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My worst nightmare has come true, ds 13 gone off the rails and blew all his £25 savings in 4 days

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Piffle · 12/07/2007 15:03

he bought crap food from Tescos

My clean organic freshly prepared wholesome healthy child bought as much hydrogenated crap as his friends and him could carry.

Anyone like to guess how I taught him a lesson in the most physiological versionEVER of " I told you SO." And mother IS RIGHT?

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Wisteria · 12/07/2007 15:05

he is rebelling! Let him get on with it I'm afraid, my daughter does that, she gets all organic lovely home cooked stuff but goes mad for a pot noodle

What did you do anyway?

Tortington · 12/07/2007 15:05

you made him dig over your organic vegetable patch?

Wisteria · 12/07/2007 15:05

did you make him eat it all then bar him from the toilet?

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Piffle · 12/07/2007 15:11

nature inflicted it's own punishment not pleasant for him, but watch him reach for the fruit bowl and packed lunch now...

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Wisteria · 12/07/2007 15:13

Well done you

Nothing as satisfying as that for me; doubtless this is my own fault as I let my dcs eat muck and never really worried about bleach etc (farming background you see), consequently my dcs have the constitution of oxen and never get poorly. I tried with the spots thing but that didn't work as she pointed out that she had spots before she ate the crap! She's a skinny beanpole too so couldn't use that...

LordVenger · 12/07/2007 15:21

It's not exactly Pete Doherty, is it - a trolley full of buns.

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Piffle · 12/07/2007 15:21

not pimples
think constipation....

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Piffle · 12/07/2007 15:22

doubt £25 would keep Pete Doc in orbit long....

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kiwibella · 12/07/2007 15:26

Piffle, don't scare me like this - dd has exactly the same problems when she doesn't take care of her diet. I have just started paying her pocket money too. Previously, she kept a record on the calendar and she saved up for things that she wanted meaning we controlled her 'sweets' money.

I'm going to have to keep an eye on her money tin!!!

FluffyMummy123 · 12/07/2007 15:26

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Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:28

Roffle at trolley full of buns I'm not sure that £25 in 4 days counts as much of a blow-out either, really. Mind you it would fund a fair few penny chews....

Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:31

Actually it reminds me of being away at university for the first time- I used to spend half my grant on white chocolate buttons with those horrible sprinkle things on top, I was in heaven.

Marina · 12/07/2007 15:33

I am pretty sure I flirted with scurvy and rickets during my 1st year away from home tamum Mine's a Heinz toast topper with a side order of pickled onion crisps, cheers

Cortnie91 · 12/07/2007 15:36

£25?? you 'avin a larf???

eeerrr ummm i have to behave meself from now on so im not gonna comment to much but every kid i know would spend £25 in tescos in one lunchtime miss.

Miaou · 12/07/2007 15:36

I was ill when I stared uni and had to be really careful with my diet - but there was a girl on my corridor and I swear she only ever ate baked potatoes with sweetcorn - I never saw her eat anything else! Amazingly she never got ill (though looked rather pasty on it )

Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:36

Oh yes, it was only the chip butties on Wedensday night in hall that kept me from scurvy Marina

LordVenger · 12/07/2007 15:38

When I left home at eighteen, I lived on ready salted Kettle Chips, roast chicken, Menthol Silk Cut and Ecstacy for a year. Now I make quinoa bubble and squeak for the kids. I wouldn't worry too much. "It's a phase".

Cortnie91 · 12/07/2007 15:39

By Miaou on Thu 12-Jul-07 15:36:20
I was ill when I stared uni and had to be really careful with my diet - but there was a girl on my corridor and I swear she only ever ate baked potatoes with sweetcorn

hahahaha hope ya never had to share a loo wiv her. sweetcorn comes out the same.

Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:41

The roast chicken is a bit incongruously classy in there, LordVenger. You must be posher than you let on

Marina · 12/07/2007 15:42

Ha, but it will be that stuff bought shrink-wrapped and coated in caramelised e-numbers tamum...won't it ?
Kebab salad was my five-a-day more than once, I regret to admit

Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:44

My flatmate and I specialised in Findus Crispy Pancakes because they were the only thing we knew how to "cook". Once he discovered those, we were away. You could get them in cheese or beef IIRC. Our other flatmate could only make Cowboy Hash, a recipe from his mother (not that sort of hash, obv)

LordVenger · 12/07/2007 15:45

You could buy whole roast ones in the supermarket round the corner for £4. I used to make chicken and crisp sandwiches with half a pack of melty butter. I felt like the King.

Tamum · 12/07/2007 15:46

God, I could just do with one of those now . I had forgotten how nice crisp sandwiches were...

PregnantGrrrl · 12/07/2007 16:00

that's your worst nightmare?! he hardly bought a bag of smack.

well on raising a perfectly normal 13 yr old i say!

MarsLady · 12/07/2007 16:03

You made him eat the lot and have laxatives at the ready?????????!!!!!!!!!!!