do you give a shit what other poples kids eat

[TheHighwayCod]

no blardy hell

that's the way you come across!

Perhaps your own perspective is adding something to your overall impression there then, foxinsocks. All depends where you are coming from , I suppose.

Ignore her foxinsocks. I think she is premenstrual or something.

I don't really think about it at all, except when cross people on MN start haranguing me to defend my choices because they think it is smug, pretentious and judgemental to choose to feed your child healthy stuff.

it isn't

but you are quite evangelical about food - I never said I thought that was a bad thing, it just surprises me that you feel so strongly about it

nee nor nee nor
food police are here

ROFL doormat!

Change your name back please....!!!!

Actually just post-menstrual, Smug (do you really enjoy being called that? How curious)

I find the inverted snobbery that surrounds food threads on MN difficult to stomach. People become so defensive and rude at the suggestion that anyone might make an effort to provide their children with a decent diet and try to avoid shovelling too much worthless crap down their throats. It's sad.

Yes, I do. I'm proud of it. I commit the most dastardly smuggery every single day.

I think, if anything, it's the other way round greeny.

My kids eat proper food at home and I can't say anyone has ever taken the piss out of that and no child has ever come to this house and gone away hungry even if they have been faced with something like a home made lamb curry.

I can't remember the age(s) of your children? I take it they are not at school yet?

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No, ds1 is 4 - but as I don't ban any of the foods which he would be likely to encounter at school (I'm happy for him to have virtually anything apart from the highly processed luridly coloured artificially flavoured sweets I've mentioned, which are banned from most schools), I don;t see why I would have any more problems than any other mother. I don't object to him having cake/chocolate/biscuits/crisps.

but greeny the majority of people don't "shovel" that much crap down their children's throats. You can make the effort to provide a healthy diet for your kids - I've cooked everything from scratch from when ds was a baby, he never ate a jar of babyfood in his life, not ever. I still cook most meals from scratch, for him and for us. But he does have the occasional fruit shoot, although tbh I prefer the tropicana go ones and buy those instead now. he does have crisps, sweets and biscuits, but he doesn't live on them. He eats a proper meal first and can have a treat after. And IMO most people would adopt the same or similar approach. But the view on here is so often portrayed as giving your child one fruit shoot is poisoning them for life. Mostly it's about moderation. Yes there are some things that I don't approve of. I am that anyone would choose to give their children coke for instance, even a little bit, but most things are ok in moderation, the same as they are for adults - most adults enjoy a drink or two occasionally don't they? and yet you don't hear people judging those they saw sitting in the local pub do you.

my kids have mc d's
they have fruit shootS
they eat chocolate and sweets
they eat crisps

they also eat a lot of good foods too

EACH TO THEIR OWN I SAY

no, it's just that at school, you tend to get thrown together with a load of people you wouldn't necessarily choose to be your mates so you often get a wider circle of opinions (iyswim)

I was pleasantly surprised by how many people care about their children's diets when mine started at school

Agree wannabe (although my children had jars- well ds1 had hardly any, ds3 loads - funnily enough he's the one who loves home made food, lentils etc- the only one who has let me feed him chicken soup when poorly!)

I've never said that most epople shovel crap down thei children's necks! I just think the defensiveness cuts both ways, that's all.

As I keep saying, my threshold for what constitutes unacceptable "crap" is pretty high. My children don't live on organic radishes, FGS. I cited the Brain Licker as something I can't see the point of, ever, especially for a growing child. There are other things marketed at children which I think are just disgraceful poisonous crap and I wouldn't let my children have them, not even "in moderation".

With the reference to the "do you give a shit what other people's kids eat" which has got everyone (well, me and a few others) annoyed - I certainly wouldn't tut at people in supermarkets or pass comment on what other children had in their packed lunches or otherwise poke my nose into someone else's decisions at the individual level. But I still don't feel able to say "no, I don't give a shit what other children eat" - because at the social level, I do care, in that I think there should be stricter limits on what level of shite can be sold/advertised for children and how informed parents are about what is in their children's food (and their medicines!).

I don't go around curling my lip at other people's shopping baskets.

Jimjams, mine are like that too! dd, a fair few jars now a good eater, will give most things a go; ds refused anything that wasn't homemade, now an appalling eater.

I do give my kids crap from time to time, I also give myself crap food - on a more regular basis tbh.

i dont really give a shite. unless the trolly of some poor kid is piled high qwith twizzlers and smiles, then i realyl dont care.

never admit you give your under 2 year old a fruit shoot though

mine didnt like pizza until recently

I always do 'friends tea'

fishfingers chips peas and carrots
then ice cream

actually nowadays we have less friends round for tea tbh and the last couple of times I have asked the kids what they want to eat

the more kids I have the less judgemental I become

dd1 has filled in her favourite things bit in her diary thus:

fave food: mums soup and juicy drop pop

what the hell IS that it sounds BAD

juicy drop pop is just sugar and colouring, its a vile sweet.

lockets i have 4 year old who wold live on chicken korma and rice. oh and bread, bananas and hulahoops.

oh those juicy drop pop things are awful

I put them in dd's party bags once

they are v brightly coloured lollies with a plastic bit on the end that contains some sort of syrupy sharp juice - you pull off the plastic bit and drop it on the top of the lolly and then lick it off

Enid, I do the same for dd's friends. It's either fishfingers, spag bol, roast chicken or sausages.

I've also found that quite a few children won't eat very well in other peoples houses - my dd included.