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 just want to know whereabouts in London you live snippets??? I have visions of, Kensington, one of those lovely three or four storey houses, round the back of a posh well known shop!!!

Please post and let me know!!

Sounds quite nice but you are a braver woman than me providing a recipe with sugar, jabber. There was an extremely heated debate about sugar and pasta sauces on another thread this week. It all got quite nasty. I kept well out of it

Seriously if making a tomato sauce you don't want the skins in it, surely.

I pity the poor child who has to eat chopped tomatoes heated for 5 mins with cheese and served with pasta. But then I'm not a pasta fan anyway... Anbd cheese isn't a brilliant ingredient is it anyway, from a salt point of view? hmm...

I always cook my bolognaise for at least an hour, usually more like 2. And my mixed seafood linguine is to die for, even if I do say so myself.

No KingCanute, am not Snippets, but do remember introducing solid foods to first baby!

I agree with you about the skins. And 2 hours is about right for a true italian gravy.

I luuuurved watching the Sopranos

jabber - I agree with you and Big Bella about the skins and the length of time - and with you about the sugar, it helps to take the bitterness off. So long as it isn't ladlefuls, it is not going to be a problem!

Having said that, we don't do tomatoes in our sauces because they give me evil acid and/or IBS, and I won't introduce them to DS until he can tell me whether or not he gets tummyache. (PFB ALERT!)

This thread is madly long (and so is my post now i reread) but didn't want to be left out. Read about 75% posts but then just scanned for Snippets. may well read rest later. or not!

As a one off occurance think you should not have given it more than one thought. Given that most posts on here are along similar lines it is likely your nanny's will be too. If you are happy that overall she is doing a good job it is not much to overlook.

Everyone's different views, ideals and expectations also come with differing flexibilities.
I have to probe quite a lot in interview to get at any specifics of these things; employers often consider perhaps that their views are not exceptional, or that once in the position it is part of my role 'know' what is reasonable deviance/extrapolation, or to happily change as they introduce ever more precise/contradictory food rules at expense of other things. I have followed some crazy (bet even Snippets would agree) food/health regimes without complaint (as part of my job) but sometimes with building resentment and sometimes with child food anxiety.

Uncomfortable and unhappy nanny-employer relationships eventually impact on child and i once left a position signifcantly due to food-control issues.

Part of a nanny's job is contribute using their own decisions to child development. Even though in this instance she was off message (for unknown reasons) pulling her up on this could negatively affect her perception that she is generally trusted and it might not be worth doing for perhaps 4-9 pasta parcel meals/year.
However, letting her know you value other things she is doing could take the edge off such a conversation once it hits 10/year. And I also suggest that the losing control starts when you allow your child to be looked after by someone else.

no cook tomato sauce

Hey thumbwitch! That's where you scuttled off to!

p'raps I should be called Crabwitch instead?

No cook sauce - but 8 hours prep time

no sugar, no skinning, no boiling required and nanny could throw it together at the crack of dawn for an afternoon meal, no?

okay here is another one

snippets..WHY did you post in AIBU when you so clearly think you are 100% right???

Isenhart, I was joking

Morning Shiney - you can't read it all it is too silly, although there is someuseful stuff in there about chickens attracting birds....

I think we are going for the magic 1000 now - in fact I suspect that was snippets plan in the first place - unreasonable op, drip feeding, repeated returns to stir things up when they get quiet.... all the marks of someone wanting their first 1000 post thread

Agree totally that pasta made with chopped up tomatoes cooked for 5 minutes with cheese on top is a truly disgusting meal. Give me M&S ravioli anyday.

I do up great big vats of tomato sauce and freeze it but would always simmer the tomatoes for at least 40 minutes (having sweated the garlic and onions for at least 10 minutes first). If using fresh tomatoes (although of course tinned are no worse nutritionally) then not to remove the skins would be horrid.

I use my tomato sauce to go with meatballs, pasta, chicken chorizo and beans, chicken scallopini, pizza bases and vegetarian lasagne (layered with buffalo Mozzarella.

Sugocasa with fresh basil takes five minutes and my children like it far, far more than my beautifully prepared, log cooked sauces made with fresh or tinned tomatoes and no sugar or salt.

My basil plants inside keep getting infested with small flies. My basil plants outside get eaten by slugs. What should I do?

YANBU

I whipped my childminder's ass good and proper for having the temerity to serve dc Harrods Foie Gras.

She knew he only liked Fortnum & Mason

KC Am going now - there are too many trolls and weird things going on here. Your fault I guess for luring me into AIBU - but no hard feelings. Keep up the sterling good work in Pets. Oh, and [hugs] cos I do like you. And that tart Blondie.

Thought it best to be honest about my age before I left, though. Well, almost ...

Take care, all. And fgs take your pets to the vet if they are sick

Bella

Going going??? You are going to be on Pets aren't you??

But, but, I am waiting for you to contradict me on that AIBU thread about dogs...

Don't make me have a wibbly chin too!!!!

No, I really need to cut back on MN too and do some proper work.

You do know that nothing you said or did has caused this, OK?

Will be watching, though.

And you're spot on about the woman with the Mastiff.

Oh

Ok then, for you, take care and all that. I am glad I have not upset you, I do get worried about these things - and thank you for saying you are off! Pop in for a virtual sticky bun now and then won't you?

I am a bit shocked is all, I mean, do people really cut back on MN to have a real life?> I thought it was the other way around

Whilst I suspect that people are right about the chopped tomatoes and cheese just heated together being rather unpleasant, I have made a sort of sauce for pasta that was yummy and didn't involve skinning the tomatoes.

I used a pack of cherry tomatoes on the vine that had gone a bit past their best and weren't nice enough for salad any more, and roasted them with some garlic, some red peppers and a splash of olive oil, then removed the tomato stalks, mashed the rest up a bit, and mixed it through the pasta. It was gorgeous - zingy and fresh and rich - and really easy too - a lazy woman's dream (that's me - lazy).

tart blondie

ok - im puzzled, so snippets didnt have the pasta in her fridge, and nanny didnt use her money to buy it, so the nanny used kitty money to buy fresh pasta and gave to child to eat

if the above is right, then i can kinda agree with snippets - her nanny is paid to look after and cook for 1 child 1 meal a day

i look after 3 under 6.5 and I manage to cook fresh meals for them daily unless i use a portion of pre cooked (that i made and froze)ie casserole, lasagne etc