When You Were A Little Kid, What Did Your Mother Say To Get You To Eat Your Vegetables? (page 3)

whathappened

You will go to bed early if you don't eat all your food.

We work hard to put food on the table and you won't eat.

My parents were so nice.

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I use to hear stories of living through the Great Depression stop stop I'll eat the Broccoli

My arch nemesis was cooked carrots. My mom, bless her, cooked them in orange juice to make them not as sweet and more palatable to me. But I pretty much hated them. Her line, "what are you going to do in 'the persecution' TM , and we are in prison and all you have to eat is cooked carrots!" Me: "I'LL EAT THEM THEN!" BTW, I didn't get by with it. I had to at the very least eat a bite.

It occurs to me, now, how strange that is to hear as a little kid...that you are going to prison...at any time.

I also was reminded just last month by my JW SIL how stubborn I was as a kid because I refused to eat my spinach one night and I had to sit alone with it cold in the dining room while everybody else was in the livingroom watching The Beverly Hillbillies. 50 years later and I'm still hearing about it. Family forgets nothing.

jhine

Not a post about veg , in Britain we have faggots , no not the American type ! Biggish meatballs in gravy . My oldest grandaughter said that she did not like faggots , but decided that" dinosaur eggs " were delicious !

Ucantnome

that she would tell my father

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Eat them now or I'll beat you about the head and lock you in the cupboard.

Just joking.

LoisLane looking for Superman

Thank you - Thank you - Thank you. Your stories were ALL so funny. lol

Let's see the list of vegetables include:

Brussel sprouts - Carrots - Peas, green, and gray and wrinkled (canned) - Broccoli - Turnips and greens - Pickled Beets -

Yes, that is a pretty good comprehensive list of what kids don't like to eat. lol

When I was little, I didn't like raw celery or iceberg lettuce. It was so crunchy, it hurt my ears. Weird, I know. lol

Dagney, yes, isn't it weird how JW parents talk to their CHILDREN about being persecuted and going to Prison? Totally unbalanced and unacceptable behavior.

Thank you everybody!

Are there anymore you want to share?

Just Lois

AnneB

"Eat it or wear it!"

I had the healthiest hair in the family!

FlyingHighNow

I know people who ask that the child try a bite or two. If the child genuinely gags, the kid doesn't have to eat the food. Much better idea. I love and miss my mom, but she could go Mommy Dearest on us if we didn't want to eat something. As for me, she should have said, "Well, Heather loves just about everything I serve, so she must sincerely not like turnip greens, beets, etc."

I remember mother telling me that the rutabagas she put in her beef stew/soup were really potatoes. "But, Mom, these potatoes are the wrong color and they taste really, really weird." "That's because of the tomatoes."

She used to serve us cooked spinach. She would give us vinegar or lemon juice to put on them to make them "taste good". I hated the texture, but I would somehow get them down. Thank the stars that Mom did not put sliced, boiled eggs on the spinach. That is just nasty, gross.

OUTLAW

Your Mom`s Fed You?!..

I would have been Happy to Eat Your Vegetables..

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

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