To make my kids eat their crusts

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I am soooo over trying to make my kids eat their crusts! Like what is it!? What is so awful about a crust!!?
I am however going to continue to battle making them eat them each time in the hopes they eventually will.
Is this unreadable? My husband thinks it is and it's not worth the battle, that they'll eventually eat their crusts.
But what if they turn into those adults that don't eat their crusts!

Cut them off and then make them into breadcrumbs for things like chicken kyiv or on the top of macaroni cheese.

My dh wasn't allowed to eat his crusts in case it made his hair more curly.

I don't do food waste either, my kids didn't eat crusts when little and they were made into breadcrumbs.

Forcing your kids to eat is about being a control freak, nothing to do with food waste.

This makes me laugh. My husband still cuts crusts off for our ten year old which I find hilariously endearing!

I say cut them off and try and get into the habit of sticking them in a freezer bag to be blitzed into breadcrumbs later.

Crusts are the best bits! Along with the skin on baked potatoes! We had to eat them as kids to fill us up!

The crust is the best part of the bread. The rest of it is a bit bland.

I don't like crusts. I think forcing children to eat anything is a surefire way to give them an awful relationship with food.

I've always been led by my child. Some days she doesn't want to eat much, some days I need to maker her extra meals, and that's fine by me, because it's how I eat.

I go off things and there are some mouth feels I don't like.

I cut my child's crusts off and use them to make breadcrumbs for other things.

Please, consider not forcing your child to eat things they don't like. Think about how you would feel being forced to eat something you didn't want to eat? Why would it be different for them?

I'm an adult who doesn't eat their crusts. I don't like them, I'm sorry that upsets you.

that's what bothers me most, constantly putting crusts into the bin!

You're the one wasting them! Put the crusts out for the birds. Or cut them off first and freeze them. Use them for breadcrumbs. Eat them yourself.

In the 80's and early 90's my mum spent so much time and anger forcing me to eat to brown bread crusts and even asked the school to get the dinner ladies to check I was eating them.
It used to make me so upset as they were dry and disgusting and I never saw the need. This post has brought back some horrible memories.
If your kids don't eat the crusts... so what

My parents encouraged us to clear our plates and that food waste is a bad thing. And none of us have eating disorders. So it's not a given.
I dont like food waste or fussiness either. I wouldn't make kids eat something they hate, but sometimes they have to eat things they are not so keen on, like crusts. Its wasteful and unnecessarily fussy otherwise - although the tip about breadcrumbs is a good one!
Sometimes I eat things I'm not keen on because its polite and avoid waste, eg if a friend or my husband cooks something I dont like very much. Its good to get used to it!

YABU

I also don't really understand how some consider throwing crusts as wasting food, unless you're needing to supplement your meal because you aren't eating the crusts, it's not really waste. Whether it's eaten or not is neither here nor there, unless you then have to add more food to make up for it. Which for crusts you wouldn't need to.

It's not the same as a child refusing to eat half their plate then asking for more food 30 mins later

yanu leave them alone, my 48 year old mother won't touch crusts get over it

How old are they?
TBH - its never occurred to me or bothered me if anyone who i make a sandwich for eats their crusts or not!
If it is waste that you really don't like then just buy crustless bread!
It's a non-issue in my head.

Cut them off before serving them. Blitz into breadcrumbs and freeze until needed.

I couldn’t get worked up about this. I have struggled for most of my life with an ED and I’m desperately trying to avoid putting any food related pressure on my DC.

If they eat all of their crusts, that’s great.
If they leave them, we usually feed them to the chickens. Either way, it’s not wasted.

This.

I love crusts of toast, and love to eat what my kids leave behind so it's a win for me really.

Okay - so can you, or any of the ‘But it’s a waste!!’ brigade, explain to me HOW it’s a waste?

You make a sandwich. Child eats it all. Food used - two slices of bread. You make the same sandwich, but child doesn’t eat the crusts. Food used - two slices of bread. Exact same amount of food used; exactly the same cost. It’s not like your child has suddenly said they hate cheese sandwiches when you’ve just made a pile of them. Have you never peeled a potato or carrot before cooking it, or cut the fat off some meat? How is this any different?

You could, as several people have suggested, use the crusts to make breadcrumbs. That actually means you get more use out of the same amount of food. You could feed the crusts to the birds in the garden or the ducks in the park - something your kids might actually enjoy. But no. You’d rather force them to eat something they dislike to make a point. You don’t even prevent wastage in the process.

Randomly much more expensive though

Give them a bread cake or a pitta bread etc.
I got fed up of throwing DC4's lunch box crusts away, even if I cut them off he'd still leave the cut edges so I started buying other things to put his sandwich fillings in.

If they're plastic sliced bread crusts I don't blame them, tbh I'd refuse to eat the whole slice of that weird stuff.
If it's a naice bakery loaf then the crusts are probably too chewy for milk teeth.

Yuck, bread crusts, outsiders and pizza crusts are disgusting. Why would you force a child to eat anything? It can only be counterproductive.

Bread is more or less empty calories anyway and leaving the crusts cuts down calories and carbs.

I cut my sons off always have. What's the issue! You can't force someone to like something.

Also if it bothers you that much about crusts you realise you can fry them a little bit or Chuck them in the air fryer right? Literally bread sticks pretty much.

Well, I guess I've found all the non crust eating adults 😆🤣
Sorry for triggering everyone's crust eating trauma.

I think it's a waste and it's annoying because as soon as they "finish" their sandwich (they are 4 and 2, the 4 year old is the one who doesn't eat them and it's only recently he's started not eating them) they say they are still hungry, so haven't filled up on the actual meal.

I wouldn't force my kids to eat something they didn't like, I agree that is unhealthy and leads to an unhealthy attitude towards food.
However if it's something inoffensive like crusts (or the other day, pasta that he'd eaten many times before) then no, I'm not going to just accept it.

Also, throwing it out for the birds is just laying to feed birds, still a waste of money.

*paying to feed the birds.