I can't stand the secrecy any longer...

[motherinferior]

[deep breath, here goes]

MY CHILDREN EAT CRISPS. Full-fat, salty, additive-laden, evil-as-you-can-get crisps, and crisp-related pseudo-food snackettes. In huge quantities, at every possible opportunity. They also, since you ask (well, you didn't, but I'm on a roll, OK) eat chicken nuggets and similar pseudo-foods, with every appearance of enjoyment, and sometimes go to MacDonalds. Most of this they do not do with me, but in the company of their childminder (who also provides them with excellent food most of the time) while I am at home working quite possibly on a pious article about the Evils of Pseudo-foods. They also eat fruit - in vast quantities - and veg, as it happens, and other trappings of the liberalpinko's culinary lifestyle, but YES THEY EAT JUNK and I am sorry to admit THEY LIKE IT.

Their dad is also a big crisp fan.

And I quite like crisps too, although I prefer posh ones which aren't quite so in-your-face crisply.

I am not looking for absolution, but felt a need to confess given that I seem to be the only person on Mumsnet who permits such indulgences. And now I'm going to slink away (not flounce, slink), to collect them and face the full impact of my Shame.

I have a friend who won't let her children eat ANYTHING!!! when I put brown sugar on their porridge, her dd asked whats that? so she put salt on a spoon and told her that's what I was putting on my children's porridge..... wierd!!! i live in the knowledge that her children will come to my house when 16 with their mates for sex drugs and rock and roll!!!

What a fab thread. I have to admit I don't give the chidren crips all that much because ds tends to the (ahem) podgy side of things, but they do get them (as indeed do I ). They love pizza, the cheaper the better, and I also keep Costco chicken nuggets in stock. And they're having burgers for tea. So there.

bloody hell aloha yes Id roastt he lot of them!
yes ht e peppers yum erooney

breadmopping nfatastic

My kids eat all sorts of crap but they eat lots of healthy foods aswell and I'm always on look out for alternative snacks for them. They eat burgers , chicken nuggets , fishfingers etc etc cakes , icecream , biscuits . They also eat salmon , broccoli , most fruits , some veg , pasta,rice and they love homemade MASHED POTATOES!!!!!!

Well I rediscovered pickled onion monstor munch the other day. Mmmmmm ds and I love them.

It's all a question of picking your "evils". DSs don't have seets but they do have chocolate for example.

SWEETS. not seets

no sweets?
cod scuttles off to send the dragon boys some
bet you do soupy

northener - bet your breath smells FINE!

I think a little of what you fancy does you good( hee hee). Sometimes a little of what is fattening keeps you on your diet, sometimes a glass of wine keeps you sane, sometimes a six pack of marmite crisps is the only thing in life helps you recover from the stresses of every day.

My two look as healthy as each other and recover equally well from illnesses yet one eats fruit and veg and healthy stuff (by choice) and the other one doesn't "do green" and could live on fishfingers and crisps.

Nope. No sweets but plenty of chocolate

All things in moderation.

To be honest, if they had decent crisps here my kids and I would probably eat them more often.

We eat enough other junk though.

no crisps here cos they smash em into the floor. We do have sweeties though - 1 small packet EVERY day.

They stick those to the sofa and my bum.

Soupy, my ds2 will only eat chocolate, and only milk chocolate too. Nothing like milky way,twix pr whatever only pure milk chocolate. He hates jelly/chewy sweets. He'll only eat Jaffa cakes too....no other biscuits at all.

However, he would live off crisps if I let him. Crisps or spaghetti bolognese(which he wanted for breakfast this morning!!!)

thanks for directing me here tamum

pssst MI, mine eat tham too - crisps that is

OMG I love crisps, but haven't had any for over a week, I'm on a diet and they're the only thing I miss

Not only do my kids eat crisps, but my youngest (a mere 23 month old) knows every trick in the book to find them including opening doors with child locks on and climbing on furniture to find them when they are hidden somewhere high up. I am not seeking absolution either. I do my best to limit them but when dh ends nearly every evening meal with a packet of his own favourite brand, what hope do I have?

We love crisps in our house ...
There, I have said it ... I am not the perfect mother you all think I am ...
DS will do anything for 'chippies' as they call them in NZ ...
Do you know, one of the English things I really miss are those Kettle Chips ... crisps here are crap really ...

mine get most things in moderation too, but cheesestrings, pot noodles and chicken nuggets will never be allowed to enter the lou household.

crisps are allowed though.

Oh god - cheese strings. A pet hate of mine. Give them real cheese FFS!

Oh god I love crisps too and so does ds

I've stopped eating crisps when he's around because he wants them too and I do worry about salt (sorry) but can't resist sharing a chocolate biscuit with him.
Over Christmas we had some figs in the house (as well as mounds of chocolate) and I thought merrily 'oh, we could eat them when we get in from work/nursery instead of crisps or chocolate...' somehow doesn't seem to work in the grey light of January...
Ds's new word over Christmas? 'Choc choc'. Oops.

Right, I'm going to out you now MI....

She fed my daughter chocolate brownies!! It might even have been SW's recipe! Shame on you

Oh bugger, what can I say? My kids eat junk too - as well as fruit, veg and delicious home cooked meals and so do I [shame]

In fact I think I'm going to go right now and get that tub of pralines and cream out the freezer and eat it on the sofa straight out of the tub...

or should that be