When You Were A Little Kid, What Did Your Mother Say To Get You To Eat Your Vegetables? (page 2)

gma-tired2

Husbands momsaid he would sit there till he ate his veggies. So he sat there, sat there, and set there. Mom gave up

Growing up we pretty much lived the vegetarian menu. My Dad quit meat and mom cooked to please him. It worked out pretty good because we were poor as church mice. Beans, greens and cornbread. If you are hungry, as most growing children are, you eat what's there.

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Q. What's the difference between brussell sprouts and bogeys?

A. Kids will eat bogeys.

label licker

I would hear waste not want not and my favorite was don't let me catch you trying to hide your broccoli in your glass of milk. It can't be done, trust me.

FlyingHighNow

My mother forced us kids to eat everything, even if it gagged us. I recall seeing freshly squeezed orange juice squirting out of my younger brother's nose. To this day, I won't eat the foods I didn't like then: turnip and other greens; pickled beets, egg whites when it's just egg whites.

AwareBeing

"Their fresh from our garden, [no GMO's] and flavored with salt and butter!"

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jgnat

You've given me a horrid flashback. They were canned peas - olive green - sterilized before served (mom was no cook but she was Dr. Spock's disciple) cold and wrinkled. Mom tried the "stay there until you eat them". My infant memory tells me I was rooted to that chair like, for, forever. I can't remember who won.

jam

Eat your vegetables or no dessert. My younger brother

was stubborn so I got his dessert. LOL

Amelia Ashton

We got no pudding if we didn't eat our sprouts.

I mashed mine in the gravy but still gagged with every mouthful.

One time when my Gran came round she reminded my dad that he didn't like them as a kid and he wasn't forced to eat them so why did he force his own children?

If I got a chance I took them off my plate and gave them to the dog who was always under the table hoping for scraps to fall. She took every one but when the table was cleared and the cloth removed it was revealed she hadn't eaten them just chewed them a bit and then spat them out.

Never got told off for that though.

Hortensia

Funny thread

My mother tried the "sit there until you clean your plate!" thing with us. I don't recall that it ever worked. I do recall trying not to gag as I swallowed the horrible stew she made. She hated cooking.

When You Were A Little Kid, What Did Your Mother Say To Get You To Eat Your Vegetables?