to feel that it is nothing to fuss over if a child does not want to eat the crusts on their bread?

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AIBU?

No problem.
I sometimes leave mine too, DD generally doesn't, but knows she can if she wants.

Actually, my children won't eat soup.

No its no big deal, so I don't make a fuss.

But it irritates the crap out of me

Weirdly, DS1 refuses crusts on white bread (soft) but eats the crusts on brown bread (hard). Or rather, if he has chosen the bread, which means usually something multigrain or poppyseed, then he will eat the crusts, otherwise not.

I pick my battles. He eats them from the right bread, or in the right company. At four he isn't quite hungry enough for a whole two-slice sandwich, and leaving the crusts is nutritionally better than leaving the middles. Meh. I often use a dinosaur cutter anyway, which removes nearly all the crusts. A child who thinks that sandwiches are boring and that he isn't hungry will often suddenly become hungry enough for a dinosaur sandwich even if it isn't naice ham.

Ruthless, I made my husband heart shaped fried eggs they other day which he pronounced disgusting and unnatural! Love the thought of kiddie shaped cutters, will look next time I am in Lakeland

My GPs used to tell me they would put hairs on my chest lol. That made me want to eat them even less!!

theodorakis how ungrateful of him after you went to all that effort. LEAVE THE BASTARD

^Actually the crusts give you curly hair.
Ds has, I don't so it could be true.^

That is so not true! I have had years of crust eating and it never worked for me. I now leave my crusts which sometimes gets me funny looks at meetings but, as there is usually so much waste, it makes sense to leave the crusts and just have another sandwich.

I had a friend who, because her DS did not eat the crusts, cut off his crusts. He then used to eat the sandwich leaving an L-shaped crust shape behind anyway.

CecilyP did they give you hairs on your chest when you did eat them?

Crustless loaf of bread is nicer. Although I love crusty bread.

CecilyP did they give you hairs on your chest when you did eat them?

Shhhhh, Kelly, I don't like to talk about that!

Bread isn't unhealthy at all, at least real bread isn't. I can't stand the "bread is the food of the devil" attitude. It has flour, yeast, water and a tiny bit of salt. What could possibly be wrong with it?

However, re crusts, my kids don't eat them and I can't force them to. If I cut the crusts off very finely they'll eat the whole bread. If I don't they will leave the crusts and big swathes of bread so cutting the crusts off gets them to eat more.

I have PCOS so I have to avoid as many carbs as poss.

YANBU.

I really cannot be bothered to get into a debate with my children about crusts.

I save myself for the eat your veg/no, you can't have more biscuits nagging instead

yabu. Waste of food. Crusts get eaten in our house, there's no issue with it.

Stepson used to refuse to eat crusts so I used to cut them off before making the sandwich, freeze them then make them into bread puddi g when I had enough. He loved my bread pudding :-)

I didnt say bread was unhealthy and there are only marginally lower carbs and fat against pitta (just an example) than a shop bought loaf, but unless you are making your own bread there is far less sdium and preservatives and bleaching agents etc in wraps, pitta and rye etc. A bit like rice and pasta, which are not unhealthy but whole wheat pasta and rice is slightly healthier so I would generally guide or offer my dcs the healthier option.

also bread is quite filling so it is easier to get fruit veg etc into them if they are not full up on one sandwigh it is esasier to offer healthier combinations. In my opinion.

I never made my dc eat their crusts. ds1 has always eaten his, ds2 never did but does now by his own choice.

YANBU. My DD1 used to go to a creche, they told her she had to eat the crusts on her sandwiches, so a started cutting them off for her when I made her lunch!

I can think of a whole load of better things to argue about than crusts on the bread :)

Sometimes, when reading stuff on MN and thinking about what DS eats and won't eat, I am surprised he is still alive or that SS has not become involved.

He hates crusts and only likes chocolate spread on bread. Is there a Special Hell for mums like me??

Oh, and he likes pasta with tomato sauce (is ketchup) and a pinch of salt on it...

Me? I prefer .

I buy Crusts Away.