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.

I still can't see why OP didn't make a huge batch and freeze it. The whole family could have it and the nanny could have just defrosted a small portion. To ask the nanny to cook one portion for a baby seems very wasteful, in all respects.
She has confused the issue by starting off with a CM and then admitting it was a nanny, so that those who have only read the start think her DC was with a CM and not in her own house with fridge and freezer.

God, what a long thread.

I'd be pretty cheesed off if someone gave my young child ready made stuffed pasta. It contains too much salt, and various additives that you don't get in home cooked food. I wouldn't choose to give it to my children when there are easy, healthier alternatives.

I wouldn't give it to a young DC either, but it isn't the end of the world and not worth starting a thread about-having said that I don't know why I keep prolonging it! If OP had batch cooked a huge amount and frozen it-there wouldn't have been the problem.

Good point piscesoon. Also don't forget that if she has a nanny she has to provide the nanny's lunch which means the nanny saw the ravioli, she thought is for her lunch she cooked it and decide to give half to the boy so they can eat together whih is not a bad idea as most toddlers ask to eat what the parent/carer eats.

the OP hasn't been seen since 00:31:36 yesterday

well if it was Lidl pasta I would say UANBU - but it was Marks and Spencers FFS - I would say you are lucky to have a CM with taste!!!

If you are that fussy about food - cook it yourself.

Besides if you have no other problems (like having to feed your family on £20 p/w or DV or health problems, divorce, housing problem etc etc) then you can get wind up about a pack of pasta!!!

Oi! I feed my children Lidl pasta, and they have IQs of 180, and have all made the final of the regional Under-10s body building championships. I would like to know what is wrong with Lidl pasta?

Anyway.

Soupdragon, the OP's probably got things to do, she works f/t! Are you missing her? I'd say the thread has taken on a life of its own now....

tattifer, it just occured to me reading one of your posts, that we might have known each other at uni.

intriguing thing this internet innit?

But no, I read Cymraeg and Hanes Cymru at Aberystwyth.

ah. then Im wrong.

sorry

this thread reminds me thatI should reserve my MN time for constructive & helpful threads... yet am bizarrely drawn to this one. Do I need help???

Hell no I've been lurking for pages now

Contentious comment coming up.

I very rarely buy "fresh" pasta. I buy the dry stuff, like the average italian does. I then use sainsbury's basic chopped toms as base for sauce...

Sometimes, on selfindulgent days I just use pesto. Preferably good pesto - sacla isn't but it will do at a pinch. Just have to add more black olives than usual - and some wine.

There I've said it. Probably shouldn't have. But I have.

I agree!! Pasta is simply dried. It isn't boiled in acid to make it last longer onthe shelf.

No problem with dried pasta imo. I prefer it anyway, fresh is slimey unless you are in Tuscany etc.

just to update latecomers again - stealth reveal by OP showed that she is not talking about a CM but a NANNY.
The Nanny is paid, not £3k a month but £2K (apparently a typo)

Danielle - please don't shout at everyone.

tattifer, actually, I think your version would be acceptable to OP.

Snippets, ok, we've given you a rough time on this thread.But please come back, promise we'll have a sensible chat about your concerns (otherwise, you're just feeding the troll theory)

You do realise this thread has now been running for 48hrs and the troll op got bored and left after just a couple of hours?

Nothing wrong if you want to continue the debate of course but just wondered if you had all noticed (apart from Soupy who clearly did)

I still think it is fair play for the op to expect her wishes regrding dc's diet to be followed, so long as they are clear.

How old is the dc again?

Message withdrawn

Oh

Adds more weight to the opinion that dried pasta is a product in its own right, and not a processed 'pretend product'.

Though actually it doesn't matter as the op probably thinks we are mad and is probably having a nice evening at the opera or something

Cannot believe my question prompted 26 pages of comments, most of which are nasty, rude and venomous, particularly those accusing me me of "dumping" him on a childminder. Yes, I work full time and I ask our nanny to prepare one meal a day for him - I cook the other, yes from scatch, not ready meals or other convenience foods, maybe once he is older yes, but as he's onlu been on solids for 7 months, it's nice to try to make a bit of an effort in the beginning, isn't it, before I start pumping his little body full of crap? I varied some of the details as my nanny uses this site and I didn't want her to read this and be upset. I'm actually extremely flexible and she has commented a number of time how much she loves her job and how easy going we are. I would never fire her over this as has been suggested but was a bit upset when I found she had done this as I don't think it's asking a lot this is what I am paying her to do. I cook in the evenings after he has gone to bed so I am not spending time cooking over spending time with him. I have zero support from his father and work really hard to give him the best possible start in life. If that draws 26 pages of contempt, so be it. Actually quite sickened by some of the comments so think it's best I drop off at this point.

Snippets you have had a hard time here and I salute you for coming back

I agree the comments about your working life, none of our business, are cruel and unkind, undermining too.

Take care

Snippets, perhaps if you had let more of this info out at the start, your responders wouldn't have been quite so harsh.

You should have remembered that:
a) this is AIBU
b) stealth reveals piss people off and lots of people only read the OP
c) people can only comment on the info given.