beans mash and sausages is a healthy meal

[madhurjazz]

Mother in law thinks its junk food. But the beans contain 1 of your 5 a day, mashed potatoes are just veg and a good source of carbs and the sausages are full of essential protein.

We often have ketchup, this has been shown to reduce many cancers like prostate, and a glass of juice.

Seems healthy to me and not junky.

Oh good, we haven't had a bonkers food thread for a while. I've read hundreds of 'Is this a healthy meal?'threads. The only foods that have never been described as unhealthy in some way are:
Wholemeal porridge
Full fat Greek yoghurt
Grilled or steamed fish
Eggs
Chicken
Leafy green vegetables.
Nuts.

That's it.

Even fruit is out as it's too sugary. Even carrots are too sweet and sweet corn is 'carb heavy'. And it goes without saying that children should never drink anything other than sugar or water.
A PP in all seriousness described chocolate as 'highly dangerous'
When it comes to food, Mumsnet and the real world really do part company.

Sweetcorn is carb heavy eh

The diets the nigella/ HFW lovers look up to are, ironically, full of this stuff- the French, Italians and Spanish eat loads of processed meats, fats, starchy carbs

yes- just call it 'deconstructed cassoulet'...

Oh, I forgot avocados, they're OK as well. And the nuts have to be unsalted obviously.

I remember my parents not letting us eat raisens often as they were bad for our teeth. 30+ years ago. Same with yogurt, we only ever ate plain as it was too like a desert at breakfast time.
So it's not that recent advice.

Orange juice used to be served in tiny glasses as a starter in restaurants as it was so sweet a full glass wasn't recommended.

Other people may have eaten everything in the past, but it still was never advocated as health food.

Avacados used to be fattening not sure whats happened there i blame nigella slap it on a bit of granary toast and its delicious and healthy

The mother was always on some diet or other i can remember the lemon juice diet bottles of that squeezy lemon everywhere

I'm agog too at this thread Yvaine!

And I stifled a snort at Bogeys description of a grilled chicken breast being joyless! So true!!

I don't have anything original to add but I agree 100% with what MrsDeVere and Bogeyface have posted.

Junk food indeed! - normal family meal more like.

The thing is that your MIL would almost certainly have given her children this for dinner at least once a week. Can't you just rebuff her by mentioning all the things your husband ate when he was young?

Ah yes, that lemon cordial! Rose's was it?

You were supposed to drink some of that then nibble something sweet and repeat until you didn't like the sweet taste anymore. Or summat- it was meant to turn you off sugary stuff

But MrsDeVere avocados are good fat you see. Come on, keep up!
Btw, I agree with everything you've said on this thread.

Isn't chicken full of hormones unless it's organic and raised by unicorns MissHoolies?

That's the other thing about the health officionardos on here. They seem to have no concept that people might be limited on what they can spend on food.

There was the long running thread recently that started off from Eat Well For Less where people spend in excess of £200 pw on food and they wanted to cut back so that they could afford other treats as well and there was a hardcore of posted that insisted that the only possible way to eat a healthy diet was to spend eyewatering amounts on organic everything from Waitrose or Ocado and anyone spending less was stuffing their families on chemical laden low welfare junk from Farm Foods because a middle ground doesn't exist, oh no.

My dd wanted to clean eat it costs a bloody fortune she started buying her own food then decided it was to expensive

Just to be clear, in my last post I am not suggesting that a healthy diet, or indeed, food itself is a treat, it's just that the families on EWFL were generally spending a lot of money on treaty junk food and that's what they wanted help with reducing so that they could afford holidays etc.

Of course you're right about the chicken Barbara, only organic is acceptable. I have a friend who grew testicles after eating Tesco value chicken. Sad obviously, but what did she expect eating that muck?!

How did she grow testicles? Was it like cress? On a piece of damp flannel on the windowledge? :o

I don't need anyone to clarify if potatoes are a vegetable or not. I have made my own mind up based on common fact. It grows in the ground, therefore it is no different to eating a carrot, a swede, a squash, a sweet potato or a parsnip. They all have their own unique levels of starch and vitamins and all are good for you when eaten as part of a varied diet.

Eating the tail or ears or snout of a pig is no different to eating it's leg.

Too much angst over food- just eat lots of veg and you'll be fine.

On the back of this thread we are having sausage and mash for dinner.

I may buy Richmond sausages, even though I hate them, in order to see if I can feel the conniption fits going on as my kids put the hateful things into their mouths :o

We're having sausage and mash tonight, because the sausages (nice cheap ones) were supposed to be wrapped in bacon and served with a roast chicken, but I forgot. The sausages have a use by date of tomorrow.

There's nothing wrong with any single food item/meal in isolation. Even doughnuts which are cake mix, deep fried, rolled in sugar and filled with sugary jam. Not exactly healthy, and yet I must be a magician as I can eat a whole bag one without dying and while maintaining my weight.

I discuss food in terms of 'building blocks' to DDs (7 and 5yo) and we sometimes go through the vitamin and mineral lists in my A&P books and check that we're eating from all of the suggested food sources at least once a week. And 5 a day? Keep up - apparently we should be aiming for 7 ( BBC link, but they don't want to scare the people who can't achieve 5. It's a rare day that we don't exceed 7 portions of fruit and veg. They had 5 in their packed lunches (cucumber, celery, tomatoes, pear, watermelon).

So guilt free cheapo sausage meal in this house tonight and a glass of wine after the kids go to bed, that's fruit right?

Bogeyface X post.

My sausages are Richmond

I had tuna and salad cream I toasted tiger bread for lunch today.

And I'm now eating a packet of chicken flavoured hula hoops.

So there.