AIBU to think this dinner was not junk food?

[FluffyUnionSocks]

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.

Feeling particularly pedantic today but...if she ate them and she's pregnant she must be fairly happy for with nutritional benefits for pfb surely?!

Why on earth do you say everything in a tin or frozen is junk? And indeed a fresh chilli? It's completely irrational.

Er what?

how is a can of kidney beans junk food? What a dumbass thing to say. Should the OP be soaking her kidney beans over night and then boiling them, would that make the kidney beans not junk food?
again tinned tomato is junk? Should they be fresh or should she can them herself? Would jarred tomatoes be ok?
taco shells are junk? So bread is then too?
spices are junk?

congrats you’ve won MN most stupid contest

It’s obviously a healthy meal! I would try to deal with your sister by laughing off her comments and writing them down, tell her you’re writing her PFB Diaries as they will be hilarious to look back at when she’s serving her kids chicken nuggets!

Processed doesn't necessarily mean 'bad,' it just means it's not in its totally natural state. So steamed broccoli would technically be 'processed.' Nothing wrong with tinned beans or whatever.

I think @Dotjones might be my sister 😆

Avocado? JUNK
Spinach? NOT JUNK
Sesame seeds? NOT JUNK
Red pepper? JUNK

😂

iiBless her heart.

One day, that 15 week bump will be 20, hungover to fuck after an uni night out and ordering the entire McDonalds menu on deliveroo (hard stare at ds).

She won’t think your meal was so bad then.

She's wrong. Plenty of veg, protein and fibre. Frozen and tinned food are often higher in nutrients than 'fresh' food stored by supermarkets.

But she's pregnant with her first. She's convinced she will be an earth mother Goddess. She'll learn 😆

That is amazing for a 'quick meal'!

Ah well, this sounds like a case of "it's easy to be a perfect parent to imaginary children".

That's not junk food, fyi. We fed our DC fish, chips and mushy peas last night from the chip shop because we hadn't been shopping. By any measure it was unhealthy, and I still don't feel bad 🤷🏼‍♀️ they went to bed with full tummies and will eat plenty of unprocessed, nutritionally sound food today.

We’re all here for when her child will only eat things from the 3 for £10 at Iceland 😅

That’s perfectly fine. What is she going to feed hers, unicorn sprinkles?

@Dotjones Are you OK?

Why are you even giving her head space? @FluffyUnionSocks

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”

what’s the worst than can happen? That she fetches a fit and stops telling you what to do? Result. Put her back in her box.

my sis and her stupid now exh used to do this and it made me doubt myself initially but then I had a word with myself and got over it.

don’t ever let anyone make you feel inferior!

What’s she on about?!

My perfect 8 month old DS will never be hung over ordering Mc Donalds deliveroo on the couch because he will always be perfect we live a 45 min drive to the nearest McDonalds and I don't see that changing. If I am still as wrapped around his little finger as I am now I will be driving him 😂

OP Your meal sounds lovely and I think I will try it out actually!

@Dotjones what are you on about!!

That sounds delicious - I am going to cook this!
Freezer veg is great, as it is possible to have a lot of variety in a meal like this.

I did not know these existed! Will be off to buy some sharpish. Also, your tacos sound delicious and your sister sounds like a judgemental arse.

Sounds delicious. I'm moving in with you 😉

Sounds lovely and not at all junky, but you are vv unreasonable not to include the key junk ingredients- sour cream and grated cheese.

how is a can of kidney beans junk food? What a dumbass thing to say. Should the OP be soaking her kidney beans over night and then boiling them, would that make the kidney beans not junk food?

How can you suggest such sloppy practice? Clearly OP should be growing the beans and harvesting them from her garden/field.

This!! In spades. Try to ignore her and bite your tongue just now - and she'll learn once her own kids arrive! If she thinks what you were making was 'Junk Food' - which it isn't - she's going to get a HUGE shock when it comes to feeding her children ( especially the first one) 😂😂

Yabu if this wasn't served with cheese. Is cheese junk?

That's an interesting illustration of the folly of these classifications. Sesame seeks clearly are NOT JUNK, but for people with allergies they could be fatal. But maybe a bit of death doesn't matter so long as the corpse isn't filled up with JUNK.