Now before I start. I want to make it clear I'm not looking for a heated discussion. So please be respectful with your words.

I have this inner battle on a daily basis that I'm somehow not doing enough for my kids. We don't suffer from intolerances not even food colour or sugar issues so our food is very much "old fashioned". In that I mean I don't cut out fat, sugar, colourings. We aren't lactose free, dairy free, soy free, gluten free etc. We got lucky when it comes to that stuff. I don't like things from a packet. I am cheap and I don't like additives. But not so much to say I could tell you them by number. Just enough to know if I can make it from scratch without adding numbers instead of ingredients I'll do that.

But I struggle. I struggle with the idea how I feed my kids is bad. Not saying that's a label that anyone has given me just sometimes it's how I feel when I see how others feed their kids. And it's as though I'm poisoning them slowly or something. Again this is MY baggage, not blaming anyone... just my paranoia.

So our diet? On a daily basis there's fruit, sometimes dairy, sometimes baked things, sometimes crackers (that's probably the only bought thing you'll find snack wise in my house at any given time). We have take away probably once a month or less if I can help it. And they'd prefer sushi over macca's (but then my brain goes... BUT IT'S GOT STARCHY WHITE RICE *DUN* *DUN*). I use full fat milk, butter, olive oil and vegetable oil. We use raw sugar, white sugar and brown sugar. White flour mostly. My kids, I believe have a pretty well rounded diet. They are healthy. They don't fight to eat fruit or vegetables. They drink water or milk and that's it (and more water than not). But I have so many friends who's kids aren't allowed colourings, sugars, fruit (because of sugars), dairy, wheat etc and not due to any intolerances either just because they believe it's poisonous to their children. Which I totally understand. But then I sit there all poisoning my kids (again this is what my brain says... no one has ever implied this, ever.) and think am I bad to feed them what I do? But the thing is my kids eat everything. And most of these kids won't eat what's put in front of them even if it's fruit or vegetables. I don't know how the parents do it.

So tell me. Given what I've told you about what my kids eat. Am I poisoning them? I worry they are going to grow up in this society that views food in a very different way to what they have been exposed and some how suffer as a result. I see 13 year olds portion controlling, and cutting back on carbs to prevent bloating and my brain just zaps out. My kids eat what they want when they want. As long as it's balanced I'm happy. They even pass on dessert if they are full. So surely that's a good thing right? RIGHT? Is diet the new way to determine good parenting? Am I destroying my kids with poor food choices?

/end neurotic fit