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.

Sorry to go backwards but £3000 a month net??!! Is this how much London nannies get paid? How can they get paid more than senior managers in schools???

Im sure this is a wind up. Its got to be. But I will tell the story of a similar mother to this op who made her poor kids eat very very healthily all the time. I found them at 3 years old at a party behind a curtain in the hall, scoffing on cake and biscuits they had gathered off the floor!! According to other parents there they were well known for it but they mother didnt know. They will have a good relationship with food in the future!!! And a child I babysat for when I was in my teens who was really restricted on sweets and chocolate who stole anything sweet she could from shops, handbags etc as she had such a craving for it. Fortunately most parents dont put these pressures on little ones - everything in moderation, thats my motto. This op must be barmy or a troll.

Tis a troll thread, no? I am new to identifying these but it has all the classic signs.

The first few pages of this were well worth reading though. Squonk posted some of the most hilarious comments/links I've ever seen on here.

IF, and it's a huge if, the OP is real, she's being Very Unreasonable because she's passive aggressively implying that all other mums are crap because they don't cook properly for their kids. The very fact that we might consider giving our kids ready made pasta is clearly sinful and we should not be allowed to have children.

Me and mine are about to head of to McDonalds. Now THAT'S crappy food and crappy parenting.

To reply as if it was real:
When my FB was 14 months I woulsn't have given her stuffed pasta as I would have been concerned about the amount of salt. But they I realised that there is more salt in two slices of bread than in a packet of crisps and I relaxed.
Stuffed pasta with a tomato sauce (ie tin of tomatoes and some mushrooms) is DD's favourite meal now, and so DS (16 months) also has it. It is impossible to be so precious when you have two and I am slightly abashed at how controlling I was with DD.
I completely agree that I want them to eat well, but I have realised that some convenience foods (eg fish fingers) are actually healthy and helpful to us working mums!

THIS IS CRAZY LOL, MY SON LOVES BAKED BEENS, PASTA HOOPS AND SPUDS LOL.. WISE UP... YOU MUST REALLY BE THAT STUCK UP ONE OF THESE PEOPLE WHO ONLY AGREE ON FEEDING THEIR KIDS ORGANIC SHIT WHEN INFACT GOOD HOME FOOD IS PROB BEST.

OH AND GUESS WHAT HE ALSO LOVES POTATOE WAFFLES COOLED AND BROKE IN TO PIECES

Snippets,
if you're still reading...

I have had Au Pairs for several years, and have had this kind of problem with the childrens lunch.
You need to spend half an hour menu-planning with your nanny, or else control what she cooks by only leaving the food that you want her to cook in the fridge. In other words - dont leave any M+S ravioli in there, and she wont be able to cook it! This is basically what I do - I used to have an "emergency" shelf of ready made paella etc for days when I am ill or over-stressed, but then I found one of our APs cooked it on normal days! So I simply stopped buying it. Or how about making a folder of recipes for her to use?

I am crap at giving clear instructions to APs, because I always feel that Im coming across as a bossy control freak.

It is difficult to tread the line between control freakery and ensuring that your child has enough vegetables. But I think that any relationship like this is bound to be a bit fraught at times - people arent machines, misunderstandings are possible...

OMG Having 'emergency paella' on a normal day!!!!!

(tattifer, were you by any chance at oxford university?)

Bonneville!!

how dare you laugh at my emergency paella!

It comes in a tall tub from french Aldi, and you can make it in 20 minutes! a hot, satisfying, healthy meal.

On normal days, I cook cordon bleu stuff like baked potatoes. Harumph.

What do you cook then, on days when you get back home at 7,30 pm with 4 tired, hungry children?

Its bloody annoying I can tell you when you discover at that point that hte AP has cooked all the paella!!!

Nigh - you obviously havent got enough emergency paella in your house. Get thee to the shops tomorrow and stock up! Hide it if necessary!

It was no ordinary pasta.....it was M&S pasta! How on earth can you complain about that?
Your CM sounds like a very caring person, you should feel lucky to have her and YABU!

Ah i want paella now . What time M&S close? I want to go and buy a pack of ravioli and a pack of paella! I knew i shouldn't come back to this thread . And i am a healthy eater, honestly i am

I do stock up with it. I only get to the supermarkets in France a few times a year, so I tend to come back with 10 paellas, 6 vinaigrettes, 20 Rice Krispies etc.

It is hidden in the cellar, but she managed to root out everything that took no effort to cook, whilst leaving fresh food rotting in the fridge!

I seriously hope you have contacted OFSTED it's ready made pasta today MC D'S tomorrow.
What a thoughtless selfish witch this woman must be imposing this culinary filth on your poor childs unsullied little body.
If i was in your shoes i'd go round with some own brand pasta hoops and sausages then force feed her them.Though this could get you in a spot of bother with the law you would have perfect mitigation.
Hangings too good i tell ya...

Gosh what a long thread about pasta.It's always the same when food gets brought up...
Not actualy brought up obviously.

LOL squatchette

Personally, I'd be more worried about leaving my children with someone else while I went off and did whatever was more important than looking after them than I would be about them eating M&S pasta.

LadyHooHa - do you genuinely not think that mothers should work outside of the home? Or is it the ridiculous nature of the OP that has prompted your comment?

This thread inspired me to go out and buy some ready made stuffed pasta - not M&S I'm afraid but tesco

Dammit, just realised I leave my three year old with a childminder, and my 9 year old at an after school club whilst I selfishly go and earn money to keep our home and buy ridiculous things like clothes and food (albeit nowt but fresh organic food naturellment). What rubbish parenting.

The dc in question is 13 months old ( i think) - that is still a baby really. I think i was quite precious about my first when she was that age. Perhaps many others were too, but have forgotten.

Worry not Coolma - I let both my girls go to school - five days a week. How awful of me to leave them others instead of home educating.

I'll have to eat lots of paella to make myself feel better.

nighybynight why do you ask?