Feeding kid's friends real food

Jay-Jay_4

Hey Taplady .... where's your teletone toe taps avatar gone? :think:

Sorry off topic......

rainbowrisin

Is there any info anywhere about how much processed food children eat?
I know there's lots of media hype about it, but am not sure how much is hype and how much reality.
Judging by the replies on here we are breeding a generation who eats less processed food than they did during the war years:D
So who buys the chicken teddies / turkey's twizzlers and other strange things?
No one I know buys anything like that (well if they do, then they don't tell me), and you guys don't buy 'em.
I don't buy em. We are simple folk at the rainbowrisin residence and like food to look like food.
I do buy processed stuff tho - tomato ketchup, branston pickle, pringles for state occasions - oh aye, and teabags. My grandad refused to have tea bags in the house, as he reckoned you didn't know what "they" had adulterated the bags with. Now that's proper old style!:D

scaredy_cat_2

i can admit to having eaten veggie teddies - best alternative when working in a school!! looked same as chicken shaped stuff looked like pink goo (def no veg in them) wrapped in sawdust - thank god a revolution is taking place in school dinners i might not be as scared when my 3 year old starts school in 2 years!!

joannasmum

rainbowrisin wrote:

So who buys the chicken teddies / turkey's twizzlers and other strange things?

My MIL :mad:

Although I have to say that we have 3 things that are processed in the house.
1. Good quality fish fingers kept for emergencies.
2. Nairns Organic Oat cakes (the whole family is addicted)
3. Rock Organic Orange squash, again yummy but a bottle lasts us about 6-8 weeks. No nasty additives or colours.

DD is only 20 months so not had friends over yet. But neice and nephew eat sh**e (sorry only word i can think of) and basically refuse anything that dd eats, favorite with niece at the moment is tinned beans and sausage, scarry amounts of salt in those things.

foreverskint

Nairns oat cakes..........yum anyone got a recipe for homemade ones?

Off topic.

My coat is on ....................:rotfl:

Janepig

I haven't had any children over for tea yet (my two are too young) but DD starts school next week so you never know!!! But I'm scared now!! I'm not mega strict with the home cooked thing, I don't think the odd chicken nugget is going to kill DD, but she's quite a slow picky eater so I don't allow eating between meals, and she can have one small bit of chocolate after her tea if she's eaten it all (or made a good effort to). In fact she eats far healthier than I do (my diet is appalling), helped by the fact that her day nursery only feed them fresh food and plenty of fruit and veg.

She only drinks water or milk, and I can never understand why babies get to six months and go straight onto juice. Why? My philosophy has always been that if either of mine have never had it, then they won't worry about missing it. My neighbour has a three year old too and when she was one I remember her telling me that the baby would only drink tea. Why? Someone must have given her tea for her to know that was all she wanted!!!

And DD's favourite thing is just for us all to sit at the table and have our meals together, which we really make an effort to do, even DS, who is only eight months and on a different feeding timetable at the moment, sits with us and enjoys the atmos.

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chocaholic110

Took DD into work with me over the holidays. The caretaker told her it wasn't on having to be in school while the other children were off and that she should demand to go to McDonald's to make up for it. She gave him the most haughty look and said "Eurgh...I wouldn't want to go there"
He was shocked as he said he thought all kids loved McDonalds.

chocaholic110

scaredy_cat wrote:

i can admit to having eaten veggie teddies - best alternative when working in a school!! looked same as chicken shaped stuff looked like pink goo (def no veg in them) wrapped in sawdust - thank god a revolution is taking place in school dinners i might not be as scared when my 3 year old starts school in 2 years!!

Actually I'm quite impressed at how our school dinners have changed. I love the chicken salad tortilla wraps and the roast mediterranean veggies are to die for...course the kids don't eat them but that just means more for me!

QueenB.

My daughter often has friends over for tea and sleepovers, the boys are still a bit young.

I worried at first as not only do we tend to eat very healthy food, plus i make most of our food but we are also vegetarians. However i have found few problems, i just make a meal that i would normally and i say eat what you want and leave whatever you don't like. I also try and find out what the friend likes to eat and do a version of that.

I have found that nearly all the friends are amazed at what i can cook and how full our table looks at tea time, plus they love all the homemade goodies waiting in the treat tins and for midnight feasts:D I have heard many shocked whispers from children who watch me bake a cake for afters whilst tea is cooking, they can't believe how quick, easy and tasty it is.

Many have asked me to pass my recipes onto their parents and a cooking session has now become a regular sleepover activity, its great to see how proud even a teenager can be when going home to show their parent a box of H/M muffins;)

rainbowrisin

QueenB. wrote:

My daughter often has friends over for tea and sleepovers, the boys are still a bit young.

I worried at first as not only do we tend to eat very healthy food, plus i make most of our food but we are also vegetarians. However i have found few problems, i just make a meal that i would normally and i say eat what you want and leave whatever you don't like. I also try and find out what the friend likes to eat and do a version of that.

I have found that nearly all the friends are amazed at what i can cook and how full our table looks at tea time, plus they love all the homemade goodies waiting in the treat tins and for midnight feasts:D I have heard many shocked whispers from children who watch me bake a cake for afters whilst tea is cooking, they can't believe how quick, easy and tasty it is.

Many have asked me to pass my recipes onto their parents and a cooking session has now become a regular sleepover activity, its great to see how proud even a teenager can be when going home to show their parent a box of H/M muffins;)

I love your comment about the tins of treats for midnight feasts. My family all home bake (I home bake, but am very inferior, they are all seasoned WI veterans) and I can well remember sneaking down to raid slices of sponge (like my mum never noticed:D ) - that's brilliant. I think you're making a rod for your own back tho, as those children will be back again and again for more sleepovers - your treat tins will be licked clean;)