If your LO doesn't finish the food on their plate...

[pinkpeony6210]

Do you? I just found myself finishing the rest of Ella and Kate's breakfast. Yesterday it was their lasagna. Sometimes it's their snacks. It's usually not a lot, but still, it's extra food I usually wouldn't consume. 

Am I the only one? 

[katfco]

DH and I do with dinner. Sometimes I will with his lunch. And yeah, those calories do add up.

[rainbowchip]

I don't usually only because I imagine it covered in slobber. Also, it's typically been sitting there for a good hour before they say they are done with it and I don't like eating cold food.

[imimahoney]

Sometimes. I try not to but if I'm not being good then probably yes. It is a bad habit I need to break.

[sunshineluv]

My DH finishes Henry's food most of the time.

[alicia45]

If it's still good and there's a lot left, I plastic wrap it and stick it in the fridge for the next meal. I'll pull something off of it for the next meal and the rest the next day. If it's 3 bites of a sandwich, I just toss it.

[sandj82110]

It depends on what it is, he eats his food lukewarm/cool regardless of what it is (anything remotely warm he declares got and won't touch it). So it has to be something that is good cold. The mangled nature also plays a big role.

[ktstorm]

If it's something that he's stolen from me (which is not an uncommon occurrence), I'll finish it. Otherwise my H will finish it unless it's soggy cereal, then it goes straight in the trash.

[AndyCohen]

I share her yogurt, but that's about it. Maybe if we have pizza

[oso]

My H finishes her food.

[pinkpeony6210]

Jul 14, 2014 7:38:18 GMT -5 alicia45 said:

If it's still good and there's a lot left, I plastic wrap it and stick it in the fridge for the next meal. I'll pull something off of it for the next meal and the rest the next day. If it's 3 bites of a sandwich, I just toss it.

I usually do the same with lunch food. They're picky with dinner, so whatever they don't finish, I know they won't eat the next day. I'm in the "at least I offered it" boat most of the time. 

[shevacc]

Usually I finish it. I worried about it before I got pregnant and probably should worry more about it more.

[pinkpeony6210]

Jul 14, 2014 7:48:31 GMT -5 ktstorm said:

If it's something that he's stolen from me (which is not an uncommon occurrence), I'll finish it. Otherwise my H will finish it unless it's soggy cereal, then it goes straight in the trash.

No soggy cereal here. They usually eat it all, but I get skeeved out with soggy stuff. Yuck. 

[pinkpeony6210]

Jul 14, 2014 7:50:54 GMT -5 @therealmc said:

We do and really need to stop. I have a friend who has 3 kids. As an experiment her and her husband stopped doing this for a month and they both lost 5 pounds.

Wow! 

My sisters have older kids, and they usually bring their plates directly to them when they're "done" eating, which usually is still a full plate of food. My sister will literally have multiple plates sitting in front her. Sometimes she eats them, other times she doesn't. 

I really want to break the habit before their plates get bigger! 

[Deleted]

It depends on what it is and if it's been touched or already put in his mouth. I passed on some tater tots the other day that were splattered with applesauce. But, yesterday I finished his cheese stick. I'm going to really think about it now though thanks to this thread!

[eddy]

No because food after kids touch it grosses me out. They probably mixed their applesauce with the savory dish or something. Or had their hands all up in it.

[rubber pants]

ewww no. its usually covered in milk spit and slobber.

(i totally just made her sound like a dog)

[pinkpeony6210]

Jul 14, 2014 7:56:58 GMT -5 eddy said:

No because food after kids touch it grosses me out. They probably mixed their applesauce with the savory dish or something. Or had their hands all up in it.

I definitely won't touch certain things, especially random things that have been mixed. 

Cold eggs is a big no-no for me. Totally grosses me out. 

[pinkpeony6210]

Jul 14, 2014 7:57:39 GMT -5 rubber pants said:

ewww no. its usually covered in milk spit and slobber.

(i totally just made her sound like a dog)

They get neater as they get older. No spit and slobber on Ella's food. I might find a random piece of chewed/spit out food on Kate's plate, though. I obviously don't eat that. 

[spaghetticat]

It depends. But I posted in Trudy's post the other day that I'm sure it's not helping with weight loss.

[jfh]

Yes, and it's a problem. He's become a super picky eater, and he's also pretty skinny, so I usually make him a wide variety of foods. Then he takes two bites and I eat the remaining 66,467,809 calories.

@therealmc the windex is a funny idea! It seems so wasteful - But also wasteful is all the money I'm going to spend on yoga and massages once I gain 80 pounds this pregnancy. Windex, you say.....

[vthokie]

If it's not covered in kid gross, my H will eat it. But he's a skinny dude with a great metabolism, so he can always deal with some extra calories

[thedahliharpa]

Sometimes but I don't like a lot of things cold and am too lazy to reheat.

[claralou]

Jul 14, 2014 7:50:54 GMT -5 @therealmc said:

We do and really need to stop. I have a friend who has 3 kids. As an experiment her and her husband stopped doing this for a month and they both lost 5 pounds.

I've lost 8 since stopping this just last month. I didn't realize how much I was doing it. :-|

[Deleted]

Yes! And I'm trying very hard not to do that anymore. So this morning I quickly threw it out so I wouldn't be tempted.

[Dorothy Zbornak]

Either DH or I eat it. Or we give it to the other kid. Or the dog. Or it goes in the trash.

[Deleted]

Obviously I don't eat the gross stuff like fish dipped in applesauce then ketchup. But if I just cut her a piece if banana bread that I made and she only ate one bite, then I would.

[honeybee503]

My H does most of the time.

[abbypug19]

It depends, her food is usually ice cold when she's finished. If it's something delicious like her steak last night then maybe.

[rxbeth]

Only if it's something she has stolen off of my plate. A lot of the time she refuses to eat the food on her plate and will just eat off of ours.

Back in the day, my grandma had a really big weight problem and was always eating the remains of the kids food. It got so bad that she asked my grandpa to pour cigarette ashes on the plates when the kids were done eating (keep in mind this is the 50's-70's)