The MN food guilt phenomenon

[emkana]

Tonight I am serving my children

Bird's Eye chicken dippers
Bird's Eye fish fingers
McCain Oven chips
Broccoli
Heinz Baked Beanz

I feel that my mind has been twisted so much that I actually feel bad at producing such a "poor" dinner. But that's silly, isn't it? I mean it's 100 % chicken breast (plus batter, 100 % cod (plus batter), potatoes and sunflower oil...

I also know that processed food is crap, I know how it is made, I know what is in it and I know that animals have suffered for it. But I also know that emkana was feeling guilty already and I know I diddn't want to contribute to that by shoving my opinions down her throat.

adn the purple suede skirt carm?

yes baked beans do count as one of your 5 a day.

IMO there's nothing wrong with it. DS won't actually eat chicken so I don't buy/serve that, but fishfingers are fine. having said that, wouldn't mind trying making my own ... anyone got a recipe?

but spaghetti hoops ...

I will never ever serve them.

because they are vile vile vile.

I like baked beans, too! On brown bread.

But w/a splash of BBQ sauce and not HP cuz that is nasty.

I try to avoid intensively reared chicken myself, and as it happens, don't buy nuggets or fishfingers (because I never think of it, and my kids are funny about stuff in batter, oddly) but the same chicken it's in just about every single chicken ready meal, every Indian takeaway and most restaurant meals. Most people don't torture themselves about those or berate people for having a korma in front of the telly on a Friday night.
Fish fingers made with fillets of fish are an excellent, healthy food. Baked beans are great. Broccoli is unbeatable.
Emkana - why are you posting this!!? You are mad. Don't be a fish in a barrel

nuggets are shit

buy a cooked chicken and its even easier that baking nuggets

we are brainwashed into thinking this food is quick andeasy

wannabe -
Fish fingers

Take fish (I used lemon sole and took skin off most of them)

Marinate fish in lemon, olive oil for a bit (or your could leave this out if you can't be arsed)

dip finger sized pieces of fish in flour

then dip into a beaten egg and splash of milk

then dip into bag of crushed cornflakes.

Bake or shallow fry what you need and freeze what you don't need.

PS - I added a load of gratedf cheese to my bag of crushed cornflakes

fish fingers ARE ok i agree

but not as good as a proper bit of fish!!!!!!!!e

mine are gettign a similar tea tomorrow emkana, i am emptying the freezer, i found some turkey twizzlers in there as well

yes I think nuggets are horrible, esp when I read about how they were made. But ds won't eat them anyway so not a problem. But they're easy enough to make yourself anyway so if we reach such a point I'll happily make my own.

agree with dara.

Remember if making own fishfingers to ensure the cornflakes have led an active outdoorsy life with plentiful foraging opportunities

Well they were going to get some lovingly home-crafted meal but now you've mentioned fishfinger sarnies.... YUM. And fries. Oooohhhh. Chips. Mmm. Where's the ketchup?

Chicken nuggets

make toast with wholemeal stoneground bread, whizz up into breadcrumbs with food processor

Free range or organic chicken breasts in food processor with grated cheese, crushed garlic and bit of softened onion

Make litle balls.

dip in egg

dip into breadcrumbs.

Cook for 20 mins in oven & freeexe what you don't need, uncooked

sounds yummy tc

agreed that fishfingers are not as good as a piece of fish, but there's no way ds would eat a piece of fish so for now this is a good enough alternative.

Hmmm...fishfinger sandwiches - white bread, real butter, a squiet of ketchup! A perfect meal after a few beers

My kids are out at the moment gathering the wheatgrass and lentils for their supper. They vomit if anything that has been bought from A Supermarket passes their lips. I even knit my own semolina.
And I shall be glad to lecture anyone who doesn't do the same as me.

My DD1 won't eat a piece of fish but she tucked into the homemmade fish fingers.

Em - it's fine.

Hula - it has to be brown sauce on fish-finger butties surely? And white bread with proper butter

Oh no - ketchup for me; Dh is a HP fan. Could have tartare to be posh maybe?!

Or Mayo. Yum!

Ok.....

My kids tonight are having

Birds Eye Chicken Burgers

Says on front
no artificial colours flavours or preservatives

Ingredients
chicken (53%), breadcrumbs (with natural colours: paprika extract , curcumin) sunflower oil, water, wheat flour, fresh onion, salt.

served with corn on the cob, cucumber sticks and half a baked potato each

they will gobble up all of it

However yesterday I made a casserole with 6 different veg and organic chicken and they pushed it around the plate.

So today, despite the birds eye chicken they will actually consume more goodness.

Its all swings and roundabouts - sometimes my menu for the kids make me proud and they gobble it up with enthusiasm. Sometimes they dont. And sometimes I feel guilty for what I put down in front of them but TBH on those days Im just grateful we have got through another day!

salad cream

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