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I've actually stopped caring about food

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Twiglett · 26/04/2007 16:25

I really have

I'm not sure I ever cared particularly that much

but then that's from a background of me enjoying cooking so have quite a good and varied diet of fresh food and lots of fruit and vegbut honestly couldn't tell you last time I read a label

it just seems so nonsensical to worry about it

and I'm quite happy for them to have biscuits or crisps or sweets too or a pizza from Iceland (woodburned) or ice-creams like Fab (which I'm sure were invented by the antithesis of MN foodies)

anybody care to join me in this dim and dingy corner of Mumsnet where most other posters believe we're going straight to hell?

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FiveFingeredFiend · 26/04/2007 16:26

Good for you.

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Twiglett · 26/04/2007 16:26

for example we had Herta Frankfurters for lunch .. couldn't tell you if they're made with trans-fats, e numbers and pigs eyeballs or what

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Kelly1978 · 26/04/2007 16:27

ooh I like fabsm and those frankfurters!

I don't worry all the time neither, since most of what they have is homemade, the odd bit of crap isn't going to hurt them.

Marne · 26/04/2007 16:27

Me too, life is too short to spend looking at labels.

Dd1 hade cake for breakfast

Aloha · 26/04/2007 16:28

God, I love FABs. And I frankfurters are my guilty pleasure.

suzywong · 26/04/2007 16:29

yeah, I'll join you

I like ds1 to have healthy food, only steamed dim sum at his and dh's customary Saturday forray to China Town.

But ds2 is a pocket rocket, he takes a vitamin tablet and iron supplement, eats nutella on brown toast for breakfast, lots of milk and chicken fried rice for dinner and UTTER CRAP in between and I don't care anymore.
So shove over and let me brighten up your dingy corner with you.

poptot · 26/04/2007 16:30

Ds had a jaffa cake for his breakfast but he normally eats branflakes so I can't get that upset about it.I'm with the odd bit of crap never hurt.

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Twiglett · 26/04/2007 16:31

Aloha .. Fabs 50% extra free in Iceland

I am an Iceland convert (in between Ocado deliveries of course)

this corner's getting a little crowded isn't it? shall we spread out a bit? how about over there .. is that Moondog? shall we shove her out of the way?

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NuttyMuffins · 26/04/2007 16:32

Ohh i feel a trip to Iceland coming on I love Fabs.

DANCESwithaFewExtraPounds · 26/04/2007 16:32

I'm in. s'lovely and snug in here

suzywong · 26/04/2007 16:35

I have six cans of Plumrose frankfurtes sitting on the kitchen table for ds1's birthday party on Saturday.
And an industrial size tub of neopolitan non dairy icecream.

AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 16:35

Iceland is wonderful. soreen's always on BOGOF. there's one across the road, next block along is M&S... interesting demographic mix, our locale.

Pamina · 26/04/2007 16:35

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Oblomov · 26/04/2007 16:36

I never look at labels.
I KNOW what is healthy. We all know. Why bother discussing it. Not to say I don't eat lots of unhealthy things aswell, but who caressssssssss.

Oblomov · 26/04/2007 16:38

God I hate frankfurters - ds and dh love them. They are slimey

petunia · 26/04/2007 16:42

I'll join you in that corner! I enjoy cooking and trying out knew recipes but I don't obsess over everything we eat, and don't pass judgement on people in the queue at the supermarket checkout and the healthy/unhealthy stuff they're buying.
I tend to glance over those "traffic light" thingeys that Tesco/Sainsburys do and if everything's red on it, put it back, but don't really read labels in detail. Life's too short.
DDs raid the sweet/crisps/biscuit cupboard when they get home from school, but if there's none of that, they'll head for the fruit.
We've also stayed in hotels i.e Travelodges for weekends away and used those cereal bars for the children so they last out 'til we can get some breakfast.
And those Fruit Shoots seem to get everyone going. OK, DDs don't have them all the time (usually when they go to McDonalds for a Happy Meal - oh, I'm so going to be labelled a bad parent now!), but I take the bottles home to re-fill them with squash for school.
Everything in moderation is my motto.

OrmIrian · 26/04/2007 16:50

I'll join you. It's not that I don't care at all - the bones of our diet are good - it's just that I don't care as much as I do about other things. And when my kids are always hungry I tend to see anything that stokes the boiler as a reaonably good thing.

OrmIrian · 26/04/2007 16:51

And I second Pamina about the standards slipping with each succeeding child..... DS#1 didn't taste chocolate until he was 3, DD was probably 2ish and I think DS#2 was weaned on it.....

Spagblog · 26/04/2007 16:51

I'll join you. The DC are having sausage sandwiches for tea.

nogoes · 26/04/2007 16:53

Yep, I'll join you in the corner too. This time last year I was making my home made lollies for ds (2.8) made from freshly squeezed juice and natural yoghurt (no added sugar of course), fast forward a year and I have swopped them for a box of mini milks that are sat in the freezer. Last year if we had a drink in a pub garden I would bring a tupperware box for him with breadsticks, cheese and olives as I wanted everyone to know what a sophisticated palate he had (ponce moment ). This year well he just has to make do with a bag of Walkers. What a difference a year makes.....

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Twiglett · 26/04/2007 16:55

heheheheh think we're crowding out the foody-freakoids now

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OrmIrian · 26/04/2007 16:57

Doesn't help when your own flesh and blood stabs you in the back in the food ponce stakes . When a pre-schooler DS#1 would happily eat everything - mussels in the shell, grilled fish of any description, mangoes, pawpaws, asparagus etc. Now he won't touch any of it. In fact he informs me that salad is gay ...bet you didn't know that.

Boco · 26/04/2007 17:16

Can i join you?

The dd1 came out of school and fell over, had a big cry, dd2 whinging as she'd just woken up, neice and dd1 wailing and bickering, i decided sugar would make it all better, so bought everyone including myself sweets.

I'm not proud, but can't bring myself to feel bad about it either.

kittylouise · 26/04/2007 17:37

I love this thread. And before we feel guilty, remember the horror food we were all fed as kids, which this generation wouldn't touch with a bargepole - spam, brains faggots, tinned ravioli and findus crispy pancakes - yuk. And I remember this hideous tin of muck from Heinz - think it was called London Brunch or something, which comprised of beans and chopped kidneys - why??

And puddings were no better - remember packets of sago and tapioca mouldering in the cupboard. What other retro foods can people remember from the good old days?

Inrockuptible · 26/04/2007 17:52

What I can't bear is people who preach that their kids only eat organic, no additives etc and are really precious about it and then they go on a night out and drink bucketloads, eat crisps, and get a kebab on the way home.
Practice what you preach.

We try to buy local and organic things mainly because they are nicer but you can't beat a good frozen pizza sometimes, or a packet of cadburys fingers.

My friends little boy recently had an invite to a party at superbowl and she sent him with his own packed lunch and forebade him eating the fries and burgers all the other kids had. I think thats just cruel, and a little obbsesive.