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 am 39 and avoid eating crusts

YABVU, it won’t make much difference to his appetite if he leaves the crusts. Lots of people don’t like them. Feed them to the hens/dog/garden birds/whatever and learn to pick your battles.

You chuck away steaks
We a family of 3 and most stuff comes in 4 packs. If we freeze the last one it gets forgotten and freezer burnt.
We usually cook it up but it won't get eaten unless dp has 2 in one meal or he eats it next day. I barely finish 1 and don't eat left overs that not pizza, pasta or Chinese.
We refuse to shop at local butcher, his customer service sucks and way more expensive, even if we just bought 3
It happens with a few things as they packed or made to feed 4. If 3 packs were available we would buy them.

Why not? confused Chucking away a steak because of some odd principle is very wasteful
For me it's a bad association with childhood, being fed 3 day old leather steak. Pizza, pasta and Chinese I eat as leftovers
Dd just dont eat any left overs.

then why not just buy three packs and divide them up, and freeze then in 3s?
Small freezer so cant store bulk, things in singles get lost, then found after they freezer burnt cos it so full. I also think freezing changes texture of red meat. Be that lamb, beef or kangaroo

Steak is expensive and produces it consumes massive resources. I'd either try to get over the childhood thing or stop buying it, if you really can't do the former.

Don’t understand why it matters!

I’ve the crusts, even on ‘pappy white bead’. I really don’t understand the crust haters & I am surprised how many adults on the thread don’t eat their crusts. I don’t know any adults that leave their crusts, so I just assumed it was something kids grew out of- who knew🤷🏻‍♀️

I’ll happily cut them off for kids that don’t like them 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I’m not fucking about making breadcrumbs with them. When I’m
Not behaving (eat keto most of the time) I’ll happily hoover them up - yum! Else I give them to the birds )but not the dog!)

Puck your battles - step child or otherwise - and honestly ‘crusts’ are not a hill to die on.

I remember being given bread crusts (that my brother wouldn't eat!) for supper when I was little. I liked them soaked in milk,

This thread is blowing my mind a bit.
I can't believe so many adults don't eat crusts, and never eat anything they don't like!
I sometimes cook stuff DH doesn't like, he sometimes cooks stuff I don't like. We just take a smaller portion, eat it and thank the other for cooking.
I would be if DH left stuff, I view it as extremely childish.

I sometimes cook stuff DH doesn't like, he sometimes cooks stuff I don't like. We just take a smaller portion, eat it and thank the other for cooking.

Between us, DH and I only dislike about three things (marzipan for both of us, anchovies for him), so we find it fairly easy to only cook things that we like. But obviously within that there are things that we like a lot more than others. Although I can't really get worked up at people not eating their crusts, I do find it a bit childish when people will only eat a very limited number of things that they absolutely love, and won't entertain eating something that is just 'ok'.

@Whathappenedtothelego it’s childish not to eat stuff you don’t like ?
What planet are you on ?
I had to so many things I hated as a child, stuffed hearts, liver and bacon, steak and kidney pudding .. so think I’ve done my time eating crap I don’t like ,thanks .
I don’t get why you’d purposely cook something you know your other half doesn’t like ..

I've ignored this thread for a couple of days as it seemed a really uninteresting topic but now it's reached 6 pages I thought I'd better check it out in case there was some massively interesting off-topic going on.

Disappointing. Who gives a f* who eats their crusts?!?

Fizzyice because the other 3 members of the family do like it. Everyone has to put up with the odd meal they don't like every now and then, but sometimes they get their favourite so it balances out.

• This thread is blowing my mind a bit. I can't believe so many adults don't eat crusts, and never eat anything they don't like! I sometimes cook stuff DH doesn't like, he sometimes cooks stuff I don't like. We just take a smaller portion, eat it and thank the other for cooking.*

That sounds bloody depressing, frankly. As an adult you have to go out to work, do all the housework, worry about the bills... surely you at least get the perk of eating something you actually like for your own dinner?

Anyway, your example of not ditching a meal for the whole family doesn’t really hold water here - although in such a case, I don’t know why you or your partner wouldn’t just cook yourself some pasta or something on those nights. We’re talking about leaving the crusts off a sandwich. It has zero effect on anyone else. If the rest of the family do want crusts, they can stuff themselves silly with them.

do you honestly thing CRUSTS are the food waste that is killing the planet?

