To not know why children have to eat the crusts?

[Anydrinkwilldo]

What purpose do they serve? Are they full of goodness? I still don't eat mine and I have no idea why I should

We were brought up to always eat everything on the plate because of those people in other countries that were starving.

It worked too. I mean people are still starving, but now I obsessively eat all the food on the plate even if I've had enough. I wonder if I can sue my parents to get the money to pay a therapist to cure me of it.

Bertha Sliced bread in a packet has a crust, or every version I have ever bought does anyway. How do you make bread without it forming a crust?

They're the best bit of the bread! Our kids eat them, but if they didn't they would send them my way!

My ED will leave the crusts off a slice of bread (given the opportunity) but will eat all of a crusty end of loaf or a french stick or a crusty cob.
It's just contrariness and there is no logic at all. Therefore when I catch her at it I do make her eat them up. I'd be less strict about it if she really diodn't like crusts, but that is clearly not the case.
My lot are always astounded when we have guests or are out and other people leave the edge of a pizza. It has just never occurred to them to try leaving the dried out bit!

I cut my DS's crusts off...He doesn't want to eat them but if I cut them off he eats far more than when he leaves the crust...

When my DS was a toddler he used to like the crusts of pizza but would refuse to eat the middle back to been a normal child now

A chemical is produced in the crusts during the baking process which protects against bowel cancer. Says so in the Daily Mail so it must be true.

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1201027/Eat-crusts-really-good-you.html

I am 50 and never eat my crusts and neither does dh or my kids.

If you want curly hair buy tongs.

It's wasteful not to, but I'm a pushover so DD gets sandwiches cut with those shaped cutters that remove the crusts. DS just eats them, and would probably find it quite embarrassing if I sent him to school with prettily cut out sandwiches anyway.

Because there's never been any discussion about it here. Unnecessary food wastage is not acceptable IMO.

My DD eats crusts. She eats crusts from pizzas. The only time she has ever left them is when struggling with wobbly teeth.

Drives me up the wall when her pals come over and I give them sandwiches "oh mummy cuts the crusts off for me". Lucky her, I don't!

My grandma always said that eating them gives you a hairy chest.

Not sure why she was telling 5yo female me that but so far I have been eating them and have not seen any hairs on my chest. I'll stop immediately if any do pop up though.

When DS2 was tiny crusts were the only bit of the bread he would eat.

He and DS1 used to share a slice. He still (aged10) prefers really crusty bread

It's just because of the waste, which is shameful, but we all do things to be ashamed of everyday

Even my 15mo can tell crust from bread on a bog standard supermarket loaf

I've always wondered this myself.

I always used to get told off for not eating my crusts as a kid but I've never liked them. Even now I cut the crusts off.

My uncle used to tell us it gave you white hair and curly teeth.

waste of food? when I can did them into pickle... yum..

Its wasteful to not eat the crusts and at an extreme example, especially with small DCs, they will often take literally one bite out of each sandwich and leave a load of wasted 'crust' that makes up three quarters of the food served.

It would only be acceptable if the crusts were cut off before being eaten and then they can be used to make into breadcrumbs for coating and topping other dishes.

I'm interested in the protective chemical, because 'they' also often claim that 'browned' food such as crusts contains a cancerous chemical, or is that just grilled/fried/roasted meat?

It is wasteful. I have no idea what the crust hatred is about. I wouldn't eat crusts as a child and I have no idea why. I just wouldn't. I wonder if it's people who aren't making sandwiches properly and just leaving this strip of unappetising, dry bread round the edges?

Sandwiches are lovely with butter round the crusts and the filling poking out.

But if someone doesn't eat crusts, then it's best to either buy crustless bread or do something else with the crusts (croutons for soup?)

This is a battle I refuse to fight, which makes Mr. Black bird and Mr Robin

Mine eat the crusts first. When DS1 was a toddler, if we were too slow, he'd have ours. They're the tastiest bit.

I can possibly go a step stranger....

I don't eat my crusts (I kindly pass them on to the dog) but, when eating a round of bread with a meal I prefer the square half. Please don't ask me why, I don't know!
My lovely DH will actually butter a few rounds of bread, cut them in half and give me the square ends. He thinks I'm a little unhinged but the square ends taste nicer!!!

I avoided them as a child as my Mum said they made hair curly and I desperately wanted rid of my curly hair.

Didn't work Still need my GHDs!

They are hard and horrible.

With proper nice fresh bread they should be eaten, but not with normal sliced square bread.

When you buy crustless bread, the parts which are at the edge of the loaf are dry and horrible too so basically exactly the same as crusts.

It doesn't matter if the filling pokes out. I pull the crusts in half and eat the filling out of them

Depends on what type of crust of it is as to whether I eat it.

I only weirdo that I am like square bread - none of this bread with a rounded top.

I therefore don't eat round crusts if I can get away with it - i.e. I've paid for it or made it.

I only don't like any crusts that look remotely burnt. I hate overdone food of any type and have been known to send things back before now!

Crusts are the best bit!!

My 7yro DD is weird. She will eat the crusts but leave the middle bit DS 12 leaves the crusts though