Could not believe my eyes!!!
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Topic: Could not believe my eyes!!!
Posted By: Bumble
Subject: Could not believe my eyes!!!
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 6:58pm
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Went to the supermarket this afternoon to get a few bits and pieces....
Saw a mum with a 2 year old (i guess) in her arms...... But the shocking thing was...she was keeping her "quiet" with a tub of margarine..... YES!!! Lid off and child was eating fingerfulls...!!!!!   ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:05pm
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Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:08pm
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What the.......!!!!!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Kellz
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:14pm
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Oh my gosh
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:16pm
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Gross! And yet I can't stop laughing! hahaha!! -------------  |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:18pm
Ella loves to eat butter 
I thought you were going to write about child abuse.. if this was the worst that happened to children, I'd be happy! ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: deharn
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:21pm
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That is just revolting!!!!!
I am just so disturbed at the moment with all that is in the media involving children. A collegue at work today sent me an email about a little boy that was killed through abuse WITH pictures of his injuries. I didn't open the email and certainly didn't read the details as I just get so sad when there is stuff involving wrong doings to children. I know feeding your child is not as extreme but for goodness sake where are some parents heads????? I know we all do things at times for a little peace, and quite however that is just gross and so wrong. The fact that the child liked it enough to eat it says crazy stuff. |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 7:22pm
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Butter all the way. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980 
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 8:44pm
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Eww although Alan has taken a liking to that sort of thing won't let him jsut eat it tho. See I have more of a problem with the fact that she had not even probaly paid for it as yet and that sort of thing really bug's me in a supermarket. ------------- Deborah Mum to:   
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:06pm
So you are saying kids that like the taste of butter/margarine must mean something strange is happening to them? riiiiiggghht.. 
I mean, yeah, it's wrong to let your child eat a tub of marg in the supermarket, but come on.. it's not the worst thing in the world! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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deharn wrote:Posted By: ooEvaoo
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:10pm
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Maybe the child has that condition where they have to eat junk food ..probably not, but gosh that just would be the oddest thing to see I tell ya! lolz. Where do some of these mothers get there ideas from. ------------- 
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Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:36pm
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I bet you after she'd finished with it she shoved it in behind something on the shelf.
Worked in supermarkets for years and you'd be amazed at what I used to find..
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:38pm
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OK so that would be like Maya's ultimate fantasy, strange child is forever trying to get her paws in the margarine when I'm not watching but I'd never actually let her get away with it! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:45pm
Well in my book it is a form of child abuse... you can either get a tub of marg for her to eat straight (I have nothing against having marg on sandwiches etc for kids) OR She can use her brain and get a packet of raisins!!! Its all about choices, and unfortunately in my opinion she didn't make the right choice, just makes me wonder what the child gets to eat at home.... ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:46pm
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And I realise that kiddies will try to get away with eating butter/marg straight, but for a parent to actually condone it....That's a bit wrong... ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:47pm
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LOL my thought's exactly. I reakon you could make a reality tv show about the day and a life of a supermarket.
------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 9:57pm
Raisins aren't much better, full of sugar 
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Posted By: james
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 10:03pm
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lol james love marg and f he gets it its a fight to get it of him he would eat the whole tub but i would never let him do that ------------- <a href="http://lilypie.com"><img src="http://b4.lilypie.com/nLJ5p13.png" alt="Lilypie 4th Birthday Ticker" border="0" /></a> |
Posted By: caitlynsmygirl
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 10:27pm
| ewww imagine how greasy her hands would have been |
Posted By: mamanee
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 10:52pm
Hahaha I have so thought about that before. I don't think people realise how interesting a supermarket is, especially for entertainment value with strange customers. |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 01 August 2007 at 11:02pm
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haha, I worked in a supermarket when I was a teenager. there was this one woman who always bought a few items, asked how much the total was, then asked to take something off, which of course required the supervisor key. One day I offered to buy her a calculator so she could add up her groceries first.. she declined! she is probably still there, coming in each day.. ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: caraMel
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 12:52am
Exactly what happened to me and DH! ------------- Mel, Mummy to E: 6, B: 4 and: 
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:15am
Guilty!!!! I refuse to take our food into the supermarket as I'm always worried people will think I have stolen it. Abby loves rice crackers so I buy a packet every week and we open them in the shop and she eats some of them as we go around. We of course pay for them when we get to the check outs. Open food, child who gets antsy I choose open food. Mind you we have been going to the same supermarket for the last 17 odd years so they get surprised when we haven't opened crackers. Mind you then so far in the last year I have paid for broken yoghurt (abby threw them), squashed bread, cheese with bite marks in it, broken eggs the list goes on. I remember a lady at the checkout laughing when the cheese came up and offering to replace it, I declined as it was Abby who did it. She told me that most people ditch it and replace it!!
