Don't want to feed my child.

[FeelingSoBlue]

Hi. Before you all sharpen your knives I should explain that I'm disabled, as a consequence of my disability I suffer with chronic pain in my back that is currently being made worse by a horrid bladder infection. DS is 2, he had nursery for two hours this morning and I've been out all day visiting with my sister, taking him to the cafe or to shops (he likes a good mooch around, I promise). Anywho my point is, I've tried my absolute best to be a tiptop parent all day and now he needs food but I am so exhausted and in so much pain that I really don't think I can actually move to even make him toast. DH won't be home till 7:37pm ... can it wait? :(

Sorry for the post but this is every Friday and I don't think I deserve my son.

SurlyCue are we not supposed to support one another. Cannot see the point of your post.

Yeah i twigged after i posted that it wasnt actually about feeding the child.

sorry you feel so crap. when my dc were young i always had a backpack ready to go for an emergency (often had to go to hospital) and in it (as well as other things) i had: long life juice, long life soya yoghurt type thing, packet of pomme bears or something and if i had time to grab from the fridge either a ham sandwich or dairylea dunkers or similar. we often got stuck at a and e for hours and this meant i always had snacks for them. i hate giving my kids junk food but it worked for us. maybe you could have a similar stash in a lunch box for this kind of occasion? if you made a sandwich early in the day and put it in fridge in case you were bad later on. But you aren't a bad parent - you aren't well

social services don't take kid away in these situations - they help. please ask them

Is your disability one that can be up and down OP? I'm just thinking that if you have better days, could you batch cook so on the days you feel awful you still have something easy to give him.

Please don't feel like a shit parent, my DM has MS, and I can't imagine loving her anymore if she didn't have it. To your DS, you are just his lovely mummy. He won't care about your disability, I promise

I usually have a lot of healthy snacks here but I wanted him to eat a bit more now than he had for lunch (turned down his roast dinner in a cafe, opted for crisps and 3 jaffa cakes, cheers son) I think it might just be a Friday feeling. Thanks for the advice.

Yep, disability can be up and down. Just worse atm because of the bloody bladder infection, only given antibiotics today as the nurse who did the first test missed the blood in the first sample so I'm feeling rough (and possibly really sorry for myself) PP pizza is fantastic, ginger biscuits filled a gap I'll bet :)

As SmokingGun says, if you have good days can you batch cook and freeze meals then for the bad days, so you only have to defrost and microwave?

I have a chronic condition that leaves me in a lot of pain most days. Some days it's worse than others, and I find once I get going, I'm better on a morning so I try to cook stuff then, make a bit extra and freeze that so there's something ready for the days I can barely move.

It sucks op, I know that, so here's a bit of virtual hand holding and some . The odd ready meal didn't kill anyone either, so maybe have a couple in stock for those bad days. Be kind to yourself, and toast, grapes and cheese is perfectly fine.

OP! You are only human. I do not judge you.

My advice for future situations is to please get some food in the home that requires little preparation, such as dry cheerio-like-cereal, brioche rolls kept in the freezer.