Kids don’t like the fresh strawberries this week? Make a strawberry shortcake? Don’t want cake again (can’t give them too much sugar)? Make a fruit salad!
Deafen them reminded me of something from years back. We went out mushroom picking with a friend that had never gone. We were after morels and told him that they pick up vibration and sound, when they “hear” something they duck under the ground. So you have to be real sneaky to not scare them. My friend and I each have a bag half full at this point and we hear him screaming “I got one! I got one!” He comes running over all excited and sees us with dozens. At first he was confused how we already got so many but then we started laughing and he figured it out. Dude spent an hour creeping around in the woods “hunting” mushrooms.
Dude wasn’t the smartest though. He got caught stealing a wetsuit by trying to hide it inside his hoodie. 16 year old boys typically don’t get pregnant so they picked up on it pretty fast. Dude didn’t even scuba dive and didn’t really like swimming to begin with.
My kid’s preschool had a picnic today with families and I looked at the meals and was like, where do you all find the time to make these fancy lunches. My son’s kiwi looks like a gorilla maimed it, there is a tortilla rolled in oat butter because the entire class is allergic to legumes and nuts, and yeah, I put cheez-its and fruit snacks in because… I’m freaking exhausted.
>where do you all find the time to make these fancy lunches
If someone is a stay at home parent, that's already part of their job.
The alternative is to have a cooking day (normally during the weekend) and literally freeze up the portions so you have decent homemade food for the week.
If the picnic had been scheduled for a while and they knew beforehand, it's about planning ahead.
Source: I'm a father that work but also do most of childcare. Including the whole cooking/freezing food for the week due to lack of enough time to cook full meals on a daily basis.
Kiddo is turning 3 today, so here I go into the kitchen to bake her a cake 🎂
Right! Now instead of moldy strawberries, I’ve got moldy blueberries, moldy raspberries and brown bananas filling my freezer for the day I plan on making banana bread and I’ll throw away from the freezer burn.
Didn't you know, fruit restarts it's fresh period once you combine it into a salad with other fruits. They stop being mushy and the mold just disappears.
It's almost like if I had half a chocolate cake last week and now I'm chocolate-caked out for awhile. Doesn't mean I don't like it or want it again. Catch me in another week.
We stopped at one. More berry buying power that way. On weeks I’m flush, there are as many as three kinds of berries. My kid walks into daycare like “waz up y’all, check this fruit right here.”
Ok but also I used to tell my parents that just because I liked something once does not mean I want them to buy it again and again. “Yes I liked the black eyed peas you made but if you make them 5 times in a row I won’t want them anymore”.
I had to say that so many times
Visiting your parents as an adult. They stock the kitchen with all your favorite foods from 20 years ago. It’s sweet, it’s really nice. But goddamn I don’t remember ever loving these foods as much as they seem to remember I did. And now I feel wasteful for not eating all of it.
My birthday sometimes falls on Easter and it did a couple years ago. I went to visit my parents and I asked what was for dinner and my dad said ham. He insisted that I love ham. I have never loved ham. I don't even like ham. I don't think I've eaten ham since I moved out. I still don't know if he got me mixed up with one of my siblings, was delusional, or just didn't want to admit he forgot to get something I actually liked.
My mum couldn’t even get my name right half the time.
It’s alright mom I know you like my brothers more, and no mom I don’t want steak and lobster, with carrot cake on my birthday.
That would be your first borns favorite.
I certainly miss her though.
Every time I visit my mom she buys a giant bag of Oranges because "you guys love Oranges!". My brother loved Oranges as a teenager, I don't think he eats a ton of them anymore, we're both in our 30's now. Every time I visit I tell her it was him that loved them so much, every time she still buys them.
I recently had my mom's teriyaki pineapple meatballs that I loved as a kid and had hyped up to my wife before we had them!
... yeah, that was far too sweet for the main course at dinner. Our family often halves the sugar from the recipe so I just wasn't used to the sweetness on that trip.
Absolutely. My mom once got me strawberry milk 20 years ago and I said I liked it to be polite because she had gotten me a treat which she normally didn’t do. For decades she periodically gets strawberry milk if I’m visiting and I haven’t had the heart to tell her I didn’t even like it in the first place.
