What is it about kids and bread crusts?

[USAmma]

I have never trimmed dd's sandwiches but last week she declared that the crust was yucky and she wasn't going to eat it. My mom never trimmed mine so I trimmed them myself with my teeth. What is it about kids and bread crusts, anyway?

[alegna]

Silly kids. I bet it's a texture thing. I did the no crusts thing as a kid too, but I've always had food texture issues.

have fun trimming those crusts for the next year or so!

-Angela

[Treasuremapper]

I have no idea.

I do know that when I was a child I was very hurt and offended that all the other kids' mothers trimmed the crusts and then cut the sandwiches in two or four triangles. My mother would just take the bread and fold it over to make a half sandwich, and no amount of begging would entice her to do otherwise.

[mamalisa]

I don't eat my crusts, but I hide it from ds so he has no idea that people don't eat them. I have no explanation why I don't like them though

[fremontmama]

good question :LOL I remember not liking crusts and my mom trying to convince me that it would make my hair curly if I ate them. Maybe its the rough texture on the roof of the mouth?

[USAmma]

Originally Posted by inezyv

I have no idea.

I do know that when I was a child I was very hurt and offended that all the other kids' mothers trimmed the crusts and then cut the sandwiches in two or four triangles. My mother would just take the bread and fold it over to make a half sandwich, and no amount of begging would entice her to do otherwise.

I had the same experience. Sigh. Bad mothers.

[momto l&a]

My kids love crusts

[LianneM]

I don't like them either! :LOL

[meemee]

add my dd to the list of dont like crusts either. her best friend eats the crust but not my dd. she hands it to me to trim it. so she hasnt really seen anyone not eat crusts. i look upon it as a sweet mommy child moment. because i end up eating the crusts (she cuts them so thick that i get quite a bit of filling and i have a hard time wasting food if i can help it).

but she also wont eat the edge of pizza that i eat and she will only eat a whole apple after handing it to me to peel the peel off her apple with my teeth. wont eat the skin on a kiwi or if it is v. seedy or not quite ripe.

she will eat cooked rainbow trout, uncooked all kinds of tuna and other fish but not any kind of salmon - cooked or uncooked. too 'stringy'.

so i think with her it is a sensory issue too. wont eat raw veggies even today at 33 months too.

[matts_mamamama]

Hmmm... I eat the sides and bottom crust, but not the top. I remember having no crust for awhile as a kid, but then I think I just got over it (at least the sides and bottom!)

[onlyzombiecat]

My dd leaves the bread crusts too most of the time. I don't cut them off. She just eats to that point and leaves the crusts on the plate.
I don't remember having a problem with bread crusts as a child. I know my mom never cut them off.

[MamaBug]

I do think it is the texture, I hate the crust as well, but did have to eat them as a child.

Both my sons hate the crust so I bought this huge heart cookie cutter and that is how I make their sandwiches and they love it. One day my dh packed the lunches and not only did he not do the heart ( though he did remove the crusts) but he also didn't write the love note. Both boys came home and said " Mom why no heart sandwich and where was my love note?" I told them Daddy made the lunches and they asked that he never do it again!

[mamakay]

Almost one year ago I had a revelation.
Bread crust can not contain more vitamins. My granma always said it did, and I never though twice about it. Bread is not a vegetable, though. It was a little, harmless lie I took for truth...
As a side note, sandwiches are just yummier towards the middle. Crust is dry, and the best part of the sandwich is the innermost part. A bite from the center of a sandwich is a yummy bite. It's basic sandwich physics. Crust bites are dry and bland not so yummy.

[LaughingHyena]

I second the dryness and not enough filling at the crusts. I still eat them first and get them out of the way.

When I was litlle I remember packing snadwiches for a picninc with my grandma. We cut off all the the crusts and ate them with extra fillling before leaving (apparently seperate crusts were ok!). At lunch my brother then ate only the middles of his sandwiches declaring that he didn't like crusts, no ammount of pursuading would make him belive that we had already removed them.

[BensMom]

I swore I would never be one of those mamas who cut the crusts from my childs sandwich. But lo and behold, before he could barely talk in complete sentences (DS has a speech delay) he was asking me to "take brown off."

So we have been removing the crusts ever since.

Every now and then we try to sneak a complete sandwich by, hoping he will just eat around it. It might work 1 out of 10 times.

I dont eat pizza crusts, but I do eat bread crusts.

[BensMom]

Originally Posted by mamakay

Almost one year ago I had a revelation.
Bread crust can not contain more vitamins. My granma always said it did, and I never though twice about it. Bread is not a vegetable, though. It was a little, harmless lie I took for truth...

:LOL OMG. As I was reading your post, I thought, of course the are more vitamins, its the crust. And then my brain went....uh...oooohhhh. I get it.

So yes, another gullible person here who bought that rubbish hook, line and sinker as a child and it carried over into adulthood. That would be a fun thread - what "trusims" did you beleive well past childhood.

[teachma]

When my ds ate lunch in school for the first time, he learned that crusts were yucky. Until then, he ate them happily. Now, if I make a sandwich for him, he will eat the crusts separately from the rest of the sandwich, but I need to cut them off first!! However, if we go to a restaurant or deli, he will eat his snadwich with the crusts on. Strange.

[oceanbaby]

Wow, I was just going to post this same thread!

Back when I was the perfect parent (aka - before I had kids) I thought "duh, just don't cut the crusts off and kids will eat them because they don't know the difference." Well, ds1, before starting school or ever seeing one of us eat something without crusts, just started leaving the crusts of his sandwiches. I don't cut them off, but he just nibbles all around them. And I am always careful to make sure that the filling covers the entire sandwich, including the crusts.

But you know what? I don't really like crust either - definitely the dryness thing. I have always eaten them though, thinking that it's something I should do. I don't even know why I feel that way - I have no memory of someone telling me the crusts were healthier, but I admit that I have that ingrained in my head somehow!

[ShannonCC]

Originally Posted by fremontmama

my mom trying to convince me that it would make my hair curly if I ate them.

I was told this as a child too Ticked me off when I got older and discovered genetics were the cause of my curly hair, not bread crusts. Now I'm an adult who gleefully cuts off her crusts I gave my dd bread with crusts for years thinking she might like them. It wasn't til she was 4 or 5 that she asked me to cut them off so now I do. DS (3) never liked crusts at all. I sort of get a thrill everytime I cut my kids crusts off without trying to fabricate some stupid lie to get them to eat them :LOL

My mom still insists that the crust contains more nutrition. She swears she read that somewhere. Even if that is true, I really don't care. We eat whole wheat bread so I somehow doubt the insides are junk food (not like I'm eating Wonder).

[heldt123]

My son has started leaving the bread bones on his plate. I'm pregnant and eating everything in sight, so I usually just eat them for him. I won't cut the crusts off for him, though, if he doesn't want to eat them, he can just eat around them as usual. He usually will eat the crust on my homemade bread as the crust is more moist than store bought.