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 don't eat the crusts. My Grandma always told me they'll make my hair curl. I don't spend 15 minutes every morning straightening my hair only to have all that hard work undone! 🙄 😁

I give my crusts to my dog

Buy crustless bread, wraps or pittas to cut down on waste. No one should have to eat something they don't like. I've only started eating crusts in the last year or so and even at that, I don't eat them if they're particularly hard. Feed him more at meal times if you don't like the snacking but kids that age do tend to eat you out of house and home.

I'm 52 and I'm fussy with crusts. It depends on the bread whether I eat them or not.

I never ate my crusts as a child and sometimes I still leave them. Thankfully noone ever made me eat them. If they had I am sure it would have put me off eating bread completly because I was a very anxious child.

pick your battles.
he is hungry
he perhaps is also bored?

I'd just cut them off so it's all getting eaten as I know when they are left on then often loads of bread is still left attached. I don't think anyone of any age should have to eat something they dislike

are the sandwiches triangles or oblongs?
there is less crust to a triangle i believe.

DartmoorChef, I believed that too. Religiously never, ever ate them. I have bloody ringlets.

And agree, eating the crusts isn't going to magically fill him up. He may be borderline more full but that's it.

And no child, or adult should be forced to eat something they don't like or want. Particularly when it's something as petty as crusts, and that a large amount of people also don't like and makes little difference to how full someone is.

I don't think age is relevant; he just doesn't like crusts.Maybe the crusts could be removed before he eats them, and eaten by someone else who does like them (I would volunteer!); or at any rate thrown to the birds to avoid complete waste. As regards the snacks: there is nothing wrong with eating 'little and often'; it does depend what the snacks are - fruit is fine; even sandwiches if he's active; constant sweets and crisps are not so healthy.

This isn't a battle I'd pick.

I love the crust. When I was at junior school, my mum used to make me sandwiches, and cut the crusts off, because she didn't like them!

I can't believe how many grown women say that they don't eat crusts. I genuinely thought that cutting off crusts was something that over indulgent parents did for fussy kids. I didn't think that adults did it for teens let alone for themselves.

I suppose you can give them to the dog (if you have one) or put them in the kitchen compost bin, but it seems such a waste of perfectly good food.

Are you just looking for s reason to have a go about the boy?

I'm 52 and I'm fussy with crusts. It depends on the bread whether I eat them or not
Me too, if it's the good for you seeded brown wholemeal malted extra vitamins bread, I leave the crusts cos they are so bloody hard. If it's the cheap pappy white really bad for you bread I eat the lot.
FWIW I rarely eat bread anyway so I'm not killing myself slowly with the sugar and salt. I leave that for the cigs to do.

it seems such a waste of perfectly good food

Yes it is gut wrenching, much better someone is forced to eat them when they don't like them than they face the bin.

Whats his age got to do with it? You just dont like him do you?

@Fantasticfringe
The skin on a jacket potato won't fill you up either (Sorry, yes your parents told you porkys). Here have 🍷and🍫instead for making me laugh. 😂😂

Hate crusts, never eat them.

Also only ever eat the middle out of pizza.

Just make him a bigger lunch but I don’t think the grazing will stop as that is really common at his age. Personally I would buy crustless or cut the crusts myself because if you trim it there is less waste than if they nibble down.

Bread freezes really well so you don’t have to worry about waste from him having his own loaf.

Many people don't like crusts. You could ask your DSS which kind of bread he likes.

1 round of sandwiches (if that's what he is given) is unlikely to be enough by itself for lunch. And if he did eat the crusts it wouldn't fill him up very much more. Maybe he needs more sandwiches, (or more filling), or some cheese and crackers or hummus and breadsticks, or a bowl or soup, plus some fruit?

Crusts are the pits. On both bread and pizza. I only really like soft food!

I suppose you can give them to the dog (if you have one) or put them in the kitchen compost bin, but it seems such a waste of perfectly good food.

It’s the CRUST off a couple of slices of bread. It’s not even a full slice of bread. This isn’t going to cause an environmental catastrophe.

Wasting food is buying too much and letting it go off. It’s making too much and then throwing the leftovers away rather than freezing. Not eating a thin strip of bread that you don’t like isn’t.

Stepmum says it all. Are you trying to be a stereotype. Stop being an arsehole.

Also growing children esp 10yos eat a lot and to be hungry an hour later is normal.
If you are unwilling to feed him then get out of his life ( my son eats all day long as well as three good healthy meals.)