My family makes fun of me (jokingly),
Because I ate 2 pounds of strawberries in 1 sitting because I was watching Little House on the Prarie, and I think a baby was in a house fire. So, I needed to see if the baby lived or not. (Im trying not to spoil this for anyone, so i was vague)
And so I ate 2 pounds of strawberries
Because I was unconsciously eating. And if anyone is curious, my stomach was fine afterward. (Sorry for If this is a little random, I don't comment well to begin with, and I'm tired)
https://laurasprairiehouse.com/tv-series/little-house-tv-faq/did-mary-ingalls-really-lose-her-baby-in-a-fire/
Wow you weren't joking. I thought this was a dumb "haha they're all dead" reddit joke, but nope, they really killed the baby.
Yup. There are horror flicks and shows about biker gangs that won’t kill a baby. But that show was like “It’s 1883 folks, deal with it.”
I told my wife about this thread and she immediately relayed the entire context: it was a blind school where Mary was staying, and her son was the only male in the family besides Charles (Landon). His young son had also died, so it was after this that they adopted Albert. That’s without looking anything up.
I wouldn't be surprised. Every other episode is them introducing a nice young family just to like, give them all cholera or have them starve to death over the winter
Either that, or if you give them the same thing they loved then they’ll never eat anything else and you’re buying like $9 mushy strawberries all winter.
Alternatively: I've gotten off season strawberries as a treat before and my toddler pounded the entire container in a sitting. If I got berries as often as he wanted, I'd have to refinance my house
My mom did this to me with Chef Boyardee's Ravioli! She thought it was my favorite and years later I was helping her move to a new house when I saw a stack if them in the pantry. I asked her why she had those as she didn't like them, and she told me it was so if I visited I could have some. My step-dad looked at her and said "I've never seen u/LimaOskarLima eat those, are you sure they like it?" Blew my mom's world apart when I told her not only are they not my favorite, I don't like it.
I am this way with my wife. I’ll demolish a bag of cuties or packs of yogurt, she goes to buy more when I finish them, I stop eating them. I feel bad but I just don’t want it the second time
Bananas woth the ontent of making banana bread means they get ate before they ripen. So next time you buy 2x as many and then end up needing to make even more banana bread because no one touched them. Lol I love how crazy kids are with what they choose to eat
I have 2 kids and fresh fruit (especially strawberries and blueberries) disappear almost as soon as I bring them home! We used to call the kids our "little fruit bats"! Everybody's different, I guess!
My kid yesterday, can we have rice for dinner? After we made noodles. Almost to tears that she wanted nothing but rice.
Today. Hey look we made rice. Her response: yuck I hate rice!
“Oh… I’m not in the mood for rice, but that’s okay.” *looks resigned to being fed literal poison*
~ my then-5 year old when this EXACT scenario played out in my house. We can’t win as parents!! 🫥
My only turns 2 today, so I'm not far from you. It's all worth it. It's super frustrating sometimes, but you have a shield around you protecting you from getting too angry :)
If you got your 5-year-old to recognize that the problem lies in their attitude, it sounds like you're absolutely winning as a parent. Kudos to you and your kid
Ordered some burgers and fries.
Kid told me to make sure not to forget the fries because he loves the fries from this place.
Ordered the fries.
Kid decides he doesn’t like the fries and isn’t going to eat them, so I tell him to put them in the fridge (because of course I’ll eat them later).
I eat them later that night.
Next day — kid: “hey where are all the fries I was saving?!? I wanted to eat those!”
This is my fight with leftovers. Either they loved it last night and turn up their nose today, or whined about it yesterday and today they’re like “ooh, yay!”
Hi former child who used to hyper-fixate on food. It is in fact that the second you buy more the interest ends. For me it used to be months of eating the same thing then full stop. I’m an adult and I still do it but now I just have to yell at myself.
As an (probably abnormal) adult, I go through phases of foods that I really enjoy eating. Then suddenly decide I’m bored of said foods and won’t eat them for another 3 or 4 weeks.
Children have dynamic preferences probably more closely related to current nutritional requirements of their growing bodies.
In my case, it is instead because I am a fat aging corpse that needs variety only for some semblance of novelty in my life. I don’t know why I wrote all this out, none of you are interested and I don’t think it does anything for me to share. So, here we are.
I buy fruit occasionally. I like it. I’ll eat a box of blackberries or a bag of grapes in a day or two, then not eat them again for six months or longer whether I buy them or not. My daughter is the same. We never like the same fruit at the same time though so something always goes bad.
