To have thought my dcs diet was ok until I joined mumsnet?

[Meandmygirls2009]

I have always thought my dc ate ok, but since joining mumsnet and reading lots of posts I am worried that I do not feed my dc a healthy diet! Typical day consists of:
Breakfast: bagel and orange juice
Snack: grapes
Lunch: cheese sandwich, mini cheddars, raisons
Snack: 2 chocolate digestives
Dinner: home made spag Bol, strawberries

Does this sound ok? I am worried the daily mini cheddars and digestives are too much after reading what other children eat :(

I absolutely enjoy my food. It tastes as it should because it hasn't been processed to within an inch of its life.

Vitamin C is water soluble and there will be some left in the liquid, even in potato water which I was trained to put in the gravy.

Knowing this doesn't affect my enjoyment of good food and wine!

My kids pull out some veg they don't like so sometimes I use a stick blender to make smooth sauce or soup.

I remember an article in the guardian a while ago saying a big analysis of diets had shown children today don't eat more calories or more sugar than children in the 60s - but they DID do far, far less exercise.

My dad cycled four miles each way to school on his own from age seven. I wouldn't let my ds do that at 7, I don't think.

I felt my DC's health wasn't great and did a tonne of reading.....

I no longer eat wheat. It isn't good for anyone. However, I am very aware the kids don't want to stand out so Iet them eat what they want at school/parties etc.

Yesterday's food:

-eggs in butter, homemade buckwheat pancake with butter and maple syrup, fresh raspberries for breakfast
-lunch - leftover ham and rice pasta with pesto with peppers and avocado on side

• snack - strawberry cream cake (made by granny, proper flour)
• dinner was mince and potatoes and veg, plain yoghurt and fruit

I batch cook so we will have the mince for a few days... It will all go to pot tonight as the kids are out for tea so pizza and sugary ice cream. But it all balances out and I think their home diet is pretty good.

Pasta and flour are made of wheat

Sorry, I just noticed it was rice pasta

Do your research - both sides.

Yes, I know there's wheat in flour... As mentioned, I let the kids have it in small quantities by letting them eat what they want when out. (I really worry about eating disorders - so I choose what they eat at home but don't control of outside home too much)

I don't - and have never had - an eating disorder by the way.

I also don't listen to a word the government says on healthy eating!

Our society is obsessed with food and diet in particular, as this thread proves.

Gone are the days where fruit should be eaten in abundance, now it's ' not too much, the sugar content is terrible' utter madness!

There are children and adults in this wealthy country of ours having to use food banks because they are too poor to shop and buy healthy, fresh meat, veg and fruit.

Have we lost sense of where our priorities lie, yes too much of anything is 'bad' but there are no diets mentioned on this thread that would lead me to worry about whether or not a child is failing to thrive or being neglected.

MN's views on food are one of the weirdest things, eh?

Rice cake munchers - love it.

Plenty of Italians eat pasta everyday, and then mop up the sauce with bread and our life expectancy is ok. I'm not convinced on the evil wheat!

ego haven't read that article (and I think paleo isn't right for kids -way too low carb)

I don't want to post links as there are hundreds of articles on the issue. So I read a lot and made up my own mind. I think that properly made bread is probably ok every so often. But feeding kids wheat products three times a day is not, IMHO, a great idea.

There are scientific experts on both sides.

Pubmed is a great, free, online resource. Start there... I never shove my opinion down peoples' throats but I think eating in this country is generally woeful.

Basic cooking skills should be taught in school. I left school with a tonne of exam results and yet could barely boil an egg. I would love to change that for kids now.

ego what is your problem?! I have explained my eating decisions clearly. I let my kids have occasional wheat as the risk of eating obsessions is greater than the risk from wheat three times a week.

We all weigh up risk every day. That is how I made this particular choice.

Exactly ego. you have made my point for me.

For every expert saying one thing, there is another spouting something else. So as adults, we have to choos for ourselves.

Do your reading

Ha! I wouldn't discuss it. I would quietly sip my gin and check out the tottie

Why is wheat considered so evil? What about barley and oats? I think this is food snobbery of the highest order.

Sigh.... Start with inflammation. Pubmed has the most comprehensive selection of articles. It isn't light reading...

Thereafter we can move on to vegetable oils, please.

Basic cooking skills should be taught in school. I left school with a tonne of exam results and yet could barely boil an egg. I would love to change that for kids now.

Isn't that what parents are for?