ruthiebusybee
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Maybe that seems like a rather strong heading, but I think this is...............
Went for a family meal today, BIL is a complete knob-head anyway, but is divorced and his daughter came with us.
I was VERY good with what I chose to have.
Starter options - Chicken pate with toast, deep fried mushrroms stuffed with cheese or leek and potato soup. I went without as it was only 12.30 and didn't want too much, and also without knowing if they put cream etc in the soup decided none of the options were good enough to go flexi on.
Niece had mushrooms.
Main - mostly deep-fried options. I went with a homecooked ham ploughmans, which was a massive salad with a crusty roll (didn't even eat the butter!).
Niece had the same as her dad - Aberdeen Angus Burger in a crusty roll, with added cheese and bacon, served with chips. Plus her Dad ordered her an extra slice of bread, which he went on to eat.
Dessert - all bought-in rubbish and uninspiring, so had a black coffee.
Niece had a huge portion of choc fudge cake with cream and ate the lot.
Drinks - I had sparkling water and a diet coke.
Niece had 3 (yes, no typo, three!) J20s.
That might not sound too bad if Niece was 20 or something, considering all her portions were off the main menu, not the child menu.
Want to know how old she is? She's only 10.
Might not be too bad if that happened once in a blue moon, but it's every other weekend at least. They eat take-out at least 2 times over the weekend, sometimes twice in one day.
They often go to Frankie & Benny's, where she is also allowed/encouraged to have 3 courses from the adult menu, and had eaten all of it (including a full pizza for main), and has been cryingin the car on the way home because she was so full. - Needless to say, I wasn't there on this occasion or I would have gone mental!
She's already overweight and being picked on in school to the point she was crying about it recently.
We have tried speaking to her Grandmother, who her Dad lives with (saddo!), but they won't hear of it, because she hasn't discussed it with them. Her Grandmother said " but she always wants to have it from the adult menu, you can't stop her", I said "yes you can, she's only 10 years old!!!"
Her mum isn't particularly health conscious, so it's not like she's eating healthily at home in between times.
She'll be going to top school in Sept 2012. It worries how much more weight she'll gain in a year.
Breaks my heart. And makes me so angry.
Went for a family meal today, BIL is a complete knob-head anyway, but is divorced and his daughter came with us.
I was VERY good with what I chose to have.
Starter options - Chicken pate with toast, deep fried mushrroms stuffed with cheese or leek and potato soup. I went without as it was only 12.30 and didn't want too much, and also without knowing if they put cream etc in the soup decided none of the options were good enough to go flexi on.
Niece had mushrooms.
Main - mostly deep-fried options. I went with a homecooked ham ploughmans, which was a massive salad with a crusty roll (didn't even eat the butter!).
Niece had the same as her dad - Aberdeen Angus Burger in a crusty roll, with added cheese and bacon, served with chips. Plus her Dad ordered her an extra slice of bread, which he went on to eat.
Dessert - all bought-in rubbish and uninspiring, so had a black coffee.
Niece had a huge portion of choc fudge cake with cream and ate the lot.
Drinks - I had sparkling water and a diet coke.
Niece had 3 (yes, no typo, three!) J20s.
That might not sound too bad if Niece was 20 or something, considering all her portions were off the main menu, not the child menu.
Want to know how old she is? She's only 10.
Might not be too bad if that happened once in a blue moon, but it's every other weekend at least. They eat take-out at least 2 times over the weekend, sometimes twice in one day.
They often go to Frankie & Benny's, where she is also allowed/encouraged to have 3 courses from the adult menu, and had eaten all of it (including a full pizza for main), and has been cryingin the car on the way home because she was so full. - Needless to say, I wasn't there on this occasion or I would have gone mental!
She's already overweight and being picked on in school to the point she was crying about it recently.
We have tried speaking to her Grandmother, who her Dad lives with (saddo!), but they won't hear of it, because she hasn't discussed it with them. Her Grandmother said " but she always wants to have it from the adult menu, you can't stop her", I said "yes you can, she's only 10 years old!!!"
Her mum isn't particularly health conscious, so it's not like she's eating healthily at home in between times.
She'll be going to top school in Sept 2012. It worries how much more weight she'll gain in a year.
Breaks my heart. And makes me so angry.
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