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Original poster

Is this a suitable tea for my kids?

222 replies

Happyhappyveggie · 03/10/2017 18:18

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 Confused - they prefer this kind of tea sometimes- like scrambled egg on toast or beans on toast.

Aibu or is my mother?

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Cupoteap · 03/10/2017 21:19

Sounds like here, they live sarnies for tea, in fact I have tried to make them a big dinner and they just want sandwiches ConfusedHmm

Summerisdone · 03/10/2017 21:34

It's sounds just fine to me, and if your kid's like it and will eat it then surely that's better than them going hungry because they don't like what's put in front of them.

I think it's just mother's believing we all have the time to slave over a stove all day everyday, cooking from scratch.

My DM bollocked me a few weeks back as she saw a kid's ready meal in my fridge, she seems to have forgotten that when I was younger she fed me Frey Bentos pies in a tin Grin

Rudedog · 03/10/2017 22:11

DD had dinner at school - she's had homemade soup for tea. They don't need a 'dinner' twice a day. I think it's nice to have something hot in the evenings in the winter, doesn't have to be a big meal!

My DD is sometimes too tired to be tackling a big meal in the evenings as well.

FastWindow · 03/10/2017 22:17

My dc have had - pause for breath - organic whitebait on sunflower pitta, gluten free gluten dries, and grilled cucumber frittata. And falafel.

They are 4 and 7. Neither of them complained, Sat politely at table, finished the plate and asked to leave the table in the correct way.

MN Quiz- how much of this is remotely the truth Grin

Youcanttaketheskyfromme · 03/10/2017 22:20

God I love fishfinher sandwiches. Has to be battered fish fingers though.

SilverySurfer · 03/10/2017 22:41

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

I don't knows! I'm not happy - I've been deprived of one for decades [sobs]

icelolly99 · 03/10/2017 23:40

I did fish finger sandwiches for lunch this Sunday; so yummy 😋

BoomBoomBoomBoooom · 04/10/2017 01:32

Fine as a one off but they seem to have eaten A LOT of food. Very sugar heavy. Barely any protein for growing kids.

Nothing wrong with a fish finger sarnie but maybe ask child minder to give healthy snacks instead of just sugar and sugar.

KrytensNanobots · 04/10/2017 01:45

Fine as a one off but they seem to have eaten A LOT of food. Very sugar heavy. Barely any protein for growing kids.

Chicken and fish in the one day for at least one of the kids - surely that's enough protein?

TiesThatBindMe · 04/10/2017 01:48

Depends on whether they actually eat the cucumber.

LiquoricePickle · 04/10/2017 03:34

I'm firmly in agreement about fish fingers and custard.

Also, I love a fish finger sandwich, with hot sauce and cheese.

And finally.... You have a cutted up pear, so you're perfect.

ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs · 04/10/2017 03:38

Haha, my first thought was " you mean cutted up pear ! (Been on MN too longBlush)

Fish fingers are fine!!

permatiredmum · 04/10/2017 03:51

hmm calorie requirements for a 9 yo are 1800.school dinner provides about 600 , shreddies and milk 230, I am not sure you are giving him enough calories so I agree with your mum

JonSnowsWife · 04/10/2017 05:35

How can chicken and fish in the same day not be enough protein? Confused

Original poster
Happyhappyveggie · 04/10/2017 06:52

@permatiredmum but they didn't just eat shreddies and a school dinner? Confused

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BlackeyedSusan · 04/10/2017 07:01

someone has beaten me to it but yes... the pear should be cutted up, not chopped ffs.

Talkietalk · 04/10/2017 11:07

SOunds like a fine simple easy prep meal - dont tell her again

Talkietalk · 04/10/2017 11:08

This suddenly brought back memories of meeting with someone who at a plate of fish fingers with sweet and sour sauce when I arrived. I nearly gagged

steppemum · 04/10/2017 11:11

It is fine, part if balanced diet

(but the idea of fish fingers in a sandwich is YUCK to me!)

Nikephorus · 04/10/2017 12:37

YABU - I mean, cucumber on the side?! A few chips perhaps (to be eaten with fingers), but not cucumber. And I'm now going to place an order with Ocado for white bread so I can have a white bread sausage sarnie tomorrow Grin

K425 · 04/10/2017 15:03

DS and I are both coeliac. Gluten-free fish fingers exist, and are nice. Sadly, GF bread, while it exists and is okay, can't cope with the fish finger filling and the slices fall apart Sad. I haven't had a ff butty in over 12 years and poor DS has never know the joy.

Luckily, GF bread can cope with bacon, so bacon butties it is.

ProseccoMamam · 04/10/2017 15:11

Your mother needs to be reminded that your children are YOURS, which means she has no fucking say in how they're brought up

KarateKitten · 04/10/2017 15:15

Totally fine.

Morestrawberriesplease · 04/10/2017 15:48

If they've already had a hot meal at lunch time then it's fine. I mean it's a bit processed but it won't kill them now and again...

Lethaldrizzle · 04/10/2017 18:24

So a fillet of fish with a side of veg and a bread roll - something you might well get served in a restaurant - would be ok? Same food content. I'm guessing she's just being a sandwich snob?!