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...

Frozen veg dont count? What the actual fuck? What a load of rubbish.

Also have to add, funny that now so many parents are obsessed with providing the best diets etc the kids are more unhealthy/childhood obesity is higher than ever?

The problem is that many of you are making unfounded assumptions and then believing you are doing better than others. There is no reason at all that frozen veg is worse than fresh, in fact quite the opposite is the truth, with frozen veg retaining more nutrients most of the time. So I could sneer at you and say "oh you only use fresh veg? Well if you can't bothered giving them the best type...."
But that would be idiotic.
AS is assuming your homemade fish fingers are any better than pre-made. They might be, slightly, but then again there is a good chance not.

If you want to make every single thing from scratch and use particular types of food, knock yourself out. But assuming you are doing so much better without a shred of evidence, you just come across as smug and a bit stupid.

Op you're just not trying. How long does it really take to stuff a home made quinoa? I do it all the time. Do you maybe not love your children, hmm?

I too would love to see the mn approved menu!

Where you went wrong OP is not catching your own fish. The baking your own bread to whizz into crumbs to cover the fist for "scratch" fish fingers. That's just scratching the surface of where you're WRONG.

Really bonded I don't know how you have the gall to post at all

Oh and industrial food really? Is that code for poor peoples food?

Except, Claw, that some 'processed' food is different to other processed food.

A fish finger, with fish, breadcrumbs, spices and natural colour is different from a turkey twizzler or something with a massive list of ingredients that you don't recognise as part of a primary food group.

If I make my own home made beans I will add dark brown sugar and something very salty - like salt, or else bacon. And canned tomatoes. Which are just tomatoes, canned under heat. And the bens will still contain 85% bean, like the tinned ones.

Some people will criticise quality fish fingers, some will not. But 'processed' covers a very wide range of quality of food.

ahhh but are your breadcrumbs from bread you have made yourself? Or the packet stuff which will indeed contain unwanted extras?? [hehe just poking the fires some more]

I hammered my own cooking knives and keep a cow for milk

Op meal is not junk, no it is not! It is not up there, with the MacDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut, Greggs and Turkey twizzlers fgs and pastries. Those are junk, op food whilst not being superhealthy, is a decent meal for kids.

But did you breed that cow Stealth otherwise you won't know where it's been!

No my ancestors did. We can trace the cow back to the 16th c then it's all a bit hazy. So obviously we just use the milk of that cow for work men's tea

Someone's going to call it "council house tea" soon and then it'll turn into a proper bun fight.

With home baked pumpkin and fennel buns, drizzled with honey from the beehives in the garden that are only fed nectar from exotic flowers nursed to life in the greenhouse that was built from home blown glass and driftwood foraged on the local beach whilst the children (dressed in hand stitched clothing) frolicked hand in hand on the sand. Or something.

Do you allow those work men to use your loo Stealth ?

Right op that's a dinner you feed someone if your from Tower Hamlets or Peckham, not a naice area in the Home counties, there

Phew, that's ok then Stealth.

"Ice cream preferably cream, sugar, vanilla, egg."
Well, except when you are trying to leave off the fat and sugar, and so serve frozen bananas as the OP described doing.

Is part of peoples issue that they missed that detail?

Zucker they're welcome to use the smaller of our two Eco holes in the ground. We don't have anything as mundane and plebeian as plumbing

Some of you are being dicks under the guise of humour.

Tbh I feel sorry for your children

O0 I can see why you say that. But some of the posts of this thread are ridiculous. Too many carbs in peas and corn served to children?! Peas not counting as a vegetable? Bananas being full of cream and sugar?
Some people take the 'healthy diet' thing to an extreme and I would genuinely love to see their typical menus

So you take issue with the tone/content with some posts? Right, fair enough. But your way of dealing with that is to rip the piss out of someone? You think that's okay? To belittle someone and make them (possibly) feel stupid and upset? Because you don't like they way they've posted?

I wish my son ate fish fingers. I would have to sub chicken fingers. Or rather, the naice breaded chicken mini-filet from M&S.

Actually, these days, he gets a grilled chicken thigh when we have fish.

A banana chopped with dates and a spoon of yogurt would have been healthier and still a treat.

Depends on your definition of a 'treat' - that to me sounds like a very virtuous and healthy pudding.

A treat is what I am about to have now - blueberries covered in dark chocolate (from Aldi - delicious ) and I won't kid myself that the blueberries are one of my five a day.

It's not a bad meal at all, but as many others have said it isn't 'super' healthy.
I would absolutely serve this to my kids and not feel guilty, although pudding with ice cream would be a treat even if the pudding contains one of the five a day-I'm pretty certain if I made a home made deep fill apple pie with ice cream and had a large slice I would have had one of my five a day but that in itself does not make it a healthy pudding.
On the AIBU though,it was unreasonable of your friend to ask for a suggestion and then say 'no thanks too junky' as that was just rude and totally unnecessary.

Ok I think you're overreacting. Where have I ripped the piss out of an individual? I don't think anything I've said is going to make any individual feel "stupid and upset" any more than your telling off to me tbh. We are on a talk board. Many threads are lighthearted and not always serious debates. I feel I've made the point that I feel that some of the ideas expressed here are ridiculous.

Actually please do report any posts where I have belittled others