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 :(

If people ate porridge and oatcakes 3x a day I'd think that wasn't ideal, either.
It's just that wheat is the easiest one to eat a huge amount of in western Europe.
I don't think eating cassava 3x/day is great in Africa, or heaps of rice 3x/day in Asia. People eat like that because of poverty not choice. They also tend to eat small and moderate amounts, not over-fed (over-exposed) & under-active like us in the West.

I thought that the myth of the Med. diet was that Italians don't actually eat that much pasta... they get more calories from oil, vegs, fish & meat than is suggested by how the Med diet is popularly presented. Anyone read the Inspector Montalbano books? He gushes on about veg in oil and seafood.. Pasta is a small feature. Think he might live on coffee & tobacco otherwise.

I have never suffered IBS.

disappointed absolutely agree but many parents fail on that front, including my own. I grew up on oven chips...

I sometimes think that the really evangelical judgy healthy eating types on MN are as they are because the inside of their head looks a bit like this:

God I hate raw carrot. I ate fucking quinoa for breakfast. QUINQOA for fucks sake. There must be a reason why I'm doing this that makes me superior to all others. OK, let's say this will magically make me feel much better in some undefined way. If not what's the point? OH GOD, WHAT'S THE POINT?

Poster is found in a sugar coma face down in a pile of Krispy Kremes.

mmmmm Krispy Kremes. Wow the strawberry one

I have never had a Krispy Kreme. I fear that if it start, I may never stop. They look fucking amazing.

Doughnuts are about the only junk food I don't really like. I do not need to change that.

Part of me thinks that it is the right thing to do Reluctant but then again they are amazing. Im not a big fan of doughnuts in general, but I do like a Krispy Kreme.

Oh shit.

Today has been Belvita biscuits, yoghurt and then KFC for lunch with DH. Roast chicken tonight with spuds, carrots, broccoli, sweetcorn and cauli.

At least one meal a day if I am cooking involves something frozen like chicken or fish fingers and waffles. The other may well involve eggs or be a sandwich.

I think it's a bit unfair to say those of us who eat well are evangelical about it. Eat what you like but don't con yourself that the average diet which leads to 60% of the country being fat and loads of diabetes, depression, dementia, obesity is fine.

it's a matter of habit. I genuinely do not like doughnuts. I geneuilne love the eggs I had for lunch or the smoked oysters with mixed salad last night which I am drooling over. My sons have just walked to Waitrose (although God knows why they want a repeat of last weekend - walking home with heavy bags but that's teenagers for you and I suppose we could all do with walking long distances with heavy weights) and I am pretty sure they will also buy good foods entirely their choice and with no restrictions. You just get used to good food which makes you feel good.

I don't think the two always go together,
There are people why eat well and people who are evangelical about food- sometimes they overlap.
Wheat has been a staple in the diet for 100s of years. It is like anything else- eat in moderation.

Oh god Red. So your diet analysis was for real. You accused the OP of trying to win an award for junk sugar. But no, no evangelical zeal at all.

I don't think anyone piss takes about people who do eat good diets and have good eating habits. It's when people start getting preachy about their own badly informed views being good it gets backs up. Tell me you eat a shit diet, such as all processed foods or very low/ no carbs, that's your decision, bit silly but doesn't bother me. Get evangelical about how superior your diet is and imply others should ignore scientific fact and follow your own ill conceived nutrition advice and I'm going to find that quite funny.
You'll notice too that people who eat chips everday, 8 bags of crisps, 2l of coke etc don't generally go round preaching their diet is great. By comparison the ones at the other end of the scale who have mad ideas about avoiding carbs, or saturated fat etc tend to preach their dodgy diet is great.

I am right, that's all there is to it, but people can eat what they want. Why bother about what other people say or think? At least most of us have enough food.

at I am right, that's all there is to it . That attitude must stand you in good stead.

I'm grateful that I can eat whatever I want though. Phew.

Why are carbs bad? The governent my plate recommend them at every meal? Also the nhs 0-5 book recommend them at every meal and snack for young children don't they?

Yes, the NHS is about 20 years behind current science. It will take a generation before they realise good fats are good for healthy and their sugar pushing has increased the NHS workload so much.

usual confusion re carbs.

simple carbs: sugar, cakes, biscuit, innocent smoothies cereal bars. Eat limited quantities, much less than most of us do. Obvious really.
complex carbs: grains, part of veg and so on. Eat. Essential.

this is the NHS advice. it is even Atkins' advice.

fat doesn't make you fat. Eating more than you burn off makes you fat.

red you aren't right, the problem is you think you are, when really you clearly don't understand much about the human body.