When your 1 year old likes olives

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NC in case she's on here

Scrolling through the dreaded Facebook and one of my "friends" has added a picture of her kid eating a plate of salad, olives , pitta etc. with the caption, "When your 1 year old likes olives 🙌.

It really grates on me, like some weird form of mum shaming. We've just got past the stage of her doing the "13 month old" thing. She's one and so now it's this hand clappy, look at me shite. (I know, I just need to unfollow)

In the comments some people are like, wow, mine won't even try (probably feeling a bit shit that little George will only eat quavers now), and her reply is, really? We're just introducing coriander and feta

AIBU to think this mum is just intent on shaming other mums and thinks she's superior cause her kid eats olives?

One of my nephews is very adventurous with his food. He's five, but he eats everything. Take him to a Japanese restaurant, OK! No problem… not like his auntie at all… I think I only liked four foods at that age… I was a very very fussy eater right up until my early 20s, and now I have dental problems, so I'm still fussy but in a different way because I can't eat a lot of food. I got better for a while… And then the teeth started going downhill… t

I actually feel awkward about the weird stuff my dc eat, so I joke about it quite publicly. We went to a friend’s soft play birthday party and it was all beige kids food. Mine wouldn’t even touch it.

We were just on holiday in Italy and we went to the same restaurant regularly and I ordered my 6 year old the caprese salad and the fried calamari because she wouldn’t eat anything else on the menu. The waiter actually asked her if she liked those things or if it was just ‘what her mummy makes her order’. She literally would not eat anything from a children’s menu. My 15 month old would about rip his own arm off to get to a plate of olives, hummus and pita. I don’t see how that should make anyone else feel bad about themselves.

Didn't realise it was something to brag about.

that's the whole point, any innocent post will be called "bragging" by the drama llama. Probably the same people who are heavily involved and complain about school gate dramas

If someone put a post laughing about their child eating what your own child eat, you won't call it bragging, will you?
So it really isn't about them.

That's surprising about Italy! Though my DM and her friends (who are all now nonnas) tell me that Italian DC are getting fussier.

that's the whole point, any innocent post will be called "bragging" by the drama llama

How was the post anything other than a brag though? If the mum had just put up some picture and baby was eating olives in one then fair enough but I agree with the OP and others this post was a deliberate attempt to show off and brag about how amazing their child is because they eat olives.

DS1 was the fussiest child at that age and refused to eat bloody everything that wasn't beige. His favourite food now is seafood (especially whole fish with head & eyes....bleeeeeee )

So yeah, tastes change weekly at that age.

And I still laugh at the memory of DS2's disgusted face when he mistook an olive for a grape. Loved grapes. Didn't love olives so much.

It makes no difference what they eat at various stages, the majority of children have phases of eating or not eating.

My oldest ate everything put in front of him till he was 9, including olives, feta and sushi, and then decided he didn't like anything. He lived on marmite sarnies, pizza, hummus and chopped veg, and pasta. He's now 20 and only just starting to eat a more varied diet again. He still won't eat meat, any vegetables if they are cooked, potatoes and a whole host of other things.

My youngest is, and always has been, very adventurous with food. He will try anything and there's little he doesn't like.

It is bragging because olives are an acquired taste and lots of people don’t like them. No one brags that their kid likes cereal because cereal is bland and kids are meant to like it.
It’s a brag that her kid’s tastebuds are more refined cos you would not associate olives with being a kids’ food
Plus people expect kids to only like boring food so when their kid is adventurous they probably think it’s something they’ve done
Mine used to love olives - now doesn’t.

“Backtracking,” @Ellisandra ? This isn’t a deposition. OP is just ranting/chatting about something annoying and responding normally to others’ comments.

My one year old liked olives, and feta. In fact he'd cry for more as I was mindful of the salt and wouldn't let him have much.

He is now 2 1/2 and last night refused his chips as I had bought crinkle cut and apparently that was a mistake.

Luckily I didn't post anything on any social media as I was a pfb mum who was sure that by making sure that my DS had a varied diet and always ate what we were eating he wouldn't be fussy

It is bragging because olives are an acquired taste and lots of people don’t like them.

that's so far of bragging!

cos you would not associate olives with being a kids’ food well, again, that's say a lot about YOU, no one else. Especially with the BLW fad (which I didn't even bothered with), kids are expected to nibble a bit of absolutely everything these days. If you take your kids to pizza express, they'll have olives there.

replace with hot dog, chicken nuggets, nutella and you won't call it bragging. It's about your own issues, not the one who posted!

It's quite scary how many posters are so uptight and weirded out by food, bog standard items you can find in any supermarket or your local shop. The attitude towards food is so unhealthy in this country

Lol my cousin was obsessed with gherkins at that age... then she stopped eating pretty much everything but white carbs, tomato sauce and Chinese food from aged 2-7. People shouldn't count their chickens

What @MrsHardbroom says.

I hate all these sort of posts that start with “When....”

I think the thing that makes it so obviously a brag is the 🙌 tbh

My kid liked olives at 1. I joked about it because I thought it was funny - he's a little pig who will eat anything, even things kids aren't supposed to like. I can't see how mentioning it is a 'humblebrag'? I'm really confused. What's braggy about a kid eating an olive?!

Nothing braggy about a kid eating an olive. But the "when your 1 year old likes olives 🙌" caption is. What's the 🙌 for? #smashedit?

you wouldn't call it bragging if it was something you give your own kids, regardless of the emojis, let's be honest.

Back in the day, before Facebook my baby / toddler wouldnt eat anything that I hadn't cooked. Which absolutely was a pain in the arse.

No baked beans.

No dodgy ready meals

No jarred pasta sauces.

No chicken nuggets.

Nothing.

The one thing he would eat was tinned, ambrosia custard. Guess who got harshly judged when sat in asda cafe desperately spooning custard from the tin into my wailing child's gob ?!?!

Both of mine would chain-eat a whole pot if they were allowed to, and have been that way since they first tried them around 1-ish. I try to limit their intake as they're so salty.

I wouldn't bother posting about it on social media as it's so commonplace. Most of the kids I know love olives.

I remember going out for dinner with friends who were terribly terribly smug about what their child would eat. The father was telling my DC 1 that x wasn’t at all picky like him. I think Dc 1 (age 5)had politely turned down olive tapenade.

I said to Dc1 that is because X is 1 we will have this conversation again with Uncle Smug when X is 2.

We’ve never had the conversation as X is now 8 and only eats jam sandwich and sweets. (No point rubbing anyone’s nose in it).

Sounds like some really salty food to me
Probably not great for one so young.

@MorondelaFrontera well I would. One of my dcs likes them. Can't remember how old they were. The other likes king prawns which she also felt share worthy

But I don't think I've 🙌 smashed it, as they say.

I deleted fb and insta. Never been happier!