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.

Im really sorry, that post at 23.34 was my drunk dp getting back at me-apolgies everyone

Squonk you are On Fire tonight

I am ROARING

Trouble is, you are choosing to be sniffy about something that is actually a bit of a luxury item for a lot of people. Which makes you sound awfully precious.

I did LOL at the thread title...

I haven't bothered to read all five pages of this thread. But, OP I wouldn't be delighted either. Pre-prepared pasta (M&S or any other) is effectively convenience food even if it looks healthier than some ready-meal. I have a nanny so perhaps can be a little more demanding than with a cm. However, I would be happy with dried pasta with a home-made sauce but would not be happy with pre-prepared pasta as you describe.

If it's his nanny and in your home then did she buy the pasta or did you? And if you bought it did you specify it was off limits to her? I assume anything in the fridge, unless specified, is okay for my charge to eat.

I regularly feed my charge fresh, filled, shop-bought pasta. He loves it. My boss counts this as freshly cooked food because I cook it right before he eats it. Likewise I use pesto from a jar. It might not be freshly prepared but it's still freshly COOKED!

I think YABU but if that's what you want from your nanny you need to sit down and discuss definitions with her.

Yes, but that's not at all the point. Or at least it wouldn't be for me.

To me it's a slightly dishonest act which could mean that she could disregard theop's wishes again.

snippets' CM on Monday morning

Treedelivery

The childminder didn't bother with the hairdryer when the mum wasn't around, but presumably the mum did it at every nappy change.

you see, I would say I don't use convenience foods, but I don't and probably won't ever make my own pasta. I also use tinned tomatoes. And the occasional frozen pizza when I don't have time to make my own from scratch (which I prefer to do) . However, I provide my children with enough good food to know that the odd crap meal ain't going to kill them. If I couldn't cope with that whilst handing them over to someone elses care, then I would make my own food for them to take with them.

ROTFLMAO. Oh Squonk you are a genius. That made me howl.

LOL I was a nanny for many years and I bet this nutter mother is for real.
One of my nanny friends worked for a completely bonkers family that wouldn't allow their children to eat tomatoes or potatoes in fear that they would be poisoned by deadly night shade, they also wouldn't allow their children to eat sausages instead they were to eat Rabbit and Pheasant.
She left after a few weeks usually women like this are completely neurotic and usually can never keep a nanny or childminder.

MillyR

I have issues with baked beans. They are not logical issues.

It is basically a deep-seated terror from when I was a child.

I don't really like having them in my house.

squonk

Squonk

fabbo

If you search for PFB and food lots of very very funny threads including www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=am_i_being_unreasonable&threadid=583749-to-be-livid-with-my-brother-for -feeding-my-8#11913890this
Right I must drag myself away and go to bed

After some horrible threads on MN today this one has had me crying with laughter.

To the OP thank you. You will find pasta making easier when your dc is older and can help the process whilst you get on with weaving and cheese making

But SLeepyes, surely if you are paying someone good money to look after your child it should be done in the way you desire or am I living in Cloud Cuckoo Land?

Skidoodle, goodness, I haven't expected such an answer. I feel that I have opened a can of... beans.

MillyR

PMSL

sqounk love it

Squonk you are a genius!

Snippets - this is your first post, right?

Nuff said.

lilolil - agree
skidoodle - ?

stopfighting - you need to get some rest as well - stuffed pasta is 'a slightly dishonest act'????? It's food - perfectly accpetable food as part of a balanced diet prepared by a caregiver with no doubt many responsibilities and demands on her time. The real question here is did the child enjoy it? Because if so op - do us a favour and accept that maybe you were WRONG and that your nanny can in fact be trusted to decide what your child will benefit from eating.

thank you all

How much are you paying your childcarer, and does that include a separate fee for meals? Basically childminding is not a high-earning job and if you want fancy food you either need to provide it or pay extra for it.