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 :(

No. I'm saving it for a night when I can't sleep.

I really don't think the majority of people plan their meals so they haven't got too much wheat or whatever!!! Who has time to do that?

Also, as long as children are brushing their teeth properly,there is no problem with eating raisins etc! Everything in moderation.

Having said that, my eldest son (22, student) has lived on s diet of mashed potato ,no vegetables and sausages and or fish fingers for the last 15 or so years, and is fit and healthy.

I love the MN worthiness over food. The kale munchers are the ones who scoff biscuits at parties when their mummies aren't looking. Of course, mummy would never believe this but hey ho. Balance diet for mine; sometimes they have pizza, sometimes they eat chick peas and rice cakes. I am wary of eating disorders, Anorexia is the single biggest psychiatric killer.

Just want to add I read an article recently in which it talks about the rise in kidney stones as a direct result of the new obsession with v high protein diets... All things in moderation is the best way imho

Disappointed why do you have such a bee in your bonnet about other peoples diets?

All things in moderation is the best way imho

Absolutely. I'm not sure where this view that I'm obsessed is coming from. I don't feed my child wheat at every meal. Our family diet is based around real food. She eats lots of fresh fruit and veg (that bit is easy as she loves it) and good quality protein. Good job given what the Government considers it appropriate to feed growing children. She's currently eating a small chocolate bar.

It's all good.

Disappointed why do you have such a bee in your bonnet about other peoples diets?

I don't. Why do you think I do?

coeliac or not too much wheat in our diets it has little nutritional value there are better grain alternatives out there

Tbf every post you mentioned wheat as if it was poison to some people who are allergic it is but you seem to have a wheat thing going on a packet of mini cheddars and a digestive sent you into a spiel about wheat.

Because you sound as if you do; giving wheat the brush off using dubious 'studies' and being dismissive of other parental choices of diet.

Glutten free is a fad wheat free is a fad a balance of food especially for children is the way to feed them ime

Ok babyboos tell me why my diet and my dds would be improved if I reduced my large wheat consumption and substituted better grains.

Peas and sweetcorn better count as veg, as that carrots and peppers are pretty much the only veg my kids eat.

I'd give that diet a 3 out of ten.

Yesterday I had buckwheat pancakes with blueberries and coconut yog for breakfast. Snack of carrot sticks and celery. Lunch a kale salad with almonds tonatoes, cado olives etc and for dinner mung beans wrapped in nori with sawerkrat.

Modern wheat isn't good for people and isn't good for the environment.

Peas count as both a pulse and vegetable, actually. And they contain excellent nutrients, as well as lots of vit k and c, lots of b vits, they also have coumestrol (which protects against stomach cancers supposedly), saponins and alpha linolenic acid. They are an excellent vegetable and we should all eat more peas.
They're enviromentally friendly as well. Don't diss the peas.

Cornis technically a grain, a vegetable and a fruit.

Anyway vegetable only means "plant matter used as food".

I have no idea how so many of us managed to get through the 70s and 80s and survived intact and relatively healthy!

Based on MN diets none of us should be here!

Hulababy - have you not heard of the huge rise in diabetes dementia and cancer?!

Wow unlucky I don't think the Op asked for marks out of 10 did she? You sound quite smug!

have you not heard of the huge rise in diabetes dementia and cancer?

What huge rise? Source? What evidence do you have that this supposed rise is due to wheat or whatever?