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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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Greensleeves · 27/04/2007 08:35

I know what you meant Smiley, and I REALLY don't want to fall out with any individual over this. It's just that I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding which nobody is acknowledging. Just as those who are more blase about junk food etc feel "got at" because they feel they are failing to measure up to an ideal, those of us on the other side of this ridiculous "fence" feel criticised and belittled for failing to live up to another equally strong MN ideal - the laid-back, seasoned, realistic veteran parent who doesn't get stressed about minor things and has the personal security to relax the rules with impunity etc etc. I'm not like that, I am a stresshead, and I put lots of pressure on myself (and maybe my children too). I hate threads like this, I DO think there was spite and deliberate needling both in intent and in substance (not from you though SP). The OP isn't an idiot, she knew what effect she was aiming for IMO and it's happened, unsurprisingly. And I really must leave it now, I have said my piece.....[dog with bone emoticon]

Thanks for your kind words about me, it really helps to hear that, I am feeling pretty low about ds1. No, I didn't know you were an Ed Psych , I may email you and bend your ear about it all later xx

moondog · 27/04/2007 08:36

Sorry about your babe GS.
I hope it goes well today.

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Twiglett · 27/04/2007 08:46

Actually I wasn't aiming for anything with the OP apart from a little jocular entertainment

3 people took offence to this thread .. for which I am extremely sorry .. even for the posts I didn't post

The others who appeared seemed to enjoy the light-heartedeness

Nobody enjoyed the irritation or feeling 'got at' or being described as 'snidey' (on both sides)

I quite enjoyed realising that actually I'm not in such a minority with my attitude to food.

Maybe we should leave it at that. I'd hug you all but it'd make me vom .. so back-pats all round (and a host of 'jolly good fellows'>

Greeny I don't know what's going on with DS but I hope it all works out fabulously.

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Twiglett · 27/04/2007 08:48

Oh and Moondog .. I'm so glad you didn't take offence .. I really didn't think you'd take the joke any other way than as a friendly riposte .. I am so pleased I hadn't read your character wrong .. onwards and upwards

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WelshBoris · 27/04/2007 08:49

Twiglett, I'm a fully paid up member of the Food Police and I didn't take offence.

Like Greeny said, not all of us are pefect, and personally I don't give a flying monkeys ass what anyone feeds their children.

As long as my daughter is happy, I am happy.

FrannyandZooey · 27/04/2007 08:51

Also thinking of you this morning G xxx

Greensleeves · 27/04/2007 08:52

Oh, ffs.

Gosh yes, thank heaven moondog has the right 'character' to be able to take this sort of crap on the chin. So sad about the rest of us.

I'm so pig sick of this passive-aggressive spiteful simpering bullcrap. In fact, bollocks to the lot of you. Not worth it any more.

Greensleeves · 27/04/2007 08:53

And thanks a bunch Franny, that makes everything all right again

FrannyandZooey · 27/04/2007 08:53

Leave this one, Greeny

plenty more good stuff out there, you know there is

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Twiglett · 27/04/2007 08:54

Greeny you patently have other stuff to think about this morning and good luck with that but the comment was on my reading of her character not on her character .. she's patently completely barking like the lot of you

and that was a joke too

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FrannyandZooey · 27/04/2007 08:54

Cross posts Greeny

I will leave that one as well, then

Greensleeves · 27/04/2007 08:54

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn

WelshBoris · 27/04/2007 08:56

My Lord, I came in on this one at the wrong time!!

Greeny, walk away please and go and look at your lovely garden. You have every right to be worried about DS1, and although words on an internet screen wont help, it is nice to know we're here for you?

Love you

welliemum · 27/04/2007 08:56

Orm, f&z hass picked out quotes from the thread in her 18:42 post. None of them yours, and in fact I've no quarrel with your posts at all.

Some comments appear to me to be unnecessarily strident, particularly the "it just seems so nonsensical to worry about it" comment in the OP. The clear implication is that is you do read labels etc, you're being nonsensical.

It's a silly attitude. We're all doing the best we can according to our priorities. There's no need to be defensive if eating well is a lower priority issue for you than for someone else.

welliemum · 27/04/2007 08:59

Cross posted with the last few.

Let's leave this - not worth getting bothered about. I bet we all feed our children fairly similar stuff overall anyway.

WelshBoris · 27/04/2007 09:00

Did anyone say "everything's OK in moderation"?

welliemum · 27/04/2007 09:02

yep, WB, been done already. You must keep up, you know

WelshBoris · 27/04/2007 09:05

We just need Franny to say "even smack? Or cats piss?"

and then the thread will be complete.

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Twiglett · 27/04/2007 09:10

oh sheesh!

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collision · 27/04/2007 09:14

me !! WB!! Me!! It was me who said everything in moderation!!!

collision · 27/04/2007 09:16

At 19.01 yesterday!

jangly · 27/04/2007 09:42

this is quite interesting about frankfurter sausages. Scroll down to see what Dr- somebody!- says about them!

FiveFingeredFiend · 27/04/2007 09:46

Another mumsnet classic. The paranoia of the mothers who give their children junk food occasonally proclaiming " i give my children junk occasionally" as an 'anti' to the guilt they are feeling from reasind about the rest of Mumsnet and its strive to parenting perfection.

Huzzah! proclaim others, peering shyly from behind the organic apple tree from whence they were hiding ( with Nestle Nesquik in hand, killing babies in the third world & junk food rolled into one.

All sugared up they gain in numbers and become rather confident that they are not abnormal ( for that is how they feel)

The paranoia of the Nutritionalist mother rears its head with a " how very dare you"

Each defending their parenting practice, neither can win, becuase that would mean admitting you are a bad junk food mother or an overly zealous food monitor.

PippiLangstrump · 27/04/2007 10:00

fivefingeredfriend I don't think your analysis is correct. it's not black and white at all.

I, like most of us, feed my DD very healthy stuff but I do not mind if occasionally she get something that it's not so healthy.

This was the point of the whole thread I think. And if it got a bit too smug is because it does get smug on the other side too. we all have seen some food threads where you might has well go and kill yourself because you've given a smarties to your child!

sometimes what MN lacks of is moderation and the live and let live attitude IMO

PippiLangstrump · 27/04/2007 10:01

and guilt??? for what??? don't think so.