Guilt Free Railing 5

[WouldBeGood]

Just in case railing remains required.

@shouldistop

School lunches would be so much easier, he's only at nursery 2.5 days so it's ok making a couple of packed lunches but the only sandwich he'll eat is peanut butter and jam which you obviously can't send in so I would run out of ideas for 5 lunches! My mum helpfully said the other day "you know, they're not likely to give him sliced plum tomatoes and pasta salad for his lunch"

Doesn't need to be sandwiches, mine liked chopped up chicken or home made lunchables, or tuna/pasta salad and sometimes DS1 would take a tin of mackerel in a tub with and just eat that. Cold bits of pizza, cold omelette.

They were and are fussy but would eat some weird stuff.

@WouldBeGood

😂😂 I wasn’t fussed if they didn’t eat lunch.

Slapdash mother

Yeah, I said I was sap and they were spoiled rotten!

I think you were a better mother than me, I should have been harder with such things.

Milne will eat anything now. I’m a pretty soft parent in many ways but food and bedtimes were non negotiable. Obviously to make my life easier 😃

@RedactedTaeFeck for his packed lunches at nursery ds will usually have a mix of pasta salad, tomatoes, buttered crackers, sausage rolls, buttered brioche roll. At home it's usually a hot lunch like beans on toast, some kind of pasta, tomato soup & buttered bread etc.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt just having the same couple of lunches all week.

Bedtimes were no problem, they loved their bed. We were just concerned they wouldn't sleep if they hadn't eaten enough!

DS1 had the most food issues. When he was about 2 it got really bad so we decided to stop fussing about it and present his meals and snacks as normal but not try to trick him into eating (shovel it in while he was distracted). He went 2 and a half days of just having milk and the occasional bits of cheese and raisins. Then DH made himself a bowl of baked beans with tabasco, soy sauce and pepper etc and sat down to eat it with toast to dip in. I was at work and had just phoned to see how it was going and while he was talking to be, DS got himself a spoon and got up to the table and got stuck in. We then realised he didn't like bland food. He got a lot better after that but he didn't like anything that wasn't perfect or certain things touching.

[quote shouldistop]@RedactedTaeFeck for his packed lunches at nursery ds will usually have a mix of pasta salad, tomatoes, buttered crackers, sausage rolls, buttered brioche roll. At home it's usually a hot lunch like beans on toast, some kind of pasta, tomato soup & buttered bread etc.
I suppose it wouldn't hurt just having the same couple of lunches all week. [/quote]
DS2 loved having the same thing regularly. His issue was that when he first started, to stop him eating his treat snack first, we told him that it was a school rule to eat your sandwich first. This was fine until day 3 when I gave him a wrap... he came home very angry that he'd been unable to follow the rules. He ate the wrap first anyway...

Repetition is fine. But then I girl I worked with brought a cheese sandwich, a strawberry yoghurt and an apple for her lunch every day for the 10 years we worked together!

Mr G is home... with antibiotics (he only finished the sepsis ones this morning). Clean dressing and to rest until his scans on Monday.

Our LA turned the hot meals veggie and a lot goes to waste in nursery. Hot dogs, burgers, pizza, quorn nuggets and meatball go down well. We bin most of the pasta and rices. The sandwiches option worked much better with our lot.

DD is stupendously fussy. She eats macaroni cheese or plain pasta, veg soup, sandwiches, fish fingers, waffles and beans.

And every unhealthy snack food invented.

Good news on Mr Groovee again! He needs wrapping up in bubble wrap.

@RedactedTaeFeck

Good news on Mr Groovee again! He needs wrapping up in bubble wrap.

I told my mum I was wrapping him in bubble wrap 😂

I make lunches as they cost £2.15 at school and no way am I paying that for them to eat a bit of bread. Also I can never log into the stupid iPay system the school uses. Packed lunches takes a couple of minutes and then I know they won’t be miserable all afternoon and starving monsters when they get home 😊. Also I really really don’t think they stuff they serve is edible never mind containing any nutrients apart from carbs. They make parents go in for a school lunch when the kids start school and it is vile! And the smell of the dinner hall which is also the gym hall is even worse.

Good news on mr G @Groovee

Glad Mr G is home now go rest yourself! Meant in the nicest way possible!

@Groovee glad to her MrG is home again! Fingers x no more drama for you, you have definitely had your fair share

An average of 32 cases per 100k across Scotland and we're still told it's illegal to leave our council areas and we can't go out for lunch etc.
It's just completely disproportionate.

@shouldistop

An average of 32 cases per 100k across Scotland and we're still told it's illegal to leave our council areas and we can't go out for lunch etc. It's just completely disproportionate.

Of course it is. Just like last summer when we were being made to queue outside shops, where places like the Kelvingrove Museum weren't open, when you weren't allowed to have a drink inside.

She will not open up quicker though because she's planned the big hooray reopening a week before the election.

Having said that, nobody I know is sticking to the rules, apart from my parents.

She will not open up quicker though because she's planned the big hooray reopening a week before the election.

You're not wrong there @RaspberryCoulis

I'm a cow, I'm using Covid to stop the people I don't enjoy spending time with coming to visit Mr G 🙈 especially the family member who tells Facebook that they are staying home but travel from an hour away crossing 2 council areas to fanny about in Edinburgh.

Even though they turned up the other day, Dd wouldn't let her past the door step 🙈😂

You've trained your DD well, Groovee!

D&G had 0 cases in 7 days. Awesome.

😂 @Groovee that’s a good use of Covid

@LizzieMacQueen

She will not open up quicker though because she's planned the big hooray reopening a week before the election.

You're not wrong there @RaspberryCoulis

Exactly this. It’s no doubt going to be rolled out with photo ops, just like the hairdressers stunt. Anyone still rigidly staying in council cages until NS gives them permission to leave, should’ve gone to Specsavers.

😂 @groovee seems to be a perfectly good reason to me and you can also say you know I would love to but the rules say I can't...... 😂

Groovee glad to hear Mr G is back safe and sorted.

We are just having a very quiet holiday at home. (But no dramas at least!)

Anyone still rigidly staying in council cages until NS gives them permission to leave, should’ve gone to Specsavers

I know, it makes no sense but I feel had for those who are too worried about fines etc to leave their council area.
My step dad absolutely can't break any guidance / laws due to his job his last day was the other day and he's using annual leave until retirement in a couple of weeks.

Dd was raging that family member turned up on the doorstep 🙈