J'Accuse... I do not believe a sizeable minority on here when they say "I blah blah blah"

[Salmotrutta]

E.g. :-
"I cook from scratch" - I hate "from scratch". We used to say "everything was homemade".

And those of you who state "homemade potato wedges" ? ...yeah, I'm impressed. So that would be some potatoes shoved in the oven then?

When the children were little we knew a family who only gave their children pure fruit juice on tap all day long and sneered at us for letting ours drink diluted squash with meals.

And then their pfb needed fillings. The younger child confided in me in hushed tones accompanied by a big grin - "we've got the same drink as you now!"

I was lazing about on Friday morning watching Wanted Down Under and they were filming the family sitting at their table having dinner and they had a big jug of squash in the middle of the table and I immediately thought 'ooh, mumsnet would be outraged!'

mrsmaker don't get me started on baby led weaning.

Like its budisum or something.

"So what is baby led weaning?"

"Well you put various food in front of your baby and they eat it"

"Oh you mean weaning then."

I hate the phrase "pan fried" . What the heck else do you use?

Vine tomatos.
Yomeab.n tomatoes then right?

I love the furious outrage at peppa pig and squash and kiddy biscuits etc. I just think the proof is in the supermarkets, there wouldn't be aisles and aisles dedicated to this stuff if kids and parents alike didnt fuuucking love it.

I hate all these eateries now claiming they sell only 'real foods'...dafuq was I eating before 'real food'? Some alternate reality foods? Cunts! Cunts everywhere

Really summer?

Having watched friends spoon feed mush into their babies' mouths like a waste disposal system I think baby led weaning is quite a different thing.

I once let the DC drink six cans of coke each at a bbq (they were 6 and 8), as I could notbe bothered to say "no".

They had massive tantrums and then were spectacularly sick.

I always get punished for lax parenting.

So back to my middle-class-mum-badge-holding lentil soups it is

My mum was a bit of a sanctimommy but in her wizened old age has decided its a load of old bollocks and feeds her gc babybels, biscuits and juice and flicks cbeebies on the second they get over the threshold

I take your point bigbluestars but my motto was theres room for a spoon in the messy hell of encouraging self feeding. I think a combination of some on the tray and some on a spoon was the practical alternative. Its called baby fed weaning © summerhouse 2015.

Ps I know I spelt Buddhism wrong.

I swing back and forwards between worshipping at the alter of frozen food and CBeebies, and panicking that I'm a shit parent, and commencing 'real' cooking and frogmarching the kids out for massive walks, during which I try to engage them in mind-broadening activities. And then they moan at me for a solid hour and I give up and go home to oven some freezer food from scratch.

I think the guilt is mainly driven by the fact that I am a lapsed earth mother type. I used slings and cloth nappies and weaned straight onto ordinary food (refuse to use the terms 'baby wearing', 'cloth-bumming' and 'baby led weaning' because they make me want to throw up a bit) and breast-fed and co-slept. I was acceptable in certain circles. Although I did slip a little in the collective earth mother estimation when I went back to work and joyfully hurled DS1 into the nearest nursery.

The only thing that's banned in our house is Fruitshoots. My two need no extra sugar to make them behave like the spawn of Satan on speed, and there's something about the colour of the bottles that makes me think they would be a Bad Idea.

Although I have discovered something you can actually do with quinoa. I had some in the cupboard from one of my guilt phases, but it tasted like cardboard. I'm trying to lose a bit of weight so I've been making lots of vegetable soups, and I found a recipe for one with quinoa in and it's actually really nice - it makes it go all thick and lovely.

[ducks and runs]

Oh and of course on MN all the little boys wear dresses and the little girls aren't allowed anything pink or sparkly in case they're scarred for life

Only gender neutral toys and clothes are offered in this house is the oft repeated refrain.

So who's buying all the sparkly pink shit in real life then?

at they make me want to throw up a bit

ilove- no idea. My DD hated sparkly shit, hated pink, was happiest in dungarees and a shovel in her hand.

I love this thread! Ds's drink milk, strawberry milkshake, fruit juice, and diluted juice. Depends on what they ask for. I also don't police ds1's treats, as long as he eats his meals I'm really relaxed. He seems to be fine and not at all the fatty threads on musmnet make out he obviously is! He just takes or leaves junk food because it's not a big deal to him

Every so often mumsnet threads make me worry about his screen time, but then I get over it.

I hated it as a child too but I'm pretty sure I'd have been bought it if I'd expressed an interest.
According to MN no self respecting parent buys it though and little boys wearing dresses is commonplace. Now I don't see why they shouldn't if they want to but I honestly don't see all this in RL, only on MN.

Cloth-bumming???!!

And don't get me started on artisan bakers. Aaaaaarrgggh!!!

£7.50 for a loaf ffs!

White Warburton's in this house

Does anybody remember the Very Hungry Caterpillar - Baby Led Weaning party thread?
Now that was earnest.

BLW is just finger foods, and it's always the toolboxes who loftily proclaim they're "doing BLW" at a billion decibels (while looking around smugly) who leave a massive mess in Cafes and restaurants. I've given my dc finger foods when we're out, I ensure I clean up any mess though, not leave it for some other poor mug like I'm the bloody queen. Eughh scutters.

Please can someone link to the juice thread?

I'm sat here with dd glued to the iPad and need something to read

There was barely a 3 hour gap in this thread over night

My DSs are currently: playing the XBox (DS2 with his friend who was here for a sleep-over), in bed (DS1) and on Minecraft (DSs3 and 4). They all had Krave for breakfast (the purple one).

Life is good

I make my own artisan bread

It is a. tastier b. less full of shit c. better for us d. the DCs actually eat it e. cheaper.

So shoot me.

Also, I have been known to knit.
No co-sleeping here though as the DSs no longer want to

What a v cathartic thread

You can no longer get Ketchips because of the fundamental flaw in them. Ketchup cooks much faster than potato.
Either the chips were half raw or the ketchup was scalding hot.
My DM had the talent of cooking them in such a way that I'd bite into the lukewarm chip and burn the inside of my mouth on superheated ketchup every time!

I adore those self conscious looking for affirmation threads
"My ten year old son who is built like a rugby player wants to wear a Disney Princess dress to school, should I let him?"
Cue 5 million posters - "of course, he sounds fab, let him wear what he wants".

Fair enough right?

Well no, next thread
"My dd adores pink and wants to wear her Disney Princess Aurora dress out and about, it's a bit impractical, what do you think?"
Same 5 million posters as before - "Erghh, I wouldn't let my dd wear that, Disneyfication is evil, I want my girl to be a thinker not a princess, yada yada yada.