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Well my "style" seems to be rare... or those of you like me are too shy to say it?

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velcrobott · 21/03/2005 19:26

In the past few weeks I have posted on topics such as food, Mc Donald and TV....
Now Am I the only one who always cooks from fresh for her kids (because they enjoy the quality of the food and I like cooking), does not go to McD (they wouldn't like it as there is no way I am buying the "gift") and who thinks they have a far better time playing then watching tele.

I was quite surprised to read that several people (and I am sure thousands more) feel it's a treat to feed your kids occasional junk food... what has our society come to??? For those who have the desire, time and interest to not feed junk, allow much/any tele... is it normal that we are considered the odd ones out, the weird ones? It use to be like this (generations ago), it was the norm... now we're called all sorts of things but made to feel that we are too puritanical.

I am sure some of you are going to take this as a controversial thread, it isn't meant like that I want to know if anyone feels like this too.... I feel very lonely on Mumsnet with my more "puritanic" stance

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fairyfly · 21/03/2005 20:51

I make my own nuggets with sesame seeds, huzzah

aloha · 21/03/2005 20:51

I BEG my ds to watch tv. He used to be Cbeebies greatest fan. "No mummy, we;ll go out when Cbeebies have finished and we've watched all the programmes...." But since his baby sister has arrived I think he's twigged that I might sneak off for five minutes me-time if he's safely in front of Tikkabilla, and is refusing to watch - it's terrible. I'm going, "Oh go on, why don't you watch a bit of Tots TV....you'll enjoy it...honest...please..."
No Pot Noodles here and no McDs...because I hate 'em and if I hate it, ds doesn't do it. Selfish? Moi?

aloha · 21/03/2005 20:52

I LOVE Cbeebies and quite miss it actually. Am reduced to watching Dr Phil while breastfeeding.

Enid · 21/03/2005 20:52

pruni - my sentiments exactly

aloha · 21/03/2005 20:53

I do love Jamie Oliver though and try not to feed ds total crap.

aloha · 21/03/2005 20:54

We had a lovely chocolate muffin today in that evil Imperialist Capitalist hotbed, Starbucks.

nutcracker · 21/03/2005 20:54

I would love to fee my kids better stuff but am a crap cook. I panic and think i can't do it and so give up, pretty pathetic really, i know.

CountessDracula · 21/03/2005 20:54

dd wouldn't eat her homemade pizza tonight....

so I gave her a bag of crisps

maisystar · 21/03/2005 20:54

yep i agree pruni. must stop reading the first post, it's just so...so... grrrrrr

WideWebWitch · 21/03/2005 21:01

Ha ha at begging your ds to watch cbeebies aloha. I feed my children healthy food but allow chocolate/sweets too, we avoid Mcdonalds but not 100% as I'm partial to a sausage and egg mcmuffin when hungover and my children watch FAR too much Cbeebies. Dd (15mos) can say 'ba ba bory' to the tune of Balamory. You think that's bad, I have a friend whose son's first word was 'backpack' because of Dora the explorer.

JoolsToo · 21/03/2005 21:02

I brought my kids up in the days of jam butties and chips with everything and no-one batted an eyelid.

(at least the chips were home-made - from scratch )

JoolsToo · 21/03/2005 21:03

forgot to mench - didn't have many sweets and biscuits though - funds wouldn't allow!

tortoiseshell · 21/03/2005 21:03

Fish fingers are bad????? I break open the champagne if I can force one down ds!

Pruni · 21/03/2005 21:06

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marthamoo · 21/03/2005 21:09

McDonald's is educational. Ds2, whenever he sees a capital 'M' says "MacDoorKnowlds".

I mostly cook from scratch, though I don't buy organic (apart from real crappy stuff like ketchup where I do buy organic to kind of mitigate the crapness of it as a foodstuff in general). Tonight we had individual smoked mackerel hotpots, new potatoes, broccoli and sweetcorn On Saturday we went to Burger King I know junk food is crap, I even read Fast Food Nation (which was supposed to ensure I would never set foot in McD's again - it didn't work, I want my money back!) but I honestly don't think the odd junk food meal is going to harm them when they eat healthily 99.9% of the rest of the time. It's been at least 3 months since we last went to a burger place. Ds1 doesn't think of it as a treat anyway - he's rather have home cooked food.

I like BigMacs. I'm sorry, but I do. I don't want to eat one every day, or even every week or month but once in a blue moon I fancy one.

Moderation in all things, and all things in moderation.

lockets · 21/03/2005 21:16

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JoolsToo · 21/03/2005 21:19

my three have turned into 'chips' off the old block

snafu · 21/03/2005 21:28

Gosh, I wish I was a perfect mummy, don't you?

LGJ · 21/03/2005 21:29

No Snafu I don't, it is a long way to fall

Merlin · 21/03/2005 21:29

DS was showing me his numbers today by pointing them out on the TV remote control.

Hulababy · 21/03/2005 21:31

Everything in moderation is my only "style" of parenting.

JoolsToo · 21/03/2005 21:31

or 'a little bit of what you fancy does you good'

expatinscotland · 21/03/2005 21:34

Here, here, Hula! It grows tiresome at times to continually read about what a bad mum I am b/c I have to work full time to feed DD in the first place; therefore s/times don't have time to 'cook from fresh' and can't afford all organic foods.

lockets · 21/03/2005 21:35

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Hulababy · 21/03/2005 21:36

snafu - no I don't TBH. Much more fun being an imperfect one I find