No. Of course not.

But not raising your child when they are young to be respectful of food, its cost, its preparation and its meaning is poor parenting and is likely to lead to the kind of fussy, wasteful, faddish, indulgent and self-obsessed adults that are appearing on this thread and are absolutely contributing to the gross level of food waste.

Bread crusts are precisely the kind of inoffensive, bland, nothing food that will do no-one any harm or discomfort to eat and encouraging kids to eat them will help them develop the ability to eat a wide range of food in adulthood, like polite, well adjusted adults should (medical problems excepted, obvs.)

(No-one is suggesting force-feeding kids chilli sauce, raw tripe or coffee grounds. Just the edge of a slice of bread. )

I don’t get cooking your partner or child something you know they don’t like?! I mean I get that sometimes it’s your favourite, and sometimes it’s the thing that you just think is nice enough, but that’s different. I’d just adapt the meal for the person who didn’t like a component; I cooked scampi and chips on Friday, ds2 doesn’t like scampi, so I put him a piece of breaded fish in instead, no waste and everyone was happy. I just can’t get my head around it!

Do the crust-disliking people not like any crusts? Would a chunk of crusty baguette be a no-go?

I’m not being snarky, I have more than enough texture issues of my own to understand that some foods are a hard nope, I’m just curious.

For what it’s worth I like crusts, the crustier the better really, but it doesn’t bother me if others don’t eat them.

I stopped eating crusts the moment I didn't have my Mum forcing me to. Even now it makes her angry if I leave them and I can see her boiling under the surface but knows she can't make me anymore.

No-one is suggesting force-feeding kids chilli sauce, raw tripe or coffee grounds. Just the edge of a slice of bread.

Why would you force-feed kids anything? It’s bizarre. It would make much more sense to encourage them to try a wide range of foods and find ones they DO you like. That’s far more likely to lead to a balanced diet in adulthood.

Do the crust-disliking people not like any crusts? Would a chunk of crusty baguette be a no-go?

I like some crust, not all crust. I absolutely love fresh crust. I can tell anyone whether crust is fresh from a blind test. Sometimes I can’t tell with certain types of bread if crust is cut off but I can always tell with crust itself.

While I will eat fresh crust with gusto I despise stale crust. I will not eat it in any form.

The best part of being an adult is not having to eat food you don't like. I don't care whether that's being fussy or faddish or some other way of being absolutely terrible.

I do eat lots of things that "aren't my favourite" but I'm not forcing myself to eat stuff I really don't like. I wouldn't expect DH or DD to eat something I'd cooked knowing that they didn't like it either.

Why would you force-feed kids anything?

Apologies. I phrased that wrong.

I am not suggesting literal force-feeding. Of course not.

I am absolutely suggesting encouraging the eating of a wide variety of foods and I am absolutely suggesting that if a child or adult eats a wide variety of foods they will not refuse bread crusts which are, in taste and texture, wildly inoffensive. Bread crusts!

@DollyDoneMore widely inoffensive to you, because you eat them!
I don’t like them because I find they’re bitter compared to the rest of the bread , that is not the same as baguettes or other types of crusty bread.
I eat practically everything else apart from rocket and offal.
That does not make me a ‘fussy eater’ it makes me an adult that can choose to not eat something I don’t like and I think that goes for a lot of other people on this thread

The only bread where I'm not a big fan of the crusts is a sliced loaf, in a sandwich, toast is fine, baguettes, proper loaves fine - I don't know why, but leaving the crusts off on the rare ocassion I have a sandwich on shop bought sliced bread doesn't seem particularly wasteful or odd. I also peel potatoes for roast potatoes, keep skins on for wedges, take them off for chips, keep them on for jackets....my nan would have stuck the peelings in soups (I use breadcrusts instead!)

Ds ARFID (Avoidant and Restrictive Food Intake Disorder), getting him to eat anything in any quantity or anything outside of his very limited list of foods is hard enough, without battling over crusts.

It's normal. I don't eat the crusts I'm an adult