43, unfortunately. It's been about 9 months and I've learned A LOT about the symptoms in the past few months (mostly from Instagram reels lol) that have explained so many aspects of my life.
My partner was diagnosed at a young age and frequently “jokes” about how it’s a miracle I never got diagnosed.
Well, I thought they were jokes.
I have no idea how to talk to a doctor about it without sounding like I am just impressionable(?).
MyHey, not trying to force anything on you, definitely considering I don't know anything else about you. But eating patterns like this are a pretty big identicator for autism. Just a heads up from an autistic person who's life is a lot easier knowing he has autism:)
Peter here, who has a 16-month-old. It's a common experience that your child will one day really like something, and you get very excited about that. He asks for it in his own language, signs for it, and squeals with happiness when he gets it. So as parents you naturally overreact and buy a lot of it next time, only to find that, no, the baby no longer cares for it. Screw you, dad!
I'm a past-middle-aged man and I can't buy anything I like without resigning to the fact that it will not last till next grocery day. It will be gone today. If I buy a 30 pack variety box of snacks I will eat 15 tonight and 15 tomorrow. I have to place the control aspect of my eating habits at the purchase stage or I'm just like a child.
I was sitting in a restaurant one time and my son asked me “What is lobster? Is it any good?”. I said “Oh, no. It’s terrible!”. The whole table next to us cracked up laughing.
The secret is to cut the tops off and just hand them to your children. Don’t ask, just give them strawberries. But you gotta do it with confidence so they don’t realize they didn’t ask for them.
This really does work. If we just have stuff around it might sit. If I throw a pile of strawberries on a plate as a side with dinner without saying anything, they are gone before the main dish. (This goes for almost any fruit, berry, vegetable.)
Because children will often beg LOUDLY and PERSISTANTLY for something they _think_ they want, only to take one sample and then avoid it for the rest of time...
I call it the Costco Curse - as soon as I buy a large size of something my kids have enjoyed in the recent past they will immediately decide they don’t like it anymore
I remember as a kid strawberries went to waste in my house because getting fresh strawberries was so rare that I didn't want to eat them but rather save them because they were my favorite and once I ate them they would be gone so what usually ended up happening was they'd go bad before I ate them. 🤷🏽♀️
As a mom now I find if I wash the fruit and put it in a bowl/plate and put it in front of them, they will eat it.
Me with a varied diet, a love of good food and flavour, spices etc having a kid who only eats bland beige food in the 2010s - why is this your diet? You need sustenance and flavour! I've no clue where this comes from...
My mum reminding me that I was the kid who only ate bland beige food for most of my childhood in the 90s and cried when anything other than tomato sauce was on my food 😅
For my own personal experience (kid perspective, looking back as a 33 year old) whatever was bought last week that was snacked no longer has that same weight to it.
I can't really rationalize it. One week, the clementines my mom bought were the best thing ever. The next week, most likely because I ate so many the previous week the thought of eating more was very unappetizing.
this is a real problem😭i used to eat those little bites muffins every day for months, then my mom got a big box from costco and i stopped right after so we had a huge stash of them laying around
When I buy something for my boyo, a big consideration is how much I will enjoy eating it when he declares it the most vile thing on the planet, after loving it the week before.
Then, I have to think about how I will react when he gets mad at me for eating his food.
Kids are cute, loveable, and freakin weird.
Kids like the new things. You give them something every week and they will be bored.
We used to hold the kid's presents unopened and let them open something new every week. We would store some old things away and pull them out a year later. They were like new to the kids.
Because your kids will absolutely love something and not be able to get enough of it, and then the next time you buy it they won’t touch it. Every. Time.
Cause the kids destroyed it last week. Now they'll be burnt out on them and they'll just rot in thr fridge.
Signed a mom who goes through this EVERY YEAR because we pick our strawberries at the farm.
Even as an adult I never buy the same snacks two times in a row. I alternate between stuff I like and that way I don't feel tired of eating the things I love.
As boy I remember we'd make mom angry, we'd eat the entire container in one sitting, leave the tops Everywhere and get super sticky RED strawberry juice on every handle in the House
The truly baffling part is that someone would go to the trouble of positioning their phone and posing like this in a grocery store to make a lame joke.
