Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

Doozergirl wrote: »

I was pilloried on that board for suggesting that a chocolate with every meal does not actually constitute part of a balanced diet. Yet because it's 'normal' people couldn't tell me enough that I was wrong. But 'normal' is overweight now and no one understands what moderation really means.

I see what degree educated friends feed their children and it shocks me, yet the same people don't understand why their kids are chunky or won't eat proper food when they're constantly raiding the snack cupboard. We don't have a snack cupboard in this house.

I try to make sweets a treat, not a right, but they're given sweets and chocolate all the time by the grandparents etc. and sweets just get bigger and bigger. The in laws think nothing of giving them a 125g bar of Aero each. DS's favourite chocolate is a Snickers Duo. He complained when I once bought him a regular bar. He calls it a 'small one' and DD thinks that an entire Chocolate Orange is fine to eat in one sitting. There's barely a day that DD doesn't have a packet of Haribos in her book bag because it's someone's birthday.

The only way I can possibly keep their intake moderate is by personally not buying sweets and crisps for them at all!

We do have a naughty cupboard. It has stuff for dh in it.....crisps etc, stuff i use for baking, biscuits for guests coming, jams etc. and sweets.....useful for when lydiaj's kids visited. But as far as i am concerned it really is a cupboard that is used once a week or something.

I think sweets etc are fine as part of a diet....but not a daily one. Food for the soul is to my mind part of our make up now, but that soul warming food doesn't have to be devlish. Cakes, a bit of cream in our savoury sauces etc.....a little here and there is good for us imo....but the little bits add up!

And i agree, the edcuated are willfully blind and self justifying as much as the illeducated often. I know i am at times. But. Think knowing you can be like that might be part of the battle won. I hope.

purch

Wheezy wrote: »

Yes but don't get too excited, purch...it's not MSE's version of adultfriendfinder.com

I found it.:j

First post was someone moaning about her friend standing her up on a lunch date :eek:

Why on earth anyone would think that was of any interest whatsoever to anyone else is beyond me !!!!

purch

I think sweets etc are fine as part of a diet....

A tube of winegums are an essential requirement for the digestion of my lunch most days !!!

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

I found it.:j

First post was someone moaning about her friend standing her up on a lunch date :eek:

Why on earth anyone would think that was of any interest whatsoever to anyone else is beyond me !!!!

I don't think they are thinking about others interest, but then neither are we here, nor does most of the forum. I have no gripe against peopel asking for emotional advice or anything like that, but rather i find it sometimes enlightening.

lostinrates

purch wrote: »

A tube of winegums are an essential requirement for the digestion of my lunch most days !!!

I hVen 't had wine gums for years! I'm glad they still make them.

Doozergirl

I am terrible. I will deprive myself of a proper lunch for a box of chocolate fingers and a can of coke if the desire takes me.

Just not in front of the kids. Do as I say, not as I do when you're at school!

zagubov

silvercar wrote: »

lir, next you'll be suggesting that the marzipan carrot on top of the icing on top of the carrot cake doesn't count as one of my five-a-day!

It does; it counts as minus two.:D

lostinrates

Just as we almost get a handle on clutter, dh empties his londonoffice. There is stuff there from the italian office and flat!

yertiz_2

lostinrates wrote: »

I hVen 't had wine gums for years! I'm glad they still make them.

Can you still get 'Spangles?'

lostinrates

yertiz wrote: »

Can you still get 'Spangles?'

Whats that?