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Kids are picky eaters and there are very few parents out there who haven’t had to deal with this. Even though it’s a hassle to convince your children to eat their veggies (or any meal they actually asked you to make for them), the reasons kids give us for why they can’t eat something can be adorably ridiculous. Like not wanting their peanut butter and jelly sandwich because it has peanut butter and jelly in it.
My Kid Can’t Eat This is an Instagram account that collects the hilarious comments kids made about, well, why they can’t eat something. Scroll down, upvote your faves, and let us know in the comments what funny reasons your kids have given you when they refused to eat something, dear Pandas.
The Instagram account was started back in 2015 and currently has more than 114k followers. Though it’s run anonymously, HuffPost found out that it’s the brainchild of mother-of-three Heather. She got the idea to make the account after having endless fights over food with her kids.
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#1
After watching the movie "Ratatoulli" 658098764 times and asking me to make what they made 787628 times I spent hours scouring the internet for the exact same recipe from the movie and made it and now they can't eat it because a rat didn't make it
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#2
It's "too beautiful." She's crying actual tears of joy. She's 4
#3
Because it's broken. I can't eat it because it's his. So I guess we're gonna have to put it in a raft, push it out to sea, and set it aflame using a flaming arrow Viking style. RIP Pringle. Enjoy Valhalla.
"The reasons my kids can't eat foods range from hilarious, infuriating to ridiculous. They know they have to taste all foods and are all healthy, so while I'm not seriously worried, it still drives me crazy!" Heather told HuffPost.
"I hope that other parents feel a little less alone when it comes to food drama," she added.
The My Kid Can’t Eat This account asks parents to submit pictures of the food their kids absolutely refused to eat and add a quick comment with the reason why. However, the last time the Instagram account posted a new photo was back in February 2016, so the page is probably taking a “small” break from internet stardom.
#4
Because it's too cute. I actually had to freeze it so it could stay like this forever and he could visit it
#5
Because it "reminds me of Snow White." I told her that if this apple really could make her sleep for several hours I would have cleaned the store out.
#6
Because by removing the cherry seeds, I turned them into olives
Bill Taylor 5 years ago
As a parent of two grown kids I admire the dedication and effort some of these parents go through to prepare meals for their kids. I also admire their restraint.
Generally, there are broader reasons why kids are fussy eaters. For example, if something feels gross in their mouths of their hands, children will avoid it. But there are ways around this.
One way to get picky eaters to eat is to make sure they’re not snacking too much and are actually hungry for lunch or for dinner, according to KevinMD.com.
#7
Because although he loves onion rings, recently learned they contain onions
Esca Sav 5 years ago
When I was little I found out pizza had cheese and refused to eat it for like 3 years. My mom also lied to me that the eggs they sell in the stores are artificially made so I wouldn't avoid eating them because my a*s loves animals and couldn't grasp the concept of fertilized and unfertilized eggs. I called her from my grandmother's house a year later and started screaming "HOW DARE YOU LIE TO ME" when I had to go get eggs from the coop for dinner.
#8
Because if Honey Nut Cheerios taste like honey and Chocolate Cheerios taste like chocolate, this one must taste like the cast of Frozen and she doesn't want to eat Elsa.
Something else that works is having the entire family sit down to eat. If your child sees you eating the same food that’s in front of them, they’ll be more likely to follow your example. That also means that your child should be eating the same food that you’re eating (this is also a great reason to start eating healthier).
At the end of the day, kids are smart and you should have a proper conversation with them about food: what’s good for them, what’s bad for them. And why it’s important for them to eat their veggies!
#10
Because she doesn't like "all the nipples." Me: You mean, seeds?" Her: No, NIPPLES."
#11
Because he discovered halfway through that it isn't an Oreo. I never said it was an Oreo. He's crying. There is a crowd forming. Send help.
#13
Peanut butter and honey sandwich because the honey looks like a rabbit and she doesn't want to wreck it. In her defense, it totally does.
#14
Because there are too many spoons in the bowl. (You'll never, EVER, guess who put them there.)
#15
Because she asked for cheese and crackers, not crackers and cheese.
