you can't possibly call a meal junk food if it had all of your 5 a day!

[bonded]

So a few weeks ago we had a play date that went well. Friend just what's capped me asking for advice for a meal tonight. I said recently that this went down well and is super healthy:

Baked beans, one of your 5 a day
Fish fingers, good source of ohmega and protein
Frozen sweet corn and peas, frozen has more nutrients.

Pudding frozen bananas whipped up into ice cream with a little chcoclate sauce and chopped dates.

Said friend called meal a bit to junky. I thought it was really healthy...

Mominatrix, can I ask you where you buy your sashimi? I love it but am always a bit unsure as to where I can get it really fresh in this country.

I make fish pie and we eat Sea Bass too - I suppose that's snobby is it too? !

I am sure it's not what Gwenyth Paltrow feeds her brood you could ask her ...I have a feeling she's here

she who talks about her kids have tummy pain from craving carbs and how this is a good kind of pain ...while feeding them beans and dust

nice

You can certainly make salmon fishcakes so sure you could make salmon fishfingers

no making fish pie and eating Sea bass isn't snobby ...using the fact that you do so to look down on other people is - hth :)

snape, I live close to a Japanese grocery store which supplies the fish to Nobu. There is a large Japanese community there, so there are several wonderful Japanese food shops. This place prepares the fish (fantastic variety) for what you will be doing with it - sashimi, maki, rolls. PM me if you'd like the name - they have several branches in London.

I'm not looking down on anyone ghosty show me where I've looked down on anyone? I have eaten fishfingers and shop in Aldi so hardly in a position to look down on anyone - hth

oh sorry I'm sure you are unaware of how condescending you sound - my bad - carry on educating everyone - my bad

I make fish pie and we eat Sea Bass too - I suppose that's snobby is it too?

I make fish pie and eat Sea Bass too. That is because I like it not because I think it is superior to other food.

I can't have a serious conversation with someone who says 'my bad' and I will merrily admit to being a snob over that.

thank you :)

Happy to help

Gosh you sound delightful Monsoon

Often fish fingers are only 56% fish. The rest is batter, oil etc. Not quite as healthy as grilled fish - the salt and vegetable oil are definitely unhealthy

We are meant to eat things as close to its natural state as possible - so tomatos, veg, nuts, porridge, muesli, whole grains, pulses, seeds all great. Look at any GI index and you will find that most processed foods have high GI. Oddly rice cakes are also high GI but many have been fooled into thinking they are healthy because they are made from low GI rice. It's the processing that's the problem.

Processing meats often invokes salting, smoking or preservatives.

Cheap nuggets and cheap fish fingers are often reconstituted from left over fish/chickens parts. With cheap fish fingers water is used to pad the fingers out, then multiple layers of other stuff added to pad the finger out even further - keeping the actual fish content pretty low. The fingers are then fried with oil - with the extra thick coating on the cheaper fish fingers holding more fat then expensive ones.

Please can this thread go in Classics?

Thanks Mominatrix, sadly I'm not in London. Can get quite a lot of Japanese goods around here, but nothing fresh like that. Will just have to do without, I guess. :(

Nothing WRONG with that meal, and I'd be fine if either of my two were on a play date with yours and ate it.It's not like it's every day.
I wouldn't say it was 'super healthy' though, Wouldn't like them to have it a lot.
Far too much fat, sugar and salt in there to say that in my opinion.

For me for the meal you described to be super healthy would have to be changed to be:

-sweetcorn and peas (vegetables)

• home-made breadcrumbs rolled onto fresh fish to make fishfingers.

As for me, I try and make as much as I can because I don't trust food manufacturers not to add shit.

Once a month I order a mountain of meat from the butcher's. I then spend a Saturday over a hot stove making stews and casseroles, normally with plenty of legumes. Because I work a 40 hour week, this enables me to get home, reheat and serve. I cook 2 veg and a carb on the day.

It's a pain, and it takes lots of my time and so I don't blame anyone who wouldn't go to that effort.

Kids take fruit to school in their lunch boxes. I don't pay any attention to five a day and in people get too hung up on technical compliance with it.

I don't care whether veg is fresh or frozen.

If the kids don't like what I serve, they are welcome to go hungry. However, I do take their likes into account.

It's like it's every day. It's NOT like it's every day that should read. Oops.

If my children were served a meal like hat described by the OP, I'd say thank you.

If it was described as super healthy, I'd smile and nod and laugh inwardly. I would think it a bit rude to take issue with the food.

but it's not super unhealthy either - I think that's the key - it's fine - it's not Gwinny fantastic super organic dust/grain/mungbeans but it's not as if she served up a plate of lard with a salt crust and a side order of shit either

I see so many kids with eating issues and I hate this whole hang up with food - it's fuel - it's important to have a balance but it's not worth building a life time of food anxiety over fish fingers