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.

Quinoa, kale, chickpeas with a drizzle of lemon juice 🙄🙄

Omg! My idea of a quick dinner is fish fingers waffles and beans

Id be prepared to be told that is junk

Just laugh and tell her to come back in 3 years 😀

Surely her precious not yet born ate all of that if she did, she really is letting herself down not feeding her baby properly now

Invite her round for dinner and make tacos for everyone else but serve her a bowl of plain salad without dressing so you don’t risk giving her anything that can be considered junk 😂

Well. She wants to wind her neck in, doesn’t she. What a bunch of horseshit she’s spouted there.

I have taken a screenshot of that as it sounds like a very healthy meal that I would gladly feed my sons.

We all know how we knew nothing about parenthood before we had babies… just tell her she might well change her mind once she has children!

That is a lovely nutritious dinner, we’ll do e you for being arsed with all that at 730pm. Tell your sister to GFH and remember this conversation in a few years when she is throwing nuggets in the oven!

Did she mistakenly think that frozen veg is less nutritious? She's wrong and tone deaf

My pregnant DSis told me how her PFB wouldn't watch TV or have plastic noisy toys. I merrily reminded her of this over the cacophony of Peppa pig and Vtech when DN had arrived.

My sister in law was very judgemental over every single thing I did with my kids

Then she fell pregnant-and was 100% worse

She was going have the perfect birth-no pain relief or stitches,breastfeed until the baby turned 5 (at least),only use washable nappies,sleep when baby slept,keep the house spotless while cooking from scratch,no tv or screens-everything I didn't do,she was going to boss it

I kept my mouth shut until she'd given birth

She had every drug going,tore and ended up with 34 stitches,couldn't breastfeed (believe me she tried) the nappies didn't make it out of the packet,and when I nipped round to see my newborn nephew,both parents wouldn't let me near him as I knew 'nothing about having kids'

I've had 6 kids but that didn't matter-theirs was so special and the next christ-nobody but them knew what they where doing

As it was,I lost touch with them but it turns out that he will only eat maccys chicken nuggets or takeaway and their flat is a tip-he's 11 now and runs rings round them-he lives for his xbox and they used to shove him in front of the tv all the time

I just smile-she knew nothing-she was a prefect parent until they had one themselves

(my brother was a bit more realistic)

If she lives that long, Kranke!!!

Nicked your recipe. I’d double the meat and halve the beans though there’s plenty of fibre in there already. Bloody brilliant for 20 mins your sister will be giving you a medal for that one in a few years time.

I was your sister I am horrified to admit. I gave birth to my PFB and exclusively breastfed for a year. When trying on solids I started on veg - always steamed not boiled and perfectly blended and put into ice cube trays. 3 days each of every veg going to make sure they agreed with his tummy then we went onto fruits and same. He then went and tried every meat I could find, every cheese and olive on the planet went into his mouth. People would audibly say 'wow look at what a great eater he is' and I would proclaim loudly how WONDERFUL a parent I was. Roll on a few years and he started to refuse everything that was not in nugget form or plain form. Currently eats about 12 things. Total waste of my time and energy and my do I CRINGE when my fb memories show up how wonderful my parenting was.

What a load of bollocks you speak. Think you need to head back to nutrition school

@Dotjones ehh? Tinned and frozen veg is not junk https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/food-and-nutrition/eating-well/eatwell-guide-how-to-eat-a-healthy-balanced-diet#fruit-and-vegetables

Tell her to shut the fuck up… lol
Nothing wrong with tinned or frozen veg at all.
She’ll get her karma once baby is born & she’s trying to perpetuate the mother goddess routine on 0 sleep 😂

By brother was an almighty twat when he had his 1st child.
He nearly died when he first found me, a child free person, feeding said child. Our parent had to point out I'd been fending my brother since I was 5.

FFS. Why is everyone so fucking sensitive on here @ MN and in the world. Give your child what they want. Taco's maybe not the best option on the daily but you're not sending in McDs or Taco Bells every effing day.
Take a chill pill with your now 8 a day (apparently) and do what suits you and your family
#notsoprecious

It's beyond irritating. She's excited and wants to be a great parent, which is wonderful, lovely that she's so conscientious. She'll learn, like we all do, and give you a big apology. Meanwhile, you should be recording all her comments to play back later.

PS Take solice in knowing what happens to people who say, O, I would NEVER in regard to children...? LOL

Canned veges have a high salt content, but usually not processed and frozen veges can be better than fresh. Your sister is an idiot. Tacos are fine!

That's good, home cooked family fare. Make sure you regularly drop in unannounced to your sister's at meal times when her baby is a toddler, just to check how unjunky her food is.

Hahah I remembered being like this with my first I was going to be some breastfeeding super food feeding superhuman mum.

I didn’t breastfeed I don’t mind saying I just couldn’t manage it. I also give my kids the odd happy meal when I am really under pressure with work and just mum life.

she just excited it’s very annoying I no

Your tea sounds lovely! 😋

So everything she feeds her child will be organic, grown/reared at home? That'll last all of 5 minutes!

Good luck to her and her ideology....Everything we eat is processed in some way even organic food has chemicals used on it - lower impact chemicals, but chemicals nonetheless.

Unless you become self sufficient growing food and eating only what you grow, you will eat processed food, but processed food isn't all junk food - she needs to go learn the difference.

has she been reading giovanni Fletchers books by any chance? Can’t stand that woman, honestly you’d think she was the only woman in the world to have had a pregnancy and babies. You meal
sounds lovely I love tacos 🌮