#16
Because they don't have heads. Side note: He bit all of the heads off
#17
Grilled cheese sandwich because it has a "tail" and he doesn't eat animals
#18
Because he doesn't like his food this fancy
#20
Because it's cold and "tastes like you mixed a bunch of fruits together." Um, I did
#21
Fresh carrot from the garden because it has legs
#22
Because she doesn't like the "orange thing" on the bottom. It's her fork...
#23
I got a new toy and spent AGES cutting the boy's lunch out. Eddie took one look, sighed, and said "You shouldn't have done that."
Jack Chandra 5 years ago
I would have to restrain myself from stuffing each piece up his nose…
Big Blue Cat 5 years ago
I don't have kids but I have heard thousand times that you should include your kids to cooking. When they can participate, they will want to eat the food. Plus they get familiarized with different ingredients, which prevents picky eating. What better to do than let the KIDS do the cutting (I assume these were done with a cookie cutter or similar). And you shouldn't raise your kids to think that they are king, worshipped by a mother who is their slave who sacrifies their life for making pretty food for the little king. I'm sorry, you might feel you are doing something great but you are growing a monster who will wait for mommy to peel potatos and cut corns from cobs in their thirties. Normal, regular care is enough. Once in a blue moon is ok, but I think nowadays parents think every day needs to be "special" for the kids.
Catlady6000 5 years ago
You would be a good parent. I started my daughter cooking her own eggs at 2. She loves to cook and is amazing at it
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Jane Thorne-Gutierrez 5 years ago
My grandson ( age 6) came into the kitchen while his mom was making cabbage rolls. He said " Are you making that stinky lettuce again?" " I think you better just throw it out , and do tacos "... we will forever refer to cabbage now as stinky lettuce.
Jasmina Pavlovic 5 years ago
Nice kid ... really ... manners ... wohoo ... 🤨
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Mare Freed 5 years ago
I would have gobbled it all down in front of him and offered him nothing else for lunch.
Steve Cruz 5 years ago
His response indicates he needs training in how to be appreciative. Ask which ones he doesn't like and remove them from his plate: he can eat what's left, if anything.
Alessandra Trabalho 5 years ago
Disguising cucumber in hearts and stars forms? Nononononono....
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago
What's wrong with basic geometric shapes... like circles, squares and triangles? :P
#24
Because she's a vegetarian. She wants chicken nuggets instead
Oskar vanZandt 5 years ago (edited)
I'm surprised how many people could not identify this as sliced sausage! Better quality sausages always have a 'coarser' texture inside- means there's more actual meat rather than the cut-off fat, innards, ground bones etc. blended into a mush.
#26
Dumpling because, "ewww, it has toes.."
deanna woods 5 years ago
If your kid doesn't want the dumpling, I'll eat it. I love dumplings.
#27
Because the icing cracked when he dropped it. He's 17
#28
Because they're "blurry" (wavy).
#29
Because they're all "cracked open like humpty dumpty" and he "can't eat things that are broken," because they might "break him." And "no one would be able to put him together again."
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Kid's logic - you will never understand it but you have to live with it for a few years.
#31
Because "it has seeds."
#32
She refused the yogurt I picked out for her (left) and insisted on picking out one herself (right).
#33
Because it's exactly what she asked for. I'll end up eating it standing over the trash like a beggar and she'll ask for it two hours from now. When I tell her it's gone she'll cry like a Directioner upset about Zayn and I hate myself for even referencing that
Ziya (Wenny) Liu 5 years ago
I hate to say this, and I'll definitely get downvoted, but a lot of these kids sound like they're either cluless or spoiled.
#34
Because it looks like a booty
#35
Because she farted on it and now it's a fart muffin
#36
Because she already ate at school. It's Sunday
#37
Because I told him it was a leg... he doesn't eat anyone's legs. He only likes wings and parts you don't name... but no legs
#38
Because her "heart wants Goldfish"
#39
Because after being told repeatedly that there are peanuts in the candy, it turns out that- *spoiler alert*- there are indeed peanuts on the candy.
ABIGAIL KIRK 5 years ago
just a few more years and they will turn into more helpful humans beings
#40
Because they're dead.
#42
Because "it's broken. Please direct your attention to the 1.5 millimeter offensive chip in the graham cracker at the top. This is now garbage.
