to think there's nothing wrong with hoops on buttered toast for lunch?

[OstentatiousBreastfeeder]

It's not great, wholesome nutritious food is it. But it's nice, and comforting, and the weather's shit outside and they like it! And it's hardly a bucket of KFC.

Well, DH disagrees, and has just had a huff at me on the phone because I'm 'feeding the children crap all the time'

He's been on a health kick for the past month - homemade raw muesli for breakfast, the works. This has prompted a few discussions about the family's eating habits as a whole recently and he feels we could all do better. I agreed, and we've been reigning in the sugar, adding more veg etc.

But apparently these devil-hoops and the shepherd's pie I made for dinner last night are just a couple of examples of how I'm not really listening to his concerns. I don't really understand how a plate of homemade shepherd's pie and a pile of fresh veg doesn't constitute as at the very least wholesome food, but maybe I'm dead wrong.

So AIBU in thinking a can of spaghetti hoops on some buttered toast is the food of Gods?, along with a varied and healthy diet (aside from the plainly unhealthy shepherd's pie ), is perfectly fine, and that he needs to unbunch his Y-fronts?

Brown bread toast is the equivalent of penitent scourging along the Via Dolorosa to me.

Wholemeal is not a lot better.

White all the way.

Come on, surely it was obvious that the SS suggestion was sarcasm? Should've put the in. I usually do

Come now. They're not fed crap, are they?

Being fed crap would be being served up actual crap, or shit, on a shovel. Though the shit of herbivores is often recycled by those herbivores to extract every ounce of yummy goodness.

Maybe OP could serve up insects in a sweet tomatoey sauce. They are terribly nutritious. Especially on artisan wholemeal bread.

Sorry, I was distracted by a chunky peanut butter kitkat & overlooked the protocol. OK, two of them, but in my defence they have got a lot smaller.

I got that it was sarcasm but I didn't think it was remotely relevant.

Artisan bread! Bet all the dentists & married to dentists are rubbing their hands.

'I got that it was sarcasm but I didn't think it was remotely relevant.'

Sorry, should we slow down for you?

Youre unreasonable for not putting grated cheese on top but apart from that, all good.

Toot, that's disgusting, learn some self control..... she judges whilst reaching for a third ASDA jam dounut.....

The irony of this thread when there are so many kids in the world dying for want of food. Tell him to get over himself. Load of middle class angst.

The OP asked if she was unreasonable and I think she was.

The DH didn't mention SS and neither did I, but you persist in making "hilarious" comments about calling them

I can't believe someone would tell a parent they were being 'unreasonable' for serving their child spaghetti hoops on toast.

You really think it's reasonable to judge someone as being 'unreasonable' on the grounds they fed their children spaghetti hoops? Get over yourself! Do you never risk it all & have a meal that isn't balanced & including all the correct nutrition?

Yes, I do sometimes but not all the time and the DHs comment combined with the bread indicates this is certainly frequent.

talentedmrsripley you have a humour bypass & an attitude to life that is far too serious. I prescribe a Big Mac and a large Sauvignon Blanc.

Somebody likened it here to KFC, totally different food and prepared differently . It's fine op, your kids are fed and happy, that's all that matters.

Oi, I never said it was white! Just 'buttered'.

Its kingsmill 50/50

Fair enough OP Perhaps you need to thrash this one out with DH.

I was raised (no pun intended) on white bread. It does zero harm in the long term, the husband here is on his high horse. If it's not 'good enough', the husband should do it himself, all the meals. It's not a bloody health-kick farm the OP is running, as long as the children are healthy and not obese, what does it really matter? Wholemeal bread, shown to the 'proper butter', with a baby spoon of low fat beans is very naice and healthy, and boring, and won't add anything significant to your life, excpet your bean/carb-farts are just that little bit more smuggy.

Just don't feed them alphabetti spaghetti...it could spell disaster!

not read thread but hoops is a staple store cupboard in a fix - go too here. I fondly remember them and those ravoli things as a child too. i also thought they had added vits?

Mrsripley sounds a barrel of laughs

I went through a stage of several months or possibly years as a child where I refused to eat anything other than golden syrup on cream crackers for lunch.

I have quite a healthy varied diet now. And surprisingly all my own teeth.

Ravioli, from a tin, now thats a blast from the past. Seem to remember my mum used to heat it till nuclear

Ooh! Tinned ravioli in sweet tomato sauce with crimped edges and unidentifiable brown meat paste inside.

I forgot about how much I loved that.

But it should remain a golden memory. It's always a mistake to go back.