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Do you feed your little ones 'crap'?

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DetentionGrrrl · 16/11/2006 08:18

I was amazed yesterday at the amount of rubbish food i saw people feeding babies and toddlers- has the world gone mad?!

2 kids got on the bus (max ages 3 / 4)at 10am, both eating full size chocolate bars AND crisps, then saw toddlers with McDonalds in their pushchairs, and my personal favourite...a baby of no more than 3mths being spoon fed ICE-CREAM in her pram!!

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DetentionGrrrl · 16/11/2006 15:41

What am i meant to have done exactly?!

I put the word 'crap' in inverted commas for a start, and haven't once attacked anyone's feeding habits here. I PERSONALLY find it unnerving to see small kids eating chocolate and crisps at the same time at 10 in the morning, and wondered what everyone else thought.

Anyway, i'm off to feed mine the finest organic broccoli.......deep fried of course.

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/11/2006 15:44

Well, nothing, but 'crap' is a bit adversarial, as my mate Aggressivesleeves would say......

WelshBoris · 16/11/2006 15:45

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harpsichordandcarrots · 16/11/2006 15:46

a food pedant is someone who goes around correcting parsnip grammar and lentil punctuation.
not a very busy person. one assumes.

DetentionGrrrl · 16/11/2006 15:46

Ah, 'crap' wasn't meant to envoke any anger...DP and i liked to have the occasional 'papers and crap' afternoon pre-baby...it meant getting the Sunday papers, lots of chocolate and crisps and then not leaving the house all day.

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DetentionGrrrl · 16/11/2006 15:51

Ooh just read the 'Do you care what other people's kids eat' thread....note to self, never mention food again...

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 16/11/2006 15:59

"Papers and crap" means something totally different (and more male orientated generally) in my house

DetentionGrrrl · 16/11/2006 16:00

haha! sure it does!!!

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swift1 · 16/11/2006 16:10

Reading the original post, I must be a truly awful mother. My child has chocolates/ sweets EVERY day, be it a fudge or something similar. Today she has had a doughnut, and 2 choc biscuits!
Yesterday she had a doughnut, and milkybar, chips and chicken nuggets (in a pub!!!) and a fudge too.

sushikitty · 16/11/2006 16:21

Yeah, I cave into my dd far too often... though I do try to limit the amount of sugar she consumes to just a few treats a week, for the sake of her teeth!

hulababy · 16/11/2006 16:28

I think I am quiote lucky in many ways. DD, age 4y, has always eaten really well. She loves her food and will eat most things, and will at the very least try new things. We have the "you have to try things 20 times..." routine, which DD things is quite funny - but it works! I now know what she genuinely doesn't like, and what her preferences are.

As she eats so well, and happily tooks into proper food and lots of fruit and veg, I feel quite happy and justified in permitting sweet treats and chocolate, and the odd fast food meal as well.

HowTheFillyjonkStoleChristmas · 16/11/2006 17:02

actually I do care what other people feed their kids tbh...

I grew up on absolute shite with a father who smoked. In retropect would have been quite pleased sctually if someone had taken my parents aside and pointed out that a. quavers and ribena is not a well balanced lunch every frigging day for all primary and b. smoking in front of your kid who has had pneumonia 5 times already is not the brightest of moves.

3andnomore · 16/11/2006 22:11

Hm..personally for me, I know, I only give rubbish at times, not all the time, and my Kids get plenty of good things, too...so....hope the all in moderation, good stuff more often then other theory will work
However, living where I live, I have had my eyes opened to some of the "weirder" weaning techniques..and o.k. with both the younger ones I didn't start weaning before they were 6 month, and I even did BLW, lol...although gave still some pureed stuff, of what they liked, etc. before they were able to manage a spoon....anyway....I now know of Basby's that are weaned on bleneded Pizza and sausages and chips and beans at 3-4 month old (afterall, their grandparents used to give the food they eat to the babys ...yes, and their grandparentl probably didn't know much about processed foods...) and I know of Toddlers having Burgers, Pizzas etc. every day even for Breakfast, because mum don't know how or can't be bothered to cook....surely you can open a pack of cereal and add milk....or toast a slice of bread and butter it....it does me freak out...but those are the Kids I know that get this all the time...those I see on travel...well...I just, maybe naively assume, that they are having a special treat!

3andnomore · 16/11/2006 22:12

Just reading the previous post, and would love to be brave enough to question anyone around mine about the smoking around Kids and feeding constantly rubbish...but I probably would not survive to tell the tale!

MrsSpoon · 16/11/2006 22:16

Round here it's not uncommon to see a 9 month old with a can of irn bru and a sausage roll.

3andnomore · 16/11/2006 22:20

Spoon, you are in the same kind of area then
Honestly, I thought I had seen a lot moving around with my Husband and the Army...but I didn't see all that much...me thinks now!

ilovecaboose · 16/11/2006 22:25

My ds (2) lives off rice cakes, raw fruit and veg, wheat free toast and marmite, and the occassional bit of ewes cheese.

