Apparently Tuna isn’t a suitable food for a primary aged DC (Lighthearted AIBU?)

[TunaIsOk]

This is from ExH after he video called DD (Aged 7, Year 3) and she told him she’d had tuna pasta for tea (her favourite).

His text to me says that he doesn’t think Tuna is the right food to be feeding a primary aged child.

I asked him if he’d looked at the school menu for lunches recently. Tuna Sandwiches and Tuna Jacket potatoes available every day, three times in the 4 week menu there’s some sort of Tuna Pasta Dish available on the hot menu, it’s very popular from what I’ve been told.

DD often opts for the tuna dish if it’s there.

No reply.

But am I being UR to give DD tuna? I know I'm not don't worry!

For context, tonights was fresh from the fish monger this morning but I do use tinned as well. There was also sweetcorn, tomatoes and peppers in it as well as a tomato sauce I make myself.

My eldest daughter is 4 (starting school in September) and she loves Tuna!

Anyone else having tuna for dinner just because this thread has made them fancy it so much?

[quote PrimoPiatti]@DysmalRadius

FDA advice on food for children:[/quote]
Thanks for the screenshot, but do we even get bigeye tuna in the UK? I only seem to see skipjack, which is apparently one of the least problematic and possibly why the FDA advice is so different from the FSA's?

Healthy oily fish full of omega 3? load of rubbish - ignore him

@TunaIsOk
It may be US originated advice, but there's plenty from around the world saying the same.

Mercury is mercury, there isn't any exceptional British non-toxic version of mercury.

Bottom line is, if you want to eat it then do so.

Rather you than me.

@Unescorted

I would avoid tuna too. Heavy metals build up in lipid cells & the body doesn't metabolise them. Animals that eat other animals are at greatest risk because the HM are taken in and stored in the animals fat cells. So as an animal gets older & larger the more mercury (and other toxic heavy metals) is stored in the animals body and the greater the concentration. Due to the increased solubility of HM in salt water the levels are higher in large fish than other animals.

Just because it is on the menu at a school does not mean it is healthy..... Turkey Twizzlers???

Spot on.

[quote PrimoPiatti]@TunaIsOk
It may be US originated advice, but there's plenty from around the world saying the same.

Mercury is mercury, there isn't any exceptional British non-toxic version of mercury.

Bottom line is, if you want to eat it then do so.

Rather you than me.[/quote]
Sorry that was supposed to be addressed to:

@BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz

I would honestly have just sent back this ....

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I would avoid the larger species of tuna due to mercury but the skipjack tuna in cans in fine a couple of days a week

@Shrekprincess

Anyone else having tuna for dinner just because this thread has made them fancy it so much?

I have all the ingredients in for a cracking tuna pasta bake which was going to be tomorrow’s dinner, but now… 🤔

Bollocks. It is brain food.

You've all got me messaging the fishmonger now to find out exactly what kind of Tuna it was.

Lesson learnt, not to post on AIBU if I don't want to be made to think I'm poisoning my child

@incognitoforthisone

Oh, and re the mercury issue - the NHS website suggests that pregnant women only eat 'up to four cans a week' but doesn't warn of any issue with children or other adults eating it. And the NHS weaning website also has tuna recipes for small babies with no warning about how much they shouldn't eat. So I'd be inclined not to fret about that, personally.

Look up some of the guidelines on it from other countries. You'll soon realise that UK guidelines are based on the interests of the fishing lobby and not public health.

Is your ex-husband a dolphin perhaps?

@mizzo

Classic MN lighthearted thread,

OP- "ex says Tuna isn't suitable for a school child "

MN posters- "Tuna is toxic"

This place is utterly ridiculous at times. Unless she's eating tuna all day everyday then she'll be fine. A tiny portion of tuna in some pasta is neither here nor there.

Is this the cockwomble who wants 50/50 even though he doesn't take up his current offered time because he can't be bothered? And who wants your DD to take up gym, at your expense, and against medical advice? Who has never been to a medical appointment? Or is there a plague of idiotic waste of space fathers of 7 year klds around?

Just because it is on the menu at a school does not mean it is healthy..... Turkey Twizzlers???

But schools, in England at least, do have to follow all national guidelines. If tinned tuna was so bad it wouldn't be permitted.

Turkey Twizzlers haven't been present in school menus for decades!

So, let's put the Tuna to one side...

Why is he your ex??

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Well, in hindsight DD2 ate horse lasagne for much of her childhood. She thrived on it.

My mother says I used to eat fistfuls of tuna as a baby. Still love it. Still alive.

You could have fed her anything and he would find a reason to have a go at you. As you said, its about contol.

Maccies as a treat? Stop feeding her crap. Home made vegetable stew? Stop trying to turn her veggie. Didnt let her have sweets before dinner? Stop being horrible and denying her treats.....

I have one like this and I swear that if I handed him a one million pound cheque he would say it was signed in the wrong coloured ink.

Someone quotes WHO guidelines, but partner is a dick ?

@SwearyMaclary

Is your ex-husband a dolphin perhaps?

You win the internet today @SwearyMaclary

He's doing it to control you