To have laughed at this?

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I have a toddler and live in a small patch of London where there aren't loads of baby/toddler groups so all the mums tend to know each other. There is one woman who is horribly judgmental particularly about food, ie visibly rolls her eyes if she sees anyone give their dc one of those organix carrot snacks, says it's not ok for children to be given wheat or gluten etc etc

Anyway ds and I are sitting in a cafe this morning and she comes in - doesn't see me because I'm sitting round the corner but I could see her just about. She sits down, straps her own toddler into highchair and receives her avocado on (gluten free) toast and begins cutting it up for him.

At which point he screams "I WANT CRISPS! I WANT CRISPS!"

I WNBU to have wet myself laughing was I?

Some will say you are being unfair

To me that's karma

Merry Christmas

That sound like karma in its finest form.

However you ABU to have not filmed it

Imagine when he starts going to parties and goes all haribo crazy.

Why can't children have gluten? Unless they're intolerant of course. She sounds like a right bore. What part of London is this?
My two bloody love those carrot stix things.

Cosmic I won't say exactly where but SE!

Apparently gluten doesn't digest properly or some such bollocks

She once told me I was setting my ds up for obesity because I gave him a piece of my white toast

Ha yanbu at all! Amazing I would have laughed so much

I'm sure a moderate amount of gluten is fine but people seem to eat a lot of cheap refined stuff.

NOT THE WHITE TOAST!!!!

Yep. Karma. Wait until her DC is falling through the door in the early hours holding the remains of a dirty kebab!

Doosy

You're not her are you

Nowt wrong with gluten unless you're a coeliac. Eating non-gluten replacements is probably worse for you than eating the thing with gluten.

We had one of "those" dads at toddler group, lectured everybody on everything because "he'd done his research". I nearly wet myself laughing when I bumped into him in town and his kid was in the buggy with a Greggs sausage roll and a fruit shoot. I said nothing, just beamed at him

Gluten is fine. I would suggest watching the amount of wheat a child eats and preferably make it organic. The western diet contains an awful lot of wheat. Toast bread cereal biscuits cakes pasta pizza pastry ...

I smiled when I read it

Toast bread cereal biscuits cakes pasta pizza pastry

Sounds like the perfect day to me

When I worked in a nursery one mother who was quite friendly with the manager persuaded her to stop the party teas we held for all children and staff whenever it was a staff member's birthday. These teas usually included a small piece of birthday cake for each child which this mother strongly objected to.

A few weeks after the ban her toddler came to nursery with chocolate cake smeared round her face because they'd been to a party the day before and the toddler had screamed for leftover cake for breakfast that morning. We couldn't believe the mother had made no attempt to wipe it off considering her strong opinions about cake a few weeks previously!

Jesus, all my kids will eat is wheat based food. And cucumber.

There's a similar vibe up my way in NE London from some parents. With two toddlers, I'm over it.

Anyway the point isn't the validity or not of her opinions it's the fact she's so fucking pushy with them to other people

I eat wheat, I'm ok

Those organix carrot sticks are gluten free my mum is a coeliac, I'm not one of those weird gluten avoiding mums

YWNBU to laugh.