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

vvvvrrrrrooooooooooooooooooooooooooomm. don't spill your pre-grated cheese there dear!

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eye thang yew

The only thing I will not allow ds to have is coke. The rest is stuff I just simply wouldn't buy either because I think it's horrible or because it just wouldn't occur to me to buy a microwave omelette.

But I draw the line at coke based on my own experiences with it.

I love coke. full-fat cold yummy coke is delicious. But a couple of years ago I started having palpitations, and on some careful consideration, I discovered that if I didn't drink coke, I didn't have palpitations. so I stopped drinking it, for the most part.

And there are enough other drinks out there that there really isn't a need for ds to have it. But I am aware this may change as he gets older.

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Ribena
Fizzy pop
Bernard Mathews / Billy Bear type meats
Sweets eg. Haribos, lollies
crap cheese
crisps for the kids
processed / bought cakes
sugary cereals
Aspartame containing stuff

I won't buy:
Things with sweeteners (upsets my tummy)
whole ready meals (apart from occasional pizza!)
cheap squash
food made into kid friendly shapes unless you count fish fingers
anything with palm oil listed in it.
'cheap' sliced ham - worked out its cheaper and tastier to buy big ham for sunday and slice it myself for rest of week.
anything with battery chickens in it.

I will buy:
the occasional crap cereal
poptarts
pot noodles for camping
always have fish fingers and waffles in for dds fussy friends- they are guests and I like them to feel welcome.
milkshake mix

wannabe, HOW much coke were you drinking? are you sure it was the liquid form? were you hoovering it up your nose?

wannabe i cant drink dr pepper for the same reason! not even a small lunch type bottle

I think they need to make food choice from the things in the house - and I think toddlers are a bit young to understand why I make the choices I do for the household. We can debate it as dd gets older and no doubt I will compromise here and there (but not everywhere...).

I probably drank more than is considered healthy cod .

Now I only buy occasionally.

I think you can actually taste the difference between sugar and sweeteners.

diet coke for eg tastes like plastic.

So you have to avoid coffee too wannabe? I must admit I think I'd have to really have to knock back the coke to get anything like the amount of caffeine that I get from my rocket fuel coffee. Or is it not the caffeine that does it?

I don't actually drink coffee but I don't have to avoid tea. Coke does have a finominal amount of cafeen/sugar in it though - cafeen of two cups of coffee and 12 teaspoons of sugar in one can.

I can still drink it just don't drink in large quantities.

Battery chicken/eggs. (Am veggie but dh has meat in the house.)

Processed food is not automatically evil you know. Just check the ingredients - if chemicals/saturated fat/sugar or salt is very high up on the list it's not very good for you. But there are plenty of processed foods that are fine. Frozen peas are more nutritious than fresh, unless you have just picked them from your own garden. And tinned tomatoes are v. good - processing breaks down the tough cell walls so the body can get at more of the nutrients (lycopenes, in particular).

cordial, crap ham or chicken, low fat yogurts, oxo cubes, concentrated fruit juices, cheap eggs, low fruit jam and marmalade. Sure there's more too - perversely though cheese strings offend me far less than fruit winders?

i hardly every eat chicken these days, i must say. i like thighs in curries etc but they never sell thigh packs of non-battery chickens, presumably cos that meat all goes to the organic chicken ready meals.

cod can't get enough of that ready grated cheese, you know hatrick. pppoooooey. it's got weird powder on it.

now, you see, snobby fraeky twat i might be, but i do buy ready grated cheese!

organic free range corn fed chicken thighs in asda, aitch

really? i might give asda a try, then. tbh i'm a bit useless at supermarkets.

can your butcher not do them for you?