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Working mums feed their children better food?

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crazyandconfused · 19/04/2005 16:21

Was watching lunchtime news and they said that a study has shown that working mothers children eat better than SAHM children!!!!!!!!!How dare they make such generalisations(SP?)! They don't go into detail of whether these children are fed by childminders or some other sort of carer eg. Grandparent. It made me feel like crap I am a SAHM and feed my children organic EXPENCIVE food(as they put it) also no proccessed food due to allergies I don't mean to offend anyone but I am so angry! SAHM and Working Mums just do the best they can!

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SkiBunnyFlummy · 19/04/2005 17:20

clearly spending all your money on pooters then instead of organic food. poor wee scraps of yours probably look like come out Belsen

almost40 · 19/04/2005 17:20

Thanks, Bundle. That picture of fries looks really tempting.

iota · 19/04/2005 17:29

SBF - I would ahve responded sooner, but have been peeling carrots yes actually one child is a skinny little rat and the other is well-covered - presumably because I can only afford to feed one of them as I am SAHM

bellababe · 19/04/2005 21:18

How about this for a theory - bundle says "CHildren were asked what foods they ate"... maybe only the ones with mums at home were honest!!!
hee hee.

Caligula · 19/04/2005 21:37

And it was only 11 year olds. Maybe 4 year olds are different?

Who funds these pointless studies, I wonder?

Gobbledigook · 19/04/2005 21:42

Perhaps as SAHM we are tearing our hair out more and are more likely to resort to chocolate and video tactics in order to be able to eat our lunch/go to the loo in peace/have a telephone conversation with the bank uninterrupted...

Toothache · 19/04/2005 21:47

Well at least its something us working Mums aren't getting slated for for a change!!

Don't agree BTW.... just surprised to see something in the news about working Mums doing something good for their child instead of permanently damaging them by earning a living.

marthamoo · 19/04/2005 21:52

Oh what an old pile of poo.

I'm a SAHM and my kids eat fine - Nestle Cookie Crisp for breakfast, washed down with diet Coke. Dairylea Lunchables for lunch, or a sausage roll from Greggs - with a bottle of Sunny D. McDonalds or a pie from the chippy for dinner. Sorted.

Gobbledigook · 19/04/2005 21:53

ROFL!! I love moo (geddit, I love moo/you...no, OK, I'll get back to my work)

Caligula · 19/04/2005 22:09

And fags on Sunday's if they've been good, eh Moo?

TwoIfBySea · 19/04/2005 22:27

Glad to see I am not the only one who spat the dummy when I heard this. Oh great have yet another dig at we SAHMs.

Then I thought about it.

On the street where I live most people are not working and on benefits. Now, dh works and as an income we are on less than some of those on benefits here so the whole money thing is wrong because if I can budget anyone can! I consider myself a SAHM but some in this street anyway are mothers and fathers who stay at home but they certainly don't give a sh*t about their children and definitely not what they eat. There is always a queue at the ice-cream van, the kids must be hyper all night.

If the ones surveyed were in certain areas of Glasgow then they would be in similar circumstances with a "chippy" being the main meal of the day. I really don't know how people supposedly on benefits can afford as many take-aways as we are not the only family who has at least one parent working and take-aways are an occasional treat.

By the by this is not an attack on all people on benefits just the ones who have been taken as stay-at-homes by this stupid study. Not all people on benefits have that mentality and try their best, just the same as those of us on low-incomes.

These studies do nothing but destroy morale.

SkiBunnyFlummy · 20/04/2005 09:24

But studies are interesting no?

What if the result had been the other way around?

It was a close run thing?

Caligula · 20/04/2005 09:45

Twoifbysea- the reason these families can afford so many takeaways (in the form of chippies) is because they don't know how to cook. If they bought stuff in supermarkets, because they'd buy all the processed, ready stuff, it would probably work out more expensive than the chippy. However, if they bought proper food, they wouldn't know what to do with it - so chippy it is!

I think some of the answer has got to be a return to cookery lessons in school. And that doesn't mean designing a pizza on a computer, it means cooking a meal from raw ingredients, from chopping to serving (at a bloody table!)

JulieF · 20/04/2005 10:52

I'm a working mum and my children eats better than she would if I was a sahm.

WHY?

Becasue my mum is a great cook and cooks lots of fresh meat and veg, home made pasties etc.

On my days off I'm a bit lazy and give fishfinger and jacket potato or timmed soup (allbeit organic Baxters)

JulieF · 20/04/2005 10:54

OMG, how illiterate was my last post.

My children eat better because my mum feeds them!

Tortington · 20/04/2005 12:05

its not cheaper to eat healthier. iknow there is always the exception of someone on mumsnet who can cook chickpea soup for tuppence but generally its way way cheaper to feed a family of five complete shit. big bag of cheapo chips 99p - beans 9p, peas,11p loads of salt and viniger - but more salt than viniger asitsmore unhealthy - red sauce on one side, brown sauce on t'other bread a scrumptious chip butty washed down with caffinated tea with 4 sugars. and you can feed my family like that for a week - add in an egg now and again for variation or make some bisto gravy and al told you can feed my lot evening meals for £3.51 per week!

Tortington · 20/04/2005 12:07

as a working mum though i obviously don't do that

jane313 · 20/04/2005 12:12

go I really want a chip butty after reading that

jane313 · 20/04/2005 12:13

hmm meant god not go although I would have to go and buy the chips.

uwila · 20/04/2005 12:16

Did this news story say that children of working mums eat better food all the time or just when working mum is there feeding them? Like, it's not quite so hard to feed a healthy meal once a day as it is to maintain healthy eating 24/7.

Also, how in the world did the conclude what working mum's children eat? I don't even know wht DD eats (except on the weekend, but that's not very much of the week).

I say silly silly study. And I say bad bad media for the sweeping statement.

beatie · 20/04/2005 12:34

The study only surveyed the eating habits of children aged 11. Is it not likely that by the time the children are 11 (and senior school age), the mothers who go out to work and the mothers who don't, fall into quite different socioeconomic groups? (As a whole)

WideWebWitch · 20/04/2005 13:06

study schmuddy. I wonder who funded it? Anyone know?

WideWebWitch · 20/04/2005 13:06

and lol at Marthamoo!

tarantula · 20/04/2005 13:11

Well Im a working mum and I know dd gets fed well and eats very little crap but thats cos dp is very good at cooking and makes sure she has a well balanced diet

piffle · 20/04/2005 13:18

ha ha when I worked I was single mum and had sod all money, now that I have a charming prince who earns caboodles and I canbe a SAHM we eat a lot better thank you very much!
it would be worse if I worked as I would resort to food that was faster to prepare.
I have always followed an ethos of unprocessed wholefoods, prepared by hand, but the quality and quantity of what I can buy has improved with money...

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