To ask if this would go down well?

[ZebaBay]

If a mum had a young child on a bus , say aged 3 - 5, for arguments' sake, and the mum got out a snack for the child - which was a sandwich box full of colourful, pre prepared salad - so loadsa lettuce, tomatoes finely chopped props and grated carrot etc - and the child ate it contentedly - - would an eyebrow be raised amongst the Mumsnet collective?

I wouldn't care what you feed your kid, but I might judge about dirty public transport germs and eating salad with hands.

Yes, by me as Id be so envious because my child would never ever eat a salad in a million years!

Well parents get judged no matter what they do, so yes I bet there would be some people having a sulk about a child eating salad.

I would idly wonder why a kid was eating salad with a spoon on the bus. Seems a faff and yes, possibly a performance.

And I'm not a germaphobe, I'm a skank by MN standards, but, public transport

Just shove them a bag of crisps.. Performance parenting is what you are suggesting...

Chopped salad in a sandwich is going to make a mess - a child is bound to drop some (as would an adult, to be honest).

If the child cannot wait until the destination is reached, a less messy sandwich (cheese, perhaps) or a piece of fruit would be better.

A spoon to eat salad? It'll go all over the place so yes, I'd judge.

How far you going on this bus?!

Anyway, just chuck the kid a big mac, no mumsnetter worth their salt slums it on the bus anyway, that's for donut guzzling scumbags like me 😉

No eating allowed on our local buses.

Just noticed I didn't read carefully enough and it's a salad in a sandwich box.

No, too messy and for a snack, it's not going to much of a dent in the child's hunger (if it's hungry enough to need to eat on the bus journey rather than waiting).

I’d be giving you a perfect parenting award for nutrition. The accompanying medal would be made out of chocolate decorated with popping candy, we’d be toasting your win with Prime.

I wouldn’t notice or care unless one of two things happened:

1. any salad landed on me
2. it was accompanied by loud performance parenting as mentioned above. “Now Tarquinius, tell me what vitamins are in the salad. Remember I want the Latin names for each item. And why don’t we eat Turkey Twizzlers Tarquinius? That’s right, because we end up looking like some of the other passengers on this bus! Now pop the chard and the naughty treat Grissini back in your Japanese stacking lunch box and let’s run through the verbs etre and avoir”.

It would make me want to get off the bus early and mainline some eclairs.

Wouldn’t notice or care. But then I feed my kids greggs sausage rolls and maccy d’s, so 🙄

If properly wondering how much of it was going to end up on the floor and if you planned to clean it up. Finding the leftover bits over the bus sounds grim.

Eating salad with a spoon on a bus is going to make a mess. I would hope you’d pick all the bits up off the floor and seat. That’s my only thought on it.

I wouldn’t really care about the food, as long as it wasn’t all over the floor, but I’d probably have a good laugh at the accompanying performance parenting. You are desperate for us all to know about the wonderfully healthy snack you’ve so lovingly prepared for your small child, who no doubt has a very mature pallet for their age and would always refuse chocolate in favour of a carrot stick.

No one should be eating on a bus, that's why they have notices up. It's messy, stinky and unnecessary.

I’d think, I bet that kid would prefer a massive doughnut… 😉

Poor little bugger. Just give it a pack of wotsits like a normal person.

You're probably right

Chopped salad, plastic spoon and a toddler, on a bouncy bus? Sounds like a new game show as to how much they will get in their mouth and how much fellow travellers will be wearing!

I'd be worried about them spilling it. Plus it's unsanitary if they're using thier hands. Is it really necessary to eat salad on the bus?

I wouldn't be giving a small child easily spillable food in a wobbly, bumpy bus.