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

[dottytablecloth]

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?

Not that the odd take away is a bad thing either but I know I'd rather use the odd jar and be able to roll something semi healthy.

at sausages of doom.

I know people mean well, I just think - calm down, it's food. Everything in moderation.
I don't remember my mum and her chums dissecting the contents of a plate as happens these days.
It's the diet industry and the 'foodie' industry what's done it. Tbh, they were probably to busy smoking and going to Tupperware parties.

Just reading through all the replies and I really will have to try and improve my cooking skills and am definitely going to learn now to make a decent pasta sauce. I do still think the food was semi ok though. I feel slightly embarrassed that so many people think it was mostly junk, but then a lot of you don't so

Is pasta really that bad? My son loves it!

To the poster who said, just give him meat and vegetables, if I served that up he would just throw it on the floor. It's very bland without a sauce or something and then gravy seems frowned on too on here.

I'm making chicken curry today but I'm not going to list my ingredients!

Thanks for everyone who has posted, it really is intersting to read people's views, genuinely!

This thread is hilarious, I said just the other day that lots of so called healthy eaters on mn have terribly disordered ways of thinking about food, this just proves it.
I will add lg tomato sauce to my list of eeeeeevil foods.

loving the "sausages of doom"!

Dotty - don't get too hung up about other people's opinions. Make sure you are feeding DS a balanced diet and encouraging him to try different foods. Cook from fresh where you can. that's the main thing.

Hic ^I agree the added sugar isn't a massive quantity - in this jar of sauce. My tinned tomatoes have 3g sugars/100g, so there's 1.8g / 100g added to the jar. 2/3 sugars come from the tomatoes but 1/3 as much again is added. As a preservative and to improve flavour*

That's not correct either. This sauce has tomato concentrate in it, that will add quite a lot of the sugars. It's normally about 14g per 100g.

Also, just because the tin you have has 3g per 100g it doesn't mean these tomatoes do.

What we know is that the added sugars are less than 2.6g per 100g. Roughly 2 tsp in a 350g jar of which the OP's son probably had 1/5th of. I am not going to get into a lather over someone using a jar to avoid 2g of sugar.

Hic - bit disingenuous there, I was talking about the tomato purée in the LG sauce.

processed red meat is considered harmful to health though - nothing good is ever said about it other than it is tasty (the OP says her 20 month old loves sausages, adults are supposed to limit their intake of processed red meat, let alone kids or babies)

there is plenty of high fat food available which is not considered harmful, or junk...

thought that was already abundantly clear hairy by use of inverted commas.! Yes there are a lot of people who have true food allergies some of which are life-threatening..BUT there are far too many parents claiming allergies and depriving their children of whole food groups or brewing eating disorders for later life by doing so. No one is going to suffer adversely IN ANYWAY from having a jar of pasta sauce in their supper. People really do need to get a grip.

I've yet to meet anyone who claims they have an allergy when they don't yet everyone harps on about it all the time on here. It really isn't up to anyone else to decide if it's a 'real' allergy.

shop my ds does like sausages but he's doesn't get them all the time!

There were 4 sausages in the casserole yesterday and he probably ate half a sausage in total.

Won't get sausages again for maybe two weeks. Surely that's not that awful?

Yeah, actually I would suffer a fair bit of gastric/gut distress from a jar of tomato-based pasta sauce, but then I obviously don't count as someone!

stifkem I am absolutely not posting my curry recipe as I'm using a jar of patak curry paste (well half a jar) and some coconut milk!

I really don't have the time to make a curry from scratch and use all the herbs and spices.

sorry stickem

In all my days, and I am quite an angst ridden individual, I have never been able to get in a tizz about a jar of pasta sauce. I really must try harder. I'm going to try and get worried about the marmite on toast I've just had now. How do you make marmite, please?

Is curry paste mn contraband too? I use it. I throw in fresh chicken, vegetables coconut milk, serve with rice and veg.

Don't tell me curry isn't allowed now. I love curry.

I imagine curry paste isn't allowed in properly healthy houses giles

My SIL would definitely be aghast!

That's how I make curry too . I thought that was how to make curry, until I realised that jars are not allowed.

They are just mixes of spices in a bit of oil aren't they. All of which you could measure out separately but why bother when you can use a paste or pot of curry powder.

No one dried toasted and grinds all their own spices surely? Everyone uses pre bought spices don't they?

But the marmite, Giles? I'm trying to get het up here.