A plate of nuggets has triggered the internet and proven one sad truth about motherhood

Once upon a time, a photo of your kid’s dinner might have been just a proud parenting moment. Now, it’s a trap.

Lauren Robinson

@L_Robinson96

3 min read

July 10, 2025 - 12:07PM

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It’s just a plate of nuggets and chips.

But it has the internet in savage mode.

Once upon a time, a photo of your kid’s dinner might have been just a parenting moment shared. Now, it’s a trap.

A new trend has emerged on TikTok, with mums dishing up fast food, spag bol, and fish fingers and proudly posting it online.

None of that is the issue. A full belly is a happy belly.

The nuggets that launched a thousand comments. Image: amymercado1998/TikTok

It's as if these mums are daring the internet to judge them

The twist? They’re serving it with a side of guaranteed mum-shaming, uploading the meal knowing full well what’s coming in the comments. Because these days, being judged as a mum is a given.

Some have simply decided to beat the trolls to the punch… by inviting them in.

One mum shared a photo gallery of the dinner she’d dished up for her four children.

“Would you say this is too much or not enough for my kids?” she captioned the post.

Like waving a red flag to a bull, the raging mum-shamers descended.

“Wow I can’t write what I want to because I will get banned,” one person wrote.

“It's not mandatory to have kids,” another points out.

A third questions why bother sharing it in the first place: “why do people post this content like really you know you're going to get roasted it's 2025. Feed them better damn frozen crap.”

Which is exactly the point.

Could it be that leaning into mum-shaming has become a strategy? Because while commenters clutch their pearls, the views keep climbing.

The mum fights back valiantly.

“My 7 year old is on a diet! And I don’t like him tbh don’t tell him,” she responds to one commenter criticising portion size.

“I was being lazy today! Couldn’t be assed so it was better than air and water before bed,” she told another.

At this point, that simple plate of nuggets has 294,000 views and over a thousand comments.

All while the mum behind it quietly proves one thing: mum-shaming has become so normalised, so expected, it’s practically built into the algorithm.

Alexandra Sabol has gained a large following sharing her kids dinner prep. Image: TikTok/alexbabii97

It’s not just one mum.

Alexandra Sabol has a following of more than 782,000. Accumulated by sharing the dinners she creates for her children.

The self-proclaimed “lazy” and “tired” stay-at-home mum films herself plating up dinner for her three kids. Each video sparks a tidal wave of snarky commentary, reaction stitches, and spoof videos.

Her most recent video includes fruit. But even the sight of a healthy element isn’t enough to quell the pitchfork flames.

“Has anybody called CPS on this girl?” one commenter writes.

A second fires out “lazy is definitely true.”

“You should be ashamed of how you treat your children and yourself. It’s gross and disgusting,” a third lectures.

But here’s the thing. Every mother has met the air fryer at 5:37pm with a bag of frozen nuggets and a prayer.

Every mother has plated up something beige, something easy, something not quite Insta-worthy and not second-guessed it for a second.

These creators? They’re just the ones posting it. They’re proving a point. That you can feed your child, love your child, and still be told you’re doing it wrong.

They’ve used the comments section to highlight exactly how ripe mum-shaming still is. How casually we let it flourish online. How easily we contribute.

They might not care or have grown immune. But somewhere, a mum who reads those comments, and fed her child a similar-looking dinner tonight. She might care.