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 ???

Where are you hotcrossbunny?

the more I live the more I realise

people are farkin' strange sometimes

What Twig said.

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LOL at "stiffy for sugar"

I joined an NCT group with all pfb's and we were cautious for a year or so but frankly past 1 they all had biccies as snack. You don't have to do the same in your own home but don't think you should criticise others who are being hospitable.

TheMadScaryHouse (top name btw) - I'm in Surrey for my sins... and am surrounded by uber-competitiveness. I was asked why anyone would want to go camping when Mark warner exists Maybe because we can't afford it and don't feel the need to pack our dd off to Kidsclub everyday

yes that's true, lennygirl, dd's the same. i was oddly proud the other day when she said 'all done' and wandered off leaving half a piece of carrot cake. fortunately i was there to rescue it...

i think the OP has been terribly jolly about all this, by the way.

Ahhhhhhh I was in Berkshire and it was the same. God so not me. I was so looked down on for not wanting it all. We camp too!!!! I think they thought I was a nutty northerner (which is fine when I call myself, but not someone else). I dont even think of them that often, but this tread brought back so many memories.

Scheduled tummy time, no dummies, no salt, no sugar, no comforters, carried everywhere in car seats. Bloody hell they even all took them to the park on fathers day. Good god I am so glad I excaped.

That really used to make me laugh, the carrying everywhere in car seats thing

I deliberately got a baby car seat that wasn't a carry out one so that I could pick up dd and put her down on the floor etc

She loved it

all these poor kids are going to have bent spines in the future. I didnt drive so the car seat was always in DH's car. So it was a pram for me.

If they put "darling James" on the floor it had to be on his blanket, nit on my wooden floor - it might be too cold for him (read - it might be too dirty)

I used to babysit for 3 kids when they were 6,4 and 1 who weren't allowed ANY sugar. They were all thin and weedy and got lots of colds. If I ever took them into a shop with sweets in they would go mental. The oldest son is now a drug dealer, despite the fact they were a nice MC family.

Know logically how they turned out not necessarily connected to their bizarrely healthy diet but makes me feel better every time I let dd have abit of my dark chocolate digestive...

there's always chocolate etc in our cupboard and ds could help himself to it if he wanted but doesn't (at least he'll ask if he can have it if he wants some) so it's not a forbidden fruit kind of thing. My friend wasn't allowed sweeties except for once a week and consequently craves them now.

I haven't read the whole thread, but kat, I don't think you are being unreasonable at all. I used to hate when the biscuits came out at these things because ds was likely to eat the crumbs off the floor or grab another kid's biscuit. Trouble is that he has an egg allergy and many biscuits have egg in them so I couldn't take my eyes off him for a moment. He has an understanding now that he can't eat these things and I do refuse cakes and biscuits myself when offered because it's not fair for me to scoff them when he can't. I have a blanket ban on all cakes and biscuits because it is too confusing for him to be allowed this biscuit today and not this other one tomorrow.

If there were only fruit/rice cakes available then I could relax about it a bit more.

But even if he wasn't allergic kat, I would still agree with you.

ROFL at 'and he is now a drug dealer', kerala. see where it gets you? see?!

Good Lord, I also hope your homemade cake was washed down by Fair Trade non Nescafe coffee or you have real grounds for never conversing with these dreadful buscuit eating people again.

I always thought rice cakes were not good as they are not complex carbs. The sugar (from carbs) rush is instant causing a burst of insulin to deal with it, creating a dip in blood sugars.

God, I wish I only had biscuits being served a coffee morning to worry about!

Get a life dear!!

I used to go to coffee mornings with friends and my ds binged himself silly and was known for nicking the other kids biscuits/cakes and treats all because I didn't let him have any at home.

I realised I was being too strict and he now eats treats which he understands that we don't eat them everyday as there are better foods to eat especially when you are hungry.

...and rice cakes????

Bloody cardboard if you ask me.

Does that mean the experience of ds making biscuits with me is a bad thing??

Should we make them and then give them away?

Hmmm....I always felt I should have joined the NCT but reading this....mmm...

The odd biscuit doesn't hurt! DS's is always ranting at me for my breakfast (even though he's just eaten his own) so I sometimes give him an organix biscuit thing as a treat and to keep him quiet!

I think this whole thing of making certain foods taboo, just adds to their attraction and is prob why we have fatter kids...

but Jimmy, all happy families are the same, all NCT groups are different in their own way

I'm always glad I didn't join NCT. This has more than confirmed. Plus tale from mate and ex-ncter who took [shock shock horror horror, shock shock horror] [thats a lyric but can't think where from] SHOP BOUGHT CAKES AND SUCH - they were moved to NORTY end of table for ceremonial burning later I think.

Woven knitted flapjacks wheeled out.