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To be feeding my children chicken dippers, chips and beans

68 replies

Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 20/03/2009 17:05

because it's a Friday, I'm 31 weeks pregnant with SPD, chronic backache, every lovingly home-cooked meal I have slaved over has been pushed around this week (both DDs have had D&V) and, quite frankly, I can't be arsed?

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squilly · 20/03/2009 17:37

YASNBU...no one will die. It's not going to kill anyone as a treat (and the kids will see it as a treat).

I haven't done this for ages, preferring the ease of pasta and ready made swedish meatballs (equally lazy, but less scorned than chicken dippers, chips and beans).

You're entitled to do this...

smudgethepuppydog · 20/03/2009 17:39

It's once in a while, it won't harm them, go for whatever's easiest.

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Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 20/03/2009 17:39

muggglewump

Do FarmFoods do Foie Gras?

Well, I am glad others have backed me up. I cook from scratch every evening, they eat masses of fresh fruit and vegetables and don't usually do the whining about green stuff. However, I just could not be arsed tonight.

And the funniest thing is........they have not finished their dippers, chips and beans. They've eaten a bit but they're none too bothered.

Bless.

However, they did just ask for a slice of (home-made) cake each. DD2's 'pudding tummy' isn't full (thanks for that DH!).

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TheGreatScootini · 20/03/2009 17:39

I love chicken Dippers.I have them in the freezer for me and only let the DD's have them about once a year and then only when I havent scoffed them all.Ditto fish fingers.

TBH I was fed fish fingers, sausages in beans et al quite a bit when I was little and for one year ate literally only Bovril sandwiches, (refused everything ese) and I dont appear to have died from it

Blottedcopybook · 20/03/2009 17:40

Christ, at your stage of pregnancy I wouldn't think you were unreasonable if you were feeding them that kind of thing nightly! YANBU at all, especially if it's a one off Everything in moderation and it's not like you're carting them off to McDonalds!

Blottedcopybook · 20/03/2009 17:43

Scootini same! My younger brother wouldn't eat anything except chicken nuggets, fish fingers or pizza when we were kids and my Mum (ever the maternal sort) made us some variation of the above every single night for a good year because she refused to "pander" to us by making two separate meals, despite the fact that she cooked separately for her and my Dad anyway.

MorrisZapp · 20/03/2009 17:45

My DP was on a lads night out last month and as it got very late one guy suggested the chicken dippers.

My DP was blank until it was explained to him that his friend wanted to go to see the strippers.

Now that would be unreasonable!

Guadalupe · 20/03/2009 17:46

Mine are having frozen pizza with a sniff of lettuce. It's as much as I can muster to turn on the oven tonight.

muggglewump · 20/03/2009 17:47

Oh and we're having Jackets and salad. Jackets brought home from work so just need reheating, and salad from a bag with cherry toms on the side.
If I didn't have my work to bring quick food home from tonight, we'd have had a freezer dinner too. We have freezer dinner a couple of times a month, and DD (age 7) cooks it herself, so I get to do nothing! Score.

Tomorrow we are having Takeaway though. Large chicken kebab for me, whatever DD wants and chips to share. Yum!

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Grumpyoldcaaaaaaaa · 20/03/2009 17:47

TheGreatScootini

You've reminded me of a girl I went to school with who, as far as I can remember, ate only Heinz Chicken Soup, luncheon meat (what was that stuff made of?), Stork/Blue Riband(sp?)and plastic bread sandwiches or oven chips. I often picture her now, in her thirties, possibly eating those same things.

Her mum was on a permanent diet and lived on Ryvita and cottage cheese.

Blottedcopybook - you'll know how I feel (you're a fellow due May-er I believe). DH suggested McD's. I gave a hollow laugh. Oh, by the by, I made the cookies from your blog the other day - they were fabulous (and I make the chocolate marmalade cake on a regular basis too, I love it).

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SarahL2 · 20/03/2009 18:01

I fed DS (and myself and DH for that matter) fishfingers, chips and beans only a couple of nights ago after a particularly difficult day. Happens about once a month at least.

They were Omega 3 enriched fishfingers just to soothe the guilt a little

We must have had the exact same meal at least once a week when I was little and all 4 of us are just fine

friday32 · 20/03/2009 18:05

i never cook "proper food" friday eve after work all week.dont feel bad we are allowed 1 night off surley?

dietstartstomorrow · 20/03/2009 18:06

@ the chicken dippers.

I dont give my kids any 'dinner' type food with E numbers.

When I cant be bothered it's cheese omlette's

Bellebelle · 20/03/2009 18:27

YANBU Chicken dippers sound fab, wish DD1 would actually eat chicken dippers and beans (organic or not), she is so fussy and lives on a rotation of pasta, chilli with rice and soup.

Saw ad for Observer food monthly coming out this wknd - cover story shows two kids with bowls of pasta and the headline "the middle class myth of healthy eating". I daren't read it!

LindenAvery · 20/03/2009 18:27

But the E numbers in the Captain's Dippers is just baking powder!

Vitamin C is an E number, egg white is an E number, not all E numbers are bad!

Bellebelle · 20/03/2009 18:30

Oh and I think that when you can't be bothered still managing to make omlettes is amazing!

Blottedcopybook · 20/03/2009 18:30

Grumpy Hooray! I love knowing that people read my blog

McDonalds actually gives me the heave, I can't believe people consider it a treat. My xMIL takes DS when she (occasionally!) picks him up from school because he whines the face off her to go there since Mummy won't take him. Drives me crackers but it is such a rare event that I can't really get too wound up about it.

MrsMattie · 20/03/2009 18:31

normal meal in my house!

StealthPolarBear · 20/03/2009 18:33

mmm chips - think I might have to get some tomorrow

moondog · 20/03/2009 18:34

An omelette or cheese snadwich would be easier though surely?
Haven't you got to put on the oven, put stuff on trays, open cans, heat up contents and so on?

I've had cheese on toast, a glass of red wine, an apple and a banana for dinner.Took about 2 mins. to prepare.

noonki · 20/03/2009 18:35

as long as they're organic....

Yanbu - we just had chippie tea (from the chipshop ) with corn on the cob (to make me feel better!)

once in a while it won't harm them, and mine just spent 4 hours in the park so hardly going to be part of the obese generation!

Bellebelle · 20/03/2009 18:36

But you've got to crack the eggs, slice the cheese...

Peachy · 20/03/2009 18:38

No worse than the school dinner today- fish (either as a grill / bite / finger) chips and beans. They're allowed chips twice a week here. With an inedible (apparently) ud that was (I quote): 'A nasty cake that tasted yuck with tomato and cucumber baked in it'.

Now I know of courgette cake, am no stranger to Nigella, but that doesn't sound appetising does it?

Tis our night off today, the baby is finishing up his GF CF pizza now. I've a WW special but heck 10lbs down and going on

moondog · 20/03/2009 18:39

It takes two fucking minutes!!
Why do you need to save that time?
To do what exactly???

NormaJeanBaker · 20/03/2009 18:39

No way - most of the time mine have a great diet but last night I came home after a dentist had spent hours wrestling a tooth out of the jaw and they had 'cowboy supper' - frankfurters and baked beans with bread and butter. They seem to have survived - and Jamie Oliver hasn't been round to comment so I think we're all in the clear.