Parents Share The Reasons Their Kid Wouldn’t Eat Something And Some Of Them Are Wild
If you're the parent of a picky eater, you've heard just about every excuse in the book for why a certain food is not good enough for your child to eat. Your kid might not even be a picky eater, but there's definitely been at least one time where they refused to eat something and the reason made absolutely no sense.
The grapes were suddenly too spicy that day, or the mac and cheese was the wrong color, so now they're convinced you're trying to poison them.
It Tastes Too Accurate
What possible reason could someone have for not wanting to eat their fruit? "It's cold" and "tastes like you mixed a bunch of fruits together." Don't you just hate when your food tastes exactly like what it is?
Orange You Glad You Gave Her This Fork?
Your kids are looking for any reason to refuse the food you've served them to see if they can get something better. It's just a fact of life. An invalid reason to refuse this banana? "She doesn't like the 'orange thing' on the bottom."
Yes, that's right. The orange thing is the fork.
Taste The Rainbow, Or Don't
You thought you'd get fancy with the cake this year and order one of those fun rainbow cakes that you always see on Pinterest, but boy did that backfire. "It has too many colors," so now you get more cake for yourself.
Who's Going To Handle This?
"My kid can't eat this crust because 'those are the bread handles and I can't eat the sandwich if I eat the handles.'" At this point, you might as well just cut the crusts off from the beginning.
You Brought This On Yourself
We wouldn't want to eat a waffle that someone had put their thumb through, but if we were the one who did it, it'd be hard to argue that it was someone else's fault.
You Fell Into The Trap
He specifically requested a star-shaped egg nest, and you made his dreams come true but then the trouble hit: "He asked me to cut it diagonally, then proceeded to stare at it in disgust because it's now 'broken.'"
You just can't win.
A Hairy Situation
Look, everyone has at least one food that they have a problem with, and it doesn't always make sense to other people. This child, for instance, doesn't like raspberries because "the hairs disgust him." His mother would like to clarify he's 15.
It Was Supposed To Be Fun
You thought you were making food that was both entertaining and tasty, but "they cried because they couldn't understand it wasn't real bats," so now you're stuck eating black lumps of pasta.
Spoiler Alert: They're Not Nut-Free
"After being told repeatedly that there are peanuts in the candy, it turns out that *spoiler alert* there are indeed peanuts." Sometimes a self-explanatory name like Peanut M&Ms just isn't enough of a warning.
Scary Enough To Starve
Themed food always seems like a fun idea, and all the other moms on Facebook are posting their spooky snacks for Halloween, but what you didn't account for was your child being genuinely afraid of your pretzel spiders.
You Have No One To Blame But Yourself
There are too many spoons in the bowl, so now your child is refusing to eat it, but she's that one that insisted you needed that many spoons in the bowl in the first place. Great.
Don't Eat The Nice Lady
Kid logic doesn't always make sense (and it doesn't always have to because they get the kid pass), but refusing to eat this carrot "because it has legs" seems perfectly reasonable to us.
This Is Chaos
He eats Goldfish crackers like they're going out of style and he loves to snack on pretzels, but put them together? "Pretzel Goldfish are PURE BLASPHEMY" according to one little boy.
They're So Different
Any rational person looking at these two containers of yogurt would see that they're the exact same thing. What we failed to consider, though, is that a rational human didn't refuse the yogurt on the left and insist on picking out the one on the right; it was a child.
There's A Right Way And A Wrong Way
There's a right way and a wrong way to serve food to your children if they're picky eaters, but sometimes you don't even know you're doing it wrong. In this case, "she asked for cheese and crackers, not crackers and cheese" which. is...hard to argue with.
What Game Are You Trying To Play?
This lunch looks pretty good to us, but apparently, this mom's child won't eat it because the peanut butter and jelly sandwich that he asked for, shockingly, has peanut butter and jelly on it.
Toe-Free Dumplings Only
It's never been an issue in the past, but as of this moment, your child has announced they no longer like dumplings because "ewww, it has toes..."
It's certainly a more creative response than a simple refusal.
Peel Back The Layers
Just because you like a food and it tastes good doesn't mean you want to know what it's made from. Sure, the name "onion rings" implies that they have onion in them, but once your parent actually tells you that, it changes everything.
Frozen In Fear
Chances are you've never noticed the fact that Elsa looks taller than Anna on that Frozen plate, but you know who has noticed? Your child, and they're not going to eat off it because "Elsa's too tall."
There Are NO Winners Here
You're stuck in an argument that nobody is going to win. It's broken, so he doesn't want to eat it, but he doesn't want you to eat it because it's his, so now you're in a stand-off. In the end, no one will win.
Slaving Away Over A Hot Stove For Nothing
You wake up early to make her the perfect healthy breakfast before you send her off to school, and she has the audacity to refuse bacon and eggs then have a meltdown when you won't give her cereal?
We're All Smiles Here Except For Mom
Who doesn't want their food to smile back at them? Whoever invented these is a genius, but what they didn't account for is children finding them "too cute" and refusing to eat them. One mom even had to go so far as to freeze the smiling tot "so he could visit."
No Secondhand Snacks For Them
Nothing gets past these children. You may have thought you were serving plain old Swiss cheese, but they know that "a mouse already had some" and they're not going to stand for this.
Cut The Tail Off And He'll Never Know The Difference
Grilled cheese is one of those fail-safe foods that pretty much every kid loves and is willing to eat at any time, except for this one time that it was refused because "it has a tail and he doesn't eat animals."
Only Hungry On Week Days
For some reason, your children are always going to think that they're smarter than you and they're going to try to pull the wool over your eyes. This child decided to claim they'd already eaten at school in hopes their mom would forget it was Sunday. Unsurprisingly, it didn't work.
She Doesn't Care About Sharing
Look at this perfect donut. Peanut butter cups and chocolate all in one delicious donut. We'd be just as upset about sharing as one little girl who "literally can't even deal" when she found out she'd be splitting it with her brother.
Are You Sure She Doesn't Need Glasses?
Your daughter says she won't eat the french fries you gave her because they're "blurry"... She might just be a picky eater, or maybe you should be making an appointment with the optometrist.
Tears Of Joy
Why wouldn't a child want to eat this incredible looking donut? It's "too beautiful." A four-year-old girl cried "actual tears of joy" as a result of being given this donut and chose not to eat it.
Go Back To Where You Came From
Choose your pasta shapes wisely, otherwise, you'll end up in a heated debate with a child about how "shells go in the ocean," and he'll have a meltdown when you eat your own portion.
At Least You Know She's Not A Cannibal
"If Honey Nut Cheerios taste like honey and Chocolate Cheerios taste like chocolate, this one must taste like the cast of Frozen and she doesn't want to eat Elsa." The logic with this kid is sound. You can't argue with this.