#43
Because I broke the carrots. HELLO, I MADE OLAF
#47
Because it's a bar of soap. Didn't stop him from trying though.
#49
Because "red is a scary color."
#50
Because she didn't want a Nutella sandwich. She wants the entire jar of Nutella and a spoon
#51
Because she asked me to cut it in half and then decided that's not what she wanted. "Back!" she says. Unfortunately for her, her mother is a muggle and her repair-o spell is useless. Unfortunately for her mother, she doesn't think that's any excuse. Side note - she is currently tearing her new, whole circle sandwich into lots of parts. I'm trying to remain calm.
#52
Because "it's what monkeys eat and I'm not a monkey."
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
There's not a single species of monkeys that primarily eats bananas because our bananas are the result of selective breeding and natural bananas look completely different.
#53
Because I'm making her share it with her brother and she "literally can't even." She's five
#54
Corn unless I cut it off the cob. He's 27.
#55
Because I refuse to cut it up and pour milk over it like cereal.
chi-wei shen 5 years ago
Milk on pizza: worse than pineapple or kiwi. Anyway, I like the pattern on the plate.
#57
Because "it's dirty." On Earth we call this "seasoning."
#60
Because the pizza is cut in squares not triangles and square pizza is too fancy.
#61
She can't eat these M&Ms because they have a "w" on them. She ate the ones with an "m."
#62
Because a lion touched it. In her defense, the lion does appear to be on something
#64
Because it's broken. Fun Fact: He tore it up himself.
#65
Because there are bites taken out of them. Bites she took.
#66
Because it's broken. I said "it's not broken, you just made more chips" and he tried to hit me. Oh look it's nap time
#67
Because "the ice cream is melting and the gummy bears are drowning."
Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago
I don't like fruit in my yogurt or jello. Textures are weird together.
#69
Because she doesn't eat triangles.
#70
Because it has too many colors. That's fine I'll take his slice and eat all the chemicals. I'm a giver like that.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
it looks really nice. idk how you wouldnt want A rainbow cake
#71
Because it's too yellow. Someone please get this child some turquoise corn.
#72
Because my son says there are too many colors and it hurts his eyes. My daughter carried the zucchini home from the farmers market like a baby, so she won't dare eat it.
#73
Bought this sandwich cutter, hoping my toddler might be more interested in eating. Why does it look like I just beat the crap out of Elmo?
#74
Because it's made out of "kitty cats."
#78
Bacon because it looks like shrimp and he doesn't eat shrimp.
#79
Because after eating some of it I said "It looks like you like it." He then decided he hated it.
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
this is actually good because next time he wants junk food be like nope - you don't like it.
#80
"The food face I made for Caden's lunch on Sunday that he refused to eat. He said it would kill him. Tears people, there were tears
#82
Because he asked for regular pancakes not Mickey pancakes.
Chantel Atwell 5 years ago
That's a really good mickey mouse pancake! mine don't come out that good! ;-)
#83
Because it looks like a Christmas stocking and he wants to hang it by the fireplace.
#84
Because while pretzels are yummy, and Goldfish are delicious, pretzel Goldfish are PURE BLASPHEMY.
#85
My kid can't eat this crust because "those are the bread handles and I can't eat the sandwich if I eat the handles."
#87
Carson wanted an egg in a nest for lunch. Specifically star-shaped. So I bust out the 12 grain bread and get to work. He was excited to receive it, but then he asked me to cut it diagonally. Sure, I said. He then proceeded to stare at it in disgust, completely appalled by the abomination in front of him, refusing to touch it because it's now "broken"
DragonsFox 5 years ago
I want this! Last time I tried to make this, I almost threw the pan out the window. I tried three times. I couldn't even make it round :(
#88
Because there's a hole in it. A hole that she put there with her thumb.
#89
Because I woke up early to make her this breakfast and she wants freaking cereal. She's having a total meltdown.
J-Yogi-Temp-Mom 5 years ago
well i bet you don't do that again. AND she gets cereal for supper now too! lol
#90
Because there are noodles in his chicken noodle soup.
#92
Four course breakfast because
1) "somebody licked my toast"
2) "the cereal is too bright"
3) "the yogurt tastes like Popsicles"
4) "the blueberries are too small. And too big."
