Team Dh and Ds or Team PrincessHoneysuckle?

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Apparently the only and right way to eat a meal is all your least favourite part,then neutral,then favourite last e.g peas,chips, fish. 😵
I think its normal to eat a bit of fish a few peas then a chip etc

The only way is to a little bit of everything in each forkful, it’s the contrasting flavours and textures that make a meal so yummy.

Team honeysuckle!

Ketchup goes all over. My DH was horrified the first time he saw me use ketchup 🤣🤣

Coming in with a wild card, I eat my favourite bit first, then the rest in descending order. That way I get my favourite bit at its best temperature, and if I fill up before I'm done I'm not cramming food in because I don't want to waste my favourite part (or not eating it at all!), I can just chuck the green beans down the dog without guilt 🤷‍♀️

Hang on, am I right that the MAJORITY on this thread eat the elements of food on their plate INDIVIDUALLY, starting with least favourite and working up to most??
Genuinely shocked by this. I honestly thought pretty much all adults built forkfulls of food from everything available until finished, possibly saving a favourite bit of something for the end.

I'm 100% team @PrincessHoneysuckle .

I don't think I have an order! Probably veg first usually

This!!!

I like to alternate mouthfuls - so I'm team OP. The problem with eating the best bits last is that you might eat too much of the stuff you don't like as much, leaving no room for the stuff you like best. In addition, it gets boring eating all of one thing before you eat any of the next thing.

@babybythesea: A box of chocolates is different. If I am sharing it, I take my favourites first, because otherwise others might take them. If I am expecting to eat the whole box myself, I will save the best till last.

But then the good bits are cold, making them less good. And you have to eat the bad bits by themselves. That is totally sub optimal.

Eat a little bit of everything, or if something is really bad, leave it to the end, make it look a little less than was there before, and claim not to be able to eat another bite.

I use to eat one section at a time but now I have bits from them all and mix it up a bit . WRT sauce , I don’t eat ketchup , it’s on the side for dipping .

Team DH!

Weirdly, this is one of the things that chokes me up thinking about my Dad as he used to do it, too. Whenever we ate a roast together (our shared favourite meal!), we would eat it in exactly the same order. We only noticed when someone else pointed it out

I haven’t been for a carvery since he died because I know I’d end up crying!

This

Team DH.

I couldn't leave the table until my plate was cleared as a child and there's nothing worse than cold sprouts or parsnips. So I ate those first. Roast potatoes are always last. Mash and meat in the middle.

I eat the things I don't like first so that they're out of the way.
Then I'll just eat everything else together so a chip with a bite of fish.

Sorry what on earth are you people cooking that means you have to eat the "worst" first?!

I don't tend to cook things I don't like and neither does my partner.

I don’t have things I’m not going to like on a plate but I think there are always parts of a meal that are more exiting or pleasurable than other parts even though of you think of them as separate ingredients you like them all and are happy to eat them.

I’m a saver although not absolutely.

i tend to eat the things that will go cold first even if that means eating my favourite bit first.

if that’s not an issue then I save most of my favourite bits to the end. I might have some bites of it along the way but I don’t want to be left with just some green beans while all the roast potatoes are a distant memory!

the big exception is if I know I’m getting too full then I immediately revert to my favourite thing so I know I won’t miss out on it 😳

Team DH!

I always eat my favourite bits first and then the bits I don't like as much afterwards.

So I think that makes me Team ThereIsAThirdOptionYouKnow.

Or possibly Team GreedyWithNoSelfControlWhatsoever.

I'm not too sure 😁

Team DH

I remember a primary school assembly, where the headmaster, exasperated by the school's food waste gave us this lesson, extrapolating to a lesson in life

Do the things you don't like first and get the worst over with, it's downhill all the way then

Still didn't make me want to eat school shepherd's pie though

There's even a life guidance book called 'Eat the Frog' based on this principle

Team DH!

Team DH / DS

I eat the best bits first. Especially if they're better to eat when they're still hot. I'd rather fill up on the tasty stuff then if I have space have the things I don't like so much.

I do like my veg though so for a roast dinner I'll eat my Yorkie first, then lots of veg then I'll maybe have a slice of meat. I rarely eat potatoes so I don't tend to put them on my plate. I'd rather have extra carrots.

Clearly dh/ds aren't younger siblings.

If you have an older sibling, you must eat the best first or it's gone because "it seemed like you didn't want it".

Although now I feel safe from sibling theft I like to have a bit of everything on each fork and plan ratios so I don't run out of anything by the end.

In my head - "I'm now running low on peas, better just have one or two peas on each forkful"

Team DH all the way. Eat vegetables first, then potatoes, pasta, whatever, then the meat. Always!!! If it's all mixed in wouldn't deliberately seperate, but will always save the nicest meal past for last!!!!!

I'm in the middle. Yes, if you eat your least favourite bits first you leave the best for the last, but then in a hot meal that means your favourite bits get cold and soggy, so you don't enjoy them as much.