Ohhhh and gross Margarine, Abby used to try and eat it all the time, but I would never giver her a whole tub and let her start eating it. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: hailstones
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:27am
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Ok I don't see a huge problem letting your child eat something in a supermarket (as long as you are honest enough to pay for it) especially if they are hungry but Marg?? I mean you have a WHOLE supermarket of food to choose from - and if they were going to just eat something like that then why not just get them some chocolate or chips - really can't be any worse than scooping out the Marg and eating that - yuck!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">  http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:44am
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nuttymama not everyone is as honest as you. What I find hard is the amount of time's Mum's have opened thing's and then forgot their wallet or something card decline's etc. and they say they will be back and don't show. Also I am teaching Alan that we must pay for thing's before we buy them which is hard when you walk around and find Mum's feeding their kid's I remember one lady who feed her kid a Bana and told me to charge her for it there is no way of doing that cause they are weighed item. We often take food in to the supermarket in a container. Moast supermarket's have pretty good camera system so will see where the food came form easily. ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: lizzle
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:24am
| jake loves margarine too, but as for buying him a tub of it, no thank you! I don't mind him having a treat (we have those cremosa lollypops for his treat), but margarine? thats a bit strange for me! opening stuff in the supermarket - i don't see that much wrong with it AS LONG as it is paid for, hence fruit not working cause of the weight thing. |
Posted By: Faraway
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:09am
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I'm guilty of opening stuff in the supermarket and that's when I didn't have kids! I always make sure I have enough cash to at least pay for whatever I open (usually a bottle of water)that way if my card declined or whatever I would've paid for what I'd consumed.
Think the tub of margarine is revolting (and not liking butter/marg myself I can't get how a child could find it tasty enough to eat handfuls of ). When I was little mum used to get cherrios from deli area and we'd eat them or raisins (something about the amount of time it took our little fingers to finish a packet!)
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Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:15am
They used to give them away, luncheon too, not anymore cause some PC boffin complained about the risks of food poisoning etc. But eww marg.. how can kids eat the stuff I hope she paid for it.------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow">   [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:32am
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my boys love marg too... and once i found a container spread on the kitchen floor as well as hands and faces. and i open things in the supermarket, used to be rusks...quite often do strawberries cause the price is on them but wont let the kids eat other fruit there.
Maybe tho the mum gave the kid the marg to hold and just didnt notice that he was eating it. i have been distracted enough in the supermarket to miss the kids putting all sorts in the trolley and eating chocolates at the counter... |
Posted By: Bumble
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:33am
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DH just emailed me this.......
