Love kills.

[flashy]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

Great theory, if you have time !!

yeah i know what you mean dave, i used to make them at night when reece was asleep in bed, i'd make enough for that week and freeze them in little containers, he loved them....infact i still do it to an extent now lol ive been known to be up till well gone 12 making shepherds pie and bolognaise so i can freeze them...silly i know, but a lot healthier than shop bought stuff

[Margaret Pilkington]

Another way that children ingest unhealthy calories is in fizzy drinks.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

And along with back pain, probably the most abused illness going .

Unfortunately those who genuinely suffer get lumped along with those who abuse the fact that it's an invisible illness - real sufferers from depression also end up feeling guilt because they have no control over it when other people treat them like they think they ought to have. If you've never suffered just be glad of that and have compassion for those who do.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Another way that children ingest unhealthy calories is in fizzy drinks.

Have you seen the junk that goes into fizzy drinks??!!! Aspartame is everywhere. Even the ones with sugar in have aspartame too.

[flashy]

ive been on anti depressants since november, depression isnt a nice thing, i used to be sat there as happy as anything one minute then crying for no apparent reason the next, if anyone ever so much as looked at me the wrong way i'd either gob off at them or hit them (ask tinks) now i'm a lot calmer and i find things easier to cope with, people go on these tablets for different reasons, doesnt stop me being a bitch though

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by flashytart

yeah i know what you mean dave, i used to make them at night when reece was asleep in bed, i'd make enough for that week and freeze them in little containers, he loved them....infact i still do it to an extent now lol ive been known to be up till well gone 12 making shepherds pie and bolognaise so i can freeze them...silly i know, but a lot healthier than shop bought stuff

I tend to be up until midnight cooking books rather than food

[accymel]

Originally Posted by flashytart

yeah i know what you mean dave, i used to make them at night when reece was asleep in bed, i'd make enough for that week and freeze them in little containers, he loved them....infact i still do it to an extent now lol ive been known to be up till well gone 12 making shepherds pie and bolognaise so i can freeze them...silly i know, but a lot healthier than shop bought stuff

some of us are rubbish at cooking varied full meals i do me best & its hard with fussy eaters altho my lad will eat fruit - no veg or meat!! He is skinny thing but advice from heath visitor was to give him what he will eat because in his case something is better than nowt & he will starve than eat chicken or veg except raw carrots......i have tested the theory, but even still he isnt fed up on puddings or all his wims, just the stuff he will eat even fruit, still healthy.

[flashy]

i think children lead (sp maybe) by example, if they are given crap to eat when they are young they won't know how to nourish there own children when they have them...my mum and gran always cooked good healthy meal, as i try to do now, and reece loves nothing more than being in the kitchen with me helping me make things.......its the same as giving children chores to do....if they dont know how to do them how will they get on in life when they grow up?? reece knows how to use the washer and dryer, he tries to keep his room clean, he can make toast and has just started using the kettle (not that i wanted him to just yet) ive never forced him to do these things, just explained to him that he will need to know it when he grows up...i'm not the perfect mum by a long way...but i do try

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by accymel

some of us are rubbish at cooking varied full meals i do me best & its hard with fussy eaters altho my lad will eat fruit - no veg or meat!! He is skinny thing but advice from heath visitor was to give him what he will eat because in his case something is better than nowt & he will starve than eat chicken or veg except raw carrots......i have tested the theory, but even still he isnt fed up on puddings or all his wims, just the stuff he will eat even fruit, still healthy.

I was always told to try them with different things and if they don't like them them let them eat things they do. Trying to get the balance right is difficult especially with kids because there tatse buds change very quickly as they grow up.

Now of course the advice is totally different

[flashy]

Originally Posted by accymel

some of us are rubbish at cooking varied full meals i do me best & its hard with fussy eaters altho my lad will eat fruit - no veg or meat!! He is skinny thing but advice from heath visitor was to give him what he will eat because in his case something is better than nowt & he will starve than eat chicken or veg except raw carrots......i have tested the theory, but even still he isnt fed up on puddings or all his wims, just the stuff he will eat even fruit, still healthy.

but at least he is getting some fruit n veg mel, even if it is only raw carrots....some kids dont even get that....good on ya

[lancsdave]

Originally Posted by flashytart

i think children lead (sp maybe) by example, if they are given crap to eat when they are young they won't know how to nourish

When I was a child the staple diet was banana butties with an occasional change to Spam butties. A cooked meal was a very rare treat. I think my daughter does get a slightly more balanced diet though because I would throw a hissy fit if I saw a banana or spam butty in my house

[WillowTheWhisp]

How old is Reece Flashy?

Mine have chores to do and they feel badly done to but I explain that life is full or chores and somebody has to do them.

[flashy]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

When I was a child the staple diet was banana butties with an occasional change to Spam butties. A cooked meal was a very rare treat. I think my daughter does get a slightly more balanced diet though because I would throw a hissy fit if I saw a banana or spam butty in my house

lol things where different in those days though dave

[flashy]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

How old is Reece Flashy?

Mine have chores to do and they feel badly done to but I explain that life is full or chores and somebody has to do them.

reece is 10 willow, i dont quite explain it that way...it sounds better saying well you have to learn for when you get older

[accymel]

Originally Posted by lancsdave

I was always told to try them with different things and if they don't like them them let them eat things they do. Trying to get the balance right is difficult especially with kids because there tatse buds change very quickly as they grow up.

Now of course the advice is totally different

Now u know what he's like - even at mccyD's!! Its a hard battle,like been said before about being over weight is hard to lose it but in our case its tother way round LOL!! I let him try stuff after that its hit & miss, also the stuff he used to like he now doesn't, but the one big piece of advice is that its not to become a battle ground issue over it at meal times especially otherwise will work against us!! Hopefully he will grow out of it like my brother did.