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.

coolma and Ewoman OP won't tolerate sausages or baked beans or any processed foods
Gardeningmum5 that sounds lovely to me !

Hey, but this isn't just any pasta. This is M&S pasta.

I don't think a one-off will hurt love.

'My kids refuse to eat crisps and junk food at birthday parties and go for the blocks of cheese or grapes.'

I guess they are very young and you are there with them.

FFS! A bit late to this so I expect OP has been chewed up and spat out, or revealed as a troll or a joker, or it's an AIBU by stealth, however.....get a fucking grip!

Hope that helps.

er, was being sarky re: asda sausages! I am probably a very bad mother as have just given my two youngest a ready made M and S lasagne - was tempted to microwave it actually! Did bung a bit of cucumber on the side though...

piscesmoon - My eldest is nearly 7, and I don't object to my children eating any junk if they are offered. But we (meaning as a family, adults too) don't buy them or have them at home. They just don't like the taste of crisps (dd says it's like eating salt) and other types of those packeted stuff they have at parties (wotsits?, haribo sweets etc.). They love chocolate though, and so do I .

To the other poster who asked (sorry can't remember the name), nothing wrong with eating baked beans. And nothing wrong with not eating it either, it's not some wonder food that everyone must eat!

I can see the point with the salt, DottedPyjamas, and I can quite understand it if they are genuinely offered and you aren't hovering. I just get amused by the parents who think that, but don't see their DCs when they aren't there!! Mine didn't like fizzy drinks or baked beans-but that was nothing to do with me. As teens they eat anything.

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OP - YAB very U!!
It's not going to kill him! Yes, annoying if you feel CM should have known that freshly prepared meals also meant making her own pasta and stuffing it herself, but she probably didn't think it was in the same category as "convenience" food.
Out of interest, do you ask her to make her own fresh plain pasta rather than use ready made plain pasta from a pack?

After all this talk of baked beans I've just put jacket potatoes in the oven for a long bake - we'll have them with beans and cheese and salad. Yum

I'm assuming you've made your own baked beans from scratch Makeda? Or are you one of the lazy people who gets them from tins

I was really hoping this was a troll, as it depresses me to think that there are people who really think and behave like the OP.

My DCs have eaten a wide variety of foods all their lives - some fresh, some home-cooked, some frozen, a bit of crap here and there (even the occasional MacDonalds!)and they are bright, happy, healthy, fit and sparky kids, so I'm about the bit about "giving pfb the best start in life." Just wait til your DS starts eating soil/worms that he comes cross if, God forbid, your subsequent nanny (I'm assuming that the current one will not want to stay with you much longer if you're planning on Having A Talk about this) lets him out of her sight for a moment. Mind you, at least they'd be fresh.

Think the OP needs to get a bit of perspective.

DottedPyjamas, have you really never had baked beans in your life? Are you not tempted to try some, just out of curiosity?

If I discovered there was a really mainstream foodstuff I had never had I would go and get some, just for the experience.

I wasn't allowed any crap as a child.

Actually I wasn't allowed much food at all.

I have food issues.

Go figure.

Lol Lilolil no, I am lazy. But they are low salt, do I get credit for that?

I didn't make the cheese from scratch, either (yes I know making cheese is not the same as making baked beans!)

Presumably that the fresh pasta (aka uncooked and not dried) is as fresh as you get without getting the friggin pasta maker out yourself?

The issue was with the processed fillings, I believe juney.

I am always amazed by MN - I think I am an anal nutter and then I come across people who make their own baby wipes and baked beans. Truly some MNers cannot be for real.

OFFS how ridiculous. i think this a healthy meal actually. how did you become so anal?!?!

I didnt mean you georgimama!! Although by your own admission you are anal!! I meant OP who clearly needs to take a chill pill and have a pot noodle!

ROTFL

Are you for real? @ OP

Sometimes all you can say is 'Get a life'.

Oh no - even I'd gag at a Pot Noodle.

OP you are on course to giving your child all sorts of ishooos about food if you are this controlling. You have to learn to let go. Even if you aren't working all week, you can't control them forever. If this is hard to accept now, how will you accept when he's eating junk and drinking booze as a teenager (as they all do)?

If you want to control every aspect of his life then give up work. This is not an argument against working mothers, I'm one myself, however you have to relinquish some control.

As the hilarious story of the hairdried bum tells you, even if you insist, you have no way of knowing for sure what your child's carer is really doing, even if they swear blind he's getting 100% organic home cooked food. For all you know she could be stuffing Greggs pasty's and pouring Fruit shoots down his gob. I'm not saying that it's ok to feed your child junk all the time, but it's all about balance. If he has the odd bit of shop made pasta it won't kill him, especially as it sounds like he's got an amazing diet already.

Hats off to you for being so good at cooking every day when you're working so much though, I work 40 hours a week and I struggle (thank heavens for freezers and bulk cooking). Just remember it's all about balance.