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?

When we have been in holiday and more lazy reliant on the village shop the ratio of fresh food to packaged food is very low. (Not much variety of fruit/vegetables etc) maybe because they dont have daily deliveries like supermarkets. We stayed somewhere the nearest supermarket was over 10 miles away. I commented how expensive it would be to shop at village shops/spar/chemist etc if you lived nearby. Even having an online delivery incurs a minimum spend of £40.
FWIW my DC dont eat sugary cereal, we just don't buy it.i bought some frosted cereal the other day by mistake and DH threw it all away!

UndertheCedertree you seem to have a right chip on your shoulder, have you just joined MN or namechanged purely to have a go at other posters on here?

"To the PP who said that it wasn't possible for her to even get to an Aldi/Lidl but can buy her kids 2 pizzas for £2 at the convenience store.. is that seriously the only food option in there? I'm 99.9% sure they would sell canned lentils and other goods. I'm not saying that you MUST buy lentils etc, but the point is a £1 pizza won't fill your kids up for long, despite being extremely calorific."

Yet again MN users show they live on another planet. Have you ever been in one of these shops?

Personally I welcome Lidl's decision purely on aesthetic grounds. The character design on their packaging is awful. I'm more than glad to see the back of monstrosities like this coked-up psycho-weasel staring at me down the Crunchy Nut-a-likes and biscuits aisle .

We could sit and argue all day that the poverty/obesity issue is or isn't the fault of the lazy/unfortunate people in that predicament..

Orrrrrrrr as communities we could come together for solutions ..

I'll be honest where I live the Aldi is in walking distance for everyone (small rural-ish town on the edges of the Lake District) however the sea side town near to us is vast, blighted with horrendous poverty and although it has two well placed amongst the most deprived areas, Aldi's and a Lidil, there will be hundreds of families that are hard up that will struggle with getting to them and as a result as pp have said will resort to the cheap, processed freezer shite at co-op or spar.

Instead of arguing about their situation and who's to blame perhaps we, with the means to, could band together .. I have a large 7 seater car, I don't mind running folk to Aldi or lidil, I've had to live on a tight budget and educated myself on healthy budget eating by watching YouTube videos .. we could point them in the direction of
Cooking healthy meals for cheap.. help them
Overcome their children's fussy eating by encouraging the kids to get stuck in and cook too.. I'd wager most children's centres or community centres have kitchens and would more than happily facilitate this endeavour ..

Getting shitty with each other on mumsnet is doing just as little as removing cartoons from cereal boxes will do.. if you're bothered enough to let a stranger get you riled up online about this then get into your community and actually
Do something about it!!

To the PP who said that it wasn't possible for her to even get to an Aldi/Lidl but can buy her kids 2 pizzas for £2 at the convenience store.. is that seriously the only food option in there? I'm 99.9% sure they would sell canned lentils and other goods. I'm not saying that you MUST buy lentils etc, but the point is a £1 pizza won't fill your kids up for long, despite being extremely calorific.

I was that PP and I don't feed my DC that as I'm not living in food or fuel poverty however I can empathise with those who do because my personal bubble isn't entirely opaque like some people on here.

I can get to Aldi or Lidl, I don't because I shop at Morrisons and get it delivered, but it is £6.80 for an adult return on the bus to get to the nearest Aldi.

The corner shop sells two 10" pizzas for £1 and a bag of oven chips is £2. They're not even branded, just in clear cellophane bags. They do not sell tins of lentils. Plenty of Pot Noodles, Super Noodles, sweets, and crisps though. It's a convenience store not a supermarket.

The local co-op has a wider range but is small so doesn't stock everything and obviously stock is tailored to what sells. They also don't have tinned lentils. They do have fresh fruit and veg but it's more expensive than elsewhere. Their cheapest options for feeding a family are things like the freezer meal deal - five processed frozen foods for £5.

MrsBrentford you posted a few days ago because you DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT CHEESE to go on your chilli!
And yet here you are, moaning about other people being picky over food

Firstly bad form to bring up a post on another thread and secondly I am not using the food bank am I?

where my DM lives you would need to walk 1.5 miles to the nearest bus stop, catch one of the two buses a day going to a large enough town to have an Aldi (or any large supermarket), spend about £6 plus kids' fares on the bus each way. Come back on the return bus in the evening.

Presumably delivery would be cheaper. There can't be that many areas in the UK so rural that supermarkets don't even deliver, can there?

I am saying people shouldn’t allow their children to be so picky about food, esp if money is an issue.

Money isn’t an issue for us and I was moaning that my husband had used all the preferred cheese on his and his daughters meals (that I had cooked) and not saved me any.

