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 am No. 1 crisp addict so I'd be a complete hypocrite if I didn't offer dd a nibble. But she's such a delicate and fussy eater that it takes her half an hour to eat one medium sized one. By which time I can have downed 3 packs.

I have to say that McDonalds is an utter NO for me and for dd, at least for as long as I have any say on where and what she eats. This is because I think it's dire food and I'm against them totally as a company. I have once or twice used their toilet for a wee but that's as far as I've gone.

I loathe McD's too. I am Tortured Liberal Incarnate. Do I tell the childminder she's never to take them there again as the occasional treat (yes, I said treat) after doing rather more with them than I manage when left with them? Can't face it. They've not died yet. And yes I know that is a crap argument.

Serenity, I seem to remember you and your DD snarfed down Brownies like they were going out of fashion. Almost as snarfishly as DD2 Prize Brownie Snarfer 2005.

My kids think that having a pee is the ONLY reason we go to MD's!!!
(Sorry, don't mean to sound all smug and uppity, just that that comment really struck a chord!)

I swore I wouldn't take dd to McDonalds or let her have crisps, chocolate and junk food. Ashamed to say, she's had 3 Fishfinger McDonalds meals in the last 2 weeks for convenience when we've been out.

She eats chocolates occasionally but usually has fruit flakes or fruit bars (1st saw Fruit Flakes when Twinkie gave dd some at the Godstone Farm meet up).She also eats loads of fruit and veg and loves all sorts of meat.

Personally, I think in moderation, a little bit of "junk" is fine.

My kids don't like McDonalds - yay!

Yuck-a-roony.

MI, know the torture you must be suffering. Kind Turks are constantly passing sweets to my dd wherever we go-restaurants,shops,offices.Even my Turkish teacher turns up with small sacks of crap.
I mean HUGE brightly coloured things that hum with creepy chemicals, but I just can't bear to be rude and refuse them.
(Visions of her toothless in 15 years' time, screaming 'It's your fault that my face is ruined you BITCH!!!!!)

PMSL ... opened this thread whilst opening a packet of Walkers' cheese & onion .. isn't that ironic? (well no actually, but probably ironic enough to fit in an Alanis Morisette song )

I will join the feed thy children cr@p admissions guild

DS regularly eats heart biscuits (jammy dodgers), loves crips, has drunk red lemonade (an Irish thing), likes mcdonald's, eats chips, fish fingers and Bernard Matthews Turkey Dinosaurs

I don't care ... I don't care .. he also eats loads of fruit / veg and drinks loads of water so prrrppppttt

oh and I feed DD with jars too

We scoff wotsits by the sackload here. I also (this might be too shameful for this thread) keep a couple of dairylea lunchables packs in the fridge for emergency days when I haven't got up in time to make the packed lunches/have run out of bread/other assorted slack housewife excuses.

I have a Scooby Doo lunch pack in the fridge as we speak (although the crisps in it are made out of wholegrain .. )

MI ... McD as a 'treat'? Hmmmmmmm ..... That's maybe more worrying than the cardboard buns.

Blimey Twilett..SNAP! Empty Walkers (cheese & onion) bag licked clean next to me

We love wotsits too (only the cheesy ones, mind). Or rather I do, the children aren't too fussed what type of crisps, but do like all the goodies mentioned here when they can get them.

Is anyone else as hypocritical as me in that you're the one shovelling forbidden goodies in behind the kitchen door - (where no-one used to be able to see, but children getting v suspicious now they're older) and saying though overstuffed mouth to kids 'If you're still hungry, have an apple.'

Yep, DD1 likes it. Obviously she likes it, it's stuffed with addictive additives carefully designed to snare the tender palate and hook it in for life and mean that I shall soon no doubt be contemplating Supersize Inferiorettes.

They have also sodding finished ALL the sodding organic apples in our fruitbowl.

I made those brownies with specially purchased fair-traded 70 per cent cocoa chocolate, too.

Hahaha!!Yes, they snag 'em all, even the foodies' kids! Remeber asking my sister's (her being as much of a foodie as me) kids what their fave food was when they were very small and they said in their charming English (dad is French and they live there)
'Macdo's 'amburgers wiz ze leetle peanuts white on ze top'

(Referring to the sesame seeds on the 'buns'and inverting adjective and noun as the French do.)

