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?

Sorry - missed off that YADDDDDNBU. Your DH on the other hand needs to unbunch his Y-Fronts before they cause him an injury.

YY crownjewel

I was brought up on Fray Bentos pies, Sainsbury's suet steak and kidney puddings, beans on toast and meat and two veg type things cooked by my mum.

I also ate 70s school dinners - my favourite was beef cobbler followed by jam roly poly with custard.

My mum was keen on suet and I've carried on the tradition

From the late 70s my mum branched out into Buitoni tinned ravioli, Findus Crispy Pancakes, Findus French Bread Pizzas and M&S lasagne.

Like you, I thrived. I am a size 8 and was congratulated last week by my GP about my level of good cholesterol versus bad and liver and kidney function which she put down to my good diet.

So ner ner ner ner with knobs on to people who drone on about their tip-top diets.

I realise that's childish

Ah Limited how did I manage to forget the Findus crispy pancakes and French bread pizzas? Do they still make them? must Google so that I can treat the kids this weekend if anywhere still sells them

Strikethrough fail

Its bloody Spaghetti hoops on toast not a Deep fried Mars Bar and a can of Monster! Tell him to get a grip. Sounds a bit of a control freak IMO.

crownjewel My favourite dinner was beef and onion Findus Crispy Pancake, mashed potatoes and frozen peas.

I loved French Bread Pizzas but I'd pick off the bits of red pepper because I thought they were wrong.

Even now, when I am terribly sophisticated , I maintain that red pepper on pizza is wrong.

Mmmm fray bentos with the soggy bottom

And crispy top

Mmmmmm, hoops on buttered toast-bloody gorgeous.
One of my favourite naughty meals is fish fingers, chips & hoops-has to be hoops, spaghetti is just not the same.

Ooh I love a good MN food snobbery thread. It's like inverted Jeremy Kyle.

"There's nothing wrong with a sausage roll...." Wait for the patronising caveat........ "occasionally"

Ask Heinz how many little tins of those pasta shapes they sell, and ask Warburton's how much white bread they sell compared to brown bread. The vast majority of kids have this kind of stuff all the time. All. The. Time.

Wherever you read on here, there are millions of children who are just plain fussy. My siblings all were. They lived off fish fingers, sausages and cheese on white toast. They're now all size-8 whippets.

Give your kids noodle doodles OP and stop worrying.

lol at this thread. As Tracey says a good ole food snobbery thread.

I won't even go into what my DC eat, suffice to say that spag hoops on toast with boiling sausage is a favourite........weekly.......I do like to mix it up a bit with fish fingers, smiley faces etc

I don't mind it, prefer beans on toast though. Other things you can put on toast to replace it.
Fried/scrambled egg
just honey
Hommus and avocado
sardines and chilli (maybe not for kids with the chilli)
Or spinach which is so nice on toast. I use frozen spinach. Cook garlic, onion, tomatoe and pepper, I also add chilli but you don't have to. Then add the spinach wait till it cooks down with no water left.

Do you mean tinned/vac packed hot dog sausages Funnys? My DS loves those. A couple of those in a white bread roll with oven fries and he's a happy boy. I quite like them too. With loads of ketchup.

YADNBU to feed them hoops on buttered toast every so often , just not every day and yes, it is one of the food of the gods

I love HM cottage pie as well. If he continues to complain, he can do the meal planning, shopping and cooking, can't he? :-D

Spinach on toast?

I'm just picturing my dcs face if I presented them with this

I love me some spinach, but on toast in place of hoops? Nope.

There is nothing wrong with this lunch, I have a fussy toddler and a newborn and I don't have time to chef all 3 meals every day, lunch is either healthy leftovers, a sandwich of some sort or beans/hoops/in the night garden spaghetti on buttered toast.

I am same as crown jewel. I was raised on crispy pancakes. There was a 4 year period where I was picked up by my nan I had crispy pancakes and waffles every DAY. I grew up ultra skinny and ultra healthy. Maybe that is the secret ;)

What exactly is wrong with a lazy lunch? Where is the sin? Do we need to all break our backs to prove that we are good parents now?

Seriously outside of Mumsnet people are living life and this is the least of their worries

I bet half the parents that say this are either overweight or do very little exercise.

Pepperoni - I certainly didn't see the phrase 'lazy lunch' as having negative connotations - you are absolutely right that there is no sin in not breaking our backs all the time, to be perfect.

I believe that common sense is what matters, with diet. For example - it probably wouldn't be good for you to have takeaway for lunch and dinner every day - but the occasional one will do no harm. And yes, cake may not contain lots of good-for-us nutrients, but it can make us happy, and so a bit of cake every now and then will help our mental health without destroying our physical health.

As long as most of what we eat comes from the 'good' lists, the odd thing here and there from the eeeeeevil side will do no harm.

I'm actually wondering how those of us born in the 70s / 80s are still here.

Packed lunch for me was:

• White bread sandwich (cheese & pickle; ham salad)
• Crisps
• Capri Sun / Twist & Squeeze / Fizzy pop
• Apple / banana

My lunch was more healthy than most of my friends because it had at some point encountered a fruit / vegetable. Jam sandwiches & Panda Kola were not uncommon.

Weekends were pizza rolls; tinned ravioli; Scotch pie and beans (worth revisiting btw, but go to a good butcher who makes their own, rather than that supermarket shite ); bacon rolls etc...

I'm not for a minute suggesting that it's good to go back to those days, but in the great scheme of things it's a single lunch.

Of course we probably did run about outside a bit more than kids today (fuelled by all that sugar and E numbers ).

Bug - my parents were semi hippies. School lunch here was:

• tuna and cucumber sandwich. Whole grain bread
• pot of chickpeas and other cooked beans, plus carrot
• banana
• kit Kat ( not complete hippies!)

Can't believe I just did an entire Tesco order and forgot to order hoops.

nope. Shepard's pie is a good all round meal if there's a couple of portions of veg! Potatoes have plenty of vits and minerals in (potassium, vit C and B6 are the highest) also, its only fatty and salty if you add it in. keep the skin on them next time and claim its roughage ;) and kids need the little extra fat in their diets and salt is also essential but lower doses.

Please don't tell me he's eating 'clean' I am really hating on this 'eat clean' thing and the eat raw! sheesh just call it a bloody salad!