Tinned hotdogs at school

[Hotdogsarevile]

I picked my girls up from after school club today. They were a total nightmare, hyper, wouldn’t listen. Even caught them putting thick paint marker pens onto the rug in the playroom. They’ve never ever done anything like this before. I drill into them that pens belong on paper. They’ve had their pens removed now for 3 days (they’re 6 year old - twins)

When I picked them up from school the after school club staff member said they they’d had hot dogs for snack. The girls started laughing saying that they were all pink and floppy 😳

I absolutely hate tinned hot dogs with a passion. I’m sure it’s one of the reasons they were so hyper.

Would I be unreasonable to ask for them to be given a vegetarian alternative (not asking for something to be made specially but surely they must cater for veggies)

The list of ingredients makes me feel physically sick. I had them when we were kids, along with the packet dried onions you added to the brine 🤢

I pay £10 for each child for after school club (I am aware that people pay much more than this) but part of the selling point is that they get given a healthy snack - last week it was yogurt & grapes - absolutely fine

so

YANBU - hot dogs are the food of the devil

YABU - they enjoyed them let them eat them it’s not like they eat them every day

🤣

YANBU to not want them eating such rubbish, however that isn't why they are badly behaved. The idea that eating processed food/ E-numbers one time affects kids behaviour has been widely proven to be nonsense.

Look that isn’t nice but way better than I feared from your OP to be honest, and I can’t see any reasonable way they could be responsible for your kids’ subsequent antics. An upset stomach maybe, but not hyperactive naughtiness :D

My twins are 5 and behave that way without a hotdog in sight so it really isn’t down to the after school club’s snack choice but them being brats!!

Have to agree tinned hotdogs are disgusting floppy abominations but we found the Wikinger ones in a jar or German ones in a vacuum pac pouch are much better in terms of meat content and presentation!!

YANBU not wanting them to eat tinned hot dogs...are they allowed to bring their own snacks?

YANBU. There are better snacks it's lazy planning on the part of the after school club. Like selling doughnuts in schools. After all the talk about healthier eating they feed them shit.

Agree😁

@susiedaisy1912 and so did the @Hotdogsarevile !

I wouldn't be happy with with that. No reason why they couldn't give them a sandwich or beans on toast or something.

I was once served udder - sliced cold meat udder - by my student landlady. It looked a bit like tongue (which I never liked anyway) so I asked what it was. And she told me. 😱
And asked whether I liked it.
But having been brung up to be very polite, I said yes, and ate it anyway.

This was a long time ago - the landlady had told me her family had been very poor when she was a child, and offal was often eaten, because it was cheap. (And of course very nutritious.)
She would still eat e.g. fried chitterlings (intestines) with evident relish but never tried giving me any!

DD had hotdogs and a donut as her school dinner this week. She loves a hotdog! So much for healthy food 😂

I can’t get overexcited about what they are made of. I don’t mind them but prefer the better quality german ones.

I would send them with a snack box instead.
They will provide whatever is chep and easy due to lack of staff and funding.

But it wouldn't have contributed to their hyperactivity!

I don't think you can blame a single hotdog for what sounds like fairly normal (albeit naughty and obnoxious) behaviour for a "beginning of term, still adjusting to the routine" 6 year old. Especially with a sibling to egg them on.

Hot dogs are not even really 'food' in that they provide no nutrition. Nor are they a 'treat'. I'd send a polite note requesting they are not given hotdogs again. I imagine the behaviour was simple naughtiness but that long list of artificial rubbish won't help behaviour.

I mean that almost every part of a pig is edible - so it doesn't matter if a pork product contains ears, snout, trotters, tail etc. That's actually a good thing because it avoids waste and these parts are perfectly nutritious. The only issue really is the other non-pork ingredients.

I’d be very surprised if a hot dog sausage resulted in your children drawing on a rug!

That said, I wouldn’t be happy with our grandson eating one at school. They provide a menu each week to choose from and it’s all made fresh in-house. Surprised schools are still serving such processed stuff.

I put vegan hotdogs back when I read the ingredients. Didn’t know what half of them were.

You want little dinos franks. They are super

Colouring in food used to send DS hyper. YANBU. I don't know but likely some of those e-numbers are colourings. Having said that, veggie sausages aren't necessarily better. The only decent ones I've found (without additives) are based on mushrooms. So it's a difficult one, asking for alternatives. We feed our kids such crap in this country.
You literally are what you eat.

whatwhatwhot · Today 13:49

You want little dinos franks. They are super

Nitrites are far from ideal

Ears eyes and arseholes

I was told that was what they were made out of and stuck with me 🙀😂🤮

Love a proper meaty sausage / def not a hot dog

Slimey and rank

But

You can't blame your kids behaviour on them

Your children were misbehaving because they aren't the darlings you think they are.

It's got fuck all to do with hotdogs.

You blaming hotdogs is the best 'but my darling child would never do THAT with it being someone else's fault' I've seen in a while.

I absolutely never said they were darlings, I said that they’ve never done anything quite as bad as that when I’ve drilled it into them that pens belong on paper and nothing else

look I think we can agree that 2 things are true here

hotdogs are fucking vile and have no place on a school menu

and yes the eating of the hotdog probably had absolutely nothing to do with them being little shits after a long day at school.

I am far from a perfect parent and my kids are also far from being perfect

I know quite a few people who won’t feed them to their dogs as treats because they make them more hyper

I 100% would not want my children eating tinned hotdogs - gross. As you say, you only have to look at the ingredients. I’d let them know that this is not a healthy snack in the slightest.

I don’t think it has anything to do with your children being naughty though.

Two unrelated incidents, hyper children and hot dogs. Have a cuppa and shake it off.