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okay, this may have been said before but I am geting cross!!

39 replies

oxocube · 11/10/2006 19:41

About the increase in threads about what people feed their kids and how it somehow makes you a bad person if your kids eat x,y,z. I love to cook, I rarely give my kids 'pre-prepared' food and I like to think my kids have a reasonably healthy diet with a good blance of meat, fruit,fish and veg, BUT I fail to see why it is the end of the world if your/my kids go to another friend's house for dinner and eat stuff you/we would not feed at home. The obvious exception is allergies but if something is fried when at home it would be grilled, or if something has more sugar or an additional e number to those we would choose to do at home, is it really so totally awful?

Personally, I am just glad that my kids have nice friends, that they are invited out, that they feel happy inviting kids back here, that they are generally happy, sociable and just, well, ordinary balanced kids.

Awaits backlash

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CreepyCrawlyCarmenere · 11/10/2006 19:43

No backlash here Oxo, I agree with you 100 per cent.

EnidVorhees · 11/10/2006 19:47

I think most people on here agree with you oxocube

I think you are too salty though

maybe you should change your name to MarigoldBouillonPowder

lulumama · 11/10/2006 19:47

agree 200%

parents have enough problems being guilt tripped by so many sources and each other- don;t think this should be a breeding grounds for holier than thou finger pointing,,,

but human nature being what it is, i imagine the you are bad for giving your kids mcdonalds/ fruit shoots / cheese strings etc.....

beating your kids is wrong. can;t compare that to feeding them crap occasionally. and if you know it's not the best food nutritionally, and only do it from time to time, what harm

how many mnetters will be doing this while having a glass of wine or a ciggy?????? know what i mean ?

CountTo10 · 11/10/2006 19:47

I totally agree with you oxo!!

buktus · 11/10/2006 19:47

100% also

southeastastralplain · 11/10/2006 19:47

at EnidVorhees

covenoveneer · 11/10/2006 19:47

I'm with you on this one too. My children eat healthily, pretty much all home made food lots of veg and fruit, but I hate the holier than thou attitude of those threads going on about how their child's pure body has been defiled by a sausage or fruit shoot. (OK that is an exaggeration but still).

Tommy · 11/10/2006 19:48

another one who agrees with you!

Thanks

lulumama · 11/10/2006 19:48

"but human nature being what it is, i imagine the you are bad for giving your kids mcdonalds/ fruit shoots / cheese strings etc..... "

should have finished with

"debates will carry on! "

not the best sentence construction ! sorry!

MaloryTowersPonceAndProud · 11/10/2006 19:49

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CountTo10 · 11/10/2006 19:49

'how their child's pure body has been defiled by a sausage or fruit shoot'

Made me roar comeoverneer!!!!!!!!

buktus · 11/10/2006 19:50

where are the anti fruit shoot mn
do we have to duck yet

lulumama · 11/10/2006 19:51

god my post was garbled..not even had a drink..just a virtual one from the bar here!!!

my children were both defiled with a crappy (happy) meal last night! and they enjoyed it! so there!

ghosty · 11/10/2006 19:52

I agree with you Oxo ... I just don't read threads like that ... open them, read the OP, then close them, never to return.

BTW - I AM TAKING MY KIDS TO MACDONALDS TODAY!!!!! AND I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE SAYS!!!!

HA HA HA ....

oxocube · 11/10/2006 19:52

Love Marigold powder, Enid!! Makes nice veggie soup. So glad I'm not the only one who sits here at some (well meaning) food threads and thinks WTF ??

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SoupDragon · 11/10/2006 19:52

I agree 99.9% although I would expect my child to be offered a meal that does have a vegetable aspect to it somewhere. Typical Guest For Tea teas here may well consist of sausages but they'll aways be 3 types of vegetable with them. I don't however, insist the guest eats everything

buktus · 11/10/2006 19:55

my kids will only eat 1 vegetable at teamtime, and ds1 will only eat peas, beans or sweetcorn

oxocube · 11/10/2006 19:56

Isn't it all about balance and common sense? I am deffo in the 'Jamie Camp' and wouldn't dream of sending my kids to school with coke and choc bars but honestly think that some people take it too far. Says she on 3rd glass of wine

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CountTo10 · 11/10/2006 19:58

Absolutely - balance is always the key and I love the balance the media are striking at the moment. We apparantly have the most obese kids in europe whilst also suffering with the latest craze of trying to be a size 00 figure - so are we trying to stop our next generation from being obese or simply futher encouraging an ever growing trend of eating disorders in our youngsters?

lulumama · 11/10/2006 19:59

oxo - it is exactly about common sense i am not a big fan of extremes of anything - and certainly not of people following an extreme path and finger pointing at those who choose to be a bit more middle of the road.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 11/10/2006 20:01

Enid

pointyfangedWeredog · 11/10/2006 20:48

defining myself with a sausage... hmmm

I agre with you oxo

pointyfangedWeredog · 11/10/2006 20:49

ugh defiling!

VeniVidiVickiQV · 11/10/2006 20:56

ROFL!

handlemecarefully · 11/10/2006 20:58

So go on then, which thread has set you off, something has got your goat and I need to read it! [shamelessly rubber necking emoticon]