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.

She probably wanted to use them on the weekend for when she might not want have the time to cook proper meals.

see thats the thing - ex mb never did - present mb does and i use her stuff she cooks as well

i cook huge shephards pie, fish pie, casseroles etc and then freeze so always home cooked food in there for her to use, yet she wouldnt half the time(ex mb that is)

i am more thna happy to cook and her use, as obv im cooking during working hours and using their ingredients

ive made a fab cheesey chicken and vegteable bake for tea tonight and will freeze some portions and also puree for baby as well and ice cube it

Didn't see the comments about working. That's nasty.

I agree that the comments about working were not nice but OP also called other mothers lazy! Also she didn't answer any of the questions. And as i pointed in a previous post perhaps the nanny thought the ravioli was for her -nannies are provided food and their employers offen leave in the fridge something nice like this for them- so she cooked it for herself, the boy asked some and she gave him some of this because they were eating together. We all have done that and is not the crime of the century. OP probably wanted the easy food for the weekend. OP is the one who started the agressive tone and when she had her own medicine she didn't like it and tried for tea and sympathy.

Oh quite agree laquitar.

YABVVVU

Blondes, can you come and be my nanny?

OH FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!

I was a nanny- and quite a good one, thankyouverymuch!- for years and I would have considered the aforementioned pasta "fresh".

I understand somewhat. I don't always like the meals that DS gets at daycare, though most of it I bring from home as he is celiac. HOWEVER, one must draw the line somewhere. As everyone mentioned, it's not as though she took him to McDonalds or something.

So, yeah, YABU

Sorry if it has been said but if he is so precious stay at home and cook his bloody meals yourself.
YABVFU.

I reckon it is Tim Dowling getting his own back.

I think you need to see a doctor dear! Your behaviour is not normal. Anyone would think the child had been fed poo!

As in shop bought pasta (not the ravioli type?).

Good lord. The thought of the poor childminder wrestling with a pasta maker and the kids running wild in the kitchen! Does she make bread too? Nothing wrong with shop bought pasta.

And kids love baked beans. They are very good for you.

It's not like she got a Happy Meal or a kebab.

The thing that puzzles me with this whole thread (leaving aside the work issue and a few others that have cropped up too) is that if we have shop-bought, filled chilled pasta (we don't at the moment as we can't afford it) we always make a nice homemade sauce to go with it - but don't put cheese on the top - or if dh was doing a meat one he wouldn't put meat in the sauce - ie the filling sort of substitutes for some of the other things that you would normally put with plain pasta to make it a balanced meal. So it would be made with freshly cooked sauce anyway....

As the OP is paying a nanny to look after her dc, its not unreasonable for her to expect the nanny to cook the sort of things that she states for the child - however, the nanny might not have realised that cooking 'fresh, filled' pasta, potentially with a freshly prepared sauce (not seen whether this was done or not) didn't accord with the requirements.

Mind you, I'm thinking about making pasta with ds as he doesn't like normal, shop bought filled pasta, and making it together might make him decide that he does like filled pasta (even if only the home-made variety) (and making fresh pasta really doesn't take that much time)(although I've not done it since ds was born and he's 4 now)(but he's also probably strong enough to turn the handle now anyway!)

Mistlethrush I did pasta with my nearly 4 year old dd yesterday (yes, inspired by this thread...) and she absolutely loved it - not just turning the handle but also cutting up the dough with a zig-zag cutter, making little spirals and bows etc.
DH is always because it takes me so long but now I can claim I'm doing it as a craft activity, yay!

OP - get a grip.

"Blondes, can you come and be my nanny?"

aww bless you - if i wasnt so happy in my current job, then maybe - but LOVE my bosses and cook and eat their sains fresh pasta

You can bring your horse dog to work with you - he could teach my monster some manners

Snippets - this thread was actually quite funny, though I appreciate you cant see the funny side of it yet.
You see, M+S fresh pasta is a luxury food that most of us aspire to, and we originally thought you were talking about a childminder (who is generally underpaid, and works in her own house), as opposed to a nanny (who is basically paid a lot more to carry out your childcare wishes within reason).

Do stick around - there are a fair number of us who work long hours with little or no input from childrens' father, and I am sure you've got a lot to contribute to mumsnet. This thread is just a classic example of how all posts have to be run past the libel lawyers before you post them. I have done similar (but mumsnet was smaller in those days, so it didnt get such a big response!).

I can only say ???????

Have not read thread, only title. What's wrong with ready-made pasta?

Sheesh kebabs is this still raging?

So, is filled pasta 'bad'?

no mumblechum sheesh kebabs are not acceptable.

but small orange

are they M&S beans or lidl?

Roffle Treedelivery

OOOo a kebab. I could eat a kebab. Wonder if they are dairy free

Got organic local lamn chops in fridge [no really I have] but now I want a kebab.

Hmmmmmmm.