Any other moms out just not order when you eat with your family?

[Anonymous]

I argued about this with my mom who lived with me for a few years ALL THE TIME.

If we had lamb chops for dinner, she would hurry and put 5 on his plate, 2 on mine and 1 on hers. Then she would wait until he bit into the parts he likes and eat the rest of the chop that he discarded. I have no problem with my son eating however much food he wants. However, he is already an only child, not used to sharing anything, and she just perpetuates this nonsense that the world revolves around him. She would wait until he ate to exhaustion and then eat his scraps. She would literally stare at him while he was eating and as soon as he dropped a half-eaten piece of food she would pick it up and eat it. It infuriated me.
I have always let my kid order whatever he wanted to eat at a restaurant and didn't force him to finish it or force him to share it with me. If we don't have money, we cook at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Years ago I watched some show about the Manson family and it showed that the women weren't allowed to eat until after the dogs ate...and I'm feeling like some of the posters here would fit in there.

This. The internalized misogyny is so deep in OP and others on this thread they don’t even question why they do this.

Why doesn’t the DH eat the scraps instead of mom? Why aren’t the kids forced to split one dish? Why doesn’t the whole family collectively pick 3 dishes and all share family style? Why don’t they each order then take home leftovers? There are SO many ways to solve the food waste issue without mom not getting to choose her own food. It’s misogyny. That’s it! There is no other explanation even though OP doesn’t realize it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I argued about this with my mom who lived with me for a few years ALL THE TIME.

If we had lamb chops for dinner, she would hurry and put 5 on his plate, 2 on mine and 1 on hers. Then she would wait until he bit into the parts he likes and eat the rest of the chop that he discarded. I have no problem with my son eating however much food he wants. However, he is already an only child, not used to sharing anything, and she just perpetuates this nonsense that the world revolves around him. She would wait until he ate to exhaustion and then eat his scraps. She would literally stare at him while he was eating and as soon as he dropped a half-eaten piece of food she would pick it up and eat it. It infuriated me.
I have always let my kid order whatever he wanted to eat at a restaurant and didn't force him to finish it or force him to share it with me. If we don't have money, we cook at home.

I'm sorry that is disgusting! The fact that so many people think this is normal is beyond comprehension.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

I think pp is kind of weird as I have been known to grab a bite or two of the mac and cheese after my kids finish BUT there is an enormous difference between making a little bit extra and having leftovers and eating what is literally leftover on someone's dinner plate after they finish eating. I put what's left in the PAN in the fridge, I don't scrape food off people's used plates into tupperware.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

I honestly never have eaten off my kids plate. Kids are disgusting. Leftovers in the pan, sure, but never off their plate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

I have eaten off people's plates. I have shared french fries with my kid, or tasted my DH's entree, or split an appetizer. I don't consider any of that weird.

But what does DNA have to do with germs?

[Anonymous]

Heck no. I’m gonna eat.

[Anonymous]

I don't find sharing food gross (I mean I have sex, isn't that so much more gross) but I find it completely weird that everyone in the family orders a meal but mom doesn't. I agree with others who say it's setting a terrible example for the kids and the husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

I have eaten off people's plates. I have shared french fries with my kid, or tasted my DH's entree, or split an appetizer. I don't consider any of that weird.

But what does DNA have to do with germs?

Nothing scientifically but I dunno mentally it kind of feels like my own germs! I mean they are all over me all the time anyway, if I get sick from my 4 year old it isn't because I ate a chicken nugget.

[Anonymous]

I don't like chicken tenders enough to do this.

Sometimes I'll only order 1 kids meal and make them share. Very, very rarely do my littles ever finish a whole meal.

I also like to pre-feed the kids a bigger snack before we go out to eat because I know they won't eat as much at the restaurant anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

I have eaten off people's plates. I have shared french fries with my kid, or tasted my DH's entree, or split an appetizer. I don't consider any of that weird.

But what does DNA have to do with germs?

DP, but I've never seen that point of avoiding my kids' germs. When they're sick they lie in bed with me and basically breath directly into my mouth, and I'm going to worry about eating food they've touched? Seems silly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eating your kids leftovers is gross. Period. I have never and would never do this.

That’s a weird take.

Get this, at our house, we make extra and eat it the next day. So it’s EVERYONES leftovers, not just one persons. Even more gross!!

Eating food that has been on your kid's plate and potentially in their mouth is normal? What planet are we living on? We're not talking about the 1/2 pot of whatever that is leftover. These nutbjobs are literally eating the food that their kids have taken bites of. Yes, that's gross.

I mean, I think OP is crazy but I also find it very hard to believe no one has eaten a bite of their kids food? It's not some stranger its my literal DNA eating food I personally prepared!

I have eaten off people's plates. I have shared french fries with my kid, or tasted my DH's entree, or split an appetizer. I don't consider any of that weird.

But what does DNA have to do with germs?

DP, but I've never seen that point of avoiding my kids' germs. When they're sick they lie in bed with me and basically breath directly into my mouth, and I'm going to worry about eating food they've touched? Seems silly.

This i agree with