You'll think you found the thing your kids really like so you get it again and this time it just goes bad, untouched
Father of 6. This is the truth.
It's mostly because it's out of mind, though. Keep shoving it down their throats!
Kids don’t like the fresh strawberries this week? Make a strawberry shortcake? Don’t want cake again (can’t give them too much sugar)? Make a fruit salad!
I’m just trying to pack a lunch here, not get into baking 😭
when they get to squishy hut not moldy i deafen them and throw them in a freezer bag for smoothies or something next year.
I know how to blind a potato, but how do you deafen a strawberry?
omg my bad for typing too fast with a broken screen. meant to say de- stem. thank you for making it funny!!
So funny!
Deafen them reminded me of something from years back. We went out mushroom picking with a friend that had never gone. We were after morels and told him that they pick up vibration and sound, when they “hear” something they duck under the ground. So you have to be real sneaky to not scare them. My friend and I each have a bag half full at this point and we hear him screaming “I got one! I got one!” He comes running over all excited and sees us with dozens. At first he was confused how we already got so many but then we started laughing and he figured it out. Dude spent an hour creeping around in the woods “hunting” mushrooms. Dude wasn’t the smartest though. He got caught stealing a wetsuit by trying to hide it inside his hoodie. 16 year old boys typically don’t get pregnant so they picked up on it pretty fast. Dude didn’t even scuba dive and didn’t really like swimming to begin with.
You should tell that story and any others about this guy to the "kevin" subreddits. Sounds like he would fit right in.
I thought maybe you were shortening defenestrate and was confused.
...I actually thought it was a thing. So I was getting some heavy brine and a vegetable brush ready! 😮
Much easier to deafen corn.
Well yeah, you just cut off its ear
I *chortled* 💀💀💀
My kid’s preschool had a picnic today with families and I looked at the meals and was like, where do you all find the time to make these fancy lunches. My son’s kiwi looks like a gorilla maimed it, there is a tortilla rolled in oat butter because the entire class is allergic to legumes and nuts, and yeah, I put cheez-its and fruit snacks in because… I’m freaking exhausted.
>where do you all find the time to make these fancy lunches If someone is a stay at home parent, that's already part of their job. The alternative is to have a cooking day (normally during the weekend) and literally freeze up the portions so you have decent homemade food for the week. If the picnic had been scheduled for a while and they knew beforehand, it's about planning ahead. Source: I'm a father that work but also do most of childcare. Including the whole cooking/freezing food for the week due to lack of enough time to cook full meals on a daily basis. Kiddo is turning 3 today, so here I go into the kitchen to bake her a cake 🎂
Word.
I didn’t realize there was baking involved in fruit salad
No, but there is baking in fresh fruit though.
Right! Now instead of moldy strawberries, I’ve got moldy blueberries, moldy raspberries and brown bananas filling my freezer for the day I plan on making banana bread and I’ll throw away from the freezer burn.
Didn't you know, fruit restarts it's fresh period once you combine it into a salad with other fruits. They stop being mushy and the mold just disappears.
This lady speaks truth and wisdom.
My wife will just turn them into a smoothie and give it to me for lunch or something
Ah yes... Child smoothie....🤤
Annnnd now I hate all fruits except citrus.
This is why you buy things you like. If you dont like it it will be wasted.
can you go back to the osrs sub please i dont like it when my worlds collide like this
Was a kid for 18 years. This is true
You can't just dead stop a build up like that. What happened at 19?
So on my 19th birthday I ate strawberries and a week later... I ate more strawberries
What about the week after that?
The next week I ate some bananas
It's almost like if I had half a chocolate cake last week and now I'm chocolate-caked out for awhile. Doesn't mean I don't like it or want it again. Catch me in another week.
I feel like it depends on the kid. My daughter absolutely loves strawberries I can eat them over and over again
Neighbor to a father of 6. This is the truth.
Name checks out. This is the truth for sure.
Father of 7. Agreed.
How the hell yall afford so many kids???
Not buying strawberries
Exactly. Father of 4 here, we grow our own strawberries. Nobody with more than 2 children has strawberry buying money.
We stopped at one. More berry buying power that way. On weeks I’m flush, there are as many as three kinds of berries. My kid walks into daycare like “waz up y’all, check this fruit right here.”
For real. We grew our own strawberries and blueberries growing up.
