Too expensive to feed children "healthy" and takes too long

Fiddlesticks99

Why is it so expensive to feed kids on a healthy diet? For myself and my partner and her kids, it's cheaper and more convenient to pop a few chicken nuggets and sausages and chips into the deep fat fryer. These are easy and quick to cook and cost much less money.
To make a proper roast dinner is too dear and fruit bars are too dear. It's cheaper for us to give her kids a pack of crisps or biscuits. Her kids are fussy eaters too. They generally only eat crisps, bars, sausages and chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas etc.
We're both on tight incomes and find it difficult and time consuming to cook so-called healthy food. The teacher in school is a bit of a busy body too. She pokes her nose in the kids lunch's and has criticized them for having bags of crisps.
They enjoy convenience food and soft drinks and refuse to drink water and milk or eat healthy cereal. I suppose I have two issues, the kids are disobedient and uncooperative about eating good food and it is expensive to buy and make, and if they refuse to eat it after its made, then its wasted time and money.

colm_mcm

Why is real food more expensive than processed food made from crap? Is that really a question?

Oh wait, I know you now, you’re that guy with your partner and kids who gets in unlikely situations then posts stupid threads for a reaction.

At least you're not upsetting wheelchair users in your latest fiction.

alchemist33

Try scaring them into eating healthy food with stories of all of those wheelchair users who are constantly harrassing you.

runawaybishop

Fiddlesticks99 wrote: »

Why is it so expensive to feed kids on a healthy diet? For myself and my partner and her kids, it's cheaper and more convenient to pop a few chicken nuggets and sausages and chips into the deep fat fryer. These are easy and quick to cook and cost much less money.
To make a proper roast dinner is too dear and fruit bars are too dear. It's cheaper for us to give her kids a pack of crisps or biscuits. Her kids are fussy eaters too. They generally only eat crisps, bars, sausages and chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas etc.
We're both on tight incomes and find it difficult and time consuming to cook so-called healthy food. The teacher in school is a bit of a busy body too. She pokes her nose in the kids lunch's and has criticized them for having bags of crisps.
They enjoy convenience food and soft drinks and refuse to drink water and milk or eat healthy cereal. I suppose I have two issues, the kids are disobedient and uncooperative about eating good food and it is expensive to buy and make, and if they refuse to eat it after its made, then its wasted time and money.

Healthy or decent food is not expensive. It takes more time to make. People are too lazy to make an effort.

https://news.sky.com/story/junk-food-diet-leaves-teenager-blind-and-deaf-11801110

Why are you setting up a second thread to peddle your usual rubbish?

Tell me how

Fiddlesticks99 wrote: »

Why is it so expensive to feed kids on a healthy diet? For myself and my partner and her kids, it's cheaper and more convenient to pop a few chicken nuggets and sausages and chips into the deep fat fryer. These are easy and quick to cook and cost much less money.
To make a proper roast dinner is too dear and fruit bars are too dear. It's cheaper for us to give her kids a pack of crisps or biscuits. Her kids are fussy eaters too. They generally only eat crisps, bars, sausages and chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas etc.
We're both on tight incomes and find it difficult and time consuming to cook so-called healthy food. The teacher in school is a bit of a busy body too. She pokes her nose in the kids lunch's and has criticized them for having bags of crisps.
They enjoy convenience food and soft drinks and refuse to drink water and milk or eat healthy cereal. I suppose I have two issues, the kids are disobedient and uncooperative about eating good food and it is expensive to buy and make, and if they refuse to eat it after its made, then its wasted time and money.

You're wrong. Always wrong.

Flaccus

Fiddlesticks99 wrote: »

Why is it so expensive to feed kids on a healthy diet.

No its not. Salads are cheap and you can buy them made up if you prefer. You can buy chicken breasts in bulk. Fruit is cheap. You can easily cook stuff and freeze it for later. Healthy is easy these days. I don’t get it.

jam_mac_jam

Because you are lazy and a bad parent.

lola85

Is this thread a wind up?

lola85

lola85 wrote: »

Is this thread a wind up?

Yes, and a lame one at that.

Fanny Wank

lola85 wrote: »

Is this thread a wind up?

All of the OPs threads are

Pinch Flat

So OP you’re basically too lazy to cook a nutritious meal? Plenty of cheap and healthy foods that can be cooked easily and quickly.

jam_mac_jam

lola85 wrote: »

Is this thread a wind up?

Yes and not even a good one.

Don't feed the trolls, even if it's some nuggets and sausages

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

This is another poor attempt at a wind up. Of course you can fed children very well at lower costs. Plenty of us had to do it. Unfortunately for the OP it takes a bit of effort and common sense. Two things he's sorely lacking.

Fiddlesticks99

Protein bars are nutritious

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Fiddlesticks99 wrote: »

Protein bars are nutritious

Poor effort. Come on put some imagination in to it. Surely you thought the thing through before this attempt.

Princess Calla

Bag of carrots, tray of parsnips, bag of baby potatoes all a euro, an onion and stock cube, total 4 euros and you'll have a tasty soup, for the family, so probably working out 50 cent per serving.

Tray of lean mince 5 euro, tin of tomatoes a euro, broccoli and courgettes and an onion bag of pasta total probably 8 euro. Healthy spaghetti bolognese, probably 1.50 per serving.


Hardly breaking the bank!

s7ryf3925pivug

lots of babies and toddlers are low in iron. Important to feed them lots of iron.
My kid eats duck most days. It is a red meat and is very high in iron. He likes it.
Breast-fed kids are more likely to be low in iron than formula def ones because formula is fortified with iron.
Preemies have a higher iron requirement early on because they don't start out with the same iron store from their mother.

mullinr2

Fiddlesticks99 wrote: »

Why is it so expensive to feed kids on a healthy diet? For myself and my partner and her kids, it's cheaper and more convenient to pop a few chicken nuggets and sausages and chips into the deep fat fryer. These are easy and quick to cook and cost much less money.
To make a proper roast dinner is too dear and fruit bars are too dear. It's cheaper for us to give her kids a pack of crisps or biscuits. Her kids are fussy eaters too. They generally only eat crisps, bars, sausages and chicken nuggets, frozen pizzas etc.
We're both on tight incomes and find it difficult and time consuming to cook so-called healthy food. The teacher in school is a bit of a busy body too. She pokes her nose in the kids lunch's and has criticized them for having bags of crisps.
They enjoy convenience food and soft drinks and refuse to drink water and milk or eat healthy cereal. I suppose I have two issues, the kids are disobedient and uncooperative about eating good food and it is expensive to buy and make, and if they refuse to eat it after its made, then its wasted time and money.

Let them go hungry. They'll eventually eat the healthy food. We make one dinner and it's usually healthy with at least 3 servings of veg. If they don't eat it, they don't have anything else. It can be a struggle at times but you just have to stick to it. Start them young, if your kids are older then it will be harder

OP why don't you Google what shlite food does to the body..even better what it does over many years of it to kids..then Google rotten teeth and show that to the kids who seem to dictate what they want to eat. All kids will try to be fussy..but we have them and it's our responsibility to feed them right..it's a form of neglet to feed them crap in my eyes.
I have a New baby at home along with 5 other mouths to feed. I've a 13 hour shift to do tomor. I have a healthy meal already sitting in the slow cooker to be ready for tomorrow. Its cheaper trust me..the only thing is laziness and not being prepared.

The J Stands for Jay

Roasts, fruit bats and cereal is healthy?

freshpopcorn

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