To not understand why people feel the need to lie about what their children really eat.

[SteamedVeg]

Giving your child the odd bit of sugar doesn't make you a bad parent. If were honest we all do it, so why the need to lie about it and make those that openly admit to giving their children the odd chocolate digestive or glass of coke feel like they are damaging their childrens health in some way.

This is what my 3 dd's have had to eat today, feel free to point out where I'm going wrong.
7am Decaf cup of tea made with whole milk (no sugar)
8am Weetabix with sliced banana, table spoon of fresh blueberries with whole milk. (eldest aged 9 had 2 weetabix younger 2 had 1 weetabix, I used 1 large banana between them)
12:15pm Steamed broccoli and carrots (fresh not frozen) with left over roast chicken from last night, with a glass of water.
1:40pm An icecream picked out by each child and a bottle of water from tesco express after they scooted 1.3 miles there to buy some bell peppers to use in tonights dinner. Then 1.3 miles home again where they were given another bottle of cold water from the fridge.
Dinner will be 5:30pm and consist of chicken fajitas (No oil used chicken breasts diced then cooked in oven bag with 3 fresh sliced bell peppers and fresh mixed herbs and dry spices.) served with a mixed leaf salad, cherry tomatoes, celery, cucumber, spring onion, sliced radishes and red peper. Salad cream and a homemade honey mustard dressing will be in the middle of the table to help yourself to. A glass of orange juice mixed with sparkling water to drink.
Pudding is fresh fruit salad made from strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, kiwi, water melon and nectarine. (No sugar, juice or cream will be added.)

They have also had blackcurrent squash today.

[DJThreeDog]

In my experience, the only people that criticize are:

a) not parents
b) parents of very small children
c) MN keyboard warriors.

Oh behave Charis. Perfect example of c).

OP, I really don't know why you let any comments bother you? You clearly can see your children are not overweight, randoms that get a ten second snapshot of your day should be ignored.

[BeyondTheWall]

Hang on. "An icecream picked out by each child"?

They had what my ds2 calls a 'two-icecream', didnt they?

[kitnkaboodle]

Whatever the reason for posting, the obsessiveness over details is quite worrying. And anyone outraged by kids eating an ice cream in the summer holidays is either a. Mad or b. Made up

[Charis1]

Blimey... if I gave my ds that amount of fruit & veg in one day, he'd have the shits for a week

agree this is a very high sugar diet, (its the sugar that causes that, largely)

This Op doesn't make any sense at all, as she is claiming not to give her children too much sugar, while listing that she gives them too much sugar.

and the fuss about the minuscule amount of exercise they did indicates they are not exercising enough either. why would you even notice 1.3 miles? why would you measure it? that is just a very less than average "pop to the shops" not something that counts towards any sort of exercise total, if that is ALL they did, very worrying.

I did wonder if this was some sort of bizarre reverse, but can't see the point, so maybe this is someone trying to excuse and minimise her children's problems with being over weight?

maybe she genuinely can't see why they are over weight, and is trying to abdicate responsibility for it?

[PushAPushPop]

Blimey... if I gave my ds that amount of fruit & veg in one day, he'd have the shits for a week

[Everythinghaschanged]

So complete strangers commented within your earshot on your children eating an ice cream in the summer holidays?

Why would they do that?

Also I don't know anyone who would ever bring up the topic of 'the obesity crisis' in real life. Especially if they had just nipped out to tescos.

[WixingMords]

Was it homemade olive oil though?

[CorporationPop]

I can't believe the hysteria over what food & drink your DC are supposed to, or not supposed to eat thesedays.

Next you'll be telling me that bottled water sourced from volcanic rock is bad for them, because its got fossilized dinosaur shit in it

[Mrsfrumble]

The OP was a bit confusing. There's a disconnect between the title, the very detailed list of what her children ate, and what seemed to be her actual complaint: strangers commenting on the DCs eating ice cream.

The obesity remark was rude and uncalled for, but it would still have been rude and uncalled for if the OP's children had eaten nothing but deep fried mars bars at home. Commenting on what strangers are eating is impolite regardless of how much sugar they actually consume and whether they tell the truth about it (?!).

[mysticlogistic]

Yourallbonkers , Its nuts isn't it, like specifying which water was cold and which water was bottled, Im surprised she diddnt specify the brand of juice.

[Nettymaniaa]

I might be a little stupid but I don't see the point of the post.

[PaulAnkaTheDog]

youareallbonkers the bell peppers are clearly important...

[MoralityPlay]

Really? Someone actually said "Mothers like her causing the obesity crisis" while they walked past two kids having an ice cream. That's really, really unbelievable.