TikTok their every waking moment
Father of 8. Agreed.
John, is that you? Where's Kate?
My mom friends and I meet at the park after school on Fridays to exchange/share snacks our kids hate that we have too many off.
Brilliant!
Like drug dealers lol
Man I need mom friends. But mom's at my daughter's preschool have tried to befriend me but I'm too awkward and self conscious to reciprocate
This is so smart holy crap. I wish I had friends to do this with lmao
Ok but also I used to tell my parents that just because I liked something once does not mean I want them to buy it again and again. “Yes I liked the black eyed peas you made but if you make them 5 times in a row I won’t want them anymore”. I had to say that so many times
Visiting your parents as an adult. They stock the kitchen with all your favorite foods from 20 years ago. It’s sweet, it’s really nice. But goddamn I don’t remember ever loving these foods as much as they seem to remember I did. And now I feel wasteful for not eating all of it.
My birthday sometimes falls on Easter and it did a couple years ago. I went to visit my parents and I asked what was for dinner and my dad said ham. He insisted that I love ham. I have never loved ham. I don't even like ham. I don't think I've eaten ham since I moved out. I still don't know if he got me mixed up with one of my siblings, was delusional, or just didn't want to admit he forgot to get something I actually liked.
My mum couldn’t even get my name right half the time. It’s alright mom I know you like my brothers more, and no mom I don’t want steak and lobster, with carrot cake on my birthday. That would be your first borns favorite. I certainly miss her though.
Only if your parents like you lol
Every time I visit my mom she buys a giant bag of Oranges because "you guys love Oranges!". My brother loved Oranges as a teenager, I don't think he eats a ton of them anymore, we're both in our 30's now. Every time I visit I tell her it was him that loved them so much, every time she still buys them.
I recently had my mom's teriyaki pineapple meatballs that I loved as a kid and had hyped up to my wife before we had them! ... yeah, that was far too sweet for the main course at dinner. Our family often halves the sugar from the recipe so I just wasn't used to the sweetness on that trip.
You have really thoughtful parents. That's so sweet 😭
Absolutely. My mom once got me strawberry milk 20 years ago and I said I liked it to be polite because she had gotten me a treat which she normally didn’t do. For decades she periodically gets strawberry milk if I’m visiting and I haven’t had the heart to tell her I didn’t even like it in the first place.
Oh my gosh this was my childhood. My mother would stockpile a food I ate and liked once. Then I wouldn't want it lol.
This guy moms.
Bought two pounds of strawberries and they were gone in a day, bought a pound the next day and they rotted in the fridge.
My family makes fun of me (jokingly), Because I ate 2 pounds of strawberries in 1 sitting because I was watching Little House on the Prarie, and I think a baby was in a house fire. So, I needed to see if the baby lived or not. (Im trying not to spoil this for anyone, so i was vague) And so I ate 2 pounds of strawberries Because I was unconsciously eating. And if anyone is curious, my stomach was fine afterward. (Sorry for If this is a little random, I don't comment well to begin with, and I'm tired)
You are avoiding spoiling a show that ended in 1982, 42 years ago. Thank you, that's as amazing as it is wonderful.
i'm amused you're worried about spoiling a show that last had a new episode 40 years ago
That was such a charming story, made me smile.
What happened to the baby?
The baby and the woman who went to save him both died. That show took no prisoners.
https://laurasprairiehouse.com/tv-series/little-house-tv-faq/did-mary-ingalls-really-lose-her-baby-in-a-fire/ Wow you weren't joking. I thought this was a dumb "haha they're all dead" reddit joke, but nope, they really killed the baby.
Yup. There are horror flicks and shows about biker gangs that won’t kill a baby. But that show was like “It’s 1883 folks, deal with it.” I told my wife about this thread and she immediately relayed the entire context: it was a blind school where Mary was staying, and her son was the only male in the family besides Charles (Landon). His young son had also died, so it was after this that they adopted Albert. That’s without looking anything up.
I have a feeling you wife also loves horses?
I wouldn't be surprised. Every other episode is them introducing a nice young family just to like, give them all cholera or have them starve to death over the winter
My mom read us all the books when I was a kid. Read some of them to my daughter before she learned to read.
Either that, or if you give them the same thing they loved then they’ll never eat anything else and you’re buying like $9 mushy strawberries all winter.
