what is unhealthy about home made chips

tomtontom

selement wrote: »

Um everyone knows deep fried foods are unhealthy? But not so unhealthy kids should never have them, just if you're dieting cut them out. I'd say shes not wrong but maybe being over protective

If you didn't eat them in the first place then you wouldn't need to be dieting.

There's no benefit to a child eating fried foods, in moderation or otherwise.

joop1977

http://www.labint-online.com/featured-articles/beef-dripping-8201-a-unique-fat-for-deep-frying/index.html

helcat26

why cannot you ask your daughter in law what her kids enjoy?
why do assume sugar (previous post) and fried is tasty to them?


surely you will get the same pleasure from feeding them their favourites?


you do not want to deliberately give them something other than their normal happy food?

littlerock

They are concerned gd will not eat potatoes and looking for ways to persuade her to eat themI suggested option above actually trying to be helpful andt was told also deep fried food is unhealthy. Did not want to upset dil by discussing so came here for advice as I realise my generations ideas of healthy food are out of touch.

Same reason I previously asked here what I could feed the gchildren as treats. II just do not understand modern rules for feeding children - i grew up in southern France on French peasant food where chips come naturally as do cakes and ice cream. I genuinely struggle to understand rules of healthy cooking for modern British kids.

(ps I have been told by them that gd loves sweet things cakes especially but must not let her have them as they are bad for her so I don't. )

littlerock

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HappyMJ

littlerock wrote: »

They are concerned gd will not eat potatoes. I suggested option above actually trying to be helpful andt was told all deep fried food is unhealthy. Did not want to upset her by discussing further so came her for advice as I realise my generations ideas of healthy food are out of touch.

Same reason I previously asked here what I could feed the gchildren as treats. II just do not understand modern rules for feeding children - i grew up in southern France on French peasant food where chips come naturally as do cakes and ice cream. I genuinely struggle to understand rules of healthy cooking for modern British kids.

Shallow fry them and bake them instead....you get pretty much same result.

Maybe they want you to serve fruit and vegetables.

missbiggles1

littlerock wrote: »

They are concerned gd will not eat potatoes and looking for ways to persuade her to eat themI suggested option above actually trying to be helpful andt was told also deep fried food is unhealthy. Did not want to upset her by discussing further so came here for advice as I realise my generations ideas of healthy food are out of touch.

Same reason I previously asked here what I could feed the gchildren as treats. II just do not understand modern rules for feeding children - i grew up in southern France on French peasant food where chips come naturally as do cakes and ice cream. I genuinely struggle to understand rules of healthy cooking for modern British kids.

(ps I have been told by them that gd loves sweet things cakes especially but must not let her have them as they are bad for her so I don't. )

You must be exceedingly old if your generation thought that deep fried food was healthy! (I also doubt how many French peasants ever ate a lot of chips either!)

Kim_kim

Get a tefal actifry & make 2 large portions of chips from 1 tablespoon of (get organic rapeseed) oil, that's about as healthy & still tasty as you can make s chip :-)

HappyMJ

missbiggles1 wrote: »

You must be exceedingly old if your generation thought that deep fried food was healthy! (I also doubt how many French peasants ever ate a lot of chips either!)

They may not have eaten chips too often but they ate a very high fat content stew made with the cheapest cut of meat that was available which has much more saturated fat than the chips of today have that are fried in very low saturated fat oils.

missbiggles1

HappyMJ wrote: »

They may not have eaten chips too often but they ate a very high fat content stew made with the cheapest cut of meat that was available which has much more saturated fat than the chips of today have that are fried in very low saturated fat oils.

Cheap cuts of meat aren't necessarily fatty and most people leave a stew to cool so that they can take any fat off the top before reheating anyway.

Deep frying vegetables takes something healthy and makes it into the opposite.