And 5) Because she's a toddler and her sole purpose is to make me lose the will to live
#93
Because the peel is still on. Didn't stop him from trying though.
#94
Because "there's WEEDS in them!!"
#95
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich he asked for because it has peanut butter and jelly on it
#96
Until I remove all the strings and cut off the "butt nugget" (black part at the end)
Russell Ellwardt 5 years ago
At least, one kid with an understandable request among all the spoilt brats in here. I'm 54 and I still dislike the strings on bananas, and the taste of the dark end is unquestionably disgusting.
#97
Organic, all natural, overpriced marshmallow because it's a square. He doesn't eat squares.
Jack Chandra 5 years ago
Again, I'd be tempted to stuff it up their nose. It builds character!
#99
Because she's "full." This is breakfast. Full from what? Your dreams?
Angell Harding 5 years ago
If she doesn't feel like eating, why is that a problem? "Full" is probably the best way she knows how to communicate the opposite of hungry.
#100
Because there's hair in it. Sophia The First's hair...from the design on the plate.
#101
Because the cheese on her grilled cheese is "too soft" and "there's like cheese everywhere."
#102
Because it's a skeleton. It's an English muffin.
#103
Because it looks like Yoda. And he can't eat Yoda.
Kristof De Smet 5 years ago
thechnically he wouldn't be eating Yoda, but everything around him...
#104
Peanut butter Nutella s'mores toast with a marshmallow face because "she doesn't want to be eaten."
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Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
These are supposed to be funny, but instead I see a bunch of parents going to extremes not to feed their children but to PLEASE them while doing it. If any of these kids were actually hungry, they'd gobble up whatever given
Hiker Chick 5 years ago
Not necessarily. My kid went through a phase when he was a toddler where he was fine one day with what was served and the next day it was the most traumatic experience ever to be given whatever was on the menu. Guess what? I didn't make a big deal out of it, he didn't starve, and he's a perfectly well-adjusted young adult.
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Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
That was my mom's rules. She always said "I'm not a short order cook"
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David Jeu 5 years ago
I think the fact that you won't be patient enough to try pleasing the children at all costs might make you a better parent.
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Corey Smith 5 years ago
How about you give that food to a shelter where the kids will grateful. I grew up POOR and would have eaten any of this because I never knew where the next plate was coming from.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
The reason I ate anything (but meat after age 4)? HUNGRY. When we moved to a farm? I was the happiest kid on earth. I *knew* we'd have food! We were still poor, but at least we could manage a meal. (Even if it meant wild greens for me and hunting squirrel for the rest of the fam.)
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Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago
This whole list is why I can't have kids: I never want to have these struggles over what is a minor and almost petty "problem".
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
I remember when my oldest went through a phase where she would ONLY eat chicken (for meat, so no hamburger, steak etc only chicken) Luckily I tricked her. Hamburger - Chicken. Steak? - Chicken. Chicken? - Chicken lol. It worked great.... for a while lol
Cori 5 years ago
'I'm hungry, but I don't want to eat what's already been cooked.' Then you aren't that hungry. 'I'm thirsty, but I don't want to drink water.' Then you aren't that thirsty. That's how we roll at my house. No one dies from hunger or thirst and my house isn't ruled by pint sized tyrants. These were funny though, but in a 'thank god those kids are someone else's problem' kind of way.
Esca Sav 5 years ago
I don't have kids, but I have a pampered a*s dog. She can go for 3 days without eating just because it's not "food she wants." Good lord she is a diva
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Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
People might think I am weird coz I can’t eat certain things like Jam and yoghurt with lumpy fruity bits in. I wont eat rice, couscous, risotto, most asian noodles etc, I can’t eat pieces of onion so I have to pick it out of my food and pineapple is also a no no. These are just a few things and these are pretty much based on there texture.
Bunzilla 5 years ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has sensory issues relating to texture. I'm also a super-taster, so I pretty much have to have things so well integrated that I can't tell the difference, or else be separate and simple. It. Sucks.