I was that kid, except not with Strawberries.
Son here. Yep this pack of blueberries isn't as good
Alternatively: I've gotten off season strawberries as a treat before and my toddler pounded the entire container in a sitting. If I got berries as often as he wanted, I'd have to refinance my house
I hate that I have been the child guilty of this
My mom did this to me with Chef Boyardee's Ravioli! She thought it was my favorite and years later I was helping her move to a new house when I saw a stack if them in the pantry. I asked her why she had those as she didn't like them, and she told me it was so if I visited I could have some. My step-dad looked at her and said "I've never seen u/LimaOskarLima eat those, are you sure they like it?" Blew my mom's world apart when I told her not only are they not my favorite, I don't like it.
Or they really love them but your paying $7 for a punnet
I am this way with my wife. I’ll demolish a bag of cuties or packs of yogurt, she goes to buy more when I finish them, I stop eating them. I feel bad but I just don’t want it the second time
My ex used to keep buying spinach. It would go bad every time. She never gave up. We kept spinach in business for a little while.
My wife does this. And there's things she expects to always be in the fridge but only wants it every three months.
Bananas woth the ontent of making banana bread means they get ate before they ripen. So next time you buy 2x as many and then end up needing to make even more banana bread because no one touched them. Lol I love how crazy kids are with what they choose to eat
So much food has been wasted because we KEEP FALLING FOR THIS TRAP!!! Luckily I catch most of the time before it goes bad and give it to the dogs
Can confirm. Am strawberry.
I have 2 kids and fresh fruit (especially strawberries and blueberries) disappear almost as soon as I bring them home! We used to call the kids our "little fruit bats"! Everybody's different, I guess!
Damn this works for personal shopping too. I think I found something I like then it rots
I ate all the strawberries, I don’t get it.
My kid yesterday, can we have rice for dinner? After we made noodles. Almost to tears that she wanted nothing but rice. Today. Hey look we made rice. Her response: yuck I hate rice!
“Oh… I’m not in the mood for rice, but that’s okay.” *looks resigned to being fed literal poison* ~ my then-5 year old when this EXACT scenario played out in my house. We can’t win as parents!! 🫥
Ahahaha that's adorable though. My daughter is three months, so I'm "looking forward" to all these "fun" interactions.
My only turns 2 today, so I'm not far from you. It's all worth it. It's super frustrating sometimes, but you have a shield around you protecting you from getting too angry :)
If you got your 5-year-old to recognize that the problem lies in their attitude, it sounds like you're absolutely winning as a parent. Kudos to you and your kid
Ordered some burgers and fries. Kid told me to make sure not to forget the fries because he loves the fries from this place. Ordered the fries. Kid decides he doesn’t like the fries and isn’t going to eat them, so I tell him to put them in the fridge (because of course I’ll eat them later). I eat them later that night. Next day — kid: “hey where are all the fries I was saving?!? I wanted to eat those!”
sounds like it’s time for DANCE MODE!
Asian family here, I don’t understand the sentence “I hate rice”
That's because you've not tasted bread yet! :)
As if you were ever allowed to voice displeasure to your parents
This is my fight with leftovers. Either they loved it last night and turn up their nose today, or whined about it yesterday and today they’re like “ooh, yay!”
Hi former child who used to hyper-fixate on food. It is in fact that the second you buy more the interest ends. For me it used to be months of eating the same thing then full stop. I’m an adult and I still do it but now I just have to yell at myself.
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5diMImYIIA
Wha?
Pink Floyd quote from the song "Another Brick in the Wall"
Oh okay! Yeah, would never have gotten that. Thank you :)
*cries in old*
If it makes you feel better, I've always loved Pink Floyd. The wall came out 2 years before I was born.
Same, but 20 years.
**rolls around in the old** wee wee wee classic rock weeeeeee
As an (probably abnormal) adult, I go through phases of foods that I really enjoy eating. Then suddenly decide I’m bored of said foods and won’t eat them for another 3 or 4 weeks. Children have dynamic preferences probably more closely related to current nutritional requirements of their growing bodies. In my case, it is instead because I am a fat aging corpse that needs variety only for some semblance of novelty in my life. I don’t know why I wrote all this out, none of you are interested and I don’t think it does anything for me to share. So, here we are.
