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

Hello! I asked a question!

i think it means cheap and common in Scotland

None are banned as such, but all are actively discouraged.....
Any fizzy drinks for DC's
Crisps for Dc's
Ready meals
Processed food for me and DC's
Cheese strings
Dairylea snacky things
That hideous looking Barbie ham etc
Meatstuffs in tins
Vegetables in tins
Eggs that aren't organic free range
Dolmio type jars
Cheapo sausages
Think thats it

nothing is actually banned but I don't buy

cheap chicken or processed chicken (nuggets etc)
cheap ham
crappy eggs
no added sugar squash
light mayonaise (tho have some atm but dh goes mad!)
fizzy drinks

otherwise I'm pretty chilled out and my kids eat a huge variety of stuff. healthy and unhealthy!

i wouldn't do it now. my mum only bought mutton pies from one butcher in glasgow and he's long retired.

i wouldn't do it now. my mum only bought mutton pies from one butcher in glasgow and he's long retired.

Anything processed including shaped potato, coke (I'm pg, partner hates it and children not allowed) and meat sausages, I think.

I couldn't eat mutton. Oh, no, just couldn't.

I know sheep are daft and they run into the road and get killed, but they are cute.

really? i love lamb, it's even cuter. yum yum.

what is the big fat hairy deal with coke by the way? it's faaaabulous.

LIVER, force feed far to much of it as a child

Oh yes, ready made anything except Thai curry paste and fishcakes from the local chinese supermarker, anything diet, tinned stuffs (except potatoes, comfort food for me and ambrosia rice pudding).

Coke for kids or adults??

OH, NO! Not lamb! They're adorable - their wee 'baa' and their trot. They're too lovely to eat, and their faces gradually turning black.

Mmm, Coke.

Better still, Lidl's cloudy lemonade as it has no artificial sweetners.

Mmm, Irn Bru.

Fizzy juice is in moderation.

Thank you barbamama.

Oh, sorry, Lyra. It's minging, but EXTRA minging and wrong and bad.

i think in the west coast we say clatty, actually...

you seem a lot more chipper now expat, has the morning sickness gone now?

Lots of tolerant mumsnetters assuring us that they don't ban things as such, they just don't buy them. Errrr...could someone explain the distinction to me?

If I refuse to buy something because it is disgusting/unhealthy/immoral and I'm the one doing the shopping, what else would I have to do in order to say that I was banning it? Comes to the same thing, doesn't it?

Or would I have to take dcs aside and look them sternly in the eye and say with a trembling voice: 'I forbid you ever to spend any future earnings on processed cheese twisters while you live under my roof. Those disgusting things will only enter this house over my dead body!'?

Surely "banning" is only another way of saying "won't buy". In which case I don't see why this should be seen as being over-precious/laying down trouble for the future etc. Surely I'm not obliged to buy everything that's on sale in the Coop, just to give my dcs a chance to make their minds up about it?

will look out for the lidl lemonade, but i tend to go mad for tomato juice when i'm there for some reason.

I'm scottish and I would take 'clarty' to mean greasy and fatty.

I never buy liver/kidneys etc or any type of offal or black pudding. That's just cos I don't like them.

Am perfectly happy to buy ready meals for my toddlers. Very handy to have in freezer for emergencies or when I haven't had much time. Don't think it matters as long as it is not all the time.

No, it's still here, but it is only once a day sickness in the evening.

Small mercies and that.

And had nuchal scan and got to see my wee Muireann kicking about .

for me, the point is that i wouldn't kick up a fuss if dd ate them elsewhere, that would be a pointed ban.

lovely, expat.

I like Lidl for things like fizzy juice, too, because they don't carry a lot of stuff with minging aspartame in it.

I can taste that stuff a mile away.

Or that vile Splenda, which is like the Devil's sugar.

distinction between 'banned' and 'don't buy'

If someone else brought round fizzy drinks, for example, I would quite happily let ds (3) drink it. Wouldn't bother me at all and he loves fizzy drinks. I wouldn't whisk it away, forbid it or pour it away but I wouldn't go out and buy any IFYSWIM.

I was in M&S foodhall today, and they had some gorgeous ready meals for kids.

On sale as well!

I'd have bought some if I had a cool bag with me for the journey home.