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.

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 the bell peppers are clearly important...

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

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.

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 (?!).

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

Was it homemade olive oil though?

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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.