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.

@SosigDog - what you describe as "basic table manners", are some arbitrary rules that were invented pre-1900 by people with too much time on their hands.

Some I can understand are about how pleasant or not it is for the other people around the table (chewing with your mouth closed). Others have absolutely no logic to them whatsoever (don't butter all your bread at once - what possible purpose could that serve??!). Do you conform to Mrs Beeton in full when you serve your soup?

"The lady begins to help the soup... commencing with the gentleman on her right and on her left, and continuing in the same order till all are served".

In serious breach of etiquette if not...

What's the problem with cutting all your meat at once? Seriously, how could that possibly offend someone?

Anyway, OP's daughter is definitely in the right on the spaghetti. Pasta is so much better when the sauce is properly distributed!

Oh this is one of those threads that start off light-hearted...

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.

@sosigdog I am afraid you have been taught the aspiring lower middle class guide to etiquette from Woman's Weekly or something.

Mine hates her food touching on the plate. As long as she eats it I don't really care.

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

But isn’t ‘tearing’ bread really ill-mannered?

“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.”

You’re right. Plus, take the full amount of butter you require at the beginning of the meal and put it on the side of your side-plate. Don’t go dunking a dirty knife into the butter dish!

How uncouth! ;)