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Esca Sav 5 years ago
I'm surprised a lot of people are offended by kids not eating because of ridiculous reasons. I thought it was funny. This is stuff they often grow out of, they simply don't eat certain things because of child-like reasons. Lol, like as a kid I refused to eat beans because of how they look and their texture or corn because I hated touching it while eating. Stupid reasons because I was a kid with a narrow understanding. I look back and laugh, it didn't make my parents bad parents or me a bad kid. It was my kid logic, like wtf. I USE TO SPIT CARROTS ONTO THE WALL. Albeit I was a baby, my mom thought it was a magic trick because she always hid them in my soups and somehow I'd be able to find them and spit them out, projectile straight for the wall.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
It's a moment in a child's life. Don't turn it into their whole identity as a "fussy eater". I went vegetarian at age 4, voluntarily, and was labeled a fussy eater... for eating asparagus, cucumbers, broccoli, y'know, the foods parents supposedly *want* kids to eat! (So I didn't lik emeat. Big deal. I'm still 5-10. Didn't stunt my growth.)
Curiouser and curiouser 5 years ago
I have both a child and husband that are such picky eaters that no matter what they're never happy with what's cooked... Even if THEY PICKED IT! At this point I'm just like whatever, eat a sandwich and shut up!
Candice Ravel 5 years ago
My mom was born in Africa and her oldest brother told her not to eat the grilled steaks because they were zebra, lol! It was in 1950, by the way, and it was definitely not zebra.
Marcia Ferris 5 years ago
I love the answers given by these children. They are creative. Children have emotional reactions to everything. For these children their answers make sense. We all have things we don't like to eat. And times when we don't want a particular thing to eat. These reasons may not be logical but in the child's mind these are how they can verbalize when we ask them why. Thus isn't about entitlement. This is about autonomy.
LeighPig 5 years ago
Wow! If you didn't like something as an adult of course you wouldn't eat it or chose to have something else! Forcing a child to eat when they are not hungry or don't like something is forming a dangerous relationship with food! It's boarder-line abuse! All of these reasons are perfectly legitimate reasons for these DEVELOPING CHILDREN!!
Carole Reid 5 years ago
I was hesitant about commenting on the obvious but I really hate picky eaters of any age.
Sue Prewitt 5 years ago (edited)
Neither of my girls EVER did this kind of c**p. They ate what they got, unless they really didn't like it (and that was rare). But I had them try it to be sure, at least one full-sized bite.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
some of these are spoilt kids being way too fussy but some i agree with
⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
These are mostly funny, but some people, like myself, cannot eat things with certain textures because they trigger our gag reflex, or hurt, or both.
John Baker 5 years ago
With every post like this I see, I'm more and more grateful that I decided not to have kids.
CADENCE RATCLIFF 5 years ago
Y'all are dumb. Not the parents but the people commenting. They're not making their kids entitled or spoiled by letting their kids have a treat every once in a while.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago (edited)
Children often get strange ideas about things that they've misunderstood because...they're children! A lot of these are just a child's misinterpretation of something they have no experience of yet. (dead raspberries) You can either try to explain or just leave it and they'll forget all about it by the next time. My daughter used to love baths as a baby, then suddenly as a toddler she started screaming whenever I tried to give her a bath. I ended up with her standing up in a shallow bath, arms around my neck, while I gave her a quick wash. I never did work out why and she was too young to explain. Bad dream maybe. It went on for a couple of weeks then she forgot all about it.
Anna Mae Ricks 5 years ago
Hi everyone I'd just like to point out that these parents took pictures of the food the kids ate, most of them didn't "cater to every whim" of their children. My mother would often make fun food because she enjoyed making fun things for us.
aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
Y'all seem to forget you were picky eaters too, as all kids are. The difference is your parents could get through listening to you cry as you begged not to have to eat it, unlike these ones. Neither option is the better or worse option, it's based in which bad part *you* focus on. So stop acting so high and mighty.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Overindulgent Parenting. My folks would just say, eat it or starve. We did not get to pick and choose menu options. This was dinner, that's it, that's all there is.
Tamara Horyza 5 years ago
i think there are alot of spoiled first world brats and starving 3rd world ones.
Jennifer Berg 5 years ago
All of you commenting about "spoiled children" are dumb butts. It's just kids saying cute stuff... Most of the time they only voice their opinion and then *gasp* they eat it anyway!
