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?

A car each. Then when the teens hit 17 selflessly do whatever it takes to get at least one of them on the road. No more weekend drop offs and collections. DH says he has his drinking life back. I love the fact DS can't drink and has to run his sister around a little bit too much

I bloody love this thread. I'm with Margot, I read something on MN and find myself doubting my parenting decisions.

I'm torn between being a "cooking from scratch" breadbaking, milk and water offering, sweet controller, knit my own yogurt kind of parent, to being a shove-it-in-the-oven, Dolmio eating, "here's your second pack of Iced Gems and a Fruit Shoot", Greggs sausage roll for lunch kind of parent.

I've never limited "screen time", DS has watched CBeebies since he could sit up and his brain hasn't turned to mush yet. TV was my babysitter when I was little, while my mum got on with the gardening or did the washing, I watched it for hours and I survived.

I love cooking and usually cook a homemade meal most nights, except for a frozen pizza the day before we get our shopping. I do this for months at a time, then get to a point where I can't be arsed and completely go the other way, stocking up on Dolmio, eating fish fingers and potato waffles, and baking a cake using a Betty Crocker mix. I have to remind myself sometimes that no-one is actually going to walk into my kitchen and pat me on the back for making a homemade bolognese rather than using a jar, and JO isn't going to come to my house and tell me off for feeding DS chicken nuggets a la Birdseye either. So either way, no-one is RL is going to give a shit so I should just relax a bit.

I would embrace iron-on hemming.

Brilliant.

I hate sewing.

I always wanted one of those K-Tel button popper on things too.

Quality

Walk to the shops??

Or walk anywhere for that matter... Not me! No siree Bob.

Am I detecting some actual, boasty, sanctimony on this thread?

This thread is my spiritual home. None of us are dressed yet, DH is on his DS, I am on the tablet, DC1 is playing Sims on the PC and DC2 playing something or other on the Wii.

We don't plan on doing a great deal else today either. Bit of housey stuff before DH and I go out tonight and leave them with a teenager we barely know.

Armchair nutritionists are my bugbear. The utter obsession with the evils of sweeteners and low fat. Fat doesn't make you fat you know, we need to keep up with the latest research! I like sugar free stuff, it saves calories. There is about as much evidence for aspartame being a health risk as there is for milk being full of pus and antibiotics.

DH is a tailor to trade (really). Not that he tailors things now but chez Scarlett we fully embrace the wundaweb and always have done.

OMG Katie - that is bloody marvellous having a tailor as a husband.

We mothers of the 60's and 70's were as free as all of you too!

Now our children call us ignorant!

They mock our 70's recipes and shudder at the good old staple ,the fishfinger.Sugar is THE DEVIL!

Sharper than a serpents tooth it is to be lectured and have E-numbers read out to you! Never mind that you all have your own teeth still land have managed to survive.

Wish we could be here to see how the 'Organic ' children will judge their Mums. (lighthearted!!!,smiley yellow grin emotiocon)

Salmo and Katie - are you prepared to fight for the honour of wundaweb, though, for our delight and delectation?

I'd be happy to arrange matters - I could be the Don King of MN. Working on the hair.

This thread has made me laugh.

However I am very proud of my homemade potato wedges . Obviously they are just potatoes cut up and shoved in the oven but take so much more effort than going to the freezer.

Always talc

Salmo he is a tailor who hates sewing and has spent years telling other people how to do it. We do not own a sewing machine and he has made nada for the house, ever.

"The Tailors Wife" disappointment in textile based kitchen sink drama, out in 2015 by Scarlettofthewundaweb

See I would fight my corner Talc... But I would probably end up tangled in a sea of WundaWeb.

I love cooking 'from scratch' - I'm not sanctimonious about it though...

Bacon, egg and toast is cooking from scratch isn't it??

Thank God, I'm home. And I don't even have kids yet.

I love cooking / baking BUT the trade off is DH does all the cleaning / washing / ironing of essential bits like work uniform. I have far too much dignity to do that spend time ironing underwear (like MIL).

When we have kids, I have already told DH I want every bloody drug going, c-section on demand, sproglette washed and dried before being dumped on my chest (blood and vernix is icky) and if breast feeding is so great, then he can feel free. I'm bottle feeding.

And if the lunch box police come knocking, I already have my Look perfected to cow them into submission. Nowt wrong with a corned beef buttie on white bread.

Well that's just rubbish Katie - like the cobblers children going shoeless.

You must LTB etc. etc.

Also I do it for time - I can cook a stuffed and wrapped chicken breast in 20-25 minutes. Frozen ones take 40-45 mins! I'd starve before I ate...

Corned beef -and haslet in the same thread

Life just doesn't get any better does it?

loving this thread

I have frozen mash in my freezer - I am going to hell

oh and aspartame isn't going to kill you - so there

I'm sorry but I don't think you belong here AuntieDee

Even better, potted haugh no disrespect to the corned beef and hazlet as both yum
My local work cafe sells this in little dishes to take away. Fantastic. I can really get on board with other people cooking from scratch, especially if they cook stuff that's full of delicious badness.

God I haven't even seen potted haugh for years!

The drugs do work wyld

They would have had to cut the gas n air sucker thing out of my cold, dead gob before I would have handed it over. And diamorphine is fantastic stuff.

Salmotrutta, in honour of this thread I'm buying corned beef for butties. I'm then going to do some "from scratch" cooking but make it bloody delicious unhealthy as hell. So pulled pork with cider, chips and buttered peas. And sod it, ice cream (cause I can put rum in it). But I'm gonna do it in my stained dressing gown with no knickers on and a bottle of wine with a straw in one hand =D

Katie, DH did point out childbirth is not an appropriate reason to try heroin (ie diamorphine). I told him the day he shat a watermelon by "breathing deeply" and "imagining the pain floating away" and maybe having a bath that I would reconsider my druggy stance.