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

[Snippets]

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.

This is like "fresh" orange juice from a carton in the supermarket fridge and "fresh" coffee which was made a while ago but has been kept warm on the coffee maker. Along with fresh meals from M&S none are really fresh but they sell for more if labelled in that way.

I think most supermarkets sells fresh pasta don't they? e.g. lasagne sheets in the supermarket fridge. i've seen them in asda, tesco, sainsburys in various towns all over the Uk.

(My guess is that she lives in Richmond)

I'm now intrigued to know what Snippets Jnr gets for breakfast as Snippets says 'breakfast takes care of itself' I find that my 13m isn't tall enough to reach the fridge and reach the milk and shreddies from the cupboard and definitely not old enough to scramble some organic free range eggs and operate the toaster. . . . .

But why would she be happy with sheets of pasta that have been made in a factory and not with the filling?

This is a troll anyway.

rofl

I think if this bothers you, instead of posting on here, talk to your nanny and just have a conversation about how and why she did this. Probably perfectly reasonable explanation.

Your child will come to no harm because of it.

But trying to enforce such a strict policy may be harder to adhere to as you child grows up. And you don't want to give them a food issue, potentially.

I was once at a party where a Mum would not let her 4 year old daughter eat a lovley little pink fairy cake 'because of the sugar' not fair to see the poor child in tears and the mother looking all hard faced and smug. It's one little cake FFS.

There is a happy balance to be acheived eg: both DS's are having friends for a sleep over tonight, on the menu are chips and pizza and popcorn. But they have eaten a good balanced diet in the week, fruit and vege, yoghurts, fish, pasta, brown in fact which they prefer. I do insist on fruit for pudding for both and then maybe a bisuit or treat. Give and take.

So it's not the be all and end all is it, if your nanny did this? I agree a tom sauce is easy, using tinned toms, herbs, garlic etc, very quick.

So lighten up. There are many more challenges ahead of you as a parent and this sort of attitude is heading for stress and disaster for you both.

Good Luck.

quinne - IMO you can't make tortellini out of readymade lasagne sheets - they are too thick. It'd never work. Chunky raviloli maybe.

and the OP doesn't have a nanny - it's a CM. I can imagine being very prescriptive with a nanny over food presuming care is in your own home - but not to the same extent at a CM's house

She later said that her cm is actually a nanny.

gag, it is a nanny, the op changed her mind halfway through.

sorry was she making tortellini? I didn't read it properly and though cannelloni or ravioli. TBH I wouldn't bother with freshly made pasta anyway as 50% of the time it is mouldy in the supermarkets I go to (I don't live in the UK). I use dried pasta and tinned tomatoes or passata usually.

OK only read OP but this is clearly ridiculous! It is fresh effing pasta ffs!

You are lucky your childminder cooks from scratch at all imho as most people I know who send their children to child minders have to provide their food for the day too.

quinne, according to the op that would make you lazy, she stated last night that it is lazy not to chip your own tomatos and so on. Tinned tomatoes come under the heading of pre-prepared and Passata certainly does unless you are making it yourself?

I think I understand snippets. If I were paying 3K per month then I would expect the very best. And pre-packaged pasta is not the best - even if it is M&S.

However, what you think is obvious is not necessarily obvious to your nanny - she may think that M&S food is very high quality and good enough.

She didn't do anything wrong, just make it clear what you expect.

no no, knotswapper, she isn't; she admitted to a typo, it is £2k a month (which is still a lot)

Now the question is - was it a real typo or is she/he/it a troll who realised that £3k a month was a tad OTT and changed it to add credibility to her story?

Alicet read thread before posting you donut

This was an AIBU with stealth reveal, and the 'CM' is actually a nanny

2k per month.

This is the problem with trolling for fun AIBU by stealth, people have to trawl through for all the ops corrections before they can actually post a POV!

According to the OP her child has leftovers for breakfast, so I assume that is leftovers from the adults' breakfast. What I don't understand is why OP is so dismissive of the most important meal of the day but has got so overwrought about what is served at lunch (or dinner - not sure which).

I think it is a tad disengenious to post re CM when in actual fact it is a nanny she is referring to. If I had a nanny and had such strict dietry requirements it would be put in writing and given to the nanny along with the activities schedule (French, yoga, Latin, further maths - usual toddler stuff ).

lol KingCanute - so true! makes it much harder for the latecomers, doesn't it!

Perhaps everyone should just stay up all night later to catch the funny threads in real time?

I really don't think she is a troll thumbw - I know too many mums like this.

2K is alot, 3K is an awful lot.

If snippets is paying out that much money then I think she does have the right to dictate what her child eats.

It's a lot of money for a nanny to earn isn't it?

I wouldn't expect a nanny to make fresh pasta but I would expect her to provide something not out of a packet - even if it is scrambled eggs with wholemeal toast and a few baby tomatoes and cucumber.

KingCanute - yes she would undoubtably consider me lazy. I don't agree with all her views, but I do agree with the original one where she asks shouldn't the CM/ nanny keep to the agreement?