Dd spent the entire afternoon lovingly cradling the two Diet Cokes I bought in an attempt to stop me breaking into the fridge full of ice cold beers and white wine (post party 6 weeks ago where NOONE drank!)
She'd wrestle a grown bear for a swig!

The vote in this household is for Quavers. I am trying the everything in moderation idea as dst love fruit, not so much the veggies which I hide! So each week there is a treat, crisps, chocolate, biscuits or sweeties depending what I see when shopping.

And mine love jammie dodgers too! Especially the mini ones.

But again, they hate McDs, which I don't like either, the food is a little, um, crappy and dry. We get our junk food fix from Pizza Hut as they love pizza. Also it means we can't budget it into every week.

How cruel a mum would I be banning the naughty food and then partaking of it (in great quantities) myself! My dst eat better than I do, I am not proud of myself but I am of them.

Went to Pizza Hut once.
Couldn't believe that they trademark the meat!
Looked like someone had shaken out a tin of catfood over a pizza base.

am I the only hypocrite then? My kids don't eat crisps, unless we have guests who merit a pre-dinner bowl of organic outdoor reared hand-cooked banana and chilli flavoured ones. Me? 3 days a week, safe in my office, about twenty miles from home, it's a cheese sarnie and packet of crisps for lunch. Amd sometimes a packet on the way home too

I see I have company with tinygang

My DD also enjoys junk food and loves crisps - but doesn't get themso much as I don't eat them and we never have them in the ouse. She also eats chocolate regularly - and I mean regularly! Infact I used chocolate to bribe DD when she had problems doing a poo in her potty when PTing. And she drinks cordial - and has even had Fruit Shoots - only one in a day though as 2 says her hyper! She thinks "Old McDonalds" - hmmm, think she got wrong idea there - is good, ad likes their nuggets and theirs are the only chips she will eat. She hates other types of chips oddly, as I love them.

But she also eats tons of fruit and veg, most meals and loves a wide variety of good and not so good stuff too.

Maybe DD likes crisps as I did crave them when in early pg, despite not really liking them normally. When I was first pg, and suffering from all day sickness, the only thing I wanted was prawn cocktail crisp sandwiches. See, it is all my fault!

Oh yeah, nearly forgot - she also pinches the odd sip of beer and wine, and thinks the bubbles in Champagne are tickly!

Dd absolutely loves crisps but doesn't get to eat them much as I don't eat them. For some reason dh bought a massive bag of them before Chrsitmas and she got very confused when I told her about the Christmas tree ("it's a christmas tree" "cwips? cwips? yes, cupboard")

But she does have biscuits relatively frequently and "mummy juice" (Vimto).

Each to their own I say. I have a friend who has managed to train her 6 year old to refuse lollies. That would be far too much like hard work with dd!

ds knows it's a sure fire thing i'll have sweets/chocolate in my bag (pregnant & diabetic...) & he sits looking cute 'til i give in. he's not so much of a crisp fiend, but only 'cos i'm not a great fan so don't tend to buy them. we ordered pizza the other day, & he pranced round the room for a whole 10 minutes stuffing his face shouting "i love pizza". he does have a really wide & varied diet, loves fruit & veg, so i refuse to feel guilty about it. also an avid consumer of sugar free squash. 1 trip to mcd's when he didn't eat anything. we went with my sister-in-law & have to keep it secret as both partners would disappove so heartily....

Freaky Hulababy, DS2 is the same. Refuses anything made of potatoes except Mcdonalds/Burger King chips.

MI - nooo!!! shhhhh!! you forced me! Damn chocolate Brownies. Haagen daaz was very nice, but I now feel exceedingly sick

serentity - it must be all the salt they like

DD will eat mash and potato waffles too though. Apparantly she eats jacket potatoes and boiled potatoes at nursery too - but not at home!

Yes, but they eat everything at other peoples houses. DS2 will take 3 million years to eat a quarter of his dinner at home, but away he'll hoover everything up!