... to hate people that bring their own food to parties?

[trumpetgirl]

My dd has been to a few parties recently and I have noticed that some people have brought food for their children and I assumed that their child must have allergies or something.
I have just found out that actually they just don't want their child eating the crap party food.
Should I feel offended by this? Are they implying that I'm a terrible mother for letting my dd eat crisps and cake for her tea? If not, then why do they have a problem letting their kid eat it?
It's a one off, a treat. What's the flipping problem with that?!

have never made food an issue,wouldn't deny party food,save your angst for something that really matters eg not a bunch of weans at a party

wrong to make your child the "no cant eat that my mummy says...."

'wrong to make your child the "no cant eat that my mummy says...." '

oh, yes, that would go over well in the Western Highlands .

apparently gwyneth paltrow banned apple eating chocolate cake,hydrogenated fats at parties.

unclench gwynnie

the wind will change and yer face will stay like that

like a bulldog chewing a wasp

wonder how she's going to ban the charlie and ecstacy when wee apple trots off to boarding school .

YANBU how weird and over the top those parents are. Don't get this scared of Mcdonalds and fruit shoot thing at all either. No biggie to me if my kids have abit of crap here and there, none of my kids are fat or have dental issues so there is no harm. Denying them occasional junk will make them want it more.

aye mere mention of sausage rolls make some on MN go apoplectic.frankly not sure about demonising food- makes it more appealing as forbidden

what's wrong with sausage rolls?

have they tried them? i prefer Gregg's and i'm not even Scottish.

my dad is Mexican-American and, on his first visit to our flat in Leith, announced he was 'going for a walk'.

he came back loaded with carrier bags and grinning ear to ear: 'i found this great bakery! it's called Gregg's. they let me sample stuff in there. i got these things called sausage rolls, donuts, twisties called YumYums, pies with ground beef . . . '

he walked there every morning for a cup of coffee and his breakfast, stopping on the way back in the newsagent for his copy of The Scotsman.

Ooooh - Yum Yums! Love 'em.

Friends of mine give their little ones raisins and bread sticks for snacks. How times have changed it was biscuits when mine were little (even chocolate ones). We didn't do it to be evil just didn't know any different.

Mentioned this to DD and she said they should let them have the usual treats now and again because when they get to teens with their own money and choices they will rebel!

such liberalism!!

abouteve: Very true!

I went to boarding school between the ages of 11 and 18. Apart from the tuck shop there was a vending machine. Us Convent girls learnt to shake it very hard and get free Caramacs. That was after having a couple of Lion Bars, several packets of Golden Wonder and some diet coke.

Never did us any harm!

ahhhh yum-yums ....so appropriately named.

I can think of worse than a sausage roll...

My Auntie forbade my cousins from eating any sweets/party type food when they were kids. And yes, she did used to bring her own food to parties etc.

As adults, two of them are morbidly obese having developed overeating problems and very sweet teeth and the third has been anorexic for ten years.

A little of what you fancy does you good, it would seem.

How rude - unless the kids have allergies.
Poor, poor kids - what a life..

I don't think I have ever come across this...tbh...
would be a rude thing to do...so, therefore why would you care ....
people can be so ott about these things, can't they...I mena, I am all for Healthy eating...but a Party is a Party is a Party is a Party

It would make me laugh, but poor lo's eating carrot sticks and celary, while all the ohter children eat cakes and chocolate and all the other good stuff kids love at parties ( not everyday but at parties)

I have never come across it, and I wouldnt care if it happened either (not for dc, anyway). More crap yummy food left for us I say, hooray!

Flippin' hell; food is a big part of life. Why not let kids enjoy the REALLY nice parts of it, eg chocolate and cake?
I don't get, I really don't. It's cruel deprivation IMO.

There is a big difference between encouraging your children to have a reasonably healthy diet and a healthy relationship with food and being so neurotic about what passes their lips that you feel you can't trust a party hostess not to try and poison them with a cocktal sausage and a bit of cake. You are just possibly storing yourself up a whole host of problems for the future. A distant family member blamed every aspect of her son's percieved difficult behaviour on what he ate and subjected him to all manner of wierd and wonderful diets instead of addressing the real cause of his problems (her!!). Now, as a 19 year old, he practically lives in McDonalds!
Also as the mother of two teenage boys questionable party food is most definately the last of my concerns when they go to parties!

There is a big difference between encouraging your children to have a reasonably healthy diet and a healthy relationship with food and being so neurotic about what passes their lips that you feel you can't trust a party hostess not to try and poison them with a cocktal sausage and a bit of cake. You are just possibly storing yourself up a whole host of problems for the future. A distant family member blamed every aspect of her son's percieved difficult behaviour on what he ate and subjected him to all manner of wierd and wonderful diets instead of addressing the real cause of his problems (her!!). Now, as a 19 year old, he practically lives in McDonalds!
Also as the mother of two teenage boys questionable party food is most definately the last of my concerns when they go to parties!

oops

I take food if I know the house is going to be filthy or they have cats that they let on the work surface but I just take the same crap they are going to be eating at the party!