To ask what crap you've told your kids to get them to eat something?

[RainbowsAndFrogs]

Yes I know, they should eat because they enjoy the food etc etc

But I've just convinced my bean dodger of a 5yo son to eat some beans because they'll make him fart

My dds love bunnies. Bunnies eat carrots, therefore so do my dds.

At one point I told my toddler son that all meats were chicken, to get him to eat something slightly different.

My 2 didn't like sauces filled with veg when little... We used to pour it over rest of food & tell them:it's fine if you don't like it... just lick off the sauce and have it without..
Fell for it for over a year 😉

I tried the Farting Gambit. Turned out my then 4yo was a massive prude and was horrified by the mere idea

I used to make each mouthful beg for mercy in a tiny voice, and scream in agony when it was being chewed. He loved that. Pretty sure it's how Ramsay Bolton got started, but there we go.

My daughter used to love beans and refuses to eat them since I told her that a couple of years ago.

I'll tell Santa if you don't eat it seems to be working on my 3 year old this week.

😂 😂 Love the beans begging for mercy haha

Don't have a kid but I pretend I want to eat the dog's broccoli which sometimes works.

@Magpiecomplex

At one point I told my toddler son that all meats were chicken, to get him to eat something slightly different.

Yup just done this with tonight's pork!

“Your Granpa/granny loves this! They are going to be so proud to see you eating it just like them” worked till Granny/Granpa totally clueless said they had no idea what they were talking about when we visited

I have a friend who tells her child that the dinner witch will get him if he doesn’t eat his dinner. Apparently, if he won’t eat his veg they sometimes phone the landline from their mobile secretly and tell him it’s the dinner witch.

I use the 'there's a party in your tummy and all the food on the plate wants to go!' line... usually works but involves me putting on stupid voices such 'eat me please I'm dying for a dance!'

We used to have to say that everything was 'ham' 😆 Lamb-ham, chicken-ham etc

She's 7 tomorrow and called her dinner 'salmon -ham' last week 😂

Pretty sure it's how Ramsay Bolton got started, but there we go

Not my child, as she’s eating everything and only 18 months so too young to convince much. But my 5 year old nephew refused to eat veg and wouldn’t eat peas on a meal I got him at soft play quite a while ago. I told him they weren’t peas, they were mini, green chicken nuggets, he ate them no problem then!

If you don't eat your kebabs the kebab man will get you.
Then of course I had to make up a whole origins story about who the kebab man is and why he gets kids who dont eat their kebabs. How he looks for kebabs. Why he likes kebabs. Etc etc.
It's her favourite story.
But she still doesn't eat the kebabs.

Got my daughter to eat some mushroom soup by telling her that the fairies had been to the forest to pick the mushrooms especially for her.

Love the idea about licking sauce off so they can eat it without sauce - genius!

The most I've done is talk about trees and clouds (broccoli and cauliflower).

If my kids don't eat enough dinner they don't get yoghurt, thats the deal. But if they've eaten what I consider an ok amount then that's enough. There are foods they won't eat and I accept that's an age thing/taste thing. I'm not really one to go all out on attention just to get them to eat something they're wary of. I didn't eat beans as a kid but devour them now. I'd only be concerned if they became overly fussy or restrictive with food.

Something I do with one of my charges who "haaaates" veggies.
He's obsessed with video games, so the different aspects have health points. So green leafy veg is 100 health points, carrots 80hp,a chicken nugget 20hp, an egg 50, a portion of chips 5.
He really likes to get a high score. I'm not a nutritionist but I try to justify all health points, with how much you'd have to eat for a certain amount of benefit.

To 3.5yo:
Broccoli are mini trees that will make him grow really tall - he doesn't like being short
Everything that is a sauce is bolognese.

And nursery have been telling him tomatoes will make his hands grow big. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Sprouts were fairy cabbages and aubergine was purple pepper for quite a while!

@happytoday73

My 2 didn't like sauces filled with veg when little... We used to pour it over rest of food & tell them:it's fine if you don't like it... just lick off the sauce and have it without.. Fell for it for over a year 😉

Brilliant

When Dd didn’t want to eat fish, I told her it was just soft chicken. It worked!

My kids will eat any kind of bean if you call them jumping beans. And let them test whether they can jump higher after every few mouthfuls. It is starting to get a little tedious now though!! We are probably five years down the line from when we first said it!

I convinced my son earlier to eat butternut squash as he would be able to squash things like the hulk 🤣

We told our eldest - who is Avengers obsessed, that if he ate all his broccoli he would grow up to be Hulk - this was then stretched to any green vegetable