[youareallbonkers]

I dont understand why people need to post a list of things they claim to feed their children to get validation from a bunch of randomers but there you go. Also is it necessary to type bell peppers, surely peppers would suffice?

[mysticlogistic]

Worst stealth boast Ive seen for some time.
What are you doing wrong? Caring this much about what other people think about what your children eat and drink and whether the water is bottled or cold or not (I don't know you or your children, I would only be concerned if it was dirty?), Feeling the need to validate what you're feeding them by posting diaries of it online?
Im not sure how old your children are but why are you giving them tea?

[GreenSkittles]

Well my DCs had Domino's pizza for lunch and if they don't get home soon, they will be having Ginsters pasties for dinner or whatever else they can dig out of the fridge. I am also considering buying a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts tomorrow. No guilt pangs over here whatsoever!

[Eva50]

Ds3 (9) has just had an ice cream cone with a flake whilst walking round Tesco. We didn't scoot their, we went by car and it wasn't to get bell peppers but a bottle of wine (well, that's grape juice isn't it). If anyone commented on his ice cream I didn't notice but would have informed them that it was to wash down the chicken burger he had for his lunch.

I have never had any comments from anyone about what my dcs are consuming.

[PoppyFleur]

Olive oil turns to trans fat only when repeatedly reused and heated to very high temperatures. The smoke point of olive oil falls between 365 and 400 degrees Fahrenheit, so unless you are deep frying everything in industrial deep fat fryers (in which case you have bigger problems!) a bit of olive oil does no harm.

[MummyPig24]

I've never had anyone criticise my children's diet, but I suspect no one else cares, just like I couldn't give a flying one what their kids eat.

Shreddies/coco pops, Apple/banana for breakfast.

Big two had a biscuit at holiday club, little one had a biscuit at home.

Big two were taken out for lunch by my aunt as I have a sickness bug and they had bacon baguettes and ice cream. Little one had raisins, a satsuma, a pancake and a yoghurt. Basically anything I could manage to fling his way.

Dinner was fish fingers, chips and broccoli followed by a mini muffin.

I know it's crap but you can't make a judgement based on one day. And I wouldn't judge other's based on one day.

[ImNotCrazy]

Blimey...do people really care? Today DS rejected his breakfast of frosties and milk but managed a yoghurt drink. Had a sausage roll, half a packet of crisps and a fruit shoot for lunch (must win some sort of anti-MN award for that). BBQ for tea so he'll probably just graze on salady stuff because he likes that. Usually eats better but we're staying with family and its the summer holidays so it's fine, who can be arsed to stress about it, it must be exhausting to analyse it all the time.

[ThatBloodyWoman]

Olive oil is good for you,as is frozen veg because its frozen quickly after picking rather than be transported 85000000000000000 miles, irradiated,coated in wax,then sat on a supermarket shelf for weeks.

Tonight we have organic potatoes fresh my my garden.

[BlackeyedSusan]

It is a case of eating healthily as they can without risking them going daft for sweets and stuff later in life as they had no treats when little. like I did

also with things lile weetabix, there quite a bit of difference between how much sugar is in the different brands/generics and I prefer the sugary one, annoyingly

[MrsKoala]

I thought oil was good for you. Surely we all need 'good fats'. My dc eat sugar all the time. i need it for bribery purposes. Today ds1 has had 1 cookie from Lidl, 1 chocolate finger and 1 jammy dogder. This has been a surprisingly sugar free day.

Not sure whether you were expecting some kind of pat on the back, but you must realise comments like (not frozen) and (no oil - which sounds fucking foul tbh) is a dig at those of us who may use frozen veg and oil and it seems like you are putting others down to make yourself feel better.

I actually eat a low carb, low sugar, high fat diet and i think your menu is full of sugar and no where near enough fat. Having said that, i'd be happy if ds1 would eat it.

[googoodolly]

Oh FFS, olive oil in a pizza base once in a while is NOT bad for you.

hides empty Kettle Chips bag and Galaxy Caramel wrappers

[Wheredidiputthekeys]

The part I am struggling to reconcile myself with is if your DDs are generally on 25th centile for height and weight, clearly they aren't in the high BMI range. This would suggest the reference to obesity clearly wasn't aimed at the children or food diary was stealthboast.

Your username suggests food issues may be at the root of this. I may hoik judgy pants at babies with squash in bottles (friend at primary school aged 6 had all her milk teeth out because of this), but actually how other people feed their kids is none of my business. How I feed mine is entirely my business, and unless they start falling off charts or failing to thrive it's no one elses business.