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.

This has just reminded me of my lovely mum's greatest health food effort of the 80s...Home made ketchup. It was brown slop in a jar, utterly revolting. She eventually threw out a good 4 points of the stuff after open war on mealtimes was declared. Good times.

I used to love visiting grandparents in Ireland due to the sugar sandwiches and shots of Guinness we were given

No. And I never said that I was. But I've read a huge amount about food and nutrition over the last 10 years. I have an ever-increasing library of books and online resources. I don't just rely on what I've read in the Daily Mail or this week's Take a Break.

What about you?

The "what are you eating threads" rarely have the response "an Asda cottage pie with oven chips". But loads of families will be eating that kind of thing.

Derek, my Nana used to give us sugar sandwiches, they were so good! And ketchup sandwiches for those times you fancied something savoury.

I bloody love MN food nazi threads, they have me hooting with laughter, most of them are made up old shite by people who have no clue about food or how to enjoy it.
I imagine them and their kids staring miserably at some organic celery and quinoa after the mandatory avocado and cashew nut butter breakfast, wishing they had a ham sarnie and a cheesestring with a munch bunch yoghurt in their lunch.

Have yet to meet someone who snacks on quinoa and has a sense of humour.

I'm yet to meet anyone that snacks on quinoa

Feeding children is so stressful, for some reason I found it ok to eat same thing a few nights in a row and same lunch pretty.much every day, however with weaning I'm convinced she should have more variety. Is this why parents rave about quinoa, mung beans etc, just to be giving them different stuff?

Mine thrived on Billy Bear. They're the leanest fittest young men you could ever meet

What about you?

I don't lecture people on their diets without having any in-depth professional training or knowledge in doing so. I think that's very sensible.

I know someone who does use quinoa. But her OH is Ecuadorian.

It's called competitive parenting Turtle.
Chill and give then an apple.

OP YABVU not to be aware we can easily have a mere snack of carrot sticks, cucumber and if feeling especially daring a couple of celery sticks added to the gorgeous mix, and be fully sated.

& send the kids off to school with a healthy perfectly filling lunch of bunches of cress and 1/4 of a ricecake I say, start them off obsessing about food n hunger early

I don't lecture people on their diets without having any in-depth professional training or knowledge in doing so. I think that's very sensible.

I agree.

But I do have a lot of indepth knowledge. Sorry about that.

A thread comment I read years ago just came to mind, can't remember if on MN or not but it was a healthy food thread banging on about healthy snacks only for DCs

A woman commented she didnt allow her son to have biscuits and he could only have sweets very, very occasionally. & then only a tiny sweet. She'd dropped him off at a childrens' party earlier returned to collect him a bit earlier than expected, popped her head around party room door and saw her son eating a chocolate biscuit - he was actually trembling as he ate it, biting off little corners and savouring every bite

She stopped being so buttock-clenched about food there & then. Now thats a sensible woman

Yes it's bonkers. Today I had a cup of coffee (gasp, caffeine! Cream and dear god sugar!), a mini croissant sandwich with bacon (fat! Nitrates!) and a quesadilla (cheese! Sour cream! White tortilla) and homemade salsa. Guess what? I'm losing weight not eating fat free crap and am healthy, I eat less because I'm not eating like a rabbit all day.

I've worried, fretted and been obsessed with my weight and food (lack of it rather) for 25 years and just a few months ago I just said 'screw that' and started eating normally and I've been losing instead of gaining.

Those threads are good for a laugh though.

But I do have a lot of indepth knowledge. Sorry about that.

Professional training?

Or your own research and your own conclusions? Are these conclusions backed up by registered dieticians?

I have a lot of in depth knowledge about cats. Doesn't make me a vet*

*Actually, I'm a metabolic biochemist. I have never come across anything in the published literature that convinces me that we should eat anything other than a good balanced diet. Especially children.

I have brown lentils and roast veg in a tahini sauce in the freezer

straightens Gwynnie Crown

It's to make up for the humongous amounts of fried halloumi that sit on top of it

metabolic biochemist

I have no idea what that is but if that was my job I'd have business cards with that and would hand them out to strangers because it's sounds amazing

I wouldn't advocate eating children either

In any sort of dramatic situation - car stalled at traffic lights, cat up a tree, no bread left at the co-op- I'd simply have to shout "don't worry, good people! Don't worry! I'm a metabolic biochemist, I'll handle this from here on in!"

That's what I'd do. I think it's sounds like the coolest thing ever.

I snack on Quinoa and I'm a total dullard.

've never tried quinoa.. i like to snack on bell pepper though.