do you give a shit what other poples kids eat

[TheHighwayCod]

no blardy hell

just for you enid!

I quite like sweets (things like wine gums, fruit pastilles) but those lollies were too sweet for me

Wow! they sound like drugs!

I want one

well my kids have been known to have fruit shoot, coke and McDonalds - but I draw the line at juicy drop pops - disgusting

the drops (rather than the lollies) are quite mind blowing esp the sour ones (felt I had to sample them before I put them in party bags)

I do 'kids tea' when my kids have friends round, and sometimes do a party buffet type deal, depending on how many kids are coming for tea. one tomorrow so its pizza and jacket potato with cucumber thrown in for good measure!!

Enid was it not you who posted a controversial food/abuse comment once? if it was you then more children have definitely changed your views if not then i apologise for mistaken identity

yes I said jars were lazy

I still think that

(she says after sneakily trying dd3 with one only to have it spat out, damn)

but WHY would you buy ready made bottles of juice?

i really want to know

maybe when you are out and about but ive seen people who have them in the house in huge batches

the child says she is thirsty and is given a bottle of juice

whats wrong with a cup in your own house

haha Enid has come over to the dark side, welcome your life will never be the same again

Enid.

couldnat care what other people feed their kids... i DO care what I feed my charges!

but any of my charges friends coems round for tea etc they get whatever i was planning to have regardless.... with the same rules as my charges... they can eat it (or have a good attempt) or starve...

if they dont eat it they have no pudding....

I always say "In X and Y's house the rule is ...... (we take off our shoes up stairs, we dont run inside, if we are hungry enough for pudding, then we will have eaten or 1st course)...

and while i wouldnt give them any thing too adventourouse, i wouldnt think twice about giving, any meat / chicken / with gravy / as casseroles etc, or something like lasagne, spag bol, fish pie, pasta bake etc etc

Do not give chicken nuggets or other similar processed crap to guests in the same way i wouldnt poison my own charges or myself with them either!

in terms of veg i will give ANY chld peas, sweet corn, carrots, broccolli, green beans, cuecumber, tomatoe... on the grounds most children eat them!

i save things like bean sprouts, mange tout, courgette, sporouts, swede, cabbage etc to when its just me and my charges tho!

and yes i have in the past not given a guest pudding cause of their refusal to eat the 1st course... while those who have eaten get pudding!

I have to say when i was a new mother i wanted all babies to have the lovely life my babies were having and it genuinely upset me to think some kids weren't being breast fed and were eating jarred food.
That naivity soon got kicked out of me and now i really couldn't give a toss what other people do with their kids as long as it doesn't affect mine.

What I said earlier isn't quite true. I am generally concerned by the amount of rubbish that is put in the foods that are targeted at children. And the weaselly labelling that others have mentioned. On the Fruit Shoot thread someone's posted that they thought "No added sugar" was a good thing. Well, you would, wouldn't you?

My sons feel really deprived that they can't eat what is now seen as normal children's food, and they're not old enough to understand about trans-fats and artificial doodahs. And we get a lot of comments like "Oh, poor little things, surely a few won't hurt them."

I'm not slamming anyone who uses these foods, by the way, as I have done at times too, but how did it get to be the case that only shaped breaded reformed meat was acceptable to many children?