To think my child is a bit odd?

[MixUpTheFood]

She mixes her food together before she eats it. She’s just had a pasta Bolognese for lunch, mixed the sauce in with the pasta then put cheese on it.

Yesterday at Nursery she mixed her peas in with her mash, had the sausages cut up, mixed them into the gravy then pour the gravy and sausage mix over the mash (Nursery Manager told me as she finds it funny).

She eats a good variety, isn’t overly fussy and is happy enough to eat the mixed food but won’t eat it if it’s unmixed.

AIBU to think she’s a bit odd?

Light-hearted btw, in case anyone needed to guess.

Use fingers to spread the butter @ZippyBungleandGeorge just to really up the ante. Make sure you slurp your soup loudly too.

What's the difference between mixing it all together and putting some mash, peas and sausage on your fork and eating it like that?
None of what you are describing is odd, lighthearted or not.

I don't eat spag bol and even I know the sauce should be mixed with the pasta, so DD is right.

I sometimes got in for a second cheesing, once I've mixed the first lot into my pasta 🙈

Yessss me too @sar302

I was just taught proper table manners. Don’t mix on the plate. Chew with your mouth closed. Swallow your food before taking a drink. Scoop soup away from you. Dont cut up all your food at once - cut one piece and eat it, then cut another piece. Don’t butter all your bread at once - tear off a piece, butter and eat it, then tear off another piece and repeat. It’s shocking how many adults don’t have basic table manners and eat like pigs.

😳 Mum? Is that you?

Don’t butter all your bread at once - tear off a piece, butter and eat it, then tear off another piece and repeat.

Surely all that tearing just creates more crumbs? What if you are buttering your bread for a chip butty?

It’s shocking how many adults don’t have basic table manners and eat like pigs.

For someone who is so haughty about having table manners you don't seem to be exhibiting any here at all.

She is being unreasonable for mixing her peas into her Mash

Thank your lucky stars. My son does not want any food to touch. Also insists on different spoon or fork to eat a different food....

Some of you would be horrified at our house, where the cooking of the pasta is finished off in the sauce with a spoonful of the starchy cooking water (the Italian way).

Its fine to mash up all her food, lots of people do this, adults and children.

There was an adult family man, BIL, who came to my house,for a Sunday roast dinner, and he proceeded to cut all the beef up into little pieces,and then mash into a big pile of all the rest of the potatoes and veg on the plate. It looked like regurgitated mush, but that's what he seemed to like best.

I think that if I had served it all up in that state, he wouldn't have eaten it though. Maybe the self mashing gave him some pleasure ha ha,

Don’t butter all your bread at once - tear off a piece, butter and eat it, then tear off another piece and repeat. It’s shocking how many adults don’t have basic table manners and eat like pigs.

That advice is for bread ROLLS. If you have a slice of bread, as for nursery tea, butter it and cut it into two or four pieces. Toast is also buttered at once and either cut into two or sliced and dipped into soft boiled eggs.

Pffftttt. Get the advice right if your judgy pants are tight.

If the nice taste of one food overrides the less than nice food, then I might do it too.
Or sometimes the combined taste is just nicer . I like a bit of bacon, egg, toast and brown sauce in each mouthful.

OTOH I don't like different chinese or indian food stuffs to be touching each other at all.

Most stuff can overlap a bit but I'll eat it separately, which is probably more "normal".

I guess at some point, perhaps as a child, I must have mixed/not mixed foodstuffs to discover my preferences.

I'd say she is experimenting with taste Op.

I do do the mixing on the fork though, rather than on the plate. Encourage dd to do this some of the time, before she ends up with awful table manners.

@sosigdog so uppity about table manners and yet you think tipping soup away from you is acceptable. The correct etiquette is not to tip at all, but to leave the remnants of the soup in the bowl.

Also bollocks to that slurps

A bit odd is the rule with kids
Whatever way you eat it, however nice your table manners are they will always find a way to make mealtimes disgusting now looking at the two humming when eating kids I’ve raised

Sounds great to me! Most kids are fussy about food touching.

Pea's mixed into mash is lovely. I'm 43 :-)

No butter for me as dairy intolerant also judgy pants snobbery intolerant

Mixing of pasta into sauce obviously not odd.

I'm intrigued about the "pouring" the sausages & gravy over the meal though.

Do you mean that she mixed it all on her plate?

Don't most people pick up peas & mash to make the peas easier to eat though?
(Either that or honey!)

it’ll be embarrassing as she gets older

The only embarrasing thing on this thread is your robotic checklist of 'how to eat a meal in sosigdog's world of fun'

I have some quirky eating habits e.g. I cannot eat beans on toast instead I used to have a bowl of baked beans which I would eat with a spoon and a slice of toast on the side... similar with cheese on toast it used to have to be cheese which hadn’t been melted although I’ve since revised that one...

But I believe you can buy plates with separate portions especially for the serving of food which doesn’t touch....

Oh and what’s with the tearing of little bits of bread? but then I dip bread in my soup....

I think I'd find it odd to see an adult mix a plate of meat, pots & veg together before eating.

I guess it saves deciding what to eat first or with what!

I used to do exactly the same until I began secondary school - then I noticed what the other kids did(or didn't do) and ended up doing the same I suppose.

But spaghetti bolognese? Always mixed in the sauce if it's served on top but usually I plonk the whole lot in the spaghetti pan and mix it there.