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.

[EmGee]

Nope. Full of sugar apparently.....therefore a 'treat'

[SarfEast1cated]

"ClopySow Thu 01-Sep-16 19:05:28

We were brought up on very healthy, cooked from scratch food. Brown rice, wholemeal bread and pasta, never any crisps, fresh juice only, no mixy up or fizzy except at christmas, biscuits were a treat, sweets once a week. Partly because it was cheaper to cook in bulk from scratch in the 80's, processed stuff and treats were expensive, but also because my mum preferred all the healthy stuff. She was gutted when we all started buying pot noodles and cheesy pasta with our pocket money when we were teenagers."

My mum was like that too, and I'm really grateful to her now. Hated it at the time but all of that healthy stuff is comfort food for me now. We never had shop bought cakes or biscuits in the house, and I never buy them myself.

[AnotherPrickInTheWall]

YANBU; all fats are bad, carbs are a killer ditto salt.
Rant over, I'm off to juice some goji berries and wheat grass.

[Soupandasandwich]

I expect the food place will be coming for me soon. Tomorrow is our last day in the beautiful county of Somerset and we are popping back to cheddar where I am planning to buy a shedload of cheese - vintage cheddar, blue cheddar, and a whole trickle for my fridge, then various different types and strength cheddar as gifts for DCs and their partners. Expecting to spend around £75 just on cheese. Lovely stuff.

[ToastDemon]

I think it's true that it's bordering on an ED and I speak very much for myself when I say this. I was anorexic as a teen, then bulimic and suffered from binge eating for years.
I'm quite healthy-food obsessed now, orthorexic I guess, in an avoiding sugar and refined carbs kind of way, definitely part of the avo and quinoa brigade. But it means my diet is healthy and my weight is normal and stable, and I don't have kids to pass my fucked-up food attitude onto, as my mother so kindly did for me.

[SingaSong12]

Didn't read at the time. Is this the sausage thread - it's great fun in a slightly worrying way cos I love sausage and mash
Sorry don't know how to make this into a short link

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2703135-beans-mash-and-sausages-is-a-healthy-meal?pg=1&order=

[annandale]

I remember that 'muesli malnutrition' or granola malnutrition' rumour from the 80s. IIRC it isn't true - and although I always say I don't believe in conspiracy theories, I do in my heart of hearts believe it was started by the processed food industry - until they worked out it was better just to slap 'no preservatives' on something that has never had any and crank up the price 200%.

Mn =haven for anxious orthorexics but that doesn't make the average British diet great either. I have been in a country with a fantastic food culture and watched their telly with wall to wall adverts for Findus Crispy Pizza as the food industry goes in for the kill.

[SistersOfPercy]

In this house it's always been 'everything in moderation'. We'll have chips occasionally and FRIED IN A CHIP PAN!!!!
Strange thing, I have two adult children. DD is like a stick insect and DS was a healthy weight. He left home to live with his GF for several years and over that time piled on weight by living off takeaways and chips every night. Now he's home and eating here he's lost over a stone and a half in just over a month.

I guess I could live on cracker bread and be a size six but I'd rather enjoy my food and be a 12.

[Lweji]

Are you intolerant to the food Gestapo or is it an allergy?



Somebody start a thread about fruit, I want to see the fruit loons come out

Great idea. Has anyone yet?

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

Yes, even start threads about food and post on them.


And yes, the cheese thread was mostly people telling the OP that the cheese WAS a healthy snack. Not criticising her.
Although someone said it was only fat and salt.

[Middleoftheroad]

I was on the tomato soup thread yesterday and confessed that mine have Heinz tom soup with white bread every week. I did as a child and am still standing.

The meal is a classic in our house and yes, I do know how much sugar's in it thanks. I can read labels (usually, 'microwave for 2 mins')

Yes, I microwave food too and we're not radioactive yet.

[Blueisthemagicnumber]

Anyone else's mum have the book 'E is for Additives' in the 80's? It meant no orange squash or party rings in our house. I remember loving going to parties and indulging in both.

