To be disgusted by this?!

[Sabrinatheteenagebitchx]

So i work in a pub, i was serving a family of four (2 kids between 6 and 10ish) the kids were off playing in the play area when i bought over their meals. The kids both had chicken nuggets and chips (no veg) and as soon as i put the plates down the mother poured salt all over both of the kids meals without even asking them if they wanted it!!!

Why? Why why why would you ever do this?! Why do the childen need any extra salt to an already salty meal? She didn't even give them a choice just poured it all over the meals without even asking them. They dont even get a choice in whether they get an addrd salt diet or not. Id never even dream of putting any added salt in mine or my children food. Also any salt for that matter, I wont buy any high in salt foods.

Sorry this is a rant just upset me the children didnt even get a choice in whether they eat salt or not. Start as you mean to go on i suppose...

Customers not clients.

Now, that's hilarious. You're actually correcting people's use of terms.

Customers not clients.

Punters, drinkers, customers, clients, they are the ones keeping your boss's business running so he can pay you to serve them and then start judgy internet threads about their habits.

Very little salt is now added to things like nuggets and chips. They taste revolting without added salt. Some kids won't eat anything but a certain type of food, perhaps they were like that. Besides, the public has been SO brainwashed by the incessant propaganda re. salt, fruit, fat, etc that I'm not surprised people are now actually scared by salt.

@PandyCuff i would tell you but I'll only get critised by what i say.

Everyone is allowed they're own opinion no it isn't any of my business which is why i didnt say anything to her. I just worry our children futures. Nothing good ever comes of high blood pressure.

they taste revolting without salt

I don't think so.. its personal choice isn't it.

I wouldn't put salt on my childs food though as I wouldn't want to encourage it. They can do what they want when theyre old enough, and I do use a little in my cooking.

I can't believe you actually hide the salt from your husband. If I was married to you I'd buy the biggest salt mill I could find and chain it to the table.

Though you have inspired me with my lunch today. A nice big potato with cottage cheese and plenty of salt and pepper. Yum.

How many grains of salt do you estimate landed on each nugget

Won't someone think of the children!

Yeah, you sound very concerned and worried, not at all judgemental and self-righteous and sanctimonious.

They taste revolting without added salt.

They don't. They just taste different to how you are used to them tasting, ie very salty.

I never added salt to anything my kids ate. They add it to chips now (they're all teens) but that's about it I think.

@Sabrinatheteenagebitchx

I suggest you read the link I posted. Seems there's not a clear link between salt and high blood pressure as previously thought.

My son won’t eat chips unless they have a bit of salt on. Luckily he rarely eats chips. But in a pub most things are with chips so I would have maybe sprinkled a bit on knowing he wouldn’t eat them otherwise. Maybe it was something similar.

This thread is weird.

No veg either you say? Report to ss, piece of the puzzle they need etc etc blah blah

Some controlling, overbearing mothers won't allow their children any salt whatsoever. Feed a person no salt and they'd just get used to that too. But newsflash! Salt is vital for the optimal functioning of the human body.

I've come here to discuss the topic i have posted about not about grammar and spelling.

Not ideal, but perhaps it's a treat meal, and the mum knows that they like their food that way. If that's the case, not ideal but meh.
If it's an everyday occurance then yes, horrible.
I agree with the PP who said they should just serve smaller portions of adult meals. Children's food always seems to be crap.
My OH is Spanish and says that they were never offered this rubbish in Spain as kids...fussy eating is not tolerated. That's the approach we are taking with our DS.

And I'd say there was approximately 45 grains of salt on each nugget. Unacceptable.

Another one whose DD needs to have a high calorie, high salt diet to keep her well. She also has an anaphylactic allergy dairy allergy to boot which means options for eating out can be quite limited.

We would have likely ordered chicken nuggets and chips for her and poured on the salt, particularly now the weather is getting warmer.

Chances are, the family you witnessed don't have to deal with these problems but it's always worth keeping at the back of your mind that 'healthy choices' can genuinely mean different things to different people

Not many good things come from low blood pressure or EDS/POTS, either.

www.ehlers-danlos.org/information/autonomic-dysfunction/

You'll notice that one of the means of controlling symptoms is to increase salt consumption.

Nothing good ever comes of high blood pressure

Best to to get yours up ranting about it then surely?

Or possibly stop taking their money and supplying junk food, thereby protecting yourself from the horror of your paying customers.

Oh and you wouldn't know looking at DD that she has a life limiting health condition so looks won't always help you

45 grains of salt Could you kindly share with us the formulae you have used to estimate this? Presumably it would depend on the force of the shake, the hole size, the distance from the food? And how big is each grain? You’ve clearly put a lot of thought into this example of criminal parenting OP.

This thread is weird

Do you think? I’m enjoying it immensely