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another of cod's parpy artricle s - this time...about sweets

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cod · 02/05/2006 11:53

i think i have done you proud my friends
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Marina · 02/05/2006 12:21

Very much so from my perspective sl. Silly Londonista drivel-by-the-metre columnists really parp my horn.

foxinsocks · 02/05/2006 12:21

people with high IQ must eat there then

Blu · 02/05/2006 12:23

LOL Bundle! And good-for the Banksy approach to better literacy!!

Marina - have thought of devoting a thread to my Mcd experience, but no Mon a.m can be THAT bad on MN!

Highlander · 02/05/2006 12:23

PMSl at "I'm not being precious"........... would love to meet her at a birthday party!

When I was a kid I hardly ate any sweets, crisps or fizzy drinks as mum said we couldn't afford it. She admitted to me in my teens it was the only way to truly shut me and my sisters up in a shop.

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cod · 02/05/2006 12:24

she does have a cooll hari cut tho

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bundle · 02/05/2006 12:24

she was on one of my progs, before she went over to the other side..

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cod · 02/05/2006 12:24

are you pleased wiht this articlet hen
not as good as last weeks hto

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Marina · 02/05/2006 12:24

Are you sure? We are already doing Jeremy Clarkson, don't forget

expatinscotland · 02/05/2006 12:25

DD1 just loves Mummy's homebaked goodies. Sugar smooger. I love to bake. Part of the joy of having kids is having someone who adores your goodies.

foxinsocks · 02/05/2006 12:26

last week's was definitely the best one so far

there's an unlimited supply of these articles at the mo

zippitrippitoes · 02/05/2006 12:26

of course it is my mn mission to ensure balance in any thought provoking threads arsing from writers in media/books etc

Blu · 02/05/2006 12:27

Personally, I find what she has to say a bit much. For e.g I put a bit of sugar in home-made 'bolognaise' (nothing like it ever came out of bolgna, i am sure) because, along with a splash of balsamic, it makes it taste better. Am I going to chuck in some banana or coconut flakes or star anise instead, just because they have more nutrients? NO. As an addition to a diet teeming with nutrients, a little nutrient-free sugar is not going to do much harm. The problem, surely, is where sugar is a substitute for a good diet.

Marina · 02/05/2006 12:27

Blu, I just relieved you of the agony and started a thread for you to spill the fries/carrot batons

bundle · 02/05/2006 12:30
Greensleeves · 02/05/2006 12:30

I agree with some of it but she is one smug cow.

Marina · 02/05/2006 12:31

She may have had to leave home at 6am to get to the branch bundle

blueshoes · 02/05/2006 12:31

Maya's mum needs to get a life, beyond food police.

bundle · 02/05/2006 12:33

thank god, marina, was worried then

have just eaten square of CDM (cadbury's dairy milk). Will i now spontaneously combust?

bundle · 02/05/2006 12:34

anyone remember her food diary, compared/contrasted wtih nigel slater?

JC: didn't eat all day except for a slither of rice cake and an uncooked lentil. had glass of champagne to make up calories (organic natch)

NS: bought lots of cream cakes on way back from swimming, ate them all, must remember to go swimming more.

alexsmum · 02/05/2006 12:35

she needs to go and have her pancreas checked out if sugar has this effect on her.when people say their kids go loopy after sugar i usually think this too.More likely to be the additives that are in the product rather than the sugar, or the fact the kid ate the sugar in the company of 14 other kids who are all running wild.
i hate this thing of sugar being the devils food-it's much better than all the artificial sweetener crap.
sorry cod , not as good as the kid crying over mental maths!

zippitrippitoes · 02/05/2006 12:35

I agree sugar is empty calories but I thought we were way past the sugar is evil camp, I would have sugar over artificial stuff any day..sweeteners and the like.

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cod · 02/05/2006 12:35

lol

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crunchie · 02/05/2006 12:39

Can I ask a daft question??

Well I am going to anyway.

I know some children react badly to additives etc, But do any of your act bonkers after a bit of chocolate? I mean I have never ever noticed this in my children, they have McD's, Fruit Shoots, Crisps, sweets, chocolate etc and I have never noticed a reaction.

My SIL stops her DD eating sweets etc (the child is 5 FFS) and had a kindly go at me on Sat when I gave her child a choclate at teh same time as my kids. I took the p TBH and told her I had done it on purpose :) To make sure she went mental in the car on teh way home :) This is a child that is so hyper and noisy without sweets I doubt you could tell if she ate any!!

starlover · 02/05/2006 12:40

refined sugar can have that effect I believe.

i'd have been cross too if someone gave my ds sweets/chocolate without asking me

desperateSCOUSEwife · 02/05/2006 12:41

I would hate to see the babies nappy or potty after the 70% dark choc
whoa Grin

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