Is this a crap dinner?

[mumpatrol]

Currently juggling 3yo and a baby so not sure if I'm coming or going sometimes.
Randomly we were on the topic of dinners today and my friend commented that what my DS1 is having for dinner "isn't very good for him" and "is it just one of those weeks?" She is very into everything organic and made from scratch so I don't know if she's a bit OTT to say it or if she has a point.

He's having red pesto pasta with peas and chicken breast.
Yesterday he had a chicken drumstick with cous cous, tomatoes and carrot sticks (carrots are his favourite).
Tomorrow he's having cottage pie with carrots, onion and cauliflower in with the beef sauce and with sweet potato on top rather than regular potatoes.

Through the day he will snack on stuff like rice cakes, fruit or yogurt. The occasional digestive. His favourite lunchtime snack is buttered toast, cheese, lots of cucumber and will usually ask for either a banana or some other fruit.

AIBU to think it's not too bad?

Why wouldn't you have asked her what she meant, though? If I'd served up a perfectly fine meal and someone looked askance at it and said what your friend said, I'd have been genuinely baffled and asked what they meant

Oh come on!

My eminently sensible older brother with grown up DC got fed up with my fussy feeding of DC1 and lost his cool over a family get together FOR GOD SAKE! GIVE THE CHILD A JAMMY DODGER!!

It was a turning point in me laughing at myself and taking it all less seriously. I dare you OP....

It was a bit stealth boasty but the you never know with MN.
The orthorexics can pick holes in any meal and if you believe them you would be a bit confused.

Those meals sound lovely op your friend not so much

Sounds amazing to me! My children don't eat anywhere near as healthily.....

@Lostalldirection

For breakfast this morning my 3 year old had an ice lolly. My 20 month old had a bag of wotsits

This sounds so good, can I come live with you?!

Please follow LuMarie's suggestion!

Tsk Worra, unicorn dust is not vegetarian

For breakfast this morning my 3 year old had an ice lolly. My 20 month old had a bag of wotsits

Reminds me of the time I had proper flu and gave my toddler crisps for breakfast. He has emerged unscathed!

Your friend is a food snob and a poseur. Ignore her, you're doing fine.

My nephew's daughter is 8 and eats no fruit or vegetables at all. She takes jam sandwiches to school for dinner and eats fast food (my nephew and his wife eat much the same, I hasten to add) or convenience pizzas, burgers, etc the rest of the time. Much cake and choccy/sweets are also consumed.

Quite why the child isn't the size of a house and suffering from scurvy is beyond me.

OP - those meals sound great to me.

Deary me. She's got some front. I also feel she'd be contemplating ringing social services on me. DD 3 will only eat boiled eggs with brown toast (but increasingly telling me she doesn't like the toast.) For breakfast. Cheese on toast, jam on toast, pizza, ham and cheese sandwich, or chips if I'd let her for lunch. For dinner it is chips, grilled meat, home made burger or fish and vegetables for dinner. As long as she chooses the vegetables and nothing touches. She does eat fruit but no pasta or mash or cous cous. She just gags. I would dearly love her to enjoy pasta pesto and chicken. But she doesn't cos she has ASC and is a fussy 3 year old. I actually feel lucky because I can get some viatmins in her.

Hope your friend doesn't have to deal with anything like that. And op, tell her to shut her sanctimonious trap.

Today my child has eaten toast, cheese, ham, some chocolate buttons, a yoghurt, some chicken, some rice, a measure of dirt and paddling pool water.
Your friend is being ridiculous your meals are fab!

Oh and an apple...

She's being a muppet! Mine have just had takeaway pizza. I'm going out so DH and the DC's please themselves and this was tonight's treat!!

Did you ask her what she feeds her child? Or to elaborate on what was “not very good” about your food?

I'm glad it's not just me that has given my child a freezer buffet in light of the heat this week. The trains near us were stopped because the tracks were too hot.. No way would I be standing over a stove cooking.

Although I mightve turned myself off fish fingers for life.

Oh and OP your meals are fine. Surely you know this and that your friend is being an arse? Ask her for a weeks meal plan. I'd love to hear her response.

wow that amazing variety.and good stuff.what is wrong with some people.
the answer to this is DO NOT THINK ON IT ANYMORE.sweep it aside,put it onto a cloud and watch it float away.
don't dwell on comments like this.they are either spitefull or silly

Yeah. Think OP has received the big pat on the back she was looking for now.

in this weather no one can be bothered I suggest to all going to mcdonalds for their new mini mcflurrys and getting a selection for the whole family.... :)

We've been on the way home from school this week kate! They're great. Much cheaper than a whippy ice cream from the ice cream van.

Kate there're mini mcflurrys?? What flavours?

Ignore your judgey friend, I think she is one of those eye roll emoction. If she keeps on like that, I would distance myself. Your food sounds lovely, really good.