Is this a suitable tea for my kids?

[Happyhappyveggie]

So they are having a fishfinger sandwich each with cucumber sticks and a chopped up pear each with 2 Petit filous each for pudding.

They have also had:
Shreddies for breakfast
Mid morning fruit
Hot school dinner each with veg and a pudding
Snacks at the childminders - mixed veg sticks with houmous, pain au choc, raisins and an apple.

My mother was disgusted with tea - she thinks I'm not feeding them properly - they prefer this kind of tea sometimes- like scrambled egg on toast or beans on toast.

Aibu or is my mother?

They are 5 & 9 btw

She is. Sounds perfectly fine

Sounds good to me!

She is of course but don't bother telling her stuff like this again.

It's fine. It's balanced. They're being fed!

Maybe wouldn't have it every night but it's hard when they've already had a cooked meal!

If it’s filling them up then it’s fine.

It's fine

They've eaten loads today!

Ignore your mother !

I would definitely eat it. I love a fish finger sandwich.

Def your mother
If have hot lunch at school and afterschool snack no need go all out on dinner.theres mix nutrients
If bothers your mum that much tell her shes welcome to make tea!!

Sounds fine to me. Very similar to my DC. And sounds like a pretty realistic tea for young kids. You will get people coming on saying they should be having broccoli and kale with a side of quinoa and some plain natural yoghurt for afters but I don't know anyone who actually eats like that in real life!

All these responses are frighteningly rational

I was hoping for at least one organic quinoa post by now. Or a mention of fruit having lots of sugar at least.

What has MN become

I think they need a little more protein (unless they had meat or similar for school lunch), but otherwise its fine.

Also one of my DC has SN and I would be beyond ecstatic if he would eat a fish finger sandwich never mind an actual cucumber stick!!

I love fish finger sandwiches and I haven't had one for years. Your post has inspired me to have them for dinner tomorrow so I hope yanbu

You say they've had a hot school dinner as well earlier with veg, so that sounds fine to me.
Especially as they've had veg snacks fruit, hummus etc and the rest.
They've hardly been deprived of food.
Nothing wrong with the odd fishfinger sandwich tea (yum) but knowing MN this'll turn into a 35 page fist fight with people declaring fishfingers the work of the devil and that they should all be banned forever

Sounds delicious!

DS had chicken fajita with veg & wedges in school- DD had macaroni cheese with veg- so both quite substantial lunches too!

That's what I feed my kids for lunch so you're just doing meals the other way around. They had dinner at lunchtime. YANBU

I really want a fish finger sandwich for my dinner now.

Totally fine. Petit filous not ideal but hardly a disaster!

Sounds perfectly fine to me, my DS had fish finger wraps and a bowl of cereal for his dinner yesterday. I had one hour to get homework and dinner done then off to swimming lessons, Mondays are hectic and I'm done beating myself up about my shitty Monday meals... it's a thing now.

Never heard of a fish finger sandwich and now I really want to try one but have none

^^Don't forget the salad cream!

Sounds good to me.

SilverySurfer how can you not have sampled the delights of a fish finger sandwich????!!