I've actually stopped caring about food

[Twiglett]

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?

The mother of my DS2's close friend is a former bulimic with her own secret chocolate habit. She's convinced that a teaspoon of sugar is enough to send her son hyper. I have to hide the choc biscuits when he comes or he raids my cupboards and he uses the illicit
consumption of a fruesli bar to start acting like a loon: 'I'm hyper! I'm hyper!.

We so need to get this food malarkey into perspective.

ohh meee twig I will join you. I tend not to look at labels etc, I even [shock horror] gave my two mini milks followed by chocolate after their dinner tonight!!

Hmm, dunno. I'm not strict about ice lollies and chocolate really, but I do draw the line at mechanically recovered meat. Hot dog sausages - no, I just couldn't bring myself to eat those because I did read the label once I was nearly sick.

I think these kind of threads seem to come round rather frequently and I also think many posts on them are rude and dismissive to posters who do try to give their children the healthiest diet they can

I don't really know what the point of threads like this is, other than to ridicule and criticise a certain group of Mumsnetters

Ease up F&Z, you know I love you - we are only having a giggle.
I was on the big pasty debate last night. Chicken stir fry was not on the menu. Pasties and chips were. Thats that dd malnourished for life then.

Cali, that's not true and it's not fair

You are lumping us all together

I spend a lot of time on here trying to help people to eat more healthily and feed their children more healthily and I don't try to criticise people's choices

I stopped caring about food a long time ago

Oblomov, I think I was the most vociferous poster on that thread on the anti-pasty side and the thing that I objected strongly to was that the nursery was being misleading about the kind of food they were serving up

it's really not ok for them to be doing that

Do you remember the thread I felt forced to start a couple of years ago when I outed myself as someone whose children ate crisps?

I am deeply ashamed to say that I think I probably well certainly eat rather more healthily than the Inferiorettes do.

and it isn't a giggle to single out a group of posters and call them freaks etc

it's really rude and intolerant

I didn't see anything about freaks.

hmm i think moonnys post on food are oft the saem f and z.

YOU said it now OB

Yes, but it was only a one off F&Z.

The only use of the word freak is Pamina's reference to herself as a 'home made food freak'.

ob you are a freak.and you mI. crisps ?

PAH

No, Twiglett said freakoids

and if you have a problem with Moony take it up with her

don't start splatter gunning the whole lot of us

Cod, calling someone else a freak ?????

there was indeed a reference to freakoids.

you know this thread could have been exactly as it is bar the reference to people that do healthy and care about labels and it would have been fine. but it was pitched as anti the 'freakoids' and for that reason franny's point is fair enough.

x posts sorry.

i absolutely agree that obsessing and worrying over anything is not healthy, but don't agree at all that it is nonsensical to read labels and worry about what is sometimes written therein.

God i didn't read this thread like that!

Saw it as saying that generally its good to eat healthily , but won't feel bad about the odd lapse occasionally into pizza or sweets or crisps. WAsn't aware of it being an attack on anyone else
[naive/ stupidity?]

These threads come round every so often and they are offensive and intolerant

it seems like there is a group of people who see another group of people as fair game for ridicule - those who try to eat healthily

if you really don't care about food why start a thread about it?

I'm with you on that one Boco.