Pass the butter - This is interesting. Margarine was originally manufactured to fatten turkeys. When it killed the turkeys, the people who had put all the money into the research wanted a payback. So they put their heads together to figure out what to do with this product to get their money back. It was a white substance with no food appeal so they added the yellow coloring and sold it to people to use in place of butter. How do you like it? They have come out with some clever new flavorings DO YOU KNOW... The difference between margarine and butter? Read on to the end...gets very interesting! Both have the same amount of calories. Butter is slightly higher in saturated fats at 8 grams compared to 5 grams. Eating margarine can increase heart disease in women by 53% over eating the same amount of Butter, according to a recent Harvard Medical Study. Eating butter increases the absorption of many other nutrients in other foods. Butter has many nutritional benefits where margarine has a few only because they are added! Butter tastes much better than margarine and it can enhance the flavors of other foods. Butter has been around for centuries where margarine has been around for less than 100 years. And now, for Margarine. Very high in Trans fatty acids. Triple risk of coronary heart disease. Increases total cholesterol and LDL (this is the bad cholesterol) and lowers HDL cholesterol, (the good cholesterol) Increases the risk of cancers up to five fold. Lowers quality of breast milk. Decreases immune response. Decreases insulin response. And here's the most disturbing fact.... HERE IS THE PART THAT IS VERY INTERESTING! Margarine is but ONE MOLECULE away from being PLASTIC. This fact alone was enough to have me avoiding margarine for life and anything else that is hydrogenated (this means hydrogen is added, changing the molecular structure of the substance). You can try this yourself: Purchase a tub of margarine and leave it in your garage or shaded area. Within a couple of days you will note a couple of things: * No flies, not even those pesky fruit flies will go near it (that should tell you something) * it does not rot or smell differently because it has no nutritional value; nothing will grow on it. Even those teeny weeny microorganisms will not a find a home to grow. Why? Because it is nearly plastic. Would you melt your Tupperware and spread that on your toast? ------------- formerly known as "Bee" Ethan ~ March 2003 Big 6 year old school boy! Micah ~ Aug 2008 ~ Smiley pants who loves telephones! |
Posted By: Bizzy
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:00am
| i remember when i was young and we had a batch and my friends in the caravan up the road (in the same motor camp) used marjorine and my mum used to say how could i like that yuck. It was more the novelty. I have fond memories of being in the caravan eating toast with marj on it...ahhh memories. and now it seems hardly anyone uses butter instead. |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:15am
Never thought of cards etc being declined. i always take cash, but I can see how that would happen often. Cheeky with the Banana lady! to get around the you must pay for things i always get Abby to put the crackers up at the checkout and she knows that the only thing she can eat is what i give her. I can see where you are coming from though I guess it could send mixed messages to a child. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:20am
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Bee thats the very reason I don't ever buy marg, butter only in our house, and only for toast. Sandwiches I use the filling to keep the bread moist, ie hummus, avocado, relish etc. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:29am
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yuck I do not use marg or butter. But as for DH he will even have it on his bread/toast when he is having peanut butter....ew |
Posted By: minik8e
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:40am
| We use Olivani, does that count as marg? That's simply because I can't have butter though (although sometimes I use aioli instead of Olivani as well)...but wanting to eat a whole tub of it doesn't quite come across (to me) as something delicious. I'd rather eat strawberries I think. |
Posted By: caliandjack
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 11:08am
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They are all marg, if you read the packet there is only very little amount of olive oil in those spreads.
Amy, my DP does that with honey.. eww yuck. The only toast spread i can't eat without butter is marmite. ------------- http://lilypie.com" rel="nofollow"> [/url] Angel June 2012 |
Posted By: SMoody
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 11:35am
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I dont know what it is with kids and marg. When I make hubby's sandwhiches at nights she eyes it and one day got her hand it. All I can say is freaking gross man.
We have a rule that I usually get her one treat in the shops. She is not allowed to eat it before we actually physically paid for it and mommy got the reciepts. Do it with her toys as well. She cant open it until I have the reciept in my hand. She can hold it however. Beein doing that since birth and seems she has the idea. I have to admit it irritates me to see kids eating stuff before it has been paid for. I think it is due to my brother taking stuff out of this corner cafe when he was little thinking that you can just go in and get your stuff and go out without paying. My mother use to have a tab there and prepay for stuff for the week ect. So he never saw a card or money exchanging.
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 1:27pm
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I do the same as Shirena. I'm trying to teach the kids that you can't open/eat something until it has been paid for. It's too easy to think you have your wallet on you (I once left it in the car - fortunately not at home as I suspected!) or that the card will accept. Even if you have enough funds in your a/c there are times when a card won't swipe etc.
I have a couple of times opened a packet of biscuits or tissues when caught unawares. And when I was pg with Hannah I was meeting DH (and his wallet) at the supermarket but he got held up and I was feeling sick (first trimester), so I opened a loaf of bread and started eating it ------------- |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:11pm
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If I'm not mistaken technically, opening something in a supermarket can be considered theft if you haven't paid for the item. I might be wrong but i'm sure that's what I have been told.
