To give visiting child hotdogs for tea?

[EssieTregowan]

With baked beans, so that counts as healthy, right?

Just an idle ponder really as I know this particular 4yo's mum doesn't mind at all. But when ds2 starts widening his friendship group are the other mums going to judge if the fare on offer is quick stuff like pasta pesto, or nuggets, or plastic sausages?

Tuesdays are really the only day we can have his friends round, but it's also the day the shopping comes and it doesn't come until 4.30 so dinner is very often the quickest option .

Would you judge? Or would it not even cross your mind?

I won't eat the plastic packaged, jar or tinned pork ones, they make me physically sick. I will occasionally have chicken hotdogs, but only the ones with a high meat content (yes they have chicken skin in them too but its a relatively small percentage) and they're less likely to have offal in them as humans can't eat most chicken organs. I really do have to be in the right mood for them though, even the chicken ones sometimes i feel nauseous thinking about eating them, and if a bite/chew feels a bit odd, i spit it out and won't carry on eating them.

chicken liver and heart are very tasty

We hosted a couple of very picky eaters last week. Between them they would turn up their noses at all the playdate usuals - bolognese, fishfingers and chips, pizza etc.

I served up pasta, cheese sauce, frankfurters, broccoli, cauliflower and sweetcorn for them to mix and match. Kids practically inhaled the lot, including a whole cauliflower between them. I've never seen 4 children eat so much veg. Swings and roundabouts.

Yay oblomov! Getting the French's and onions out now. Lush 😘😘

In case anyone is interested I always quite liked frankfurters as a kid. Been veggie over 20 years now and saw a pack of quorn ones in the supermarket. Now it might be my memory playing tricks but I swear they taste the same as the meat ones I had as a kid so might be a healthier option if you still want that frankfurter hit! That sounds weird...

《Humans can't eat most chicken organs》

They can, and do. Heart, lungs, stomach, liver, ovaries, intestines and other unidentifiable wobbly bits. Mostly they taste of - chicken.

I can't eat pesto for the same reason soar. I was growing basil in the greenhouse one summer and whilst heavily pregnant i opened the door to water the plants. The smell of basil hit me that I wretched so hard and shat myself simultaneously .

Now basil reminds me of the smell of vomit and shit.

Merly that story has made my day!

I remember having my first having a friend round for tea and my mum asking hers what she liked. And the reply was hotdogs. I was then invited back the next week. And also asked for hotdogs

This alternate hot dog play date went on for about a year IIRC

I normally give easy food to visiting kids like pizza, pasta, fish fingers or nuggets and chips. Most seem to do that type of thing as a safe option! But with hot dogs definitely check in advance if it's a family you don't know well because the pork can be an issue. I'll let mine eat whatever - but not pork!

I wouldn't feed my child this but wouldn't make a fuss if someone else did. As an above poster said, maybe stick with veggie junk food as processed cheap meat is nasty stuff, full of gristle, antibiotics and hormones, yuck.

I wont let ds2 go round for any playdate, until I've received a menu choice: at least 4 choices of Michelin star quality please.
Or at least this:

No way, Ob, where's the vegan, gluten-free, low carb option?! Will someone think of the children?

Hairspray - it was me on the coffee for 12YOs thread - at no point did I say that my 17YO was banned from having coffee. I did have a right laugh at all the assumptions people made on the basis of mis-reading my post though.

As far as I can see, OP asked for opinions, the majority were fine with their DC having hotdogs for dinner at a playdate - one pp claimed they'd be fine with them having crack, so grateful would they be for having their DC fed on a playdate - no one has commented on this - so she's decided to go with the majority consens us. Happy to be corrected by op if I'm wrong.

Food threads always become polarised IME. Heyho you've all had the benefit of my views on hotdogs anway.

It wouldn't bother me whatever you fed mine, it's one meal. I tended to aim to make something the playdates liked, fish fingers/ chicken nuggets/ sausage and pizza seemed to feature regularly tbh. Dd1 once went to a playdate whose dm had made a full roast, dd was delighted but felt it necessary to tell the dm that she preferred "real gravy" to gravy made with granules for some reason.

Yes to herta, no to tinned crap, but if my kids came home and said they had hotdogs, I'm not going to ask them if they sat and watched you to see if they were the good ones or shite.

At 4 I didn't serve them processed food but wouldn't have objected if someone else did whilst at their house - it's only one meal! Plus I would have been overly grateful just to have a break from them cooking

I love a hotdog but I prob would go for pesto pasta as an easy option. hotdogs are a guilty treat and I wouldn't want a guest being witness to me scoffing 6

Wouldn't bother me at all. One meal is not going to have any bearing on DCs health.

I would not care at all about hotdogs on a play date. I'd generally stick to frozen pizza cis it's easy & cheap but whatever you'd cooked I'd be grateful. My kids often don't eat much for dinner so I wouldn't expect them to eat much & wouldn't want much effort to have gone into food they'll prob not eat

One of my neighbours used to serve chicken nuggets and smiley faces to guest children, the other neighbour, cooked pasta and butter (ugh) I didnt mind, as my children normally ate healthily at home. And I cooked them spaghetti bolognese when they came here (sometimes I substituted quorn mince for beef)
One of those mums objected to my giving their child orange squash because of the additives (fair enough their child could have water if preferred) though said child did say she was allowed lemonade ? (As bad as squash I'd have thought)

If it helps the school disco run by the PTA gives the cheapest of cheap hotdogs and crisps of a make ive never heard off as the meal option. Every time my daughter is sick the next day....the veggie alternate is never offered so I'm guessing most parents don't mind or more than me would have commented....

Feed them what you like... if anyone has a problem with it don't invite their kid round again, you go girl! What a great parent enabling their child to socialise with their friend and form healthy relationships.

Of course I wouldn't mind. It's not every day they have something like hotdog. Perfectly fine to have occasionally in an overall balanced diet.

But I can never get too worked up over what is deemed good and bad food tbh. Life's too short! Food fads and the OTTness over healthy and unhealthy food is just madness these days.