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.

Still wondering how the M and S pasta got into the house.

Why don't you batch cook or get the nanny to do it then freeze it. I have done this for previous employers. Its difficult to do things from scratch each day when you have a hungry child on your hands.

I remember one parent I worked for flaming me for buying frozen veg.

I can't believe there are over 400 posts on this and will not be reading them all.

OP - there are worse things your CM could have fed your child. She probably doesn't see fresh pasta - from M&S no less - as premade crap.

I would really advise you to relax a bit. I have been very very fussy with the food my kids have to the point that they won't eat some crap?? Birds Eye premade food and some days I really wish they would.

Ah yes, I do agree that a nanny should keep to an agreement but the Op was asked 10s of times, "Have you made it clear to the nanny that 'fresh pasta' is not fresh food in my house". As she refused to answer it any which way it was asked then I would guess she had not made it clear and, therefore, was still being unreasonable as the nanny cannot mind read and everyone has different ideas of what "freshly prepared" means.

YABU

I was like that with my PFB DS, but after a year I said "sod this!" and started feeding him jars and other ready made food. My subsequent Dds were fed on what you call crap.

Guess what!

DS is a faddy eater, while my DDs eat a wide variety of food.

kingcanute - true. Everyone here seems to have their own definitions too. I didn't read that bit - it must have been on the pages i skipped over. Oh well back to my real life (have to start making a homecooked evening meal now as M&S pre-made luxury/ crap isn't an option!)

LOL.....OP, your child is sure to grow up to be worshipping ready-meals.

Never give your child a McDonalds and they will be the adult gorging on McDonalds every single day of the week. Balance!

quinne, I hope you have already been out and milled your flour for the bread, otherwise you will never have time now

FabulousBakerGirl - suggest you at least read the last page before posting as this is a stealth reveal topic and the CM is in fact a highly paid nanny.

I think the prepared crap "fresh" pasta must have been there in the fridge for snippy's dinner - perhaps that is her real gripe, that she got home after a hard and long day's work and her dinner had gone awol, into her DS!

thumbwitch, I think you are right.

I gave the kids the macaroni cheese one night and their mother had a fit as she had intended to have it that night. It was going to be out of date the next day, thats why I used it.

wow

blonde has read most of this, skimmed through a bit - was rather long

have come to the conclusion that this could be me

i get paid around £2k if i work every day, and i have fed my charges with filled pastsa

but thats as i find it in the freezer

my mb buys it, so cant be me

seriously snippets you are making a mountian out of a molehill, i would call what she fed, fresh,as it is fresh pasta

but yanbu if you have told her that - nannies arent mind readers,some might take to mcs for a treat/meal and unless you have TOLD the nanny NEVER go there, then they might go there

sit down with your nanny and have a review and tell her that you want food cooked from scratch in future, that you dont want filled pasta etc and every meal to be cooked fresh

would you object to the nannying making a shepherd pie and then freezing some portions for later - i do this all time

thumbwitch I'm not on pages so missed it.

So the nanny fed it to the child in the childs house?

Mum should have specified it was for her then and not the child.

I have found the bit where she says it is actually her nanny and wanted to throw her off the scent. Believe me, Snippets, she will know this is you if she sees it and don't be surprised if you get a resignation letter on Monday.

come on - own up nannys ladies

who worked yesterday and cooked M&S pasta - apart from me ?

There will be no resignation letter because snippets is a troll/changeling

Quote: "it is £2k a month (which is still a lot)"

I don't think I could do it though.
Even for the £3k, I don't know if I'd last a month.

I did DD ALL fresh ingredients at that age....but I did often prepare food when she wasn't around, like after she'd gone to bed. I wonder how this nanny was spending her time when she should have been preparing this food
......my guess is that she was doing something with/for the OP's DS.

lol @ Blondes! how very dare you!

It just seems to me that perhaps if snippets is so fussy she should look after the child herself

i know thumbwitch

what a bad nanny i am to use something that i find in my employers fridge and cook it

Do Nanies really earn £2k a month? If so, I want in!

I can't stop laughing at this one thanks guys needed a giggle.

Cheeky monkey - welcome to the often crazy world of MN (love your site btw, read your other thread)

Just to add some more fat to the fire what's your thoughts on Bisto or heaven forbid SMASH (got the song in my head now lalalalala)

OOh and MILLYR I would love to see the risk assessment for that one PMSL.

i ama lazy cow and i never EVER use jarred sauces.

vile

I haven't read it all but you do need to relax!
I mainly cook from scratch, but ready made is fine once in a while. Your DD will eat much worse when they are older and the world won't end!

oh and i haev never given my kids ready made pasta either - the fresh filled stuff
and i am so not a food snob.

Just had a microwave brainwave maybee snippets isnt a troll maybee snippets is the nanny!

And wants some opinions as her mb has gone mental

Looks like it was you then blondes