a bit like your sil then I had a word with myself and lightened up. I had a friend who was horrified people give dc fish fingers because they're junk. I admitted I do but go for cod or haddock fillet which is fish and bread crumbs and grilled so no oil. She genuinely seemed to have a light bulb moment. Another friend is horrified dd's have porridge with hot chocolate powder sprinkled on top. I used to live on chocolate spread on toast and sandwiches for lunch and breakfast and I healthy as I was an active child.

lol. Never eating processed meat is rather extreme. Eat drink and be merry I reckon.

JustAShopGirl Everything causes cancer. If you're not getting bowel cancer, you'll be dying of breast cancer. If you're not dying of breast cancer, it'll be skin cancer, and so on.

Even healthy people get cancer. Even healthy people have heart problems.

Why do you think they ask for diseases your parents had at the doctor's office when filling out your history? A lot, if not most of it's genetic.

More importantly, this "only unhealthy people get cancer" is a myth, and it puts blame on the victim.

Um, I'm fairly sure the sort of processed meat you're talking about is things like ham, chicken roll, bacon etc, because it's the nitrites/nitrosamines that are linked to the cancer risk. Butcher sausages shouldn't have any of those in them because they're not cured in any way - they're just ground up bits of carcass with some filler and, if you're lucky, herb and salt, and pumped into casings.

I'm not saying they're ideal but they're not like bacon or ham from the processed point of view.

Stickem - oo. Oddness! Will have to go and google it. :)

tobysmum - yes quite a few people do drink just water - I'm one of them. But admittedly I don't like the tap water where I am, so it is purified through a filter (otherwise it tastes like it's been pulled straight from the lake, which I'm not keen on as a flavour)

Oh PMSL - I found this for sun grain - pretty sure it's not relevant to your bread, Stickem but it might make you smile!

I've got a question about processed meat. I was in Sainsbury's yesterday at the deli counter buying some (gasp) ham. There was a big slab of '18 month old Parma ham' on offer. It was a bit odd seeing a ham as old as my child and that supposedly being a good thing...but anyway. If it was 18 months old already, why were they keeping it in the fridge?

We all just drink water or black coffee. We do have wine at the weekends in the evening.

DDs are 23 and 20 and are at uni. They drink only water during the day.
I don't want to know what they drink at night!

SIL sounds like a prize nobhead

this might be more relevant, it appears to be a trade name rather than a type of grain so phew?

Fruit is unhealthy if that is all you eat. Everything in moderation.

I drink lots of tap water because I like it, ditto lager.