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...

I don’t drink much but I do like salt on my chips. I let my older children have a small amount of salt. I can spell and use grammar to an average ability. Where is my parenting certificate please?

For people saying that no one needs to add salt to their diet, that is just wrong. I have a medical condition which means that I have to add salt to all my food. I asked my consultant how much to add and he said as much as possible. There might be a good reason for adding salt.

I don’t know if you intended this but you come across rather judgmental and holier than thou. If they were eating out then it is probably a one off treat. In any case it is absolutely none of your business and most people I know wold be furious if someone they don’t know and knows nothing about them started judging what they feed their own kids in a pub.

Hahahahha i knew id get something about that!! How else can you say that family? Sorry the family in question. Is that better?

Well it completely avoids answering the question as to how you identified them from sight as the type of family who typically put too much salt on food.

I'm just wondering what a family of over salters look like.

I dont drink thanks. Im not an alcoholic like most mumsnetters

So mumsnetters are mostly alcoholics as well as men haters.

But your high moral position enables you to profit from alcohol and junk food despite your disapproval.

You are Jacob Rees-Mogg and ICM£5!

Schuyler

No sorry, you can only be issued a certificate if your children don't know what salt it. You have failed massively.

Well thats what most mumsnetters talk about having a glass of wine or gin.

So that makes them alcoholics? Okay

🙋🏽‍♀️ Having a glass of wine whilst feeding my DC and friends ridiculous amounts of salty food. Smite me!

I'm just about to have a takeaway, and I'll be having a glass of wine too. I think that ticks all the 'setting a bad example to children' boxes in one go.

I'm looking forward to it all the same.

Classic mumsnet - OP AIBU?

Majority of mumsnet - yes you are OP.

OP - no I'm not, you are,, I'm entitled to my opinion!!!!

I love threads like this, OP invites posters to pile on to a random stranger for bad parenting then whines when she gets her arse handed to her for being judgmental and a hypocrite, you know, given she’s part of the supply chain that encourages and profits from the poor parenting practice she’s complaining about.

See, OP, you can’t have it both ways, if you want to ride a moral high horse, you should at least have the courage of your convictions and refuse to be part of the problem. Maybe you should consider working as a lunchtime supervisor in a school instead, apparently they get to monitor lunchbox contents and I’ve heard of some wher they get to send admonitory notes home to parents about any unhealthy content therein.

Women who don't enjoy alcohol and high fat snacks are to be pitied. They are so terrified of their partners/friends/coworkers/parents opinions they'd do anything to conform. Salt watching is just another repressed behaviour.

Or they can't physically digest any of it. No reason to be bitter!!!

Sodium is actually needed for a healthy body. It’s an electrolyte and necessary. Salt has been demonised but I think it’s more fast and processed food that’s to blame than salt. There’s lots of research to back this up and don’t be surprised if the tables turn on salt in the next few years.

Perhaps do some research and educate yourself on what it is you're actually avoiding, because right now you're just a nutter.

All hail the salt experts

Well equally

All hail the other people's kids experts

(who personally profit from something they assume is wrong)

Oh my god!!!! You lot on here are so childish and so so brave from behind your keyboards!!! People post to start a threat and so many of you just want to cause trouble. Sad, get a life. For what it's worth op I totally agree with you so the rest of you rude argumentative people - shoot me!

Oh, the irony!

Sunhill4

NC fail?

because they probably refuse to eat it otherwise. granted its normally done with ketchup.

could be medical, could be she didn't realise it would pour out so fast.

If you are happy to serve that meal to a child don't judge the parents.

I don't add salt and don't use that much when cooking.

DH, on the other hand will add both salt and pepper to his meal even before he's tasted it - pisses me off greatly.

Two of my cousins used to pour themselves a little hill of salt on theid of their plates and dip every mouthful/forkful into it. Every time I went to stay their little salt hills were bigger, until they were more like mountains! Mum told me that salt kills your tastebuds so over time you want more and more salt.

Neither of those cousins do that any more btw. Both are horriby healthy eaters as adults!

I have medical issues that means I need more salt. There could be reasons why they salt the food.

Perhaps she didn't ask her kids if they wanted salt, as she knows them, and knows what they like? So she knows they would like salt on their meals? There are certain meals that my dd2 won't eat unless there is salt on it. We do not add salt when cooking, so she adds it afterwards.

Why do you feel the need to attack someone's parenting and share it online?

I hide the salt from my partner most of the time FFs!

You work in a pub, alcohol is a huge social issue and you are worried kids consuming salt...ffs.

Do you salt that chip on your shoulder? You asked if you were being unreasonable most people responded that you are.