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...

the mc/herb definition was Custy's, not mine. I think she'd be most offended to be described as mdddle class, but I'm not her so can't say for sure.

I would rather eat a chicken vagina than spaghetti hoops.
No contest.

I'm all for canned stuff though. I'd be lost without tinned tomatoes,fruit,soup and chickpeas.I like the fact that they can be recycled too.

just as well you live part time in Turkey then MD. I belive there are many countries where the whole animal is eaten and nothing goes to waste. France, China etec and indeed Turkey where bollocks (as opposed to vaginas) are a delicacy.

Sheep not chicken though.

Well, no Mercy, because chickens don't have bollocks

Emkana lives in Gloucestershire I think.

WWW - what happens with breakfast, lunch and dinners during the week then? Who does what?

Nowt goes to waste here Mercy either.
THEY JUST PRETEND THOSE THINGS ARE SOMETHING ELSE.

Rreformed meat with added water ladies??

barely

WWW I just bunged a sprig of rosemary and a couple of bayleaves (from the garden, yes) and a couple of garlic gloves inside it and stuck it in the tin and then in the oven.

Wasn't it actually growing herbs and having gold plated taps though - the custy definition?

You know what I meant. Sheeps bollocks not chickens.

Mountain oysters.

on the intensive farming and ramming opinons down others throats I would not have had my eyes opened to the horrors of intensive farming if someone hadn't taken upon themselves to tell me, however reluctant I was to hear it, and I will be forever grateful to him.

Quite DP
Quite
The truth often hurts unfortunately.

True niceglases- and its also about what's going on in the house as well. Yes I can stand over a stove and cook- but only if ds1 isn;t trying to shove his head through a window. If he's in that mode then even 5 minutes is 5 minutes too long.

Today I used the slow cooker (use it a lot), made chicken casserole- but that's because I knew I would be able to stand next to ds1 and force him to eat it by spoon feeding him and rewarding each mouthful with a chocolate button (and tell him off for spitting it out).

Sainthood should always be in context

Talking of gold taps. Someone I knew told me that they'd had their bathroom done and they'd had solid gold taps "expensive but worth it." I asked how the water got out. She looked at me like I was demented and now avoids me.

Honestly, I am wasted on some people...

ha- well you've made me laugh out loud marth

You're not wasted on me Moo, I think you're great

Blimey at this thread. And the gorblimey I never knew that award goes to Pruni - who'd have thought chickens' genitalia was so interesting? (I still can't quite understand that diagram - how can you have a vagina inside what appears to be a cloaca? Surely a cloaca is both, that's the whole point?)

Sounds like an OK dinner to me once in a while - protein, carbohydrate, vegetables, fat. Nothing wrong in terms of nutrition with fish fingers or baked beans or even oven chips occasionally. Wouldn't do nuggets but that's because I'm veggie (feed ds meat but only organic).

The 'it's just as easy to knit your own chicken/oven chips' ideas are really handy, thanks. But let's be honest, they just aren't as easy as opening a packet, tipping contents onto a baking sheet and bunging it into the oven.

Woo-hoo, two to moo Well I've learned a new word from this thread - cloaca - and have not revised my food opinions one iota (sorry, iota). Not bad considering I was never posting on a MN food thread again

Emkana i have known kids who survive on pot noodles and crisps every day, others whose parents consider their school lunch as the main meal of the day and another who has to prepare his own tea from what he can find in the fridge...which is normally emtpy.

your kids are eating well. the meal you have described is perfectly nutricious (whether you wish to look at the ethics of mass produced chicken products is another matter) filling and i am sure they enjoyed their meal.

M&S chicken 'nuggets' are very nice, btw

They call them gougons to be posh, like.

I was given a free pot noodle the other day when buying the Indie. Had it for lunch- by god it was gorgeous!!! I was stuned.

In Japan they call pot noodles "instantu- ramen" which sounds far more classsy.

I consider my ds's school lunch to be his main meal of the day...

Oh Moondog, you aren't telling the truth. YOu are peddling sensationalist lies. It is against the law to describe anything as chicken breast if it isn't. of course it bloody is. No vaginas, you nutter. Just chicken breast meat. YOu are just making stuff up. It is rubbish.
Yes, you could chop up your own cheap chicken or slice your own potatoes, but it is the same stuff to the human body.

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boboggglimpopo, are you still in France? If you are back in the UK get down to Iceland, I got spag hoops in there for 50p a tin today! >OK I was in there for Burgen bread and caught sight of them and couldn't resist, haven't had them since the last time I tried Slimming World, lunch was spag hoops on Burgen toast<

My DSs' new favourite is quesidillas (or however you spell it). They only take mins to make, two tortillas, cheese, spring onion (and any other veg you fancy, I put some green pepper in the other day) and some chicken, ham, tuna whatever you have going.

I used to always have fish fingers in stock for quick meals but DSs have decided they hate them now.