Surely if you feed your kids crap they will want crap....

[CountessDracula]

In the supermarket this am, mother shouting at her dd aged about 5 for wanting crap food when she picked up a revolting looking lollipop at the checkout. On the conveyor belt was every conceivable crap you could imagine (micro chips, nuggets, tins of god only knows what, crisps, cakes, biscuits not a veggie or piece of fruit in sight). Made me feel very sad :(

blimey, what was the crap she was being shouted at for?

I don't feed my kids very much crap, but they still want more!

DH and I had this conversation yesterday at Sainsburys. There was a huge freezer cabinet full of big bags of unnaturally bright orange chicken nuggets for 49p a bag, and a harassed looking mum loading about five of them into her trolley. It is sad.

revolting looking lollipop

My dd whinges for it too but I still buy good healthy stuff and not crap. Just say no!

(obv she has a BIT of crap)

I hate myself these days, I always stare with horror at people when I see what they're buying and relate it to how their kids are behaving
I never wanted to become like this but food is one thing I am very passionate about...

yes me too

Try not to be obsessive though as I'm sure it would spark a revolt

[wry smile] I let dd and ds have a chocolate milk and an ice cream the other day. had to peel them off the walls within about half an hour.

I'm not obsessive about food and my kids do eat mcdonalds occasionally but i do remember an incident when dh was in hospital of the mother opposite screaming at her brat to calm down shouting 'bloody calm down, come on come here and have some more pop'!!!!

Hmm perhaps if you didnt give him all that pop love he would be calm!

I was at the organic pork stand at the farmers market the other day buying my monthly meat as I do each month. This awful woman was saying how Dion (hopefully she ain't an mner lol) won't eat that type of sausage, it's too meaty and look at the price of it! Can get 35 slices of Billy Bear sausage for that...
True you can but..... And this Dion where was he... smashing the chili and chutney ladies stand as he dipped a finger in the sample and it was... HOT!!!!!!! So natural reaction he kicked her stall in, he was about 3-4 yrs maybe?
And in his other hand, coke and smarties...
ahhh

what is billy bear sausage?

You have to watch out. A friend wouldn't let her ds eat any chocolate so he didn't "develop a taste for it", but left alone with her box of chocs he scoffed the lot before she got back in the room. My ds would sidle up to me and say "there's something in this box I like....". He HAS developed a taste for it!

are you ok greensleeves??

billybear sausage is not meat. its squished up bits of left over meat shaped into a bear. its foul having to slice it as well on the deli counter. musch preferred to slive corn beef or liver sausgae stuff.

My dd2 likes billy bear saugage but they don;t have loads of crap, we don;t have fizzy drinks in the house (only the odd can of coke for me and DH) my kids know they are not allowed coke or sweets full of sugar. They have the occasional chocolate bar. They have meals made from stratch, and their behaviour has improved greatly since I cut out rubbish. (we have the occasional macdonalds, but only as a treat)
I nearly died when I went to my SIL, she opened the cupboard and it was full of fruit shoots, haribo, tons of processed food, and her kids will only eat nuggets and chips, burgers and chips, everything with chips, they won;t eat rice or pasta.

shaped meat productes like that and Spam [shudder] are made from the little bits of skin and blood and soft tissue that are collected when the abbattoir is sluiced down at the end of a shift. It is pressed and pulverised, dyed an alarming shade of pink, heated to an infeasibly high temperature in an attempt to kill the millions of bugs and pathogens that have accrued during its time spent spattered over the abbattoir walls/floor/the slaughterers' boots - then it is shaped and marketed at children.

Mmmmmm, pass the salt someone!

omg

It is hard though, I spent HOURS at the yoghurts trying to find something that was acceptable to both dd and me. Of course she wants the ones with scooby doo or other cartoons on but they are the ones where the list of ingredients starts "Sugar" - WHY can't they put good yoghurt in these kids things??

Goodness me!!!!! Don't you make your own?????? I've spent wonderful afternoons making home-made yoghurt with my adorable children!!!!! It is absolutely scrumdiddlyumptious!!!!!!!!!!!
Trouble is, these days those working mums (usually the lower classes if you know what I mean ) are far too busy leading their own selfish little lives to care about making delicious, nutricious and healthy food for their children - they buy those awful Scooby Doo yoghurts!!!!!! Imagine!!!!!!!!!
Big up to the "proper" mums!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAYYYYYY!

I dont take my children shoppping with me

I thought you'd electrocuted yourself?

yeo valley do organic noddy yogurts (of course i still don't buy them)

serenity my darling!!! How absolutely divine of you to ask after me!!!! I just know we will be friends!!!! But you really must try to keep up dear, don't want you coming across as a bit, well, you know, do we???????

she rejected those

Even the free bug spoon wasn't enough to tempt her, god knows why

Great punctuation yumsymumsy

You seem very bright

Why thank you!!!!!! I have made so many new friends on here!!!!!! You are all so lovely!!!!!!!!

You're welcome!

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