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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.

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Sycamoretree · 19/05/2009 15:37

Oh ThingOne - the terrible thing is my mum is such an bloody angel, and this was her PFB grandchild that she all too willingly returned the juice and didn't even question me

Now, my poor sister has had much shorter shrift with her PFB antics...including weighing food before and after DS had eaten. Caught my mum giving her a most enormous eye roll followed by a swift "get a grip".

WTF is wrong with us? I have watched my lovely sister with a mixture of shock and awe and through her have seen the full measure of my own PFBness writ large and lifelike all over again like a realtime movie on constant replay!

I try not to tell her off too much - I figure if I got away with it, she's allowed this one...but she's PG at the moment and lord knows I'm taking no prisoners with her DC2!

I should like to add that I'm now obviously extremely laid back parent type person

treedelivery · 19/05/2009 15:41

Your sister weighs the food before and after? To what end?

To know how much he has eaten?

ThingOne · 19/05/2009 15:48

Fortunately I can't remember my PFB howlers. Denial is the only way.

Sycamoretree · 19/05/2009 15:49

Yes, to see what grammage has been consumed by said infant on behalf of sister...

treedelivery · 19/05/2009 15:53

Would you mind if I rofl at your sis? I know it's rude but am very ammused.

[Though saddened a bit as sis may have had less fun with pfb than she might, if she was anxious I mean]

mistlethrush · 19/05/2009 15:55

There was a m'netter's sist'
Who to weigh things would always persist
But Mumnetters thought baby
Would change all that, maybe
in future she would not insist..

Sorry !

mistlethrush · 19/05/2009 15:56

Who was it that started the limericks on this thread - aaarrghhhh!

Sycamoretree · 19/05/2009 16:05

Roll away, please. I post to entertain and hopefully enlighten OP!

But you're right - sis was anxiety ridden from the off. She comes from a scientific background. She couldn't handle the lack of control that came along with being a parent.

But she is BRILLIANT with him, and chilling out more and more daily....

PMSL Mistlethrush...you are now the official MN wandering minstral! (minstrel?)

treedelivery · 19/05/2009 16:07

I weigh my babies food both fore and after
as to miss the vital gramme would be diisaster,
but with pregnancy no2,
and now with baby mobile too
he crawls to the bowl and eats the cat food 'Arthurs'

[[http://www.petmarque.com/cat-petproducts-details/20/Cats/50/Food/8/Wet/0/2478/Arthurs -Chicken-&-Turkey/ It is nutrional honest]

mistlethrush · 19/05/2009 16:07

Defintely not. Someone else started it

(but there is just too much food for thought (pun intended) on this thread to pass by and once limericks have been started, its really difficult to stop them coming... )

treedelivery · 19/05/2009 16:07

the crawlers choice

Sycamoretree · 19/05/2009 16:11

Tee hee. Right, must off and do some work I'm being paid for.

mistlethrush · 19/05/2009 16:22

I suppose giving the dog primarily vegetarian dog food does have its benefits

ThingOne · 19/05/2009 16:23

treedelivery, can I just say mwah mwah to "gramme". I think I love you .

PinkTulips · 19/05/2009 16:26

pfb.

i know because i once ranted at dp that the creche dd was in had been advertised as 'all home made meals' and the woman was using dolmio sauce to make spag bol.... i got quite cross

i now have 3 kids and wish to fucking christ would love if dd and ds1 ate/were able to eat anything processed at all so i can have a fecking break for once. sadly between intolerances and pickiness there isn't a single damn meal in the fridge or freezer section of the supermarket they can have.

i have the only children on the planet not to like sausages, baked beans or fishfingers [sobs]

noddyholder · 19/05/2009 16:42

When we viewed a house years ago the seller was doing the viewing and she said she would keep an eye on ds who was 3 while we went upstairs to look on our own.When we came down 5 mins later he was sitting on the sofa with her holding a PINT glass of happy shopper type cola and I have neevr seen him so happy The odd bit of rubbish does them no harm

PinkTulips · 19/05/2009 16:58

dd experianced fanta at a party recently.

she'd never had fizzy drinks before as we never have them in the house so i asked her what it tasted like.

she thought about it for a while and said...................... 'sparkly carrots'

Latootle · 19/05/2009 17:07

I agree KingCauteAm, I haven't laughed so much in a long while at a talk page... You know there is a very simple answer, take your own to be given on the days when pasta is being served. Give a bulk bag to be stored in the freezer. But how lucky are you, how many Childminders can afford to shop at M&S.?? I do hoe you wont give your child a food complex when its older.

Latootle · 19/05/2009 17:12

KingCAnute I Am, I heartily agree with you.
Haven't laughed so much at a talk page for ages. But a simple answer for mrs fresh pasta, take your own hand made etc for the days pasta is served. But how lucky are you, a childminder who is able to afford to shop at marks. some of us cant afford to do that. hmm

Latootle · 19/05/2009 17:20

pinktulips I love that, my godson when asked what he had had for lunch that day looked solemnly up and said it was brown and had an eye in it.. We finally worked it out he'd had a slice of ham? with an egg in the middle.!!!!!
didn't mean to post 2 re fresh pasta didn't realize 1st one had taken.!!!!!

Latootle · 19/05/2009 17:29

my last word on this is that I was lucky enough to only be a part time working Mum and in my day there weren't hardly any decent ready made baby foods. so it was bulk prepare etc. Both girls fed exactly the same. The result is one eats extremely healthily as do her children and the other tho' extremely slim eats junk. and very very sadly junk is fed to her daughter. So there is no gauarantee how feeding them as babies etc will turn out.

Latootle · 19/05/2009 17:29

my last word on this is that I was lucky enough to only be a part time working Mum and in my day there weren't hardly any decent ready made baby foods. so it was bulk prepare etc. Both girls fed exactly the same. The result is one eats extremely healthily as do her children and the other tho' extremely slim eats junk. and very very sadly junk is fed to her daughter. So there is no gauarantee how feeding them as babies etc will turn out.

MrsMattie · 19/05/2009 17:31

Wow, this is still going on.

Hasn't the childminder given notice on the job and thrown a leaving party for the kids in McD's yet? if she's sensible, yes...

valleysprincess · 19/05/2009 19:38

Get a grip

lostinthecitylover · 19/05/2009 19:52

This is similar to my exhs new p who has says the only drink other than milk) she will ever give her new pfb dc is water, that there will never be any chips or nuggets in her house ever.

She interrogates my dcs about what they have eaten to the point where I told them to tell her they had eaten organic bean stew if they are asked.

My DS2 is slightly overweight but I believe the partial answer to this is plenty of exercise rather than developing ishoos about food.

I do believe to be so anal about food is storing up problems for later.

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