16 Signs You're The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

16 Signs You’re The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

There are fussy eaters and then there are FUSSY EATERS. My daughter is off the scale when it comes to fussiness and this has led to years of worry, frustration, tears (mine and hers) and wine drinking (mine not hers). If your child is also a FUSSY EATER then you will likely recognise all of the following:

16 Signs You're The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

1 You spend a large part of your day boiling pasta 

Beige food is always a winner. Colourful food is not well received. Unless it’s tomato ketchup of course.

2 Bread is the answer to everything

Unless you have the actual audacity to add butter and a filling to it, therefore attempting to create a vile and evil object with one terrifying purpose: the torture of your child (this is also known as a sandwich).

3 You’re used to the confused look you get from the staff at McDonalds when you ask for a burger without the burger

‘Yes, you heard right, just the bun’.

16 Signs You're The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

4 When someone starts telling you they know a recipe ‘all kids will love’, you stop them mid-sentence

Does this wonder recipe have a sauce? It does? Then you are WRONG my friend.

5 You’ve had a major breakdown at the kitchen table at least once

In our house, this incident is referred to as ‘tuna-pasta-gate’ and we can laugh about it now (honest).

6 You do a Mexican wave with your partner, the baby, the cat and the goldfish when your child tries something new and doesn’t spit it out in disgust

7 When your child proclaims that a meal you made ‘tastes good’, you consider applying for Masterchef

8 The most well-fed person in your house is the kitchen bin

9 You promised yourself (and your mother-in-law) that you would never cook different meals for different family members

Because, according to MIL in her rose-tinted haze of perfection, her seven children diligently ate whatever they were given without one word of complaint. She can’t understand where you went wrong (but she’ll damn well try).

In any case, you end up cooking three different dishes at every mealtime anyway –  just for an easy life.

10 Chips count as one of your child’s Five-A-Day

Potatoes are indeed vegetables after all.

16 Signs You're The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

11 You’ve eaten out at the same restaurant since your child started weaning

You never need to look at the menu, and you as you step in the door the chef has already started cooking your meals.

12 You dread going on play-dates when the host has offered to make lunch or tea

Before attending said play date, the host makes suggestions as to what she could cook for the kids. After the 23rd ‘No she won’t eat that,’ you settle on pizza.

In the end this is rejected by your child anyway because ‘the cheese tastes weird’. Your child then informs the host that her food is ‘disgusting’. You realise that you will never be invited over there again.

16 Signs You're The Parent Of A Fussy Eater

13 You are at a loss to understand why school baked beans are happily accepted, yet Heinz (or any other brand available to you at home) are not

What the hell are they putting in their beans and where can I get some?

14 You smile and nod when another mum brags about how little Toby eats ‘anything and everything placed in front of him’

But really, you just want to punch her in the face.

15 In the end, you don’t care what they eat as long as they eat it

16 You stress, worry and berate yourself for years over your child’s limited diet

Then one day you remember Sarah from school who ate nothing but beans-on-toast and pizza for seven years. She’s still alive and kicking.  Reassuring.

From that minute onwards, whenever your child declares that your cooking is revolting you just shrug and pour another glass of wine.

This is where I’m at right now.

Fussy Eater 1

Mum 0

Whatever.

 

Share:
March 9th, 2017 / Ruth Allsop / 0 comments

Recent Posts

Archives

  • February 2024
  • January 2024
  • December 2023
  • November 2023
  • October 2023
  • June 2023
  • May 2023
  • January 2023
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • Categories