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?

living and sea - big up to both of you.

I didn't manage breast feeding with one of mine.

And I used to give my DC juice.

How d'Ya like them apples MN? Eh?

Errm if you could just stop stroking your pussy and concentrate on the thread you started....

And who made you the thread police Worra??????

Doesn't anyone just give their kids a roll with a bit of processed ham in it anymore?

Shock horror - I didn't want to Breast feed, how evil am I!

She had squash... IN A BOTTLE. And now drinks smoothies. And will only drink milk if it's in sugary chocolate form.

Pretty sure that's criminal in some MN circles.

Oh you did really wind but the patriarchy made you believe your bosoms were for sexy times and not mummies milk dispensers.

A roll? Processed ham? That's evil, surely?

I drank tea as a child and I'd never encountered all these people agonising about tannin absorption until I joined MN.

I can concentrate Worra... if I choose to...

sea - rock on!

And I used to give my kids burgers when CJD hysteria was at its height in the 1980s.

I drank coffee before I could pronounce it properly - don't think I turned out too bad!!

Processed ham is a step up from what I got as a child. We got luncheon meat or sandwich spread.

Lucymam - I loved luncheon meat as a kid, used to fold it in half and make patterns in it!!

I'm going to sleep now and seeing as though my kids are 23yrs, 15yrs and 12yrs, they're too old to come in and disturb me.

Therefore I will sleep on the cold, bare floor because what sort of mother would I be if I had a comfortable night's sleep??

None of them will be here for breakfast in the morning but rather than have a lie in, I will set the clock for 5am and batch cook 3 meals a day for the entire month of March, before prowling the streets to look for a violent, sweary woman to befriend because she's probably just having a bad day and I've only seen a tiny snapshot of her life, while she's calling her children little fucking shits at the top of her voice.

Love from
St Worra of the Liberty xxx

Although anything that gets described as meat, rather than a specific type of meat, is highly dubious.

They sell spam sandwiches at the café opposite my work.

I imagine the arteries of the clientèle are permanently hardened.

Worra - I would bow to your saintliness. Really I would.

But, you see, my DC are older than yours.

Which means I have been a mum for longer.

There fore I am better than you

Worral I was in my local FarmFooda earlier today today when a woman at another checkout told her toddler "shut the fuck up or I will slap you" think we are all doing ok

We used to get haselet in our sandwiches as a treat. Can't remember what we had ordinarily. I saw some haselet in the reduced section the other day (14p!!!) and of course bought it and it still tastes as good as all those years ago.

Have to disagree with the 'in the good old days kids were in their own beds' stuff though - most people, in most of the world, for most of human history, slept altogether as a family. Certainly in my dad's 'good old days' it would have been considered very unusual for children to be expected to sleep in their own room - because they didn't have one! It's a recent middle-class fad to have a room just for children.

I didn't breastfeed and my kids are fine. And no way would I have let them in my bed. I was so bad tempered in the middle of the night they knew to shout for dh and leave me well alone.
And ds1drank milk from a baby bottle until he was four.
It feels good to say this now.
Sho is asleep on the sofa so I'll sneak past him with my can of fat boy coke and get the bed to myself.
Loving this thread.

Sho? Husband.

But... how did they make the Ketchips without them costing £4 each? What a faff! (for the poor people in the factory who were poking ketchup down inside chips from scratch)

We have chocolate milk, fish fingers, ready made quiche and veggieburgers, frozen kievs, alphabites etc. in stock. The funny thing is though I believe myself to cook from scratch all the time - though maybe that's because it takes soooooo looooooong - and I'm a good cook and know how to make loads of things. But when you work and have DC you have to sling something frozen in the oven on at least some nights, unless you have servants.

I can't stand the word "offered" on MN though - "DS's school offers salad and baked potatoes" aaaararrrrrrtgggfggggghhh. Don't know why it just makes me fume.

"I offered her a chocolate" - fine.
"We offer only milk or water with meals" - sounds smug and gives me the rage.

I love haslet!!!

I want some now...

And the chances of finding a 24 hour shop in rural Scotland are very slim.

Salmotrutta, I would give you some of my haslet (can't believe I spelt it wrong ) but, er, a big boy came and ate it all.

Look, it was going out of date, alright? It had to be eaten that day otherwise I might have died of botullism!

What's Haslet? Have heard of it but no idea what it is

Salmuttra - you will have to settle for square sausage and tatie scones instead