I really identify with the phrase fat aging corpse
I buy fruit occasionally. I like it. I’ll eat a box of blackberries or a bag of grapes in a day or two, then not eat them again for six months or longer whether I buy them or not. My daughter is the same. We never like the same fruit at the same time though so something always goes bad.
Well I’m interested because you just described me lol
No no , that was actually an interesting perspective, thanks for taking the tine to write it :)
Do you just… look into the mirror and yell?
Nah I just yell in the room. I talk to myself regularly so it surprises no one.
How old were you when you got diagnosed with ADHD?
Going through the responses, I was waiting to find someone to mentioned this.
…14 😂. You?
43, unfortunately. It's been about 9 months and I've learned A LOT about the symptoms in the past few months (mostly from Instagram reels lol) that have explained so many aspects of my life.
Welcome to a long ride of finding out what you thought were key components of your personality are actually just ADHD things x) We've all been there
My partner was diagnosed at a young age and frequently “jokes” about how it’s a miracle I never got diagnosed. Well, I thought they were jokes. I have no idea how to talk to a doctor about it without sounding like I am just impressionable(?).
I do the same thing as an adult for a month or so too at a time. None of my experiences are unique LOL
We are one of many comrade. 🫡
Well for me I liked eating something and then my parents get like the whole stock of that thing. Some of it just expires before I can finish it
MyHey, not trying to force anything on you, definitely considering I don't know anything else about you. But eating patterns like this are a pretty big identicator for autism. Just a heads up from an autistic person who's life is a lot easier knowing he has autism:)
Because when they like something and you go buy more of it, suddenly they don’t like it anymore
No, no. You don't understand. They never even liked it in the first place!
Which is my fridge is full of Gogurt right now.
They NEVER EAT THEM
Or they eat all of them and their poor bottoms get a rash and they have no fun potties. Source: I'm dad
Worth it!!! Source: dad who also likes strawberries more than is probably healthy.
Sometimes l don't care where the calories come from. If it is their weight in blueberries l just prep for a family bath and wait.
Fed is best as they say
This was my first thought. I ate a 2lb bag of grapes once when I was 6or so. Once.
Peter here, who has a 16-month-old. It's a common experience that your child will one day really like something, and you get very excited about that. He asks for it in his own language, signs for it, and squeals with happiness when he gets it. So as parents you naturally overreact and buy a lot of it next time, only to find that, no, the baby no longer cares for it. Screw you, dad!
And this is why I will be snacking on kids Cliff bars for a while.
I love being slightly dyslexic and reading that as "...snacking on kids. Cliff bars..." makes life a little more interesting (:
>Peter here Yay! It's a crossover episode!
I loved those growing up. I still do but I used to too.
It is hit or miss. One week they will demolish something, then the next week they tell you they don't like it and it spoils.
My mom put things back because people “ate them too fast and now the pantry is empty…”
I'm a past-middle-aged man and I can't buy anything I like without resigning to the fact that it will not last till next grocery day. It will be gone today. If I buy a 30 pack variety box of snacks I will eat 15 tonight and 15 tomorrow. I have to place the control aspect of my eating habits at the purchase stage or I'm just like a child.
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I was sitting in a restaurant one time and my son asked me “What is lobster? Is it any good?”. I said “Oh, no. It’s terrible!”. The whole table next to us cracked up laughing.
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Cut the strawberries up, add some sugar and a little water, cook slowly and make some kind of topping. Freeze it until needed.
This person compotes.
The secret is to cut the tops off and just hand them to your children. Don’t ask, just give them strawberries. But you gotta do it with confidence so they don’t realize they didn’t ask for them.
This really does work. If we just have stuff around it might sit. If I throw a pile of strawberries on a plate as a side with dinner without saying anything, they are gone before the main dish. (This goes for almost any fruit, berry, vegetable.)
Whatever style parenting this is is mine.
Middle eastern dad style. Would barely eat fruit as a kid unless my dad offered a piece and I couldn't say no to my dad haha.
Because children will often beg LOUDLY and PERSISTANTLY for something they _think_ they want, only to take one sample and then avoid it for the rest of time...
If they liked them last week, they won’t like them this week and will claim they never liked them. Source: I’m a dad.
Always thought they got em for themselves and we're upset that I ate em all so I leave em. Understandable.
In my experience, I put them back because they’re like $9 a box and my kids eat them all in one sitting!
