To be annoyed with childminder for giving DS ready made pasta?

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The freshly stuffed type you buy from M&S? We had an agreement that all meals would be freshly cooked. I take ages making each meal for him from scratch and have never given him pre-prepared or convenience food and bit annoyed she has.

oh, that's interesting, Shiney. Someone at work was saying that they are "fera naturae" (sp) - same as you said, didn't realise that actual ownership didn't make any difference. We don't have any guns here (yet!). I am happy for them to wander around (they do make the garden quite interesting) and I really don't mind the noise, but I do wish they'd crap in their own field and not in our garden. but I guess this is karma for years of cat-owning

peacock recipes - surely hugh fearnley whatnot has cooked one of 'em in his mediaeval banquet thingy?

Shiney, I had to laugh to myself - we went to Bourton-on-the-Water 3 mondays ago, we were going to go on to Burford wildlife park but the weather was shite, so we ended up going into BirdLand and seeing the king penguins - didn't see any sad lonely anoraky types there though!

oh an OP - YABsomewhatU - if the packet is labelled and marketed as fresh pasta, how is your nanny to know that it is not fresh food? Unless you have already told her? Be grateful it was from M&S and not Aldi.

when they first turned up, one of my neighbours suggested one in each of our freezers.

Nite, Shiney. Off myself now, lots to do at the w/e.

Thumb, I bet you did have a secret grin when you went to Birdland, didn't you?

shineoncrazydiamond - you should move over towards Ascot area, then you will be in the area in which I babysit.

I googled Peacock Poo Cleaning and google suggested Roasted Peacock so guess there must be a recipe for that! Also someone had written on a website that their dog liked eating peacock poo - I wonder what breed of dog?

sure did, tiger - I tried to give DH a brief rundown of why but his eyes glazed over pretty quickly

Nannynick - ANY breed of dog likes eating poo..

What a twattish OP.

wish the cats ate it. but then they would give me little catty kisses and I'd smell of peacock poo too. I guess it's not a really bad problem, though, really. Not like the old fresh pasta debate of course

Oh yes, MBM - but it has provided many with so much entertainment - do go and read some of Squonk's earlier posts, for e.g. - and MillyR is also a contender.

tiger - eurgh to peacockpoocattykisses!

oops, shiney you are bad; I have now set myself up for a flaming by La Lucia.

Skipped to the end of this, hoping it would be some glorious wind up of kitchen utensils erotica proportions, but it's not.

I think people who get so uptight about such things are actually rather toxic and just searching for excuses to be unpleasant/think badly about other people.

YABVVVVVVVU

Is anyone else thinking (on the off chance the OP is real)that the nanny probably feeds the child bags of candy floss and chicken nuggets most days just to piss off her twattish employer?

I'd certainly serve the child nuggets and candy floss given half the chance

The fact is that if you want 100% say in how your child is raised, you have to raise them 100% yourself. Whether they are real children or ickle trollets.

YABVU.

I don't think this post is for real anyway though.

I agree with SoupDragon - you want control over what your child eats, you feed it yourself!

YANBU in expecting your nanny to do as agreed. You have high expectations but you are paying for them to be met. You have a contract with her and she decided to vary it without telling you. How would she feel if you did likewise regarding your part of the deal?

I make all food from scratch too (because there is no prepackaged food where I live) and the thought of reheating some stuffed pasta I made several days earlier (which is basically what chilled meals are) is not appealing and I'd bin it instead. But when I lived in the UK I didn't see it that way and I expect most other people here have never taken a break from that culture so would see it as normal to eat such food.

However YABU in expecting any kind of support when you suggest that other mothers are lazy.

For what it's worth I imagine your CM thinks that fresh stuffed pasta from M&S IS fresh food!

Unless you are suggesting she DELIBERATLY chose to give your dc something she knew wouldn't meet you definition of fresh.

She would have no idea that's not what you menat when you said "freshly prepared"

You will just have to be clearer and draw up a list of what you consider fresh food and be more specific.

I started a thread like this about my CM giving my DS McDonalds and got more flaming than this!

I am a total food snob but frankly I would be fine with filled tortellini from M&S. OP is quite barking.

I'm not clear on whether the OP actually does make all her pasta from scratch - could this be clarified please?

Has anyone here ever tried to do fresh filled pasta? It's bloody difficult despite what Jamie Oliver says. Mine were like slimy stuck-together parcels of soggy mush.

I'm sure the OP doesn't live in Chelsea - incredibly vulgar and arriviste. She probably lives in Kensington.

Georgimama - she says she just wants the fillings to be freshly made, not pre-prepared in a factory somewhere.

But to do that you'd have to make the pasta too wouldn't you? Can you buy little sheets of fresh pasta to cut up? (Actually, bearing in mind where the OP lives, you probably can).

Hilarious that M&S is considered the bargain basement option.