Ivana Junas 5 years ago
Learning difficulties and allergies happen in the third world too, the kids usually just end up dead instead.
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LeighPig 5 years ago
So you would physically abuse a person for not eating something you put in front of them? You should never force a child to eat everything or force them to eat something they don't like. You are literally taking away their autonomy! That is abuse! I'm so glad I'm raising my daughter differently.
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Martha Meyer 5 years ago
That's not education, that's simply a heartless and unloving way of raising children.
Load More Replies... Pittsburgh rare 5 years ago
These are supposed to be funny, but instead I see a bunch of parents going to extremes not to feed their children but to PLEASE them while doing it. If any of these kids were actually hungry, they'd gobble up whatever given
Hiker Chick 5 years ago
Not necessarily. My kid went through a phase when he was a toddler where he was fine one day with what was served and the next day it was the most traumatic experience ever to be given whatever was on the menu. Guess what? I didn't make a big deal out of it, he didn't starve, and he's a perfectly well-adjusted young adult.
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 5 years ago
That was my mom's rules. She always said "I'm not a short order cook"
Load More Replies... David Jeu 5 years ago
I think the fact that you won't be patient enough to try pleasing the children at all costs might make you a better parent.
Load More Replies... Corey Smith 5 years ago
How about you give that food to a shelter where the kids will grateful. I grew up POOR and would have eaten any of this because I never knew where the next plate was coming from.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
The reason I ate anything (but meat after age 4)? HUNGRY. When we moved to a farm? I was the happiest kid on earth. I *knew* we'd have food! We were still poor, but at least we could manage a meal. (Even if it meant wild greens for me and hunting squirrel for the rest of the fam.)
Load More Replies... Noez 🇸🇪 5 years ago
This whole list is why I can't have kids: I never want to have these struggles over what is a minor and almost petty "problem".
AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
I remember when my oldest went through a phase where she would ONLY eat chicken (for meat, so no hamburger, steak etc only chicken) Luckily I tricked her. Hamburger - Chicken. Steak? - Chicken. Chicken? - Chicken lol. It worked great.... for a while lol
Cori 5 years ago
'I'm hungry, but I don't want to eat what's already been cooked.' Then you aren't that hungry. 'I'm thirsty, but I don't want to drink water.' Then you aren't that thirsty. That's how we roll at my house. No one dies from hunger or thirst and my house isn't ruled by pint sized tyrants. These were funny though, but in a 'thank god those kids are someone else's problem' kind of way.
Esca Sav 5 years ago
I don't have kids, but I have a pampered a*s dog. She can go for 3 days without eating just because it's not "food she wants." Good lord she is a diva
Load More Replies... Foxxy (The Original) 5 years ago (edited)
People might think I am weird coz I can’t eat certain things like Jam and yoghurt with lumpy fruity bits in. I wont eat rice, couscous, risotto, most asian noodles etc, I can’t eat pieces of onion so I have to pick it out of my food and pineapple is also a no no. These are just a few things and these are pretty much based on there texture.
Bunzilla 5 years ago
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who has sensory issues relating to texture. I'm also a super-taster, so I pretty much have to have things so well integrated that I can't tell the difference, or else be separate and simple. It. Sucks.
Load More Replies... Esca Sav 5 years ago
I'm surprised a lot of people are offended by kids not eating because of ridiculous reasons. I thought it was funny. This is stuff they often grow out of, they simply don't eat certain things because of child-like reasons. Lol, like as a kid I refused to eat beans because of how they look and their texture or corn because I hated touching it while eating. Stupid reasons because I was a kid with a narrow understanding. I look back and laugh, it didn't make my parents bad parents or me a bad kid. It was my kid logic, like wtf. I USE TO SPIT CARROTS ONTO THE WALL. Albeit I was a baby, my mom thought it was a magic trick because she always hid them in my soups and somehow I'd be able to find them and spit them out, projectile straight for the wall.
Leo Domitrix 5 years ago
It's a moment in a child's life. Don't turn it into their whole identity as a "fussy eater". I went vegetarian at age 4, voluntarily, and was labeled a fussy eater... for eating asparagus, cucumbers, broccoli, y'know, the foods parents supposedly *want* kids to eat! (So I didn't lik emeat. Big deal. I'm still 5-10. Didn't stunt my growth.)
