to give school a list of foods/additives etc. which ds cannot eat at the class christmas party?

[tispity]

the other alternative would be to keep him off that day. he is not allergic as such, but it turns him into a little devil. i feel strongly that it makes no sense to let him eat everything one day a year while carefully controlling his diet for the remaining 364 days. i would even be willing to provide a selection of food for ds and others on his table. i don't know whether the mere suggestion would offend them as they are rushed off their feet this week and the oher parents don't appear bothered (especially those sending in haribos and value cola!).

I offer a correspondence course, monkey. If your dh is interested, let me know and I'll put him on the waiting list. In the meanwhile he might like to read around the subject. I can recommend: Bananas are BadAss (this is to appeal to the teen market), and Nutritionalistic Therapies for the Minimally Insane as a start point. For an overview, he might like to read the books i mentioned earlier.

Wonderful. Definitely put his name down. Such nutritionalistic knowledge is clearly worth any price.

misdee, take my advice, love

read the whole thread

I think that minty is being Tis, I dont think this is a serious thread at all, no parent that i have come across and even my non junk food obsessed friend would not do things this way. Its just insane that a bit of party food occasionally can damage you for life. My goodness what did they do in the old days of lard and dripping then!

Anyfucker, i will. but it was 5mins till school run and i just didnt have time to read thwe whole thing

Hully

Wanuts...?! Don't even go there. On my nutritionalistic therapy course we had a whole semester devoted to them.

Does this mean I shouldn't bake Date and Walnut loaf (organic ingredients and pure cane sugar, natch) any more? Waahh!

Minty - what if people feed your children aspartame instead of sugar? Worried that your carefully considered labels may cause them to consume artificial sweeteners

I too don't understand what is wrong with walnuts. Please can someone explain briefly ?

mmm - to those suggesting keeping a child off additive and e numbers is a wishy washy food fad - if I allow my borderline adhd son any of that stuff he becomes very rapidly aggressive, unable to control his impulsivity and not really very fun for anyone, least of all himself - its not "fun" to feed him that and it certainly does him no good. Its really hard to take it off him but it takes three days to undo the damage - thats three days of midnight bed times, dangerously hyper behaviour and watching him with other children like a hawk. Would you say I was being wishy washy if it was your kid knocked to the floor by the tasmanian devil he turns into - or would you call me irresponsible for allowing a child with an obvious allergy to eat food that causes him to do it so he fits in. grrrrrr.

op - i send ds with alternatives to the hyper making stuff.

Thats fine Pretty totally, its kids without allergies or intollergances and other health conditions affected by food additives that i am talking about in my posts. Those parents who are obsessive without any good reason.

thanks prettyfly. well, i did make it pretty clear that it has an effect on ds' behaviour too - i haven't investigated this any further - in a way, i don't really need to do this as the change is so obvious. good to find a few words of wisdom amidst the lunacy and ignorance

Tispity - perhaps you should investigate it further so that you can be more precise with your sons requirements rather than just looking like a bit of a loon (meant in a nice way!)

Funniest thread I have read in ages!

Loving the serious responses to Hully's nutrionalistic advice

IwishIwasmoreorganised - yes, right, whatever hahaha

"Loving the serious responses to Hully's nutrionalistic advice" - not from me there hasn't ?!?

my DD has to take her own party food wherever she goes because she has a medical condition which makes it essential that absolutely everything she eats is gluten free. trying to get other people to understand is very hard, some well meaning folk have made serious mistakes (like trying to serve her gluten free biscuits that had been put in the same tin as the normal ones, or expecting her to still eat gluten free bread that had had normal bread dropped on top of it by a teacher dishing out bread to make sandwiches, or the constant "surely just one won't hurt")

OP - you are of course within your rights to supply your child an alternative party box for whatever reasons you wish - allergy, religious, vegan etc, but perhaps you could lighten up you rules just this once, it will not do him actual harm - you do not know how lucky you are

Tispity - I think that you need to either acknowledge that you are indeed a troll or acknowledge that you're being a tiny bit ridiculous .

Which one will it be?

I've been away since last night so have just managed to scan the last few posts

I am deducing from the OPs last handwringing comment about "lunacy and ignorance" that Hullygully is weaving her magic somewhere on this thread

[peers through magnifying glass]

hoh, yess

"I am deducing from the OPs last handwringing comment" - I am deducing that you have been reading the thread about ginger hair and have lifted the lingo that was considered offensive. does not bode well for your ability to come up with anything original really.

well, if that was directed at me (the OP) i repeat (yet again!) that dc's are not forbidden cakes, biscuits or crisps - infact they have as much as the next child. they are forbidden the poor imitations of these; both are old enough to know that it tastes bloody awful compared to the allowed versions which are made of real ingrediants. not sure why this would lead to a retaliation whereby they would eat the same thing albeit laced with crap?

ingredients, typo, sorry

Do you make your own crisps, tispity? If not, what are the poor imitations of crisps?

oh, is there some more handwringing going on elsewhere?

I'm deeply in love with hully, as it goes