It’s totally fucking different.

I don’t think that supermarkets deliver to my mum and dad who live posh rural? ..

@jellykat - no chip - you were the one that started on me saying you could say 'no' to your child which was irrelevant to my point so no idea why you said it- therefore more likely you have the chip! What has you saying 'no' to your child have to do with my point that the poster was disingenuous?Why should I have to put up with your goady replies and not answer? I've explained myself very clearly. And no not namechanged or new.

@jellykat - and what posters have I had 'a go' at?

Presumably delivery would be cheaper

Eh? You need to spend £40 for delivery how is that cheaper?

Presumably delivery would be cheaper. There can't be that many areas in the UK so rural that supermarkets don't even deliver, can there?

You need a debit card and to spend a minimum of £40 plus delivery so great for those who have a debit card and can afford the minimum spend plus delivery but not so great for those who can't.

I am saying people shouldn’t allow their children to be so picky about food

And as explained earlier some children aren't "picky" because they're fussy, they're "picky" due to neurodevelopment differences.

To the PP who said that it wasn't possible for her to even get to an Aldi/Lidl but can buy her kids 2 pizzas for £2 at the convenience store.. is that seriously the only food option in there? I'm 99.9% sure they would sell canned lentils and other goods. I'm not saying that you MUST buy lentils etc, but the point is a £1 pizza won't fill your kids up for long, despite being extremely calorific.

Please come have a gander around my local convenience store. Not a lentil and very little fresh produce to be found. So you can be as sure as you like, but no, they don't sell canned lentils. Frozen pizzas, burgers, nuggets, chips, yes. And very cheaply. The nearest Aldi/Lidl are both a good walk away. Not always doable. Are you seriously so lacking in imagination that you can't fathom of someone having such limited options?

*MrsBrentford you posted a few days ago because you DIDN'T HAVE THE RIGHT CHEESE to go on your chilli!
And yet here you are, moaning about other people being picky over food

Firstly bad form to bring up a post on another thread and secondly I am not using the food bank am I?*

Ah, so you are entitled to be as choosy as you like over what you eat, but those foodbank using poor people must just eat whatever they get, then? What a delightful attitude.

Yet again MN users show they live on another planet. Have you ever been in one of these shops?

It has become a real world example of poe's law for the past decade, this forum isn't ridiculed online for being women posting, it's just out of touch pale, stale, white middle class women grasping any kind of victim status.

And as explained earlier some children aren't "picky" because they're fussy, they're "picky" due to neurodevelopment differences

As explained I am not talking about that O am taking about idiotic people who run cafes cooking their kids whatever the fuck the want because they can’t say no.

Ah, so you are entitled to be as choosy as you like over what you eat, but those foodbank using poor people must just eat whatever they get, then? What a delightful attitude

I was pissed off my husband used all the cheese - totally fucking different thread and subject and context.

What did all these ASC children do in the 50s 60s 70s and 80s then?
I have a friend in his 50s who I think has ARFID but I don't think he has ASD.
His mum gave him sausages and boiled potatoes and yoghurt and jam without bits and white bread, and vitamin tablets, every day, until he went to uni and lived on jam sandwiches.
It still happened.

If someone is at the food bank and their parcel contains, for example, two tins of beans and they know they or their DC hates beans then I have absolutely no issue with them asking to swap the beans for something else. Why should someone who is on the bones of their arse have to force down food they actively dislike or waste it by throwing it in the bin because they couldn't being themselves to eat it? I'd imagine that having to go to a food bank is miserable enough and they at least deserve some enjoyment from their meals.

This person was actively slagging off the brands at the food bank and was rude to the staff (volunteers).

That is not ok.

As explained I am not talking about that O am taking about idiotic people who run cafes cooking their kids whatever the fuck the want because they can’t say no.

Except you were including that because earlier in the thread you made a big point of saying that one of your children is autistic and you never cooked separate meals therefore, by your own implication, no one should have to. You said you struggled to see why anyone would cook several different meals. You then asked what did all these ASD kids do in days gone by and I explained that children like DS would have been considered sickly/weak and - depending on the era - would have probably died either from malnutrition or an illness compounded by malnutrition. Even with modern interventions he is close to being underweight.

Agree @hoik. I also ask to swap something I won't use as otherwise it is a waste. I was given a bottle of vinegar a while ago that I knew we wouldn't use - no point me hanging on to it just to not look 'picky'.

This person was actively slagging off the brands at the food bank and was rude to the staff

Ah, so ONE person which you've extrapolated in order to make sweeping statements about all food bank users?

Okay then.

Right.