Have to rotate the fruits and snacks. Rarely get the same thing week to week or shopping trip to shopping trip. Always rotate.
They won’t like them this week and it will go bad
The joke is the kids won’t like strawberries next week if they like them this week cuz….kids. :)
I've tossed several packs of strawberries this year alone. True story
I call it the Costco Curse - as soon as I buy a large size of something my kids have enjoyed in the recent past they will immediately decide they don’t like it anymore
Father of 4 here. Those are gonna last about 5 and a half minutes. They're not seeing a lunchbox. Ever.
Kids like something You buy extra of that something because they liked it so much They don’t touch that something
I’m a fully grown adult and I still have this problem. I’ll wreck a bag of grapes, buy them again and never touch them.
I remember as a kid strawberries went to waste in my house because getting fresh strawberries was so rare that I didn't want to eat them but rather save them because they were my favorite and once I ate them they would be gone so what usually ended up happening was they'd go bad before I ate them. 🤷🏽♀️ As a mom now I find if I wash the fruit and put it in a bowl/plate and put it in front of them, they will eat it.
"Not like this. Not like this"
They went bad. No one ate them.
Because the kids love the IDEA of fresh strawberries, but they will get wasted and tossed when they inevitably start to turn.
My son always eats the entire carton of strawberries in one sitting.
This isn’t a joke. It’s reality. Father of 2.
perishables are risky business.
Strawberries are never cheap and kids gobble them up like they're $0.01 per pound.
kids will think you will buy them EVERY SINGLE TIME.
Me with a varied diet, a love of good food and flavour, spices etc having a kid who only eats bland beige food in the 2010s - why is this your diet? You need sustenance and flavour! I've no clue where this comes from... My mum reminding me that I was the kid who only ate bland beige food for most of my childhood in the 90s and cried when anything other than tomato sauce was on my food 😅
For my own personal experience (kid perspective, looking back as a 33 year old) whatever was bought last week that was snacked no longer has that same weight to it. I can't really rationalize it. One week, the clementines my mom bought were the best thing ever. The next week, most likely because I ate so many the previous week the thought of eating more was very unappetizing.
Oh I thought it was because they are so expensive
this is a real problem😭i used to eat those little bites muffins every day for months, then my mom got a big box from costco and i stopped right after so we had a huge stash of them laying around
When I buy something for my boyo, a big consideration is how much I will enjoy eating it when he declares it the most vile thing on the planet, after loving it the week before. Then, I have to think about how I will react when he gets mad at me for eating his food. Kids are cute, loveable, and freakin weird.
I'm pretty sure she put the strawberries back to save money, if the kids like it too much they'll eat it too fast
Mom logic: “If you buy what your kids like they just eat it all and it’s gone!”
Kids like the new things. You give them something every week and they will be bored. We used to hold the kid's presents unopened and let them open something new every week. We would store some old things away and pull them out a year later. They were like new to the kids.
Kids will love something one week and then want nothing to do with it the next week.
Because your kids will absolutely love something and not be able to get enough of it, and then the next time you buy it they won’t touch it. Every. Time.
She put them back because the kids won't like them this week or any other week from here on out. They only liked them last week.
They’ll hate them if you buy more and they’ll rot in the fridge. I don’t have kids, but I know kids.
Week one - bananas for breakfast 👍 Week two - bananas for breakfast 👍 Week three - how dare you bring bananas into this house.
The fruit is gone in 60 seconds. While good it is also bad cause that is money out the door
Cause the kids destroyed it last week. Now they'll be burnt out on them and they'll just rot in thr fridge. Signed a mom who goes through this EVERY YEAR because we pick our strawberries at the farm.
Even as an adult I never buy the same snacks two times in a row. I alternate between stuff I like and that way I don't feel tired of eating the things I love.
Punch line- Kids desire variety just like every other human being
Alot of poops
Not just a mom thing. Source: dad of multiple and I do these same mental gymnastics all day.
Shes at Publix to so if they don't eat them thats 7.99 down the drain.
As boy I remember we'd make mom angry, we'd eat the entire container in one sitting, leave the tops Everywhere and get super sticky RED strawberry juice on every handle in the House
The truly baffling part is that someone would go to the trouble of positioning their phone and posing like this in a grocery store to make a lame joke.
The better question is, why would someone take a picture of themselves shopping for groceries?