To think a 10 year old should eat crusts

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My stepson is 11 in a few months and only eats the middle of his sandwiches and then is hungry 1 hour after lunch and grazes on snacks all day. I don't understand why, at nearly 11, he is having his crusts cut off or being allowed to leave them. Is this normal? Do lots of people leave their crusts? Fyi he doesn't have any problems with swallowing or have any allergies.

I'm 41 and I don't eat crusts (sandwiches or pizza). DS (aged 8) is the same. We buy Crusts Away bread. Really no big deal, surely?!

I still don’t understand how many people are failing to grasp the concept of ‘waste’. One sandwich equals two slices of bread used. One crustless sandwich STILL equals two slices of bread used. Making two sandwiches and throwing one away because you decide you don’t want it after all? THAT’S a waste. Not eating the tiny bit you don’t like? Sensible.

Forcing a child to eat crusts does not somehow magically stop waste. It just creates an unhappy child. And the idea that an 11 year-old boy will somehow magically be full if he eats his crusts is laughable. An entire slice of bread has 100 calories maximum. How many of those would be in the crust? 10 maybe? Oh yeah - he’ll be stuffed after that.

Im 38 and I don’t eat crusts. I don’t like them - well only on home made bread.

Unclench and leave the kid be.

I threw away a whole loaf just now. Completely mouldy. It went into the composting bin.

I did think of MN as I did it

@HoldMyLobster

We only ate just over half a cooked chicken the other day, some went in the cats and the rest went in the bin. I did fear a Mumsnet ban for that....

It doesn’t take much parenting to make sure your kids don’t become fussy and precious Oh, don't be daft.

...and no one is 'offended' by crusts, they just don't like eating them

isabellerossignol - you are right, I forced myself to down the end of the bottle of wine in the fridge as penance, foul offensive stuff...yuk.

Absolutely pathetic of grown adults not to eat the very slightly differently textured part of a slice of bread. Wasteful, finicky, childish and unnecessary.

Really don’t understand the angst OR why it’s wasteful? What does it matter?

I see some people peel apples before eating them. I think it’s odd but who cares. I never peel potatoes or carrots etc, I think people who do are odd but who cares. How can anyone give any of this a second thought?

The waste aspect perplexes me. If I have a sandwich I use 2 pieces of bread. If I eat the crust i have used 2 pieces of bread. If I cut the crust off I have used 2 pieces of bread. I don’t cut the crust off and then use a third piece of bread. The crusts don’t amount to an extra portion so it’s not as though you then have to have a salad or biscuits to replace the crust! So it does not ADD to waste.

Throwing away perfectly edible food is wasteful. Allowing your children to throw away perfectly edible food is irresponsible. Allowing your children to become the kind of people who turn their nose up at something as inoffensive as a bread crust turns them into the fussy, selfish, over-indulged, unsociable adults who populate many of the other fussy food threads on Mumsnet.

Well then I expect everyone to eat oysters or be labelled selfish, over-indulged and unsociable. I love them but according to your definitions I know some right bastards.

I don't eat crusts on bread or pizza.

I don't eat the pastry in quiches or pies.

I think my kids eat them. I'm not bothered enough to notice.

Allowing your children to become the kind of people who turn their nose up at something as inoffensive as a bread crust turns them into the fussy, selfish, over-indulged, unsociable adults who populate many of the other fussy food threads on Mumsnet

Who knew breadcrusts were so vital to character development?

This is the thread that gives and gives

I'll never understand how and why people become such utter smug tits over things like 'fussy eating'

Well then I expect everyone to eat oysters or be labelled selfish, over-indulged and unsociable. I love them but according to your definitions I know some right bastards.

I eat oysters but I don't eat the tomalley in lobsters.

Oh the shame.

Throwing away perfectly edible food is wasteful. Allowing your children to throw away perfectly edible food is irresponsible. Allowing your children to become the kind of people who turn their nose up at something as inoffensive as a bread crust turns them into the fussy, selfish, over-indulged, unsociable adults who populate many of the other fussy food threads on Mumsnet.

LMAO, take a chill pill
Best you don't see what we toss weekly just cos we forget its there, cant be bothered cooking or we had to buy for 4 pack of steaks or whatever cos they dont do 3 packs and if we freeze the last one, it wont get used, it will get forgotten. Sometimes we cook up the 4th steak but unless dp eats it, it wont get eaten, neither me or dd eat leftovers

Or when I pick around cooked peas, I only eat them frozen.
Life is too short to eat food you don't like, kid or adult

Crusts aren’t nice, I eat them when very hungry (nothing else to eat), but they have very little nutritional value. They just fill a whole

I'm 60 and I always cut the crusts off.

Im going to cut off crusts off and just bin them for a month now.

I usually eat them but the vagina tightening over a tiny strip of bread is beyond scrooge McDuck

Ok @DollyDoneMore , whatever you say .
I’ll send my crusts to you and you can chow down like a champ 👍🏻

Just as a tip, every time he says he’s hungry. Give him a drink. If he’s still hungry then feed him more at meal times. Kids don’t (Normally) need to be snacking all the time

@squeekums
You chuck away steaks‽

*Allowing your children to become the kind of people who turn their nose up at something as inoffensive as a bread crust turns them into the fussy, selfish, over-indulged, unsociable adults who populate many of the other fussy food threads on Mumsnet.
The utter, utter, hyperbole.

I'm sorry you can't grasp the fact that people have different tastes and that force feeding a child (or adult) to eat something they don't like can have lasting emotional damage. Obviously there is a difference between genuinely disliking something and someone choosing to waste something (like a child who usually eats crusts saying they don't like crusts this one time), but do you honestly thing CRUSTS are the food waste that is killing the planet? Look at the industry of food production and you'd be apoplectic with rage. 4.7 million people live in food insecure homes, yet 1.9 million tonnes of food is wasted by companies (not individuals) every year. Turn your attention to this, rather than little Billy who doesn't like crusts.

neither me or dd eat leftovers
Why not? Chucking away a steak because of some odd principle is very wasteful.

If you buy steaks in packs of four but only need 3, then why not just buy three packs and divide them up, and freeze then in 3s?

Or if too expensive, just freeze the fourth one each time you buy a pack until you have three in the freezer? Added bonus being that some Saturday night you get to have steak for dinner and psychologically it feels like it was free because instead of having to buy it that day you've just pulled it out of the freezer? Or is it just me who thinks like that?

Buy crustless bread or use wraps instead. You’re just looking for a reason to be angry with him. Children are always hungry, it has nothing to do with whether they eat crusts or not.

psychologically it feels like it was free because instead of having to buy it that day you've just pulled it out of the freezer? Or is it just me who thinks like that? No, I do too!