Aibu to wonder if this eating habit is weird?

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Would you class it as strange for someone to eat their food by ensuring they have a little bit of everything each bite? This is only for hot meals, not for things like dessert or sandwiches. They also make sure as they eat a hot meal, that as they finish, they have a bit of everything. Pic attached.

YABU: yes this is odd.
YANBU: normal, loads of people do this.

[quote BashfulClam]@WomanStanleyWoman I do that. I eat each item in turn starting with my least favourite so I end with the best bit. No mixing, no foods touching…[/quote]
My children do this but then end up with the best part of the meal cold and past it's best. Winds me right up.

@mim321

Normal I'd say. I do both. I usually put a bowl of fruit out to have after my kids' main course. My 17 year old mixes sweet and savoury - bite of steak then a strawberry and back to steak, chicken and a grape. Just no. He can't understand why I dislike it.

The Tudors used to have everything out on the banqueting table at once so Henry VIII, for example, might have had some roast pigeon, peas and a dollop of trifle, again, for example. Our toddler would grab back her leftover eg spag bol after a mouthful of yogurt and polish them both off tmrw. A winning combination it would seem!

*together! Not tmrw.

Normal to generally aim for a bit of everything - unless like one friend you always serve roast dinners with about ten different vegetables! Not normal to “have” to do it so be obsessed about ensuring you don’t miss something off and maybe have only tiny bits of one thing to make sure it lasts, eg big roast dinner with one small cocktail sausage.

It’s slightly odd to do it so obsessively as you describe, but in principle it’s pretty normal.

I eat like this, meals like sausage and mash or a roast seems pointless if you eat all the veg then all the potato followed by the meat as what's the point of putting things together? you may as well have a random collection of things like steak, pasta and baked beans!
I also save the best bite til last, food should compliment each other not be a separate entirety.

This is how I eat. My stepdaughter do simewhat of the opposite, eat all veg, salad, carbs, leaving the meat or fish all alone on the plate, to be eaten at the end. I find that odd, but each to their own, it doesn't harm anyone! (They, and DH, also use their knife and fork in the "wrong" hands, which I also find odd, but who cares these days?)

The picture looks yuk but I don't think it's unusual for people to do that with their food.

I've just realised I do that too. Never really thought about it before.

I do this and save the best bite of everything for last.

Perfectly normal

People who eat things separately and save the best til last, doesn’t that encourage you to overeat? What if you get full?

Why is it a problem? Why can't someone eat their food in their preferred order? You make it sound like there's a right way and a wrong way, but I am struggling to understand how there can possibly be a wrong way?

My partner eats everything separately. So with a roast he will eat the veg, then the potatoes and leave the meat until last 😅😅 its just personal preference I guess.

I mix things on my fork, but wouldn't separate my meal into canapé size pieces with an element of every single part of the meal. It's a bit odd. In the same way that resting everything entirely separate and in order is. I think anything that's too rigid or specific around eating a meal is odd.

@Sylvanas my dh and ds do that too "saving the best til last" weird!

I'm the odd one in purist camp, even eating burgers or sandwiches by the layer.

Practically everyone I know eats their food the way OP shows - totally normal. I was told off by my parents for being odd (my parents were bloody annoying in that theyd insist i cut potato, put on a pea, sliver of meat, dab gravy... on a fork backwards.. fuck off)

When a meal is prepared, don’t we choose things we think work well together?

So it would make sense to have some of the meat and potatoes on the fork together, because they complement each other 🤷🏻‍♀️

Saying that, DS2 only eats one element at a time, and he’s perfectly content that way.

That's how I like to eat

@FlowerArranger that's not a polite thing to say even if we were all thinking it

@NoSquirrels if I start to feel full I move to the best bit lol.
@Briony123 I eat fairly quickly. I gave a friend who eats really slowly and mixes everything in till it all resembles vomit. Cold vomit!

I don’t eat one thing at a time, but it is definitely not normal to make little piles of mixed food like that.

I believe it was fashionable to eat like this in the 18th century. I eat however I feel like eating and also it depends what is in front of me. If steak and chips and salad I tend to eat the steak with the chips, then eat the salad afterwards, for example.