I personally would never do it becuase I think it is wrong. We take toys to keep maddie occupied...not food. And I agree that letting a child eat a tub of marg like that is a very poor choice. Why not fruit instead? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 2:40pm
I used to take a little box of crackers or something for Ella when she was younger.. shopping time always seemed to come at a time when she was hungry, or sometimes I'd have to rush in to grab something for dinner.. I usually keep something food related in my bag. Now if we go to the deli counter, she is usually given a piece of luncheon (don't start on what's in luncheon, I already know )------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 3:53pm
We have never ever had a single supermarket operator complain about an open packet of crackers. I had to do a store security course when I worked in retail and according to them even if someone puts an item in their bag you have to wait until they leave the store before it can be considered theft and not attempted. I'm guessing the same would apply with open packets. We shop at morning tea time and personally I would rather give her a few rice crackers to keep her happy, at 2.5 she is a bit old for toys in a trolley, and knowing my daughter would just get bored and keep throwing it out of my trolley. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: Chovynz
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:12pm
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I'm with you bee. ------------- Defending the male species since 1980
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Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:28pm
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Vick my mum used to say they probably let things like that slide because they'd prefer an open packet to a screaming kid ------------- |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:37pm
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lol true. This has got me thinking though, maybe I should just take a bunch of crackers in a container. I'm surprised how many people on here think it's wrong, it makes me wonder how many people in the supermarket think the same thing? A container would make it less likely to have a whole pile of crackers in my shopping bag when I get home ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |
Posted By: busymum
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 7:42pm
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haha yea I guess the other thing is the "suitable up to what age" dilemna. Our shopping trips are done in 45mins so I'd give something to Kryssi if she needed something, but I'd get Briona to wait - unless it was at bedtime and I needed her to last longer than usual I guess. ------------- |
Posted By: meow
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 8:56pm
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Get the free luncheon haha.. unless your supermarket has banned it because people have slipped over on it? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: 11111
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:29pm
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You will find alot of the c/o staff don't say anything cause they don't really give a dam not their money. I only have a problem becasue I worked there and saw how often this sort of thing happened. A container is a great idea or pop to the c/o and pay for the cracker's get a staff memer to put a sticker on them or something that would work as well. Sorry I hope I idd not make you feel bad it is just my thougth's on the matter. ------------- Deborah Mum to:
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:38pm
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I always feed the kids stuff in the supermarket. Maya gets "red sausages" (cocktail sausages) from the deli, and she eats them on the way round, and the gremlins get rice crackers or plain biscuits. The lady in the deli knows us, and she knows Maya eats them before we get to the check out, she even leaves the bag open instead of sealing it.
I really don't see the issue unless you then stuff the empty packaging behind the canned food or whatever. I have never once let the kids eat something then not paid for it, and the checkout staff usually laugh when I tell them to mind the open cracker packet etc. Oh and before you ask, I've done my time as a checkout chick, 6 years at New World while I was at high school/uni and I've never once seen anyone tell a customer off for opening food before they've paid for it, not even the store detectives that we used to have in 2 or 3 times a week every week. One thing I do thing is shocking tho is people who let their kids smear lollies/food all over the baby trolleys then just leave them so when the next person goes to use them they are caked with muck. If my kids make a mess, I always clean it up. ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
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Posted By: deharn
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 9:39pm
I think you misunderstood what I meant here, my comments possibly came out sounding a lot more serious than they were meant too. I have no problem at all with anybody liking marg, I mean't more that its a little bizzare to want to eat handfuls of marg. My word "crazy" was a jest "crazy". |
Posted By: newmum
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 10:36pm
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I always take heaps of snacks with me to keep Joey going - I cut up apple at home and take it in a container, I take tiny teddies or crackers in another container, I take a pack of raisins and usually a mother earth bar too... hehehehe, It's just enough (with the free piece of luncheon ) to keep him going till we get to the check out
I've never even thought about being asked if it's "stolen" or off the shelves, ooops, lol BTW I think letting your child eat handfuls of margarine is disgusting too ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: fattartsrock
Date Posted: 02 August 2007 at 11:20pm
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Thats crack, Ana, I know you feed Joe Joe magarine off a spoon at home, so quite lying!! ------------- The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P |
Posted By: nuttymama
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 6:49am
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You didn't make me feel bad at all really. It's always good to hear other peoples point of few on things I've never seen this from the other prospective. ------------- Abigail 06/01/2005 Jayden 21/11/2001 Micheal 03/04/1997 |