To be sick of the food Gestapo on here?

[MaddyHatter]

Honestly, the amount of declarations about what is healthy and unhealthy.. its ridiculous.

if you listened to everyone on here we'd all have to be vegans and living off sucking water through a celery stick.

Just shut up. If you honestly think food like Sausages, Mashed Potato, Tomato Soup, bread, cheese, milk and most fruit are unhealthy, the you're teaching your kids into eating disorders.

[QueenLizIII]

Surely children need fat, protein, calories or how on earth do they grow.

A low fat, high protein diet is unsuitable for a child.

I never understand all the food police either.

[Ladiva1971]

Please link sounds hilarious and I could do with a laugh :P

[Statelychangers]

YABU - I love reading about what people feed themselves and their kids from the deluded to junk food feeders to the uptight purists...

[TheHiphopopotamus]

I agree. The only acceptable meal on here is mouthful of chicken a day (from a chicken that you cooked in 1982 and are still getting meat off) with two grains of brown rice, and a floret of broccoli. And hummus and celery for pudding.

Although, maybe cut the rice out, too many carbs

[bigkidsdidit]

Shit in a box was wonderful. And the poster who recommended driving to the closest harbour to buy fish, then freezing it. This is preferable to Sainsburys fish, because they freeze it

I worry about those posters, though. They must be so fraught all the time.

[Crunchymum]

About 20 years ago my younger dsis had a friend (let's call her Jacinta) and her mum was very strict with what she ate.... she'd ask my mum what was on offer when we had little Jacinta over and my dsis would always come home ravenous when she went for dinner there.

I remember Jacinta's party bag made some of the stuff you get in a Graze box look unhealthy.... little 'drug' baggies of different nuts and seeds. No cake, no toys either. Just nuts and seeds and shit.

Jacinta arrived at my dsis birthday party under strict instructions not to have anything sweet or processed etc... we spent the whole party keeping the poor child away from food.... apart from the few bits she was allowed to eat it was a kids party in the 90s, the food was mainly processed shit

We successfully managed to keep Jacinta away from the cakes and biscuits only to find her in the bathroom sucking on a tube of toothpaste as 'she wanted something sweet like all her friends'

Was fucking sad as opposed to funny. Felt so sorry for little Jacinta and imagine she had real struggles with food as a teenager / adult.

[Ladiva1971]

TheHiphopopotamus That made me spit my out!!!

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I find it frustrating when adults with a weight problem who have achieved weight loss through low carbing urge other Mumsnetters to put their children on a low carb diet . A bit too Gwynnie for me.

[MaQueen]

Know a couple of Mums who vetoed all sugar, to the nth degree...to the point of standing over their 5 year old at a party the whole time to make sure they didn't nibble a biscuit.

IMO this behaviour has little to do with sugar, and everything to do with an anxiety disorder.

[MinonsMovie]

Just shut up. If you honestly think food like Sausages, Mashed Potato, Tomato Soup, bread, cheese, milk and most fruit are unhealthy, the you're teaching your kids into eating disorders.

I'm new but I get this in real life too. I mean I'm trying my best, I really am, but what the actual!?!?

I should tell them I've started doing Nutella toast every Saturday morning!

Every. Saturday. Morining.

[Yellowbird54321]

I've never been able to think of cereal as anything other than shit in a box since I read that on here. It often makes me smile when I'm in the cereal aisle at Sainsburys
And I'm pretty bored sitting here waiting for my take away to come so would appreciate a link to the sausage thread too.

[bibbitybobbityyhat]

I have heard of someone (via my totally sane and sensible friend who would not lie to me about this) who complained that the squash, rice cakes and fruit on offer at a south east London free, local, drop-in, toddler group was not organic.

[oldlaundbooth]

'We successfully managed to keep Jacinta away from the cakes and biscuits only to find her in the bathroom sucking on a tube of toothpaste as 'she wanted something sweet like all her friends'

Poor kid

[bigkidsdidit]

Honestly I think 'shit in a box' every single morning as I pour out the shreddies

[Jellybean83]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2703135-beans-mash-and-sausages-is-a-healthy-meal

Sausage thread.

[Houseconfusion]

Not quite the best Analogy OP with the Gestapo reference, but that makes me a spoilsport doesn't it.

You're right though in essence about the food prefects here growing kale in their organic buttcracks.

The other thing that irritates the shit out of me is these words people use when describing recipes that are meant to be simple.

It's never quite enough to use verbs like "put" for example. It doesn't convey adequately how easy a recipe is. So they always need to say "chuck" "toss" "throw" "lob" "pile". But mostly chuck and throw.

[oldlaundbooth]

cheese thread is here

[oldlaundbooth]

Thanks Jelly wastes another hour at work

[Bearfrills]

I'm far too preg-hormonal to hear about little Jacinta

A mum I know is very focused on what her DC eat and how much of it. We used to be in a playgroup where we'd have a packed lunch with our DC once a week, it was easier to pick up from preschool and have lunch at the centre before playgroup than go all the way home from preschool and back again. Anyway. Her DC had to eat all of their sandwiches before they were allowed to eat their crackers. Then they have to eat all of the crackers before they were allowed their cucumber sticks. They had to eat all of the cucumber sticks before they could have their cheese. They had to eat all of the cheese before.... you get the idea. Basically the packed lunch had to be eaten in a certain order and each food item had to be cleared before they could move onto the next. The children took forever to each and had to be cajoled and coerced to have "one more bite" and "you're not going to play until you've eaten enough lunch" and so on. I used to put my DCs lunches in front of them, unwrap whatever they wanted unwrapping, and then they were free to eat it in whatever order they liked and as much or as little as they liked.

My philosophy was "if they're hungry, they'll eat. If they aren't then they won't". She told me one day that this is a horrible philosophy

[Yellowbird54321]

Thanks Jelly and old should keep me busy for a bit

[DownWithThisSortaThing]

Agree some people are just obsessed with food. It bores me to fucking death - eating, cooking and talking about it

There are three women I sit near in my office at work and they're doing Slimming World. They talk about food all fucking day.
It starts off: 'what did you have for breakfast? I had x and y' they all discuss their breakfast
Then 'are you having a snack today? I brought this and it's only 5 syns'
Then it moves on to 'did you have that thing for tea last night? Was it nice?' they all discuss their tea last night
Then it's dinner and what they're having. Then after dinner it's 'was your dinner nice? How many syns? Did you have Mayo in it or not?....'
Then it's tea and they start chatting recipes. All day long: syns, food, weigh in, meals, snacks, pounds, dress sizes. The only time they don't talk about food is when they're eating and their mouth is full.

They're eating 'healthy' and they're losing weight - well done to them - but their obsession with food imo is so unhealthy.

[bakeoffcake]

That reminds me of the Catherine Tate show.
She's a mum who's highly anxious.
Her children are taking part in the Privare School obviously sports day in the egg and spoon race and you see CT running onto the pitch (in slow motion) screaming "drop the eggs darlings, the eggs aren't organic".

[oldlaundbooth]

Isn't there a theory going around, about kids not developing properly due to 'granola' nutrition?

I.E. They are so 'healthy' that they are actually unhealthy and not growing properly etc etc.

[WheresMaHairyToe]

DS2 has food Issues. Yesterday his teacher told him off for having a carton of milkshake in his snack.

Fine, it's liquid shit in a carton. It's also calories. Not sure what agency she thinks a 7 year old has over the grocery shopping?

O/T but P/Oed