To ask what's the worst thing your kids have eaten??

[BlueSpanishEyes]

Just caught ds 15mo attempting to eat a dead bug of some sort, wee minger that he is! Anybody elsr caught their toddler attempting to eat/eating something nasty?

Flies. Plural. He was sitting in the sunshine eating a punnet of soft fruit and i didnt notice the flies getting stuck to his little hands and face and being gulped down with the fruit. He had fly bits stuck in his teeth.

My toddler son dipped his finger in a drop of pee left on a public loo seat and licked it

DD had a wee nibble of her own poo-the expression on her face as she tucked in was one of disgust. Can't understand why she did it a second time.
Preventing my child sampling faeces is not something I ever imagined my role as mother would ever include.
DD again, went to grab a cloth to wipe her face after feeding her lunch in her high chair. Came back to fine daddy long legs hanging out her mouth.
I was gone for about 8 seconds.
DS got a note from school (in the USA)saying "just thought you should know that DS ate paste in school today"
DS was a fan of "dog jerky" one for dog and one for him. Fortunately we were just dog sitting for a few weeks. Not sure of the effects long term of eating dog treats.
DS IN HIGH SCHOOL had to write an apology letter to his teacher for licking his classmates jotter. His classmate had to also write a letter apologising for drawing a penis on DS jotter. I thought it was hilarious.

DD swiped a turd out of DS's potty for a munch when she was about 11 months and crawling. Cat biscuits. Bird poo (still wet ) from the garden wall. Half a big tub of sudocrem. Sand, which she still eats age 6. Oh and she doesnt eat bogies, but she'll gladly pick them out and STUFF THEM ALL BACK IN FOR LATER!!!

My DS (19 months) loves to share EVERYTHING with the dog. This means I spend a great deal of time either proclaiming that he cannot keep eating the dog's biscuits or that the dog cannot keep eating his biscuits

My DS also decided to sample (along with the dog) both of my new MAC lipsticks a few weeks ago, I was rather devastated with that one as I looked at both lippies which were in pristine unused condition, instead now bitten in half

First Child once ate her raisins twice. In that she ate them, they came out the other end not very digested, dropped out of her nappy, and she ate them again.

Same child ate used chewing gum she prised from the pavement.

And whole eggs shell and all.

Second child once ate a spider. Quite a lot of hay, soil and sand.

I used to eat snails as a toddler. My parents love telling me how I'd smash the shells to get at the snail inside

My sister ate a manky gummy sweet she found on the floor, we were old enough that my Mum was happy to leave us unsupervised outside of Safeways whilst she went in for some bits!

I haven't got kids yet (I'm pregnant though) but work with them. When my charge was about 18mo we were in the garden, I was watering the flowerbeds and veggies and she was sat merrily playing with dirt in one of the flowerbeds, so I started taking pictures to show her Mum. I have a series of photos where she's happily playing, gets an interesting look on her face, grabs a massive handful of soil and shoves it in her mouth. I had a moment of "Ahhhh!" but I don't think she managed to eat much of it. Her Mum found it amusing when I showed her the pictures later on!

She's 3 now and I regularly catch her trying to slip a piece of playdoh into her mouth or suck a paintbrush with paint on She can't explain why she wants to eat it either!

My brother (who is now 34) ate his comfort blanket, leaving a little scrap.

Took a while.

I remember licking a snail when I was little and being really ill after (put me off snails and licking things for quite a while) I also went through a phase of eating raw bacon when I was about 7. I don't know why??

A worm.

I ate a slug when I was a toddler apparently.

My cooking is quite easily the worst thing my kids have ever eaten. Now they're getting to the age they can do student style microwave meals, they're much happier.

DD licked my roll-on deodorant when she was about 5 months.
She screwed her little face up like a cat's bum, but never did it again

I ate a bolt as a child

DD2 sucked on a slug

the worst one I heard was a df was having a shower her baby was on the floor in the bathroom with her, when she came out of the shower he was happily chewing on the toilet brush

somewhere I've actually licked roll-on deodorant- don't ask me when or why, but I remember the horrible dry, bitter taste

DS ate a dirty cigarette butt he found in the grass, he was 2 at the time! After I shreaked and fished it out of his mouth I had to rinse his mouth out with water, his wee face was still all screwed up so I had to give him a sip of my lucozade sport to take the taste away. I was still at my pfb stage where giving kids juice was the work of the devil, so that was a very guilt ridden day ..... Needless to say he survived!

My DD just ate a spoonful of mustard, she was so sad !

EsmeraldaEllaBella My DS done that with horseradish sauce, so I feel your pain! Although we did find it pretty funny once the dramatics stopped as we told him to leave it alone, he thought he was getting one over on us as soon as our backs were turned by swallowing a big spoonful, we had the last laugh!

Today my son ate a bit of soil and he also tried to eat a daisy (he's 11 months old) lol.

My best friend ate a cactus as a toddler and had to go to hospital to have the spikes removed!

When about 18months old, my dd was horrifically sick one Sunday morning.

Working backwards, it was because she had had picked some sweetcorn out of the outside drain trap and eaten it the night before.

(she had been playing out with dh, he presumed I had given her some fresh pieces to snack on)

We had last had sweetcorn on the Tuesday and some must have gone down the plug when straining it and it had lain unnoticed on the grill bit of the drain.

So food that had been down the plughole and been outside for four days.

She is now 12 and rarely is sick, such was the boost this gave her immune system (I am in no way recommending this!)

I hope this tale is in some way reassuring to parents who worry when child eats something fresh that has momentarily come to rest on a clean floor

DC3, Contents of a plant pot that had collected rain water yesterday. DC1 caused heart failure when 9 months old, had a dead Vole in hand courtesy of the cat, I did get it in time but it was very slo mo as the chubby hand was raising mouth wards..... DC2 was much more sensible, only had a thing for putting toys in his mouth!

He picked up an open can of Fanta on the pavement and took a swig.

Pigeon shit off the decking, a full snail in its shell minding its own business and most recently, nearly gave me a heart attack when he sipped out of a bottle of Zoflora before telling me "this juice tastes funny, Mummy". Shitbag.