PARENTS V's FOOD!

[baybeesitter]

Parent's what extent do you go to ensure that what you child eats is healthy! Favourite brands? Why them? What do you not like? what would you like to see more of!

Looking forward to reading this!

[baybeesitter]

Again, I want to set something up to ensure ALL children, benefit from healthy foods which are rich in the nutrients they need! I see something that you as parents may not, being around children 12 hours a day! I see alot of brands which are favoured amongst parents such as Innocent, Nature and earth peanut butter and chocolate spread, Neo valley, Eco friendly washing up liquid and washing up powder. Even clothing brands such as Boden, Why? Why these brands? Why not others! Feedback would be great! I believe that this will turn into something beneficial for all parents, once have finished creating something special for everyone! but I need to research first!

Please be honest, don't be shy :)

[SBot]

If there is something in the list of ingredients that I don't know, then I will not buy it.....what is fructo-oligsaccharides for example, most likely a sugar of some sort! That is listed on a mini pack of nesquik chocolate cereal left over from a multi pack of cereals which we bought for camping last summer! Hubby will eat them!

I try and buy food which hasn't been handled too often......birds eye fish fingers, as lovely as they are have been handled a lot to get to what they are. I buy fillets off the fish counter, and make breadcrumbs, hey presto a fish finger!

I prefer to bake cake and biscuits than buy them for the same reasons. They don't last as long of course!

I look forward to following this thread......

[WorkingMummy]

I can't help smiling at your post Sbot. I am exactly the same.

I also like to read ingredients lists and will not buy anything with dodgy sounding fats or sugars. I have a slight fixation about rapeseed oil (v high omega 3) which I now bake and fry with. Ocado sell breaded fish fillets which have rapeseed in the coating. We all have these every Monday night with home made oven chips and peas.

I make my own chicken nuggets.

:-)

[Claire29]

I wish I could say I check the label of all the foods I buy but shock horror I don't!!! I've got 3 boys, I work 3 days a week, I don't have a cleaner so life is quite full on, if I had more free time perhaps I would stress over what they eat, but I'm quite relaxed in that as long as they are getting some protein (chicken or fish fingers, frozen ones!) enough vegtables, fruit, carbs etc each day, well thats good enough for me. In an ideal world I would love to bake cakes and treats every day for the family......but I dont so they eat jam tarts, cookies,crisps all of which are full of things I probably wouldn't want to know about BUT they eat these in moderation , same as when I was a kid, it hasn't done me any harm, I'm 33 and I've only got 1 filling!!

PS They eat honey nut cheerios most days but have been known to eat coco pops when I've got the variety packs!!! (hold my head in shame now :))

[WorkingMummy]

And that is totally sane. Your children will turn out every bit as healthy as the children of we food label scanners and probably with a slightly more relaxed mum. :-)

[Claire29]

WorkingMummy Wrote:

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> And that is totally sane. Your children will turn

> out every bit as healthy as the children of we

> food label scanners and probably with a slightly

> more relaxed mum. :-)

:) lets hope so