to put my judgey pants on over this?

[LadyBiscuit]

Fully expect a huge flaming but I can take it.

Yesterday I was in M&S at the till and the woman next to me had a child in her pushchair who was about a year old. The woman handed the child a plastic container of food that she'd just paid for saying 'the lady says you can have this now' and the little girl stuck her hand in and started eating. It was a tub of 20 cocktail sausages.

Can we add this to Fruit Shoots and Greggs sausage rolls? Or because they were from M&S do they not count?

No we can't, that sounds like my DS idea of a perfect lunch!

she's paid for it so its ok...surely

Na, that's OK. Sausages are pretty crap food, but she will probably have a nutritionally balanced food intake over the course of the day .....

Guess what dd (6) has just grabbed out of the fridge for a mid-afternoon snack?

don't get me wrong, we've got sausages for dinner ...

It's not good enough really, children are starting to go to school unable to use a knife and fork.

This permanent snacking is probably more to blame for childhood obesity than the actual food itself.

I would'nt let my toddler eat in the street! For a start their hands have probably been everywhere and need a wash first.

Bring on the flamers.

My DS went through a stage when he was about 2 yrs old of loving those mini packets of cocktail sausages with ketchup. He probably ate one a day for about 6 months!

Chill out, oh judgy ones. How will you cope when your kids are teenagers?

It's good for them to have a few germs Alouiseg, my DS is 6 and skinny as a lathe.

I think some people need to lighten up a little. There really isn't anything wrong with a toddler eating in their pushchair. Life would be very dull if we lived by a rulebook all the time.

Alouiseg

Not feeling flamey ....

BUT IME, many toddlers thrive on snacking. They are too busy learning stuff to want big meals. I acknowledge sausages aren't ideal, but wouldn't you give your DC some grapes, breadsticks, rice-cakes while on the go ?

DS2 would have terrible tantrums when hungry. Better to feed him in those circumstances

A few is fine. The whole packet seems a bit much. And this child wasn't a toddler - she was a baby.

I'm disappointed that no one is going to get pursed lipped

i have to say i have done exactly the same. anything for a bit of peace.

Has nobody ever stodd up in the kitchen reading Heat and ate a whole tub of Christmas cocktail sauages (40 iirc)in one go? Can't just be me.

And then looked at the empty box and wonder where the hell they all went.

Cocktail sausages are like jaffa cakes. You never feel as if you have eaten enough.

We don't know she was going to be allowed the whole tub ... although 1 is quite young (maybe she was small for her age ?)

< resolutely NOT judgey today >

Not an ideal meal but not unreasonable if she had friut and veg and carbs during the day and it is a treat. Off topic when I have nieces and nephews I cook chips, peas[mushy] and fish goujons or sausages wrap them up in greaseproof and newspaper and send then into the garden to enjoy their 'take away' they love it and I have a clean floor and no wash up They love to eat out of anything that is not a plate or dish they are ages 9 and under. DD still to young to join them, so I cannot judge the above as being unreasonable

YABU, how do you know that the child was going to eat the whole tub?
Child would probably have had a few and that would be that.

Unless the child looked seriously malnourished I wouldn't bother about a few cocktail sausages.

I have eaten a whole tub of cocktail sausages in one go GetOrf - more than once! Mmmmmmm I could just eat a tub now. And M&S do the very BEST ones.

I would not do that getorf

It is, one for me, one for the dog, one for me, one for the dog....
then when asked you say the bloody dog ate them.

(and Elle or Vanity Fair at Heat)

lolol my DS's favourite BLW snack was sausages. Probably no less healthy than jars of processed baby food.

As part of a balanced diet I see no harm. YABU

Can't see the problem myself.

OP - please be more specific about exactly which aspect of this behaviour fails to meet your parenting standards.

the problem with being judgey is that you have no idea what is behind the action. The kid might have been starving, or might have been whining forever, and the mum gave in. She might have wandered around M&S trying to find something suitable for her, and finally settled on sausages, cos she knew the child would eat them. You have no idea what the mother had going on...

I think MN should invent a < cats bum mouth > emoticon, Riven

jamie I know that toddlers snack and actually i have no problem with reasonable quality sausages but it does seem a bit unhygienic and the fact that the child was asking for them does mean that she is used to eating directly from shops into mouth.

Not my cup of tea.

Will be changing my name to Judgey in the very near future.;-)

Were they raw? If you YANBU.