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This thread is potentially one of those smug-sounding ones, so look away if you're not in the mood

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emkana · 10/10/2006 19:40

dd went to a friend's house for tea today.

They had
Fish fingers, chicken pieces, chips and tinned pasta shapes. Followed by a doughnut.

Absolutely no veg or fruit whatsoever. Not even beans ffs! Surely it could at least be offered? Just a teeny tiny cocktail tomato even?

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emkana · 10/10/2006 19:40

the same girl came to our house last week and ate all the broccoli I had put on her plate without any complaints btw.

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HRHQueenOfQuotes · 10/10/2006 19:42

Have to confess that occasioinally in this house there is no sign of veg on the plates at dinner time - doesn't happen often, but it does sometimes.........

PrettyCandles · 10/10/2006 19:44

Maybe it was a 'treats' meal? I definitely belong in your camp on this, emkana.

JessaJackOLantern · 10/10/2006 19:44

DH often forgets veg as part of a meal if meal involves pasta...he can't seem to get into habit of shoving some veg in with the tomato passata (sp) or cheesey sauce...so I'm going to make some tomato-y veggie pasta sauces and freeze them so they are there and ready for him to use.

JessaJackOLantern · 10/10/2006 19:45

Don't think you sound smug by the way...concerned...a little shocked..disappointed...

HRHQueenOfQuotes · 10/10/2006 19:46

I'm not saying it's right, but it doesn't mean that it's the "norm" is that house.

DastardlyDevilishDior · 10/10/2006 19:49

I would say that the woman was probably making sure that all children ate everything, and that, as someone else said, it was a 'treat' meal. I would have still had some token petits pois though .

If you are being smug though, I made home-made pizza yesterday. Dh didn't believe that the base was made by me, and said it was exactly as good as a bought one. I was Mrs Smug McSmug!

Mercy · 10/10/2006 19:49

QoQ, same here!

Tbh when dd goes to friends houses for dinner I am more concerned about how much she eats rather than what she eats.

Emkana, if she ate the broccoli at your house then I would say she is used to eating it a fairly regular basis. A lot of kids won't touch it, or will only try a little bit out of politeness - especially in someone elses house.

niceglasses · 10/10/2006 19:55

Sometimes dish out a tea here which only had 'vegetables and fruit' shouted at it.

Often dish out this kind of meal too if kids coming for tea as too many combinations of 'I don't eat that' to contend with. Most eat chick nuggets et al and its only one day out the week blah blah blah de blah.

milge · 10/10/2006 19:55

It must have been a treat - they probably eat Greggs sausage rolls and broccoli every night so needed a break!

Gobbledispook · 10/10/2006 19:57

Hmmm, not great but there's no way of knowing what they normally eat.

If the boys' meal doesn't include 'veg' (say it's beans and egg and toast or something) then they always get fruit afterwards (well they always snack on fruit anyway so don't worry too much about their '5 a day' intake).

FrannyandZooey · 10/10/2006 19:58

That's an unusual sort of meal, though, isn't it? We sometimes have meals which haven't any fruit or veg on, I am sure we do, but that meal sounds Odd.

Chandra · 10/10/2006 19:59

Tend to agree about the broccoli. This is broccoli land and most of the children that come around refuse to eat it, even those I know are mostly feed food cooked from scratch.

I tend to do chicken fingers when other children are around because they normally are not happy about eating the egg/milk/soya/fish/nut/preservative free food we eat due to ds's allergies

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2006 19:59

It wouldn't bother me. You know what your dd eats normally, so why worry about one meal in someone else's house?

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2006 20:01

Anyway, I hate to tell you, but tinned pasta shapes (presumably you mean the sort that come in tomato sauce) do count as a vegetable in dietary lists because of the tomato sauce

Gobbledispook · 10/10/2006 20:04

My kids wont' touch those tinned pasta shapes! Most annoying when I thought one night 'Oooh, I@m feeling lazy, they can have spiderman shapes' - would they eat them - no chance!

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2006 20:06

Mine like spaghetti hoops. Aren't all the other shapes just the same? I can't say I have ever felt like paying double the money for Bob the Builder shapes when hoops will do!

cg25 · 10/10/2006 20:10

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SherlockLGJ · 10/10/2006 20:12

When DS has a friend back they get Toad in the Hole8 out of 10 times, not because that is all I can cook but because I get them involved in cooking their own food, and they love it.

However having said that when he goes to other houses for tea, I really do not care what he eats as eating "off message" for one evening is not going to kill him.

Only ever objected once, when he was given a Fruit Shoot, FGS

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2006 20:13

You have got to be kidding LGJ.

SherlockLGJ · 10/10/2006 20:14

Kidding about what DG ?

bosscat · 10/10/2006 20:17

I might have given a pasta and garlic bread dinner but would have offered yoghurt and fruit for dessert as we are not big pudding eaters here. Don't think I'd be bothered for one night though would have just been relieved not to have had to cook something myself.

On a different note I slaved making tana bloody ramsays homemade jammy dodgers on my day off today and ds1 pronounded them HORRIBLE.

covenoveneer · 10/10/2006 20:17

Ah I am so looking forward to the next 4 days (seem to have agreed to 4 playdates on consecutive days somehow). We really have entered a new era in our household now dd has started school.

DumbledoresGirl · 10/10/2006 20:18

I take it you aren't then.

Gobbledispook · 10/10/2006 20:19

I usually do pasta/sauce/garlic bread combo when friends are over.

Or pizza.