Party Etiquette Spin Off - Page 2

[tbone]

[QUOTE=thomlynn;8517448]This is our main issue. We have no reall issue with food so people don't understand why we don't want ________ "just for one meal".QUOTE]

I'm right there with ya! To our knowledge (knock on wood), we have no medical issues that require a certain diet, we just want to eat healthy.

I don't understand why the desire to have you child eat the best food possible is such a 'sin'. The looks and comments I get about being a hard a** about sweets and artificial food!

How can I politely get others to understand? One example is my neighbor, she's a friend (but we kind of just met), and her kids play with mine alot. She ALWAYS has junk food snacks. At home, at the playground, on walks outside, even when her kids came to my house without her she packed the bad -for -you kind of cookies as snacks for her kids and MINE! I know she's being thoughtful and it's really nice for her to give things to my kid's... BUT I don't want them!

[momto5girls]

[QUOTE=tbone;8529776]

Originally Posted by thomlynn

This is our main issue. We have no reall issue with food so people don't understand why we don't want ________ "just for one meal".QUOTE]

I'm right there with ya! To our knowledge (knock on wood), we have no medical issues that require a certain diet, we just want to eat healthy.

I don't understand why the desire to have you child eat the best food possible is such a 'sin'. The looks and comments I get about being a hard a** about sweets and artificial food!

How can I politely get others to understand? One example is my neighbor, she's a friend (but we kind of just met), and her kids play with mine alot. She ALWAYS has junk food snacks. At home, at the playground, on walks outside, even when her kids came to my house without her she packed the bad -for -you kind of cookies as snacks for her kids and MINE! I know she's being thoughtful and it's really nice for her to give things to my kid's... BUT I don't want them!

I would love to know what to do about this sort of thing, too. My kids are all celiac or gluten intolerant (2 celiac, one intolerant, I'm intolerant, littlest 2 are GF just because). Anyway, because of this, people accept that we eat "weird", but I've had the neighbor bring fast food for her kids so they could eat dinner at our house because her dd has never liked anything we've served her!

I struggle because my extended family is great about making sure that there is GF food at every gathering, but sometimes it's still crap. :

[thomlynn]

Originally Posted by Rachel J.

If it's my family visiting then we usually use "the good stuff." But not long ago we had about 20+ extended family members here to celebrate ds's baptism and dh said we weren't going to use up all our good ground beef so we got the regular junk meat from the grocery store. I'd prefer to feed everyone food that I know is healthy for them but since they don't seem to care and we can't necessarily afford it, I'm okay with occasionally buying the other stuff. I won't, however, provide crap like margerine or fake sugars and I still try to cut back on the amount of sugar used in things like tea or desserts (although dh gives me heck about it).

EXACTLY!!!! We'll do sweet tea but we won't do soda, for example.

[soliloquy72]

Originally Posted by Rachel J.

If it's my family visiting then we usually use "the good stuff." But not long ago we had about 20+ extended family members here to celebrate ds's baptism and dh said we weren't going to use up all our good ground beef so we got the regular junk meat from the grocery store. I'd prefer to feed everyone food that I know is healthy for them but since they don't seem to care and we can't necessarily afford it, I'm okay with occasionally buying the other stuff. I won't, however, provide crap like margerine or fake sugars and I still try to cut back on the amount of sugar used in things like tea or desserts (although dh gives me heck about it).

that's what I do, too. Whole Foods has ground beef pretty cheap sometimes and while it's not grass-fed, it's hormone/antibiotic free.