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.

When I ran my babyfood and children's ready meal business (yes, seriously), there was nothing but natural healthy ingreidnts in all of it. I had one customer who wanted meals with not potatoes or tomatoes, even for her older children, because they where from the deadly nightshade family. She was a bit obsessed tbh.

Sugar is commonly used in many traditional dishes, the fear of using sugar is nother extension of this obsession with healthy eating. Sugar is not intrinsically bd - as OMDB said!

Say that again onestop

I will pop to waitrose then Early

omdb

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it makes it less sour certainly.

i think you are a sugar addict. You mainline it. at night.
in the shed.

It was a general comment not directed personally, don't worry, I am not thinking you are on a Sugar crusade

of course not lockets. It's just a matter of taste really.

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This thread reminds me of watching my Mum when I was little making Passata with peeled plum totamoes, everything made from scratch, including the pasta. Wonderful. I was very very lucky. But even she gave us processed ravioli and tortelloni, albeit from a well-trusted delicatessen. It is not "crap" at all.

I think the OP sounds really really awful. Not letting this one little thing go. Poor nanny. But I have known many like her. I suspect her cooking is very bland and her little boy is desperate for some food with seasoning and flavour. He will grow up craving strong, salty flavours and probably eat very badly.

One question though - Why do English people put sugar in the sauce? My DH does this and we all consider this very strange. He seems to think it is very Italian LOL it's so not!

Prbably because our tomatoes are shoddy

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I'm only talking about a teaspoon here, not half a packet!

Tesco Finest passata (in the glass jar) contains nothing but tomatoes, tomato puree and a little citric acid. Nothing bad about that, not stuffed with horrible additives at all.

Citric acid is not bad.

Ascorbic acid is not bad

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crushwitheyeliner Yes agree with craving strong, salty flavours, prob out drinking later in life then on for a burger and chips or curry sauce or a kebab! All freshly made of course

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i think it's the additives in the sauce, not the actual pasta that the op has an issue with. and no matter how much shops say something is 'fresh', if it's in a packet is almost always had chemicals added.

it is a little pfb to worry about it, but the nanny had agreed to only fresh food, so she perhaps didn't understand/think about this so well.

fwiw, i worked full time, but ONLY gave dd home made food, well beyond the first year, as she reacted to every new food, so all jars, packets etc were out completely. oh the joy of staying up til midnight as i peeled, chopped, cooked, pureed a vat full of pear!
it is a pita, but some mums do manage it, and shouldn't be critcised for it.

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are we disagreeing here that a stranger on the internet MIGHT use an ounce more sugar than you would?

I am a bit puzzled as to how you knew what DS ate at the CMs. You don't state the age but unless he said that the CM gave him bought pasta (I'm not sure how he would know)then I don't see how you knew. Lots of lazy cooks pass off M&S food as their own-they just hide the packets!

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