if a parents feeds their child a microwave macaroni/curry/lasagne ready meal every night...

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...because she dislikes cooking and is terrible at it, is it bad parenting?

The post title doesn't match the post. It does not form a complete sentence that makes sense.

well

the parent could learn to cook, basics tecniques are easily mastered

mashed potatoes, nice ham, peas and sweetcorn are not beyond the whit of most, yes?

confidence and practice

there are worse things a parent can do. Does the parent chuck apples and bananas at the child also?

MillyR, did you go to private school or are you a teacher?

BALD, thanks for replying I could just eat a nice bowl of pea and ham soup!

availability of fruit and salad, and low sodium ready meals?
not bad, just a bit lazy lol.

Lol, no CSCH, I hope not!

yy fruit and raw veg - cucumber and carrot for eg, nowt wrong with that, no cooking needed either, hurrah

No, I would not call that bad parenting. If I knew that person I might buy them a simple cookbook or encourage them to develop a basic repertoire of homecooked meals that were quick and easy to do, but I certainly wouldn't call them a bad parent.

its not bad parenting as a whole but its probably an area that could be improved on if thats the case, some parents/people are not informed/educated about what is and isn't healthy it doesn't make them a bad parent

Neither OP. It is just I can't work out if you are talking about a single mum or a couple. Obviously if you are asking about a couple, then there is the possibility they can work out some improvements together.

The readymeals that are designed for kids are often low in salt/sugar and fairly healthy. As healthy as cooking own-brand sausages, Smash and spaghetti hoops, for instance.

"If a parent feeds their child a microwave macaroni/curry/lasagne ready meal every night, because she dislikes cooking and is terrible at it, is it bad parenting?"

That sentence sounds ok to me.

If the parent learned to cook some basic meals the children would enjoy it would save the parent a lot of money that is currently being spent on ready meals.
Mashed potato, fish, meat and veg are not hard to cook so maybe the parent could consult a cook book to master the basics?
Not bad parenting particularly but not economical and probably more salt in the food than homecooked food would provide and less fresh vegetables.

My mother was an awful cook,certainly not a bad parent though.

I guess it's an indicator that that child probably has worse life chances than a child who is being fed home-cooked food. It doesn't mean the parent is bad, but on balance it's not a positive thing in any way.

nah, they're not bad

That seemed to form a perfectly fine sentence to me

Theare is just a stray S on parents... I'm alwuays having stray letterts invade my posts

(in silly mood, ignore me)

ha, I didn't even notice the S...

i was raised on findus crispy pancakes. the jury is still out on whether it actually did any long term damage. i've managed to get to the half-way point without any serious repercussions lol.

that said - i don't have a particularly strong relationship with my mother, and have no real recollection of who taught me to cook (it certainly wasn't her lol). i have faintly odd memories of my mother's 'cooking' and we don't have much in common from that perspective. i wonder if 'home cooking' is more important for slightly older children from a relationship/ bonding pov...
(all totally chain-of-consciousness lol, no real idea. certainly my dcs have been a-chopping from an early age and are well doctrined with the mantra 'home-made is best'. hopefully i won't be quite as, erm, distant, but no idea if any meaningful correlation between home cooking and relationship lol....)
but much greater chance of distance if i spend my life in front of the 'puter...

Am sure the 's' was a mere typo so I didn't think necessary for someone to take OP to task at start of thread.
Sheesh

Not bad parenting but to my mind a generally grim and joyless way to live.

If all i had to look forward to was a microwaved ready meal at night, I would not consider my life worth living.

Truly.
I love food, love cooking, love it all.

It's not bad parenting, I was raised on mainly fried chips. It is poor education though, most ready meals have a high salt/sugar/fat content which will probably take the child above their daily limit. It wouldn't be good for the child's health in the long term.

I think being saddled with someone who uses mummikins in their username is a much better indicator of a bad parent as it says to me you will still be cutting up their meat, checking their head for lice and buying their underpants when they are 35.

I agree with moondog.

There is more to food than what you eat, if you see what I mean. Cooking something akin to a 'proper' meal encompasses something more than the sum of its parts and I think is probably indicative of a happier household than a ready meal.

I know that from experience when I was depressed I would get home from work, stuff something either fully or partly prepared in the oven and me and DD would eat it. It fed us but I don't believe we were nourished.

Am I sounding like a ponce? If so damn and apologies.

There is a strong feeling of satisfaction at cooking and feeding a family and I think comes from actually caring about what you cook and eat. There is a world of difference between a spag bol you cook yourself and one which you ping in the microwave, and i do not mean nutritionally.

I cam from a unhappy household where a regular meal would be a findus lasagne. I also grew up unable to cook - couldn't fry an egg, all greens boiled for half an hour with bicarb, no idea on how to make mash potato etc. All this I had to learn whilst dd was a baby, whilst on a tight budget.

I would say that anyone who can't cook would do best to learn - even by trial and error (like me, with the memories of some truly disgusting dinners) or go on the internet/cheap cookbook and learn that way.

Of course ready meals when you can't be arsed once or twice a week, that's fine, but every day is not good imo.