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To be annoyed with childminder for giving DS ready made pasta?

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Snippets · 15/05/2009 23:08

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.

OP posts:
MillyR · 15/05/2009 23:18

I have never stuffed anything smaller than cannelloni with a fresh sauce, but I do grow my own tomatoes.

Am I lazy, or not lazy?

Habbibu · 15/05/2009 23:18

Snippets - seriously; have you ever been to Italy and eaten stuffed pasta there?

Most food is pre-prepared in some way - cheese, for example.

fryalot · 15/05/2009 23:18

thank you bald

hereidrawtheline · 15/05/2009 23:18

I'm not lazy! Or overly neurotic for that matter!

What if she made pasta from dried pasta, but it was ASDA smartprice, you would never know would you. So then your DC would be eating pasta bought for .04p or something per 500g and you would be thinking "ah... she chopped the tomatoes, I'm getting what I pay for"

Just isnt logical.

mumeeee · 15/05/2009 23:18

YABU.

lilolilmanchester · 15/05/2009 23:19

no, we're not that lazy, I use hardly any ready made food but do use dried pasta. Re-read the title of your post, it suggested you didn't like anything other than home made pasta. Besides which, there are people on here who would give anything to be able to afford the freshly stuffed type from M&S.
So, whilst you might have a fair point - your childminder is not doing what you asked her to, so you are within your right to be annoyed- but do think about the question you are posting and the people you are possibly offending. Then you might receive more accurate & friendly responses.

fryalot · 15/05/2009 23:19

last week we had pasta (dried) with bolognese sauce.

The tomatoes were grown by dp, the garlic was grown by dp, the onions were grown by dp, the basil was grown by me. Everything was prepared freshly and cooked by me.

I bought some mince though - I draw the line at slaughtering a cow.

lazy bitch that I am

Habbibu · 15/05/2009 23:19

Psata lovers - do look at my tamburini link - tortellini to die for. Or possibly of, according to snippets.

DD ate a lot of pasta there

TrinityIsLovingHerLittleRhino · 15/05/2009 23:20

dont call me lazy

stop being so precious

what the hell do you think will happen

you posted this in AIBU to get a reaction

piss off and make your own pasta

GrimmaTheNome · 15/05/2009 23:20

Maybe the OP is steamed because DS is now turning his nose up at the unstuffed pasta and homemade sauce (which is exactly the sort of thing I make for us if I've not got time to cook properly, come to think)

PenelopePitstops · 15/05/2009 23:20

unless this is a wind up, you are a nutter

KingCanuteIAm · 15/05/2009 23:20

I love these threads, you know the ones that are screaming PFB from the first word and then the op gets all cross because the rest of the world does not live up to her exacting standards

Snippets · 15/05/2009 23:21

lazy laxy lazy

OP posts:
kalo12 · 15/05/2009 23:21

do you make your own cheese, snippets, because that shop bought stuff is so overloaded with salt.

JudyBlume1019 · 15/05/2009 23:21

lolol
I'm guessing he's a pfb

Habbibu · 15/05/2009 23:21

I thought I was a food ponce. Really. I feel disappointed in myself.

tigana · 15/05/2009 23:22

YAeitherBU or YABfullofit.

tigerdriver · 15/05/2009 23:22

completely bonkers. the OP is on a wind up or lives under a bridge and is waiting for a billy goat gruff canelloni to drift by

LadyG · 15/05/2009 23:22

Snippets you will come back on here and laugh in a hollow tone at your own post in a couple of years-sometime after the birthday party where your child has consumed literally nothing but hula hoops and fruit shoots....

MillyR · 15/05/2009 23:22

I'm concerned by this moral stance on freshness. It isn't sustainable to eat fresh tomatoes all year round.

TrinityIsLovingHerLittleRhino · 15/05/2009 23:22

how much time do you spend NOT BEING WITH YOUR SON

just so he has never eaten baked beans

seriously IMVHO
you need to get some perspective

Flibbertyjibbet · 15/05/2009 23:23

Would love to answer this thread but am too busy have to milk the cow thats tethered in the backyard and wash my cheese-making muslins.

themoon66 · 15/05/2009 23:23

Wait till he's quaffing cheap lager on the sly with his mates AND eating kebabs on his way home.

Habbibu · 15/05/2009 23:23

Nah, she's taking the piss, with her talk of laxy.

Shitemum · 15/05/2009 23:24

Actually - i would disagree with the poster who said that 'freshly stuffed pasta from M and S counts as 'freshly cooked'.

If you make it yourself it is freshly cooked. Those pasta stuffings do have some additives which I wouldnt put in a home made sauce...

I think a lot of people these days have a poor understanding of the terms 'home made' 'freshly cooked' etc. Probably because they are used on food packagings so much they have become meaningless...

This reminds me of that poor ignorant woman with the triplets that she fed on takeaways.
She said she gave them a home cooked meal sometimes - this was in reference to heating up something in a microwave herself as opposed to getting it heated at the take away shop!

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