To think that fucking cartoons on cereal boxes aren't what's making children overweight and parents just need to say no to their kids?

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Ffs, what are they going to do next, get rid of all sweets and chocolate in case the kids pester their parents?

I agree op. I find peer pressure hard with my dds. I often feel mean when I refuse dd8 a cake in her lunchbox. All of her friends, including dneice, have cake in their lunchbox. Dd has a sandwich, cucumber, tomato and a small amount of cheese, plus a bag of crisps. If she wants a cake, she has to forgo the crisps. The constant snacks offered by other parents make me feel like I'm being controlling if I tell dd no. However, I do tell her no. She has overnight oats for breakfast or weetabix. Her preference would be pain au chocolate or coco pops. But, I only buy them at Christmas or on someone's birthday.

It's also not true that just because you didn't need to cook differently for your child with ASC, that would work for all children with ASC.

Was that directed at me Indecent?

superram

I ate Frosties everyday as a child, not healthy obvs but I wasn’t overweight. It was part of a balanced diet. Now it’s lack of exercise and shite food.

Agree totally

We won’t know will we?

I am not saying everyone is wrong but for me continually exposing him to a small amount of things that made him uncomfortable helped him to be ok with those things.

He will wear jeans etc now too.

But we were very poor when I was young. I ate sugary cereals everyday and a diet high in fat and sugar. We never had fruit without it being smothered in sugar. Chips with every single meal. Only ever drank sugary fruit squash or fizzy drinks. My parents weren't educated in nutrition and we were fed cheap crap. But we weren't fat. The reason being we never ever had snacks between meals. We walked everywhere. Our portions were smaller. I don't know how parents today can say they don't know about healthy food there is so much publicity about it. I do think it's laziness. When I watch those programmes where they try to get people to spend less I'm always amazed at how many snacks and bags of crisps people have in cupboards. No need for it.

I have 2 with ASD, 1 I cook differently for, 1 I don't (4 DC in total). Because 1 has different sensory issues to the other. Though school lunches are a problem for both. (Both packed and school dinner)

Well those 1000 posts have a point while I can walk into my local co-op and buy a bag full of processed crap for 4 people for a fiver, but the makings of a healthy cooked from scratch meal is £10+ People counting every penny will go for the cheapest option.

But again this is essentially ignorance, isn't it? Of how to cook, what to eat, etc.?

A staple in my country is lentils cooked with chopped up onions and sweet potato, and sometimes chopped tomatoes. Eat with rice.

Rice and lentils are both dirt cheap. Two sweet potatoes and two onions costs about a pound in total?

500g of lentils = £1
2 sweet potatos = 50p
2 onions = 20p
500g of rice = 25p

if you add herbs/seasoning that's about 10p maybe. Tin of chopped tomatoes is 30p.

So that's £1.95 - £2.35 for a big meal for four.

I just think there is a lot of pandering (not talking about ASC here).

Have been in the food bank and seen people being really really picky.

And for me, laying off completely means he tries more stuff by choice now at 14 then when I was pushing it when he was younger

I think kids porridge is just when you make it with milk rather than water.

To get back to the OP I suppose to marketing the product at children should be applauded. But I wonder if it all becomes very generic looking packaging then working out wtf the toddler is howling about is going to get more complicated.

A healthy cooked from scratch meal for 4 people does not have to cost £10. That's just ridiculous !

@Fairyliz - I suppose for one thing they had access to local shops that weren't expensive like we have now?

I think it's the stuff associated with poverty., families hanging on by the thread will look at a premade thing - they know their kid will eat and doesn't need cooking so no gas/ electric/time management etc rather than researching lentil recipes.

Small convenience stores can be quite expensive, hit and miss with fresh fruit and vegetables. And I live semi-rurally where you might expect local produce

If you have to buy everything it does cost over £10. But you will not use all of each ingredients at once so you can get more meals out of this.
Just costed my lentil bolegnese at around £12, buying everything but would get a meal for 4 twice.

@RemediosVaro - those ingredients aren't necessarily available at local shops and if you're relying on a food bank you would be lucky to get any fruit or vegetables. Of course knowing how to cook those ingredients would come into it too.

There is another subtle angle to this i've often questioned..
On the one hand we are told being obese is bad news healthwise, but yet there are thousands of videos/ songs/ pop singers promoting positive body image for overweight people.. isn't this rather contradictory?

Have been in the food bank and seen people being really really picky.

Stop being goady.

what are 'kids porridge oats'? Not being goady - just never seen them. Are they just porridge oats but with a cartoon on the pack?

I take it to mean smooth porridge such as Ready Brek.

Rice and lentils are both dirt cheap. Two sweet potatoes and two onions costs about a pound in total?

500g of lentils = £1
2 sweet potatos = 50p
2 onions = 20p
500g of rice = 25p

Based on my local co-op:

Lentils - not stocked
Sweet potatoes, only available in ore packed bags of four- £2
Onions - only available in pre-packed nets of three - £1.50
500g of rice - £2

On the one hand we are told being obese is bad news healthwise, but yet there are thousands of videos/ songs/ pop singers promoting positive body image for overweight people.. isn't this rather contradictory?

Thousands of videos etc? Not sure that's true
Most famous people are slim, it's usually note-worthy when the person isn't.

It’s not being fucking goady - it’s true!

Of course children love things like coco pops and Frosties they have as much sugar as desserts!!!

@MrsBrentford - what if you ate from a foodbank and only had access to a microwave? It wouldn't be so easy then.

Also making people ashamed of their bodies isn’t a great way of getting people to lose weight. If it was there would be no fat people.