Ahhh Broken Biscuits !!!

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DS aged 3 is awaiting diagnosis of ASD (we are pretty sure) He will only eat limited foods and likes plain biscuits such as rich tea / malted milk etc but will only eat whole biscuites and rejects anything broken or chipped. I have gone through two packs this morning trying to find a whole biscuit as they are all broken!!!! Looks like I need a trip to the shop..............

yep, ds2 is 8 and heas never eaten a broken biscuit. We've had loads of tears lately as he has decided he likes dunking biscuits in his hot chocolate but then they break & he won't eat the biscuit or drink the chocolate...
He will now eat a sausage that splits, so I guess thats progress!
& on the up side you get to eat all the broken bits.

Lol - ds2 is the same, although this has improved a little with age - he's now 7 and will always look for a whole biscuit, but will now grudgingly accept two broken pieces instead if (and only if) there is nothiing else left. He has AS too. :)

And my DD2. Broken is not good - and contrary to popular rumours it definitely doesn't make the calories evaporate, as my growing bulges from hoovering up the broken bits proves!

I did an online shop recently and ordered 4 Kinder eggs (DD2's favourite food), and they stupidly put them loose in the same bag as the tins!! So immediate phone call to get refund for them... Even if they were still edible :)

Same here :)
ds aged 3 (poss ASD) always inspects biscuits for any sort of damage, even microscopic chips are unacceptable.
He will go without rather than eat a broken one.

I had this problem with my ds. Full on hissy fit because his biscuits broke! Sooooo managed to placate him by saying you know what? That means you have four biscuits instead of two! Great idea! and promptly grabbed the packet and my cup tea and broke two biscuits in half and put them on a plate for me and walked off. Left him in middle of kitchen in utter staring silence (could hear the cogs grinding lol) then there was shrug and he ate them :)

Another one here!
However DS likes long thin biscuits (only those), we can sometimes put 2 ends together holding over the join so it looks whole. DS will then sometimes grudgingly accept this, and eat them while we hold them. He knows they are broken but feels somehow that appearances have been satisfied this way.

Yes and please don't talk to me about broken bananas!

Broken bananas end up being deposited in hard to find places in our house
I found a few offenders in the Christmas tree when I was dismantling it along with all the tiny bits of toast where the marmite had not been spread right up the edge

Had a friend at Early Bird whose asd dd would only ever eat one bite of a biscuit as then it was broken!

My AS son (now 13) would, at one point, refuse to eat crisps because they were broken! Not such a bad thing I suppose.
He also refused to eat broken biscuits, or any foods that touched on his plate...
Things have, however, got much better although, sometimes, we still have the separate plates thing still.