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...

Sal,I would eat a chicken's vagina with relish if it was sold/marketed as such.What I object to is processed crap masquerading as 'premium' meat.

Who mentioned tinned hot dogs?
I was actually forced to buy some for my kids school disco.
I read the ingredients just before I handed them over and nearly died.

Dh was under orders to make a human barrier between her and the hotdog stand all evening.

Thank you Cod!

I've eaten a bollock if that helps.
And eyes
And chicken entrails and feet.

Why don't we use it here to call each other pulse-weavers?

For goodness sake, listen to yourselves!

So scrambled hens' periods on toast are better are they?

I mentioned tinned hotdogs.

In ASDA the other day dh threw some in the trolley cause he loved them as a kid. I put them back telling him they were crap. But if I can back that up with some of your scientific blurb then I'll sound all inteligent.

Nowt scientific about it.
Read the label and recoil in horror.

i love scrambled hen's periods on bagels

Can't beat a bit of bollock.

I had chicken's feet as dim sum and they were lovely!

do people really call their kids pulse cod? or lentil? seriously?

ds1 had a mcdonald's on Saturday (no bun he's gluten free, but the rest). I told everyone I could think of as I thought it was something he would never do. Cows innards or not great.

McCain's oven chips are fine emkana- ds1 eats them without reacting, so they must be pretty shit free (in fact as you said potatoes and sunflower oil is all that is listed on the ingredients). I wouldn't feel guilty. DS1 has recently just started eating stuff like this and we were overjoyed- it's all relative - after 4 years of only eating gluten free bread and buckwheat pancakes I was pleased to get any chicken in him- vaginas or not.

Nowt wrong with a period from a chicken treated with respect.
I must say though that Countess Dracula's dscription of 'hens' periods in hens' period sauce' (egg mayonnaise) has never failed to haunt me,many months afterwards..)

Moodog I'm not even sure how to respond to that ridiculous post. I love talking about yucky things
I feel passionately about intensive farming(against btw) and I never buy processed foods but I also don't feel the need to ram my opinions down others necks. Just because you are right doesn't give you the right to impose what you believe on others.
I know Emkana is intelligent and because of that I know that the chances are that she is unlikely to feed her children exclusively on crap. So when you preach, I really think you are preaching to the converted. Actually a lot of that goes on here........................

Is that like prawn balls then?

Is it a hens period though, or a hens ovulation? I mean, if we are going to be specific....

I knew someone who called their son "Lentle"

I was wondering that Jimjams- I haven't come across either of those as a name, obviously I have led a sheltered life. Well done ds1, that's fantastic- did he sit down and eat it there, or was it takeaway?

oh god takeaway! BU he ate all his burger and pinched some of ds3's as well. A year ago if someone had told me that he would be eating mcdonald's burger I wouldn't have believed them. it actually opens lots of opportunities for us as it means we can travel and know that he will eat, so we could maybe get to Scotland to see SIL sometime (and you!). Prevoiusly he just wouldn't eat on the road, but then his blood sugars would go low or something- we'd smell pear drops and he'd be sick for the next 3 dyas.....

Oooh good news then JJ?

no it's a hen's period cos it is an egg which has been released but not fertilised. so yes it is a hen's ovulation, but then it is a period.

yum.

K, so does everyone agree that pasta hoops on toast are minging then?

And well done, JJ's DS1!

Woohoo!

DD1 would be happy to accompany him to McDonald's.

But I'm a snob, I only like chips if they're proper chippy chips .

I think Emkana posted knowing jolly well she'd get lots of negative opinions. She appears to know it's not a fantastically healthy meal. I don't care really, you can all feed your children whatever you like but you can't expect that everyone will agree it's ok.

fwiw, this is where I am on the meal in the OP:

Bird's Eye chicken dippers - wouldn't buy them, it wouldn't cross my mind. I only buy organic chicken/meat in general
fish fingers - yes, I buy them, they're fine sometimes imo but I buy haddock because cod's endangered
McCain Oven chips - nope, wouldn't cross my mind to buy these. I buy organic potatoes and make wedges/baked potatoes/mash though
Broccoli - buy this, organic
Heinz Baked Beanz - buy organic versions of these

I don't buy the easy has to = crap processed ready made though. It just doesn't and anyone who thinks so has been conned and has fallen for the marketing and advertising. That's why they spend so much on it. For eg, it takes:

2 seconds to make a sandwich
5 minutes to make an omelette, scrambled egg, eggy bread, boiled egg
30 seconds to throw a potato in the oven to bake it
10 minutes to chuck a chicken in a roasting tin in the oven, even if you wash some veg and chuck them in around it
5 minutes to make beans on toast
4 seconds to pass someone an orange/apple/almost any piece of fruit

I could go on but suspect you've fallen asleep now. My children ate vegetable biryani tonight, it took 10 minutes to prepare and about 30 minutes to cook (but was simmering, I didn't need to DO anything in that time).

Okay, Im thinking you were exaggerating on the "2 second Sandwich"

nah - two slices white bread, lump of lard,a dairylea slice, some bob the builder ham slices and a sprinkling of sugar for good measure. 5 secs max.