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 :(

There is nothing wrong with wheat or sugar often wonder if the people who complain about it are faddy eaters there fore they project it onto their childrens diet throw in a few bits of veg and fruit and their diet is fine.

Disappointed is batshit crazy, don't take any notice people.

OP, it's fine honestly!

If I had to compare our diet to anything it's probably similar to 70's/early 80's. Home cooked food with a decent quantity of carbs and fat, occassional take out. Snacks mostly savoury stodge like toast, crumpets etc. More down to our taste though than avoiding chocolate etc.
Plus we eat when we're hungry, although that's usually around the same time most days, sometimes it's at odd times.

I don't give mine juice or raisins and chocolate biscuits would be an occasional treat rather than every day, but mine probably eat similarly to the OP.

Yesterday they had:
Rice crispies, milk and a banana for breakfast
Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, olives, quavers and chopped up apples/grapes for lunch
Ice creams mid afternoon
Macaroni cheese and peas for tea

Food is much more heavily messed around with now. Oven chips are battered (added wheat to something that doesn't need it), whippy ice cream (more unneeded wheat) etc

Only if you're buying messed around with food. The oven chips I buy are not "battered" and have no wheat, but generally I make chips with potatos. Regular ice cream doesn't contain any wheat.

You can't search out the crappiest food and use it as justification that all food is now crap. Just buy real food. Eat that and stop whining.

Disappointed is batshit crazy, don't take any notice people.

WTF?! Yeah, wanting to eat real food is really crazy.

You can't search out the crappiest food and use it as justification that all food is now crap. Just buy real food. Eat that and stop whining.

I chose 2 things that are probably eaten by most children in the land. How many people actually look at the labels of what they're feeding their kids?!

Rice crispies, milk and a banana for breakfast
Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, olives, quavers and chopped up apples/grapes for lunch
Ice creams mid afternoon
Macaroni cheese and peas for tea

Again, not a single vegetable.

(Peas not really counting as a vegetable.)

But wheat has been a part of the human diet for ages. I've been to rural villages in Nepal and India. Many people eat the same food everyday. Daal baat. Every single day.
Yes and there's millions of children around the world who don't get enough to eat.

Why aren't peas a vegetable

it's not too bad assuming that you don't give them strawberries year round, they are only good for about four weeks in the summer.

raisins are concentrated sugar so easy on those. Watch teeth.

normal bread better than bagels which can also be sugared.

if they've no wheat sensitivity, eat it.

Lol at mumsnet. Of course that is fine. Lol at raison though.

I've got a son who eats no fruit, one who eats no veg. Both over six foot tall slim healthy and alive

Just relax.

Can't remember details now, but I heard ages ago about where they'd tested some children with dx autism affecting their eating habits, resulting in super restricted unbalanced diets and found that contrary to expectations they were all healthy, and the parents mainly wanted diet change for social ease not nutrition.

Most posters, when asked what their kids eat will give a list of what they actually cook and serve; not what they kids actually eat. There's a difference. I used to knock myself out cooking the most balanced meals I could think of, but; you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink...

Corn is a starch, peas are a pulse.

Sounds perfectly nutritious and very similar to what we are yesterday except my bologna use was from the chiller section so you are doing better than I am op!