to have thought that this was a display of smuggy smuggishness

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This morning, went with DS into local Sainsbury's for supplies and we were looking at the cheese and stuff when another mum with two LOs under 3 in her trolley. She also peruses the shelves then says to her eldest child "oh my GOODNESS! There's NO tzatziki!" Little one looks at his mum like she's off her rocker then she says again "There. Is. NO. TZATZIKI!" She then summons a shelf-stacker to moan about there being no tzatziki and explains to him at length that it's all that her two will eat with their crudites all the time doing a terrible cat's bum mouth that suggested that the shelves of hummous/salsa/raita weren't agreeable to her wunderkind's palate.

I almost handed her a tub of humous and told her to get a grip. AIBU aren't I?

My mother had a posh mummy-friend when she was my age and doing the having-children thing. Her friend's child was getting over a nasty flu or similar and said her boy was off his food but that he could manage "something simple like a Coq a vin".

It became a catch-phrase in her little circle of mummy friends - oh why not have something simple like a Coq a vin!!! Hehe. She still uses the phrase occasionally to this day.

SloanyPony I am roaring here. That's hilarious! All my DS will scff when he's out of sorts is biscuits and crisps.

Its great isn't it. I love people who are genuinely like that, not just trying to be. I swear it didn't even occur to her how she must have sounded, she ended up being my piano teacher and she was just like that, if you know what I mean. Love it.

There will be MNers who would say "well coq au vin is something simple in my house. it's not MY fault that you find cooking a challenge" or whatever.

Meh.

Hehe. Actually, its not that complex if you use diced chicken rather than a whole chicken cut for saute...

It's not that complex if you use one of those Schwartz packet sauces instead of marinating the coq in wine and garlic for a day beforehand

Coq au vin might be 'something simple' to make true but to eat whilst suffering from a nasty virus i would rather have just chicken soup, definetly much lighter

Well my two love tzatziki too but I'd never ask for it because I'm never sure if I'm pronouncing it right!!!!!

(They do like houmous too - honest!)

I prefer the "one for the coq, one for me" approach to adding the wine...

Are there actually children out there who eat such fancy things?!

Between my son and my three nephews the shopping list would read as follows:

• Bread (preferably sliced and white)
• Chocolate milk (my sister once asked me if chocolate milk was much worse than giving normal milk! Her son is 2.5 years before people go bonkers at the thought of a baby with a bottle of the brown stuff!)
• Cherios
• Orange vegetables

I have to admit to being a teenage food ponce. I watched far too much Nigella and Jamie. Unfortunately, I grew up in a provincial Midlands town and the staff in the local Asda would look at me blankly when I asked where the lemongrass was.

I used to dream about moving to London and hosting dinner parties for my friends where we would eat risotto or Thai green curry in my enormous loft apartment.

I remember going on holiday to Cornwall when I was about 16 and overhearing a very posh gilet wearing woman exclaim 'there's no arborio, so that's risotto out of the question.' At the time I had never eaten a risotto in my life. I thought this woman was so glamorous and exotic

Which Midlands town, if you don't mind me arsking? I am also a midlands girl and I cannot believe I have to travel into Birmingham to buy fresh thai basil to make thai curry paste with. It's simply not good enough!

I remember once having a total meltdown because I'd forgotten to set the dishwasher going.

Perhaps she's still in that slightly gaga, adjusting to having little or no control over your life anymore, obsessing over small, inconsequential things stage of early parenting?

cupcakes - the town gives its name to a very popular sport.

Now I live in London, but unfortunately I live in an ex-local authority flat, not the spacious converted warehouse of my 16 year old dreams with the little deli and artisan bakery round the corner .

And the last time I had Thai curry it came out of a jar. I do have to admit that on occasion, DP and I do special outings to Waitrose to buy poncey goodies, and I get very excited by these trips even though I'm only in my early 20s

I'd have understood of she was chucking her diva-fit over them having no milk or no something-else-quite-necessary-for-everyday-life but tzatziki? Pfffft. I'm sure that little Montague won't waste away because he hasn't got an greek dip to dunk his crudites into!

Noooooooooo, outings to Waitrose for special cook-y stuff is ace. One of life's simple pleasures IMO

I remember standing in waitrose while a woman shrieked across me to the staff at the deli counter

"No. That one, there - the Ta-Ma-Slar-Tar!"

It has been called that in our house ever since

I've just muttered around tesco about them having no bags of couscous only the already made stuff.
Then DD piped up "Oh no mummy what will we do with our sundried tomatoes"
So we went and harassed a shelf stacker who couldn't care less.

In our defense this particular Tescos is really badly stocked so we often have trouble finding what we want.

How do you say taramasalata?

In Pizza Express a few months back there was a faux-posh woman in there being an arse to the waiters etc. When her pizza came she moaned in her best posh voice that "there's hardly any meat or cheese on it, is there?"

Sorry, not totally related but made me chuckle

What sucks is when little Auriella pipes up and queries whether the mi-cuit Prunes are from the Agen region...

"Mama, can you ask the man to select Langoustines with the roe still on them..."

Sloany, you seem to know a lot of these. Were you one of these children yourself?