go on then, what food is banned in your house?

[morethanmum]

After a blanket denial by other parents to recognise cheese strings (dd's party), I'll start with:
Ribena
processed cheese slices
coke for children
readymeals for children

and we are vegetarian.
Aside from that, dig in

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cod's morphed into an American at last!

the old 'what do you do?'.

thought i'd never see the day, but knew it was in there somewhere.

next thing she'll be boasting about her kids .

processed cheese of any kind (DH bought cheese strings once and I nearly divorced him, but I am a cheese snob of the highest order )

anything that says "no added sugar" on the label as it is usually riddled with aspartamine which makes my DS go bonkers.

tripe

cheap processed meats, especially ham that looks like trains/bears etc.

tinned peas (vile blue food colouring added)

anything with artificial colours/flavours/sweeteners generally, except for my Diet Coke

sugary children's breakfast cereals. The closest we get to those are Cheerios and then only very rarely.

chicken nuggets
fish fingers
soda
sweets
crisps
ready meals
white bread
non-organic dairy products
non-organic fruits or veg
chips
burgers
margerine
any foods with artificial ingredients/sweeteners/colouring

However, when we are out, particularly at a party, they atre allowed some.

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when you have a car, it's possible to be mobile, cod.

when you have two cars and each of you has a car, it's even more possible to be mobile, as one of you can drive kids about whilst the other one works.

when you works shifts, in the hospitality or retail industries, for example, you often have to work at night, weekends or evenings.

I am quite mobile here.

because i put the girls in the Clio and drive them places, particulary this past fortnight, as DD1's nursery has been on Spring break.

he goes off to work, and we go out.

when i have antenatal appointments, i have to be very mobile. i have to drive one of the cars to a ferry terminal, then take the ferry, then a train to Paisley, then get off and take a bus to RAH.

i could drive it, but it would wind up costing more than the tenner it already does, as i'd have to pay to park at hospital.

he has to rearrange his rota to look after the girls whilst i do this, as it takes 2 hours.

each way.

Anything containing aspartame (terrible sweetener)

Fizzy sugary drinks
Kids ready meals...ready meals in general

Nothing banned really but

they have never drunk a fruit shoot or had a sugary fizzy drink to my knowledge, they always have water in their drink bottles, we dont have squash
nothing produced by Bernard Matthews
always organic milk and eggs
No Dairylea lunchables
No foods with hydrogenated fats though luckily these are becoming few and far between now anyway
Only organic red meat

However we do have Cheese Strings - are they allowed? It is the only way DS will eat cheese.

Think cheese strings just cheese? We have them, despite the original post - I mentioned them in the hall after dd's party and every parent began a whole 'I don't think x would know what one is, ha ha' (sub text, you are a rubbish parent, to me)

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funny question.

I would equate "banned" with "moral obejection to"

so

Banned: non-free range meat and eggs.

on the other hand, the "not coming in my house 'cos it's minging" list is probably to long to include here.

because of this thread i looked at the kids' products in the supermarket and came home with some muller fromage frais and some frubes to freeze. i felt tres decadent. (the frubes are weirdly powdery, that can't be right can it?)

Frubes make DS go nuts. He always has a mad half hour tantrum having one. I have examined the ingrediants and cant see what it could be.

When I say "not banned" I mean that it has not occurred to me to buy them because they are so revolting - I mean Bernard Matthews products anyone?

I wouldnt get uptight about these items if given at say their grandmas house or something, just not things I choose to buy to give my kids to put inside their bodies.

after having one that is

Just read last bit about Frubes. Going to check ingredients in paranoid fit.

Cheap eggs (free range only!)
Cheap nasty chicken
Anything from Tesco

Nothing!

I was just about to post the same jellybeans, nothing is banned, I try and encourage healthy choices but nothing is banned. I have shopping preferences I suppose, like free range eggs (when I can get them).

Nothing is banned as such,but I won 't buy;
any food based on characters,ie Barbie Pasta,
sugary cereal,
chicken nuggets,dinosaurs ect,
foreign meat
battery chicken or eggs
Thats it really.

On Friday I didn't want to cook. Bad work (from home) day, and DD's birthday so loads of people popping in ("we know you're working so we've just popped in to see DD" ). So on the way back from my run I went to Asda and bought.....a ready-made lasagne for me, DD and DS#2, a bag of salad, a steak and kidney pie for DS#1 (he doesn't like lasagne) and a big bottle of lemondade. DH had an Indian take-away. And I thought about this thread

"foreign meat"

Huh? Does that mean no New Zealand Lamb or French Label Rouge chicken or something else? Why?

well, new zealand lamb tastes weird for starters. too grassy.

Nothing banned at all - everything is "allowed" in moderation. Try to buy the best eggs, meats and cook healthy meals.

Luckily I have kids who prefer a hearty meal with lots of veg to a mcdonalds.

The only thing I will not allow are those licky acid sweets.

I don't think we have anything that is banned at home. There are things I don't buy in myself, but nothing that I wuld ban from every entering my door, say if someone else brought it with them.