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

Definitely just told my 2 year old that her Yorkshire pudding was a cake. Happily sat eating it ‘mmm cake’

That pink potatoes are not sweet potatoes, oh no, totally different vegetable.

I remember when my sister was little she hated any meat that wasn't chicken. She wouldn't touch something if we told her it was beef or lamb or something so every meat in our house was called chicken and she would then eat it 😂

My nan used to say carrots help you see in the dark and eating your crusts makes your hair curly. Lol. X

@CumbrianExile

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

Same here!

When I was wee parsnips were white carrots or chips.

Also every meat was chicken.

@sebastianthecrab I'm glad we arent the only ones 😂😂

Not my children but me as a small child.
Me: I don't like stew.
Mum: That's not stew, it's bolobongo. [It was stew.]

I believed her perfectly ordinary stew actually was a different dish called bolobongo. And called it that until I was a teenager when I discovered the truth

On the bright side, the stew itself was perfectly fine and I did always eat it.

If my children have a broken biscuit or their toast isn't cut to their liking i tell them not to worry it all joins up in your tummy. They seem to be fine with this!

@Flibbertigibbet2211

Not my children but me as a small child. Me: I don't like stew. Mum: That's not stew, it's bolobongo. [It was stew.]

I believed her perfectly ordinary stew actually was a different dish called bolobongo. And called it that until I was a teenager when I discovered the truth

On the bright side, the stew itself was perfectly fine and I did always eat it.

My Guides leader, once I'd left the unit, told me that on camp they always make casserole, not stew. Casserole was eaten, stew got turned up noses, even if mysteriously they both looked and tasted exactly the same.