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.

Salma Hayek understand the true struggle of feeding one's kids.

What’s the method, OP? I’d really like to try this this weekend!

Genius!

OP, that’s not a “quick” Monday dinner. That’s a fully prepared fresh meal. Hats off to you and kudos for not committing death by spatula 😂

Canning and freezing preserves nutrients, so if anything you could argue that makes the meal even healthier.

I'd have been tempted to point out that despite her issues, she'd done pretty well eating three processed tacos and a selection of frozen veg.

If she's likely to be around at yours for a meal in the future, I'd be tempted to (half jokingly) suggest she brings an alternative to say, the processed pitta bread you'll be serving.

@Brefugee sadly the twizzler has had its day thanks to Jamie Fucking Oliver, future generations are to be denied those succulent little bastards
RIP toast toppers too, a mother's staple 🙏

Similar to this; when I was a kid I was a very picky eater (now I think it's ARFID but that just wasn't really a thing when I was a kid, I just got labelled fussy) and a friend of my Mum's would really pick at it. "Why don't you just make her eat?" "Why do you let her get away with it?" And the classic "Well my children won't ever behave like that."

Several years later and she'd be on the phone to my Mum begging for advice for her very picky child. Bonus, she proceeded to ignore all of it and now her son doesn't speak to her much because she was very controlling and critical, especially with regards to food.

OP ignore your sister, she'll learn in time.

250g 5% mince beef - 1g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/279704092

1 tin of kidney beans - 0.02g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/300808531

1 tin of mixed beans (just other beans, but still) - 0.02g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297021336

2 tins of tomatoes- 0.36g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/251825089

frozen sweetcorn - assuming 4 portions - 0.08g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299539429

frozen peppers - assuming 4 portions - 0.04g of salt
https://www.ocado.com/products/picard-mixed-pepper-slices-365295011?ULP_CAMPAIGN_ID=109&ds_rl=1291426&ds_rl=1291534&gclid=CjwKCAjwoIqhBhAGEiwArXT7K-AWNiZvhQzGUdeivYVbQrnyllkdJi_8kbhPPGWuhUTmzw_oZdHE_BoCKZgQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

frozen sweet potato chunks - assuming 4 portions - 0.32g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299539280

2 red onions - no salt

1 chilli - no salt

1 packet of taco seasoning - 1.13g of salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/311421372

taco shells - no salt
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/297237749

That's a total (for 12 tacos serving 4 people) of 3.27g of salt. Or about 0.8g of salt per person. In fact, if that's all the food you have in a day, this meal would be below the recommended minimum amount. In fact, if you ate this meal twice in oneday then you'd be below the recommended minimum amount - and OP could eat this meal eight times in one day before she hit the recommended daily maximum.

If you're nutritionally illiterate then don't comment, especially if you're just commenting to try and shame someone.

BuT tHe SoDiUm ItS sO hIgH

Ah its so easy to be a brilliant parent when you have no actual children. Your sister will learn the hard way that you can plan all you like but life has its own ideas! Your dinner sounds varied, nutricious tasty and filling. I'd love if my son would eat something like that. In reality he lives on toast, yogert, crackers and bananas and the odd bite of something else.

Is it her first baby? the amount of people on their first babies who told me they would have natural births, would be breastfeeding, then when kid is older, no creches for them, no, they'd prefer family to mind them, and of course a lot of this changed, just bite your tongue, she'll learn soon enough

OP please invite her round for dinner again. Make sure frozen and canned veg are included. Then record her before and over dinner for posterity.

When PFB is demanding fish fingers and chips that's the time to produce it. Without the evidence she'll deny it to the hilt. Smile smugly as you do.

That meal is nutritionally sound. Your sister needs to shut her trap

OP your sister can prepare the right food for everyone if she’s the most perfect human.

That's a healthy dinner in this house.

Even if you feed your kids proper 'junk food' sometimes, so what?

This is quite some dedication to addressing misinformation. 😂

Exactly this! And also, nothing wrong anyway with junk food in moderation.

I don't know whether you're being sarcastic or whether you didn't do GCSE chemistry!

I agree, I feel quite inadequate to be honest, my quick meal would be pasta and sauce or some sort of processed breaded chicken and chips 😂

Seems pretty healthy to me. I certainly wouldn’t call it junk!

You can take the definition of processed to extremes. You could say that milk of pretty much any kind you can buy in the supermarket is processed to a degree. Unless she’s planning on feeding her pfb a totally raw diet, she will have to give them processed food of some description.

No cheese, sour cream, guacamole?
You monster!!!!!!

Please record her stu

I was also a wonderful mother, when my children were hypothetical or had not arrived yet! 😂

I think your sister might have her own thread running currently @FluffyUnionSocks 😉

Why did you feed her after she said that you were cooking junk?

Why did she eat it if she thought it was junk?

It'll be great as you watch her kid being handed an Ipad and a pile of french fries when you all go out to eat.