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I've actually stopped caring about food

329 replies

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?

OP posts:
PrincessPeaHead · 26/04/2007 22:18

that is a superb link David

my you are a fine figure of a man

save me a samba

but I really am going to bed now

Tutter · 26/04/2007 22:18

nice post twig

i particularly enjoyed your use of "oneself"

Aloha · 26/04/2007 22:18

Oh my word David, you are gorgeous. Swoon.

Oblomov · 26/04/2007 22:21

Well said Twiglett. By the way, I HATE marmite and I hate Twigletts even more .

So long as you don't actually stink of them in RL, I think we will be o.k.

Oblomov · 26/04/2007 22:22

Aloha. Pleeeease. DG = Gods Gift ? Errrrrrr No !

SmileysPeoples · 26/04/2007 22:26

Excellent Twiglett. You are the voice of EveryMother.

Persist.

PippiLangstrump · 26/04/2007 22:26

I liked your thread Twiglett and by the time I got to write in it had changed so much.

'Mn is terribel about food in a way I NEVER experience in rl

ever ever,

is so true!

Mn is obsessive about food. I could not believe it when I first joined how much people cared and to what extreme.
DH and I stopped in a pub on our way home from the park last weekend and gave DD some crisps. For a bit I was worried some other mum would come and tell me off. I cannot believe I even cared!!!

This thread was fun and refreshing, not because it's good that your kids eat crap and it's good not to give a s**t but because it's good not to care all the time and to let it go.

Oblomov · 26/04/2007 22:31

This is the second of Twigs threads that I have been on, with very similar minded posters, with over 200 posts.
Minority ?
Clearly not.

SmileysPeoples · 26/04/2007 22:34

What was the other one about Oblomov?

Boco · 26/04/2007 22:40

That's what i thought Twig.

had heard the legends of the food threads, but now i seen it with my own eyes, i afeared.

FrannyandZooey · 26/04/2007 22:42

"if one sees oneself as always being right and spending time 'educating others' who could dare question you"

this is low, Twig

there's no need to speak to me in these terms, I feel you are being very unkind tbh

I have not taken this personally in the way that many people have mockingly suggested, and I never thought that this thread was about me, BUT I do find it pokes fun at people like me

we've had previous threads like this and they tend to go the same way

which I don't think is nice, or helpful to anyone

you can talk about how you like to do things, or "share a joke about being less than perfect" without insulting other people who do it differently, but that hasn't happened here

Of course this:

"sometimes we just need to see that there are others like us out there, doing the same kind of thing and surviving"

doesn't offend me - it's disingenuous of you to suggest that it does I think - but I do find the posts I quoted from earlier unpleasant, and I don't see any need for them

however I feel a lot better about the fuck off thing now you have explained that

AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 22:47

twiglett's hardly the voice of Everymother... nor do i think she would wish to be. she was just trying to have a laugh, i hardly think she was attempting to start a movement.

she wasn't in control of the fact that people took their opportunity to make digs and franny and others took their not unreasonable opportunity to take offence. i feel for twig on this one, but it's got nothing to do with the way i feed myself or my child, and everything to do with the fact that an OP has spiralled out of her control.

AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 22:48

ooooh, hello franny, x-posted, are you still up? this is late for you...

Original poster
Twiglett · 26/04/2007 22:48

Franny you came on here throwing insult after insinuation which I felt was extremely unkind and intolerant. You turned a fairly pleasant thread into another feckin' food fight. You appear to wish to censor any view that is opposed to yours with your accusations.

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AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 22:50

oh dear. are you sure that's what happened, twig? personally i didn't read it like that...

moondog · 26/04/2007 22:53

I think this thread is funny and not remotely spiteful and Lord knows,I'm the biggest food snob of them all.

Tell me Kittylouise,where can Ifind the hideous concoction London Brunch that you speak of??

I want to make a dramatic show of perusing a supermarket shelf,coming acrss it,doing a double take,muttering 'Fuck me' grabbing it,peering at it then reeling backwards in shock and disgust.

AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 22:55

moony, do us a favour and start a ff v bf thread and thow this lot off the scent, will ya?

moondog · 26/04/2007 22:56

I even sent hugs and kisses to a woman tonight who said that she felt 'crap' because of pressure to breastfeed.

Lord knows,I'm getting soft in me old age.

FrannyandZooey · 26/04/2007 22:56

You seem bloody cross about this Twig

bedtime for me

Tamum · 26/04/2007 22:57

Blimey moondog, steady on

I thought this thread was very funny and reassuring until I got half way through. Ah well.

SmileysPeoples · 26/04/2007 22:57

I used the term EveryMother to express my feeling that Twiglett's standpoint of sharing our less than always perfect parenting in a humerous but supportive way is relevant to every mother.

That is all of us, we all fail in some way at some point.

Important, no crucial, to acknowledge that frequently on a parebting website.

The opposite too often representated on here is PerfectMother.

and that is none of us.

moondog · 26/04/2007 22:59

My kids will have to have stale chocolate cake for brekkie as no food in the house.
Been working my tits off all week so no time to shop.

Tis home made though,albeit flat as hell as we forgot to put the baking powder in.I know because it was my dinner.

Tamum · 26/04/2007 22:59

Excellent post, SP.

NadineBaggott · 26/04/2007 23:01

"it seems like there is a group of people who see another group of people as fair game for ridicule"

hmm yeah - Daily Mail readers
formula feeders
fruit shoot feeders
ear-pierced babies
tattoos
chavs

everyone and everything is ridiculed - get used to it

I have

AitchTwoOh · 26/04/2007 23:01

hand on heart, i do not see anyone representing thamselves as Perfectmother on MN, truly i don't. and i read a lot of threads on here. (too many... if i read less i'd be a better mother probably).

some people have different priorities, that's all. healthy eating should be higher up my list so i really enjoy reading the posts from people who are more 'successful' at eating healthily than i am. i really, really don't see it as a judgement of my abilities as a parent.