[MaudlinNamechange]

the thing that I can't bear about all those food threads - maybe I am now making a mashup of this thread and the one about "things people say you hate" or something - is when they talk about certain foods being "laden" with salt or sugar. How can it be "laden"? the molecular structure isn't such that it is remotely "laden". I suppose if you had a plain scone and then iced it, you could then say it was "laden" with sugar, in the sense that it has been piled on the top. But otherwise it makes no sense, and the repetitive tropey nature of the expression just makes it blindingly obvious that the posters are just a feedback loop of lascivious disapproval, echoing each other.

[DerekSprechenZeDick]

It's Jamie Oliver's fault

[SilverHawk]

Keep chatting and twittering but I think you are BVU to use the word Gestapo and Nazi.
These words should not be used lightly. Be careful of what you are doing, demeaning people who have really suffered.

[SistersOfPercy]

I agree Derek. I bloody loved a turkey twizzler.
Twizzler stealing twat.

[BIWI]

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 hmm. A bit too Gwynnie for me.

You might think it's a bit to Gwynnie.

Unfortunately, as a population we eat way too many carbs.

It's nothing to do with weight loss. But it's everything about preventing weight gain - and therefore obesity (and other diseases to do with being over weight).

Children need carbs (just like they need fat). But they don't need a diet full of over-processed, refined carbs and sugar. Which is what they're getting when they're eating lots of bread, pasta, cereal and sugar. And feeding them lots of fruit as snacks (despite the vitamins and fibre that they will be getting from fruit) also adds to the sugar overload.

There's a huge amount of ignorance being displayed on this thread about food and nutrition.

[DerekSprechenZeDick]

I don't trust those who get a curry and don't have it with rice, chips and a huge naan.

Why order a curry if you aren't going to do it properly

[Soubriquet]

Curry has to be with rice! White rice not that stupid fake cauliflower rice

[hippydippybaloney]

I just don't understand where people find the time to be this fucking obsessive about food. You eat generally at least three times a day, that's a lot of times a day to be a nervous wreck over carrots going straight to your hips.

It's important to be healthy and eat a nutritious, varied diet. Yes there is an obesity problem in this country.

The kind of mental as seen in the sausage and cheese threads is not helping.


Eating well shouldn't be such hard bloody work.

[SalemSaberhagen]

The one thing I never get on here is the amount of people who are horrified by white bread. I've read many posts saying how they can't possibly eat packaged hovis and kingsmill white bread. In real life I don't know anyone who doesn't.

[MaddyHatter]

we try to do balanced. DS is autistic and a restricted eater, so his diet is very carb heavy as he only eats potato, pasta and sausages in their various forms. I've had to ban the school from including him in their 'healthy eating' talks because each time they do it, he drops a food type and he's barely thriving as it is.

I can just as easily chuck some oven cooked chicken on bed of roasted veg ;) as i can put oven chips and a pie in the oven.

some days i will make a beef stew from scratch, and other days i order a chinese take away and gorge on rice and prawn crackers.

What i hate, is this attitude that everything is unhealthy.. too much of anything is unhealthy, its about balance, and going around making sugar and sweet things some kind of reward by banishing it leads down the path of eating disorders, binge eating and comfort eating as adults.

[HoneyDragon]

I try to low carb in the household but ruin it with sugar. I really really really like sugar. I'm slowly getting better though excusing periods/holidays/mil and when I'm tired to the point of crying.

[Soubriquet]

I agree about mn helps to encourage eating disorders but I don't think it's just mn.

Everywhere is ibudated with eat this,no wait don't eat this, eat that instead. Stop eating this and eat that.

It isn't healthy and it's very confusing to know what is good and what isn't

[reallyanotherone]

oh the gluten free and dairy free shit too.

Fair enough if you have diagnosed issues, but gluten/dairy free is now being seen as a healthy version.

I saw a cake being made on some tv cooking programme, exactly the same as normal but gluten free flour and vegetable oil instead of butter. They were banging on about it being healthier because it was gluten and dairy free.

No.

Plus all the crap about metabolism changing by cutting out stuff. No. You cut out stuff, you eat less because you're eating the same thing all the time.

[IPityThePontipines]

There's a huge amount of ignorance being displayed on this thread about food and nutrition.

Are you a registered dietician, then?