To think a 10 year old should eat crusts

[PenguinPizza]

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.

At 11 he may well be having a growth spurt which may make him extra hungry. The crusts thing is not worth wasting an argument on.

I hate them too and I am past 50😊

Leave the poor boy alone, he doesn't want the crusts woman!

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

Please tell me you’re not serious.

Jesus wept.

@PenguinPizza He’s a growing boy, permanently hungry is normal. But you need to be giving him protein & healthy fats, not crappy snack food after bread.

Most boys I know wouldn’t stop inhaling food long enough to bother leaving crusts, but ‍🤷🏻‍♀️a few crusts aren’t going stop him mainlining food for the next few years

Crusts on pre-sliced bread are gross.

A friend who had worked in the bread industry (mass produced factory style bread rather than a bakery) told me never to buy crustless bread because they have to add a lot of chemicals to make it soft. I don’t know if it’s true but it stuck with me.

Just cut the crusts off OP, increase his portion sizes and make sure the snack food you have available is healthy and inexpensive.

And I have curly hair despite my mother telling me if I didn't eat them I wouldn't

And I ate mine and my hair is as straight as a die!

OUR MOTHERS LIED TO US!!!

Just leave it to his dad to sort out, Op.

If this is your biggest step-parenting challenge life is good!!

or being allowed to leave them

He doesn’t like crusts. That’s a good enough reason for him to be ‘allowed’ to leave them. Adults don’t like certain foods and it’s just accepted. Should children have to eat things they don’t like at age 11?

I’m 33 and don’t eat crusts 🤷🏻‍♀️

I dint like crisps either the bread is all hard and stale near the edges. Why make him eat stuff he doesn’t like. I rarely eat sandwiches for this reason and would prefer a roll or a wrap. Maybe he’d like these better too if you’re worried he isn’t eating enough.

At 10 he should be able to have a say in what he eats or doesn’t

Should say I don’t like crusts not crisps.

I suspect you just don't like him.

Crusts are horrible they taste burnt. No idea why eating them is seen as some sort of moral obligation

I rarely eat crusts, me and The Dog have an arrangement

I always eat the crusts (except with smoked salmon and cucumber) and I've got lovely curly hair, so Mum was right!

Im 50. dont eat mine. Not on sliced bread. Never have.

I buy wraps, fresh baked off the bakery counter or leave them. Even at a work lunch.

They’re all dry and pasty and totally ruin the taste and texture of a nice sandwich.

He dislikes crusts. Why should he eat them? There's no great waste and it's not like they have health benefits.

Does his breathing irritate you, too?

Everyone should eat their crusts. I can't abide wasteful fussiness like that, 10 or 40 or whatever age.

Just cut a sliver of crust off so waste is minimal and let him crack on. Don't make issues over something so non issuey.

I know a 32 year old that doesn’t eat sandwich crusts or pizza crusts.

I don’t think it’s odd, if you don’t like something then you don’t eat it.

One of my most hated tasks from working at schools was handling the minging unwanted crusts at lunch time, almost as bad as the stink of pappy sliced bread and the fart smell wet wafer thin ham.
My kids have wraps, pittas, thins or bread rolls for school.