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do you give a shit what other poples kids eat

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TheHighwayCod · 16/11/2006 12:41

no blardy hell

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SneakyMouse · 16/11/2006 13:33

We have this mad obsession in this county with "children's food" on menus - ie processed shit.

Little bodies growing and learning - why fuel them with cack to do it?

wannaBe1974 · 16/11/2006 13:35

exactly you can make them. As it happens my ds doesn't like nuggets or chips, but if he was offered them at someone's house then it wouldn't be a big deal.

I do feel the same about coke though - there is no place for it in any child's diet.

My ds will eat most fruit/veg, but I wouldn't dream of serving up salad to someone else's 4 year old, because most children just wouldn't eat it.

TheDivineLiliLaTigresse · 16/11/2006 13:36

dd doesn't really like pizza, she will eat a slice but that's it
she hates soup
but she would kill for a medium rare fillet steak and french beans
when we have friends over I tend to make stuff like sausages and mash, fishcakes, pasta, chicken, etc

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wannaBe1974 · 16/11/2006 13:37

no franny I wouldn't be judging what they were eating, but reality is that most 4 year olds would not tuck into a plate of salad, and it's not about whether the parents didn't let them have it when they were little, my ds won't eat meat, and yet he is served it with most meals. But tbh I think there is a certain smugness about people who refuse to let their children have even the smallest unhealthy thing.

GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 16/11/2006 13:39

PMSL, we stopped in the cafe of our local leisure centre once and were having coffee/looking at the menu. The adults' menu was really nice - lots of pasta dishes and pasta, fish etc. There were people sitting eating nice-looking plates of food. Then the inevitable children's menu - nuggets and chips, fish fingers and chips, something shaped like a dinosaur and chips. It was the line in small capitals at the bottom that made me get up and leave though. "ALL CHILDREN'S MEALS WILL BE SERVED IN A BOX".

Serve my children's meal in a fucking box and I'll serve you up in a f*cking box, mate.

I don't mind food boxes at children's parties in play centres, school lunch boxes etx, it seems different somehow. But to sit in a fairly civilised restaurant and be brought lovely well-presented plates of food, and then a cardboard box with some deep-fried gristle and fries for our son - b*llocks. Frankly.

nailpolish · 16/11/2006 13:40

i agree sneakymouse

i know a chef who has recently opened a new bar cafe place nearby

he said "im not having a special childrens menu, i will serve any dish on the menu in half portions though"

his food is fab and i was really proud of him not having a 'sausage/nuggets/burger with chips' childrens menu

he says though that it is the most requested thing in the cafe - a special childrens menu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PinkTinsel · 16/11/2006 13:40

i feel sorry for the kids i see in the supermarket who's mothers have a trolly full of utter crap. especially if the kids are overweight

would never judge someone on one meal at their house though, they might have gone out specially to but the nuggets or whatever on the grounds that a picky child might be more likely to eat it

wannaBe1974 · 16/11/2006 13:41

it does annoy me that childrens' menus in restaurants only contain things with chips. no pasta, no stir-fry, all chips... Waitresses always look at us strangely when ds asks for mashed potato instead of chips.

nailpolish · 16/11/2006 13:41

wannabe im really pissed off that you are calling me names such as pretentious and smug

McDreamy · 16/11/2006 13:42

I don't care what other peoples children eat as someone else thas said I have other things to get worked up about! I'm not too bothered what people serve my children as I know they get a good diet with me, I would draw the line at Turkey twizzlers though.

foxinsocks · 16/11/2006 13:42

all you have to do greeny is ask for half portion main meals

it's not the end of the world

TinkersBollocks · 16/11/2006 13:45

Um, I do a bit, really. In general terms. Am sure there has to be link between anti-social behaviour and a diet rich in chemical additives and lacking in enough nutrients. I don't police people's shopping baskets but my heart does sink a bit when I watch kids walking to school drinking fizzy drinks and eating sweets before they get there.

doormat · 16/11/2006 13:46

as long as it isnt razor blades
i couldnt give a fart

there is no way i would look into peoples trolleys
that is just taking the piss tbh

Jimjams2 · 16/11/2006 13:47

cod I lurve you

GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 16/11/2006 13:48

No, it's not the end of the world, but it is inapropriate that there is an assumption across the catering industry that children only eat deep fried/tinned foods, and it won't change as long as people raise one lazy eyebrow and say "Oh well.......it doesn't matter really".

Blu · 16/11/2006 13:48

Edward de Bono said that if the Isrealis and the Palestinians ate marmite the ME crisis would be solved in an instant.

Something to do with unleavend bread having non-existant zinc, the lack of which causes aggression and fractiousness.

So yes, it's clearly THE world issue of the moment! What do Hammas / the Isrealis Gvt have in their packed lunches???

foxinsocks · 16/11/2006 13:51

well it doesn't matter really

you can choose what you want to feed them and if you don't like it, you don't give it to them

Dior · 16/11/2006 13:52

Message withdrawn

brimfull · 16/11/2006 13:53

the mn food police get on my tits

TinkersBollocks · 16/11/2006 13:54

name them ggirl

wannaBe1974 · 16/11/2006 13:55

I never called anyone in particular any names np, I said that I think (and this is my opinion), that there is a certain "smugness" about "people" whose children never eat the smallest unhealthy thing. And I stand by that.

How many food threads do we have on here, people "judging" the fact that they saw someone allowing their child to eat a sausage roll in the pushchair, or that their children were offered fruit shoots at a party, or that someone dared to give their child chicken nuggets for tea. And out of all of those threads there are those who sit there in judgment with their "my child would never be allowed to do that so I'm better than you" attitudes. And maybe that's not how they mean to come across, but it's certainly how it looks.

IMO there can be middle ground. No I don't feed my child nuggets, I don't feed him coke and I don't feed him chips. But he has the occasional fruit shoot, he has the occasional biscuit and he has sweets. so what.

IMO if you feed your child on a diet consisting wholey of chicken nuggets and chips, biscuits, sweets and fruit shoots, then you run the risk that your child will be unhealthy and will be obese in the future. And if you feed your child a diet consisting only of organic fruit/veg, salads, pasta and rice, you will have a very healthy child, but if you do not allow that child any sweets, bisuics, ice cream, (and by none I mean none at all), then you run the risk that when that child has unsupervised access to said "treats" he/she will not have learned any self control around these items, and will eat more than he/she should.

But every parent has their own way of doing things and ultimately it is their choice how they raise their children. But just as some feel they have the right to judge me for giving my child the occasional fruit shoot, so I also have the right to say that I think that someone who never allows their child any treats is smug and theinks they're better than me.

GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 16/11/2006 13:55

Tough shit

nailpolish · 16/11/2006 14:01

ok i know too there are people here who are smug about what they feed their children

i just dont want people to think im one of them cos im not

i dont care what others feed their children, and i would never sneer at them, i just dont like it when they give my children shite for lunch because i take the time effort not to give it to theirs!!

foxinsocks · 16/11/2006 14:04

I'm just amazed how much it seems to dominate your lives that's all. I mean, the amount of threads we have on here at any one time about 'crap' food and how it genuinely seems to upset you.

I've had so many friends who had 'food issues' (anorexia, bulimia the like) that I just hope my children grow up with a positive attitude to food.

GreenLumpyTonsilsAgain · 16/11/2006 14:08

How on earth do you know how much it "dominates our lives"? It dominates a few threads on MN. I think it's important, so I speak my mind. It's a bit of a leap from that to portraying me/other people who contribute to food threads as wild-eyed evangelists who go around pelting ice-cream sellers with organic ratatouille