To think beige kids dinners are fine?

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Scrolling FB today and seen a video come up from a mum of 2 and what she gave her kids for good during the day.

cereal for breakfast with option of fruit/veg

picky bits for lunch, on this occasion included a sandwich, Dairylea dunkers, a pack of fridge raiders, banana, an angel cake slice.

for dinner the child had, fish fingers, chips, peas.

for pudding was given a fromage frais and a mini Maryland bag of cookies.

Now I am not sure how old the child was as there was no mention, but the comments were horrendous, comments were saying how she should be done for neglect because of the ultra processed food she’s feeding her kid.

What’s your views on it?

I’ll start, I see nothing wrong with this diet, maybe breakfast could be a little more filling, perhaps an option of something else on the side, but that’s just my child, I know some kids don’t like big brekkies.

I can’t be the only one especially growing up in the lower/working class families, that had a diet consisting of quick save chips, and pizza/sausages surely?

What’s your point? Just because you were brought up on it doesn’t make it a healthy day of food.
Not sure what working class really has to do with it either, fridgeraides, dairylea dunkers, cake and cookies are hardly cheap. There are so many better options.

That lunch is poor, they didn’t need a sandwich and a dunker and a packet of fridge raiders. There should have been some type of salad veg instead.
Fish and chips is ok occasionally, I’d be wanting to see a variety of veg offered most nights.
I grew up poor in the 70’s, but mum still cooked proper food and gave one vegetable with meat and potatoes most nights.

No It’s awful.

That's a really crappy diet. For one day, okay, I get it if they have a difficult eater for some medical reason, but all things being average, it's nutritionally very poor.

It’s a pretty poor diet. Vast majority of the calories from UPF. Honestly I am no nutrition evangelist and I like eating shite as much as the next woman but that is a really poor day’s food.

it’s nigh on impossible to avoid beige food entirely when you’re feeding kids but it should be occasional, not constant.

Everything in that diet is UPF apart from the banana and peas (assuming bread was shop bought).

Was this woman you op?

I don't judge what people feed their kids. I grew up with a lot of freezer food and my DS is such a fussy eater that he quite regularly has chips and sausage rolls for dinner. But this is MN where fish fingers are devils fare so be prepared for the whole I cook from scratch every day and my child would never touch a fish finger or potato smiley 😂

Isn't beige food just very simple? Like sausages, potatoes, peas and carrots for dinner? Or a tomato and cheese sandwich for lunch? Or boiled eggs with toast for breakfast?

No, it’s chips/potato faces/waffles/chicken nuggets etc. With a side of beans as the veg!

No, I think beige food is highly processed and literally a shade of beige in colour, eg breaded things, chips, sausage rolls etc

Nope it’s pretty bad. As a one off of course not going to kill anyone but if this is a regular diet it’s not going to meet basic nutrition.

Very little fruit or veg (peas), very little fresh food, not enough protein, lacking fibre, plus far too much sugar and loads of UPF too. Plus it will be expensive- why the fridge raiders rather than some actual chicken, why the dairylea dunkers rather than a square of cheese and some breadsticks?

No, it's frozen processed food: chicken nuggets, turkey twizzlers, chips. It has little nutritional value.

It’s a terrible meal predominantly UPFs from packets
how does anyone thing this is a healthy diet?

It’s a lot of processed food.

Well obviously it's not good, but also this isn't beige food. Beige food is ... beige. Who cares anyway, we know it's not good, but what this person chooses to feed their kids is up to them.

Op- that does seem like a pretty shit day’s food and I’m no scratch-cooking, 8 fruit and veg providing super mum.

OK, I stand corrected on the meaning of beige food.

It’s full of crap, boring and lazy.

I had a fussy eater, I know how hard it can be but this isn’t food. It’s junk.

No I don’t think that diet is ok for a child. The meals you’ve posted are fine occasionally but not as regular meals. Kids shouldn’t be eating fish fingers, nuggets, chips etc. for most meals, they should be given proper meals eating with their parents, and angel slice, dunkers and fridge raiders in one lunch is not good.

It's not ideal, but it's not neglect FFS. Is it the "he ate the lot!" woman? She says that her kid is exceptionally fussy - she seems to cook fairly standard food for the rest of the family.

BUT as with anything online, I always wonder whether she's found a lucrative "niche" (don't feel too sorry for her with all the hate comments - that's what generates the revenue!) and whether it's no longer in her interests to even try and improve his diet.

It’s not about never touching a fish finger. It’s the cereal, sandwich, fake processed chicken, dairylea dunkers, cake, fish fingers, cookies and yoghurt all in one day.

Honestly the weird attempt for some people to constantly try to normalise feeding your children utter trash is so bizzare. Like why are some people trying to be proud they choose to feed their kid this on a daily basis?

I thought the same as you, we're having toad in the hole, mash and veg for tea and I've always called this beige food!

So you think this is fine, we’re unhappy with the comments people made on it, but have started a post about this to invite people to criticise it all over again. Will you be back OP, I highly doubt it?

Yeah it’s fine if you want your kid’s skin to be yellow and start their period at 9 years old.

It wouldn’t be much more work or expense to make this a bit healthier

breakfast - muesli, orange juice
lunch - toast boiled eggs banana
dinner - piece of fish (cooked from frozen) new potatoes peas
yogurt/couple of biscuits as end of day sweet treat

fridge raiders, dairylea things all very expensive not very nutritional but easy I guess

Ah come in. No beige refers to the colour. Often the carbs.

Not all beige food is frozen processed crap.

There's a world of difference between a crappy frozen supermarket sausage roll and a home made one made with organic pork etc. Or a turkey dinosaur and a homemade turkey escalope.