To object to biscuits being served at NCT coffee mornings ?

[katwith3kittens]

I've just started going to my local NCT coffee mornings and I'm surprised to find that at all of the 5 or so homes I've been in all the kids are getting biscuits whilst the mums have coffee and cake.
I know I'll probably end up hosting one of these things one morning but I dont like the idea of providing sweet stuff for the under 2's. Wouldnt dried fruit or rice cakes be more appropriate ???

AAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa will people STOP SUGGESTING THAT PERFECTLY REASONABLE THREADS ARE WIND UPS!!!! Just because not everyone agrees. Ffs, just don;t say it

ime if you feed your toddler only rice cakes or raisins as snacks they get hungry and fill themselves up with bogies

its not because i don't agree with it, its because its too ridiculous to think its anything other than a wind up.

...its not a perfectly reasonable thread - its ridiculous and we're all helping..

I don't think it's a ridiculous thread. Quite a few people don't want to give sweet treats to under 2s

yes cheesy flapjacks and cheese straws are delicious. even i eat them. celery on the other hand is disgusting.

a joke surely?
sometimes the cake is the only thing going for those early getting to know you meet ups....and if i am having cake theres no way dd is being fobbed off with a bisuit, let alone a rice cake!

Wind up or not, people do really think this.

Of course, they won't come and post in agreement with kat because a) they are hiding in the understairs cupboard, bingeing on Boasters and sausage rolls and all the treats Granny buys or b) they are too scared.

Observe, there, look, a gauntlet.

oh ffs, the fact that you find it ridiculous is fine, say; "I find this ridiculous", but saying to the op "you do not think what you say you think" is boring and pointless!

been, you're confusing me now and I thought I was following

Yes, give 'em a fucking carrot stick.

Yum, fucking, yum.

Sorry for the swearing, but needs must.

And I would rather eat a Bassy dump than a rice cake. I wouldn't feed it to a hedgehog.

but there is a difference between not wanting to serve sweet treats to your own under two
and objecting to biscuits being served at all to under twos.
if omeone has a problem, then surely just don't let your child have the biscuit, or don't serve biscuits? why object to what other people do? NOYB I would have thought.

a biscuit is no more than a slightly flavoured coaster ffs!bet you all ate the odd biscuit as children and survived to tell the tale!

coaster??

This is an odd thread

me too totally confused - its just a bit of harmless teasing - or is having fun after 11pm not allowed too

lol spooky @slightly flavoured coaster

I think maybe she means a rice cake is a coaster
possibly

oh I see. the rice cake

Thats apalling! We hand out omega3 capsules for the little ones at our NCT meetings while we eat cake. Doesn't everyone?

i would rather have cheese than cake any day, truly.

I'm going to get straight back in the understairs cupboard in a mo (haven't quite finished bingeing on sausage rolls and cake) but I do have to say that as the new mother of a PFB I really WAS surprised that at playgroup, biscuits were served. It just seemed that at this age kids really are happy with a bit of fruit so why introduce sugary stuff when they can't actually ask for it.

However before you stuff me back to binge on stuff I do not (well, DID not) allow in ds temple of a body, I do want to say that I was mildly surprised, wouldn't have started a thread about it, and accepted biccies for ds and me with gay abandon.

but ds still would have been happy with fruit.

possibly
anyway pointy every time I see your name I keep thinking about your brother. A poet! he sounds lovely. I am rather partial to the artistic type.
can we see a photo.....

how many children have survived eating rice cakes?

dd likes rice cakes, she calls them biscuits. hahahaahhhhh, she's an IDIOT!

Yes, that's what she said!

And a rice biscuit does resemble a cork coaster (albeit a slightly different colour).