If it’s full of salt/preservatives, SDrama eats it up. Oh and she dumps rice into anything imaginable: soup, stew, etc...maybe it’s me but I find it disgusting. Not a piece of fruit or a salad to be seen in her mouth...

Our sd17 will eat us out of house and home. So we make her ask permission first or we go you can eat this and this. Otherwise we be buying food everyday. But sometimes when we working late we have nights where everyone fends for themselves she act like cooking up some noodles or making a sandwich or putting frozen meal in the microwave is a big effort. Will ask question after question on how to cook it even though she done it hundred times and we explained it a thousand. All you have to do is read the box. Sometimes she just wont do it at all say she not hungry will eat things that need no preparation. Or she put something on say in the oven or something  and then walk away we end up having to watch it doesnt burn or keep calling her to come and keep a eye on it. One thing about her though she not a fussy eater she loves her veggies and healthy food even when she was a kid. So theres no problem there even though like all kids she still likes her junk. Just sometimes she thinks we a restaurant though think she can just pick and choose what on the menu that day. But we never fall for that crap it like no we cooking this and that it. We both not the type of parents who cook separate meals and things because someone doesn't like something. It either eat this or starve. 

belongs to DH and I lol. But in the end, none of them are junk food junkies. The picky kid is mostly vegetarian. She eats chicken and every once in awhile bacon but otherwise it's salad, meat substitutes, and carbs lol. We really are lucky in the food department. Other than a few things they won't eat (two no seafood, the picky one, two no squash. five no mushrooms, one no peas) they are just typical kids (well adults and older teens now). 

Now when we had five teenagers at home they would eat us out of the house. So we had five separate containers with their specific snacks and likes in them. Once they were gone after grocery shopping they didn't get anymore until the next grocery trip. It only took once of them eating everything and not having more for them to moderate it themselves. 

Mine is odd with food habits also. In front of DH she claims she loves everything he makes and is super picky about it being healthy. 

Not in front of DH, shes much much pickier and mostly eats junk.

She also eats really, really slowly. Like 45 minutes to and hour most nights to eat supper. Idk what she does at school, but even her preschool report card said that she takes a long time to finish snack and every teacher shes had since then has mentioned how slowly she moves in general.

Just thinking about this pisses me off.

My formerSO's kid was 13 when I left. He was 100% unable to make anything for himself. Left to his own devices, when I refused to stop nursing my newborn baby to cook