AIBU to think this dinner was not junk food?

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My youngest sister is 15 weeks pregnant with her PFB and I find myself having to bite my tongue constantly with the nonsense she is spouting. All of a sudden she is a child rearing goddess after read half a parenting book, I really wish I could tell her to shut the fuck up and that I’ve managed to get my eldest child to 16 years old without her helpful hints. Her comments about how she would never feed her PFB junk food like I was preparing when I was cooking a quick dinner after activities last night nearly saw me commit murder with a spatula.

The meal in question was tacos, quick easy and nutritious I thought but the way she went on and on about junk and frozen/tinned vegetables being highly processed who knows maybe I am wrong and they are seen as junk? So Mumsnet was my quick Monday night dinner as unhealthy as she made out? We don’t get home until just gone 7:30pm on Mondays and I can get this to the table in 20ish minutes and it’s eaten without complaint by all 3 dc.

250g 5% mince beef
1 tin of kidney beans
1 tin of mixed beans
2 tins of tomatoes
frozen sweetcorn
frozen peppers
frozen sweet potato chunks
2 red onions
1 chilli
1 packet of taco seasoning
taco shells
Each plate had a side salad on consisting of bistro salad leaves out a bag, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, peppers, radishes, celery, grated carrot and spring onion.

I should add she managed 3 taco shells of the highly processed mix without complaint.

That is not junk food. She's an idiot.

Sounds perfect to me! Bite your tongue and await the perfect moment to remind her of her comments when the time comes 😉

I may be wrong, but I thought that in some cases frozen veg actually contains more nutrients because it's frozen quickly after harvesting?

YANBU at all.

next time I’ll happily come round and eat hers. Though I’d like a sprinkling of cheese on my taco please?

This is very far from junk food

@discobrain Thank you she has turned into a twat and I’m struggling to be around her currently.

So many bonkers food threads on MN at the moment.

Clearly your dinner was not junk food.

But please tell me you also served cheese and sour cream?

Just ignore her, or say something non-committal. Frozen veg and tins aren’t junk food. Packet seasoning tends to have sugar, and non-clumping agents in, and the shells are processed - but it’s only a small part of the dinner.

Im sure she’ll look back and laugh about it in a few years!

That's a really good balanced meal and I wish I managed that every night.

Looking forwards to the day her kid refuses to eat everything but white bread.

I think you need to just not bite your tongue and tell her she's being a twat.

Goodness that sounds great for a Monday (I've been known to cook beans on toast on Mondays!)

If I had more time I may use fresh peppers ... other than that sounds amazing!

Your sister will crumble and fall no doubt or change her criteria to suit her benefit in the near future lol

Sounds delicious! A great balance of meat, pulses and veg.
Nothing wrong with frozen veg, just as good, if not sometimes better, than fresh veg! How is it processed?

Ha ha!! That is very respectable indeed within your time constraints. My younger sis is a bit like this. Sometimes I can be patient and think ‘she will learn’ when she has to manage what I do, but other times I tell her to wise up, depends. The classier thing is probably to smile and ignore but we are all human!

I'm just planning on picking up McDonalds for my two after their swimming lesson tonight! That's junk food!

Send her a link to that 'it's raining tacos' song.

@MissHavishamsMouldyOldCake yes there was both normal and lactose free cheese but no sour cream unfortunately.
(1 dc is lactose intolerant).

This isn't junk food.

She's turned into a pregnancy evangelist!

You wait until the baby is born! You ain't seen nothing yet!

Frozen vegetables often are more nutricious than fresh! Your sister is talking out of her backside.

She’s absolutely ridiculous - I’d kill for my children to eat something with that much plant matter in it. Round here “junk” is pizza or fish finger and potato waffles! Ignore her, she’ll look back and cringe in a few years…

Ahh OP you get the fun job and watching and waiting for the days when she is feeding her child fish fingers and smiley faces for dinner and you can comment that you never gave that junk to your dc.

Wow your tacos sound amazing! I just do the mince when the seasoning 😂 no veg 🤷🏼‍♀️ but we have salad with it.

sit back, with a glass of wine and packets of unhealthy crisps, and watch your sister unravel as she realises life with kids isn’t like what she imagines it will be 😂

I’ve got this exact same dinner planned for this week 🤣

Your dinner was perfectly fine - your sister is just in the idealistic stage where she believes she will be the perfect parent to the perfect child. This stage doesn't long outlast the reality of having a child.

Just put all the ingredients on my shopping list for tomorrow, I love tacos.

Definitely not junk, and sounds lovely nd healthy. Frozen and tinned fruit and veg is just as good if not better than fresh, plus cheaper and reduced waste. Ignore her.

You can get that to the table in 20 mins?

Would you like to adopt me? I'm very good at washing up. 🤗