Curiouser and curiouser 5 years ago
I have both a child and husband that are such picky eaters that no matter what they're never happy with what's cooked... Even if THEY PICKED IT! At this point I'm just like whatever, eat a sandwich and shut up!
Candice Ravel 5 years ago
My mom was born in Africa and her oldest brother told her not to eat the grilled steaks because they were zebra, lol! It was in 1950, by the way, and it was definitely not zebra.
Marcia Ferris 5 years ago
I love the answers given by these children. They are creative. Children have emotional reactions to everything. For these children their answers make sense. We all have things we don't like to eat. And times when we don't want a particular thing to eat. These reasons may not be logical but in the child's mind these are how they can verbalize when we ask them why. Thus isn't about entitlement. This is about autonomy.
LeighPig 5 years ago
Wow! If you didn't like something as an adult of course you wouldn't eat it or chose to have something else! Forcing a child to eat when they are not hungry or don't like something is forming a dangerous relationship with food! It's boarder-line abuse! All of these reasons are perfectly legitimate reasons for these DEVELOPING CHILDREN!!
Carole Reid 5 years ago
I was hesitant about commenting on the obvious but I really hate picky eaters of any age.
Sue Prewitt 5 years ago (edited)
Neither of my girls EVER did this kind of c**p. They ate what they got, unless they really didn't like it (and that was rare). But I had them try it to be sure, at least one full-sized bite.
Fred and George Weasley 5 years ago
some of these are spoilt kids being way too fussy but some i agree with
⚞ Katniss Everdeen ⚟ 5 years ago
These are mostly funny, but some people, like myself, cannot eat things with certain textures because they trigger our gag reflex, or hurt, or both.
John Baker 5 years ago
With every post like this I see, I'm more and more grateful that I decided not to have kids.
CADENCE RATCLIFF 5 years ago
Y'all are dumb. Not the parents but the people commenting. They're not making their kids entitled or spoiled by letting their kids have a treat every once in a while.
Caroline Driver 5 years ago (edited)
Children often get strange ideas about things that they've misunderstood because...they're children! A lot of these are just a child's misinterpretation of something they have no experience of yet. (dead raspberries) You can either try to explain or just leave it and they'll forget all about it by the next time. My daughter used to love baths as a baby, then suddenly as a toddler she started screaming whenever I tried to give her a bath. I ended up with her standing up in a shallow bath, arms around my neck, while I gave her a quick wash. I never did work out why and she was too young to explain. Bad dream maybe. It went on for a couple of weeks then she forgot all about it.
Anna Mae Ricks 5 years ago
Hi everyone I'd just like to point out that these parents took pictures of the food the kids ate, most of them didn't "cater to every whim" of their children. My mother would often make fun food because she enjoyed making fun things for us.
aLittleKillingJoke 5 years ago
Y'all seem to forget you were picky eaters too, as all kids are. The difference is your parents could get through listening to you cry as you begged not to have to eat it, unlike these ones. Neither option is the better or worse option, it's based in which bad part *you* focus on. So stop acting so high and mighty.
Gerry Higgins 5 years ago
Overindulgent Parenting. My folks would just say, eat it or starve. We did not get to pick and choose menu options. This was dinner, that's it, that's all there is.
Tamara Horyza 5 years ago
i think there are alot of spoiled first world brats and starving 3rd world ones.
Jennifer Berg 5 years ago
All of you commenting about "spoiled children" are dumb butts. It's just kids saying cute stuff... Most of the time they only voice their opinion and then *gasp* they eat it anyway!
Ivana Junas 5 years ago
Learning difficulties and allergies happen in the third world too, the kids usually just end up dead instead.
Load More Replies... LeighPig 5 years ago
So you would physically abuse a person for not eating something you put in front of them? You should never force a child to eat everything or force them to eat something they don't like. You are literally taking away their autonomy! That is abuse! I'm so glad I'm raising my daughter differently.
Load More Replies... Martha Meyer 5 years ago
That's not education, that's simply a heartless and unloving way of raising children.
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