This is an improvement for him. But point I wanted to make is that it is all healthy food. But his diet isn't healthy cos it isn't balanced. He doesn't get enough protein (hardly any at all), and lacks things like iron and some other groups. There is reasons behind this and his eating is gradually improving all the time.

All about balance not about individual foods.

MrsSpoon · 16/11/2006 22:26

LOL very possibly 3andnomore.

Coke in bottles too, very artfully shaken up with the finger over the teat, then release finger and let the gas out, that way it is suitable for a 15 month old , someone once showed me this trick. Of course it was Diet Coke so that made it all OK.

nulnulcat · 16/11/2006 23:12

sometimes we eat crap sometimes we eat healthy stuff it all balances out in the end,

99% of the time i pureed everything for dd when she was a baby but sometimes i couldnt be bothered and bought a jar, the only ones she would eat were the mums own ones and they gave me some good ideas for recipes.

dd has not drunk milk as a drink since she was 11 months old i offer it her but she refuses point blank to have it even with milkshake stuff in it, i dont push it though coz i hate the stuff as well so maybe she doesnt like it.

for months all she would drink was apple juice at the moment it is ribena am sure it will change to something else at some point

breakfast is a bit hit or miss as well some days im lucky and she will eat 3 bowls of cereal other days she insists on crisps and chocolate for breakfast i let her have it as i would rather she ate something and its not as if she does it every day

lunch is always healthy and she eats that then in the evening it all depends on what has happened during the day most of the time i cook but last night for example i couldnt be bothered so we had a ready prepared lasagne from the supermarket cooked in a microwave. we do take away once a week which can be anything from fish and chips curry kfc and she will eat anything

she eats sausage rolls and gingerbread men in her buggy when we go shopping and asks for them, i let her have them as it means i can get round town in peace

i let her have fruit shoots sweets chocolates crisps biscuits - would be mean not to as we eat them! she also eats piles of fruit and yoghurts loves her veg and is a normal 3 year old with funny eating habits and she hates fizzy drinks and doesnt even want to try them

nothing wrong with the occasional bit of crap if its balanced out with the good stuff as well - have spent far to long stressing out about food what she will and wont eat not doing it anymore so what she only had 2 pieces of fruit / veg one day she might eat 10 the following day. at least she is eating something i figure there is plenty of time for explaining the concept of healthy eating and that pringles do not = breakfast when she is older.

BBWBabeLisa · 19/11/2006 14:45

As an overweight picky junk eater myself I am determined my child (10.5 months) will not follow in my footsteps. She gets homecooked organic food for 99% of the time, no sweets/crisps/sugary drinks at all. Yesterday we got stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on the north circular for 4 hours with no access to a shop to get anything for her to eat or drink. The milk I had in the bag for her was consumed early on in the journey and after having gone several hours with no food or drink she was mightily distressed. The only consumable of any kind I had in the car was diet pepsi, which I ended up giving her some of. When we finally got to a petrol station they had no baby food of any description, no fruit, nothing even remotely healthy. I ended up getting some kind of plastic cheese type product for her. Felt guilty at the time for not being better prepared, but felt even worse when at bedtime last night I got pints of projectile vomit ALL over me. Will never leave the house unprepared again.

moondog · 19/11/2006 14:55

Do you still eat bad food now BBW?
I can't understand people who want their children to eat properly but don't themselves.

WestCountryLass · 19/11/2006 22:08

The sorts of things that would horrify me is babies given coke in bottles (which I have seen) and I get a little bit worried about kids being given foods which are choking hazards (like small kids having large chunks of fruits or grapes unsupervised, again have seen).

So far as actual diets go, coke in bottles aside, I actually like seeing kids eating chocolate and crisps as more than likely it is a treat and it is part of being a child to have the odd treat every now and then.

mrspoppins · 19/11/2006 22:21

Hi Moondog!

I am a very overweight Mum to two fabulous 'normal weight 'girls. After a rather troubled childhood, I eat when stressed, for comfort etc...

I fully intend to give my children the confidence and love, acceptance and understanding I didn't receive as I know that, despite now having lived away from home longer that the 18 years I lived there, I still binge eat and am still psychologically scarred from the trauma.

That is why we can eat rubbish (but not in front of the kids) and yet be so hell bent on them having a healthy diet.

Like a previous MNer said, moderation is the key and if you are taught that at an early age, then you are set for life.

I'm just glad my addiction was food and not alcohol or drugs...though I sometimes think that they would have been more socially acceptable !!!!!!!!!!!

xxK

moondog · 19/11/2006 22:32

Wouldn't you want your girls to see you looking fit and healthy and being able to join in physical stuff with them though MrsP?
Do you eat the same meals for example?

Not having a go,just interested.

NorksBride · 20/11/2006 00:09
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