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.

But snippets HOW can she be looking after him properly when she must be in the kitchen for hours making the sort of food that will meet your demands/expectations?

kalo that is below the belt and not acceptable even in jest

imvho

Well I dunno about the inns and outs of the childminder going against op wishes and all that, but if that snippet from MillyR 'aint the funniest thing on mn I'll eat my potnoodle hat.

Rofl. I have tears. Bless the cm for taking on the child. He heeeeeee hee hehe hee.

Ay dear.

if you worry about this, god you have loads more stresses to come!! Get over yourself and feel so sorry for your nanny!!

Ah, typical dodgy AIBU - stealth reveal, refusal to answer key questions. A pox on't.

well i think this is a wind up and its friday night past eleven o clock

This is totally a wind up.

But if my CM gave my DD M&S stuffed pasta I wouldn't be that thrilled. We sometimes have it for a treat, but I wouldn't give it to her because I don't like her to eat pre-packaged foods, and she is the same age as this imaginary child is supposed to be.

She's also never had baked beans.

So, although this thread is an obvious wind up - I actually AM that unreasonable

Snippets, I AGREE with you. (Look at my last post too)

You have every right to expect your nanny (or CM) to look after YOUR baby in the way you have agreed with her.

Presumably you weren't torturing her to make her agree....

All of you who feed your children tinned pasta or whatever, you have every right to do that with your own children. No-one is judging that.

It is the principle which is the issue.

God, you are all seriously crazy? Eyeballs, how can you have that type of response to a mother who wants her child to have fresh food? Your response would suggest I'm abusing my child in some way???

you are wierd beyond belief

get over it

Yeah but anyway - about the CM stuck drying a childs bum with a hair dryer.

Rofl.

Snippets sweetheart - you are as mad as a box of frogs! Get over yourself please and by the way - giving you child food that you've plucked from the garden of Eden and lightly steamed over a fire of precious wood does not make you a better mother than somebody who has opened a tin or given their child a sausage. Trally - go to bed and try to wake up a more relaxed person before you rupture something.

Surely you aren't serious? If you are then you are the most uptight person I've ever come across.

OP - You know, we also cooked everything from scratch for our PFB DD1. She was exclusively BF till 6 months and BF to 21mo. The only jars she ever had were fruit ones from Hipp, and only a couple a week.

We still cook from scratch every day but she and DD2 get sweets when there's a party, the odd bit of chocolate...

I think you need to accept that the world is full of food that is not up to your exacting standards and it wont do your DC any harm to have a little bit of it , now and then.

The poor CM maybe didnt realise that the 'freshly stuffed pasta' didnt actually fall into the category of 'made from scratch'.

kalo, you're probably right that it is a wind up.

But there are plenty of working mums who will read your post and be offended by the palming off comment and the implication that they are damaging their children's emotional well being.

Which was what BALD meant, I think

Skidoodle, what is wrong with baked beans?

SNIPPETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read my posts!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you

Just to be clear, I am talking about the prepackaged stuffed ravioli etc not just normal dried pasta shapes which I of course don't expect her to make.

yup squonky, that's it in a nutshell

No we should be concerned about what our children are eating, you're quite right. But you also need to take into account the realities of the demands youre placing on the person who is looking after your child.

You also need to make it very clear what is and isn't acceptable.

You're guilty of AIBU by stealth, because you said CM rather than nanny - and you know full well that there is a difference here.

But I still stand by the fact that many people will not know/realise/understand what you mean by fresh food. How many people think, for example, that cooking from scratch would mean not using jarred cooking sauces?

As it happens, I share your sentiments. But I have had to accept compromises when other people are looking after my children.

its ONE meal

let go

you are wierd

I'd put a stop to it now, before you know it she'll be feeding him pre cut fruit, and it probably won't be organic either!

um, stopfighting, the OP isn't talking about tinned pasta. Nor just any ready made pasta, but M&S pasta. Apparently, pasta only ok if freshly made. Can't believe I'm still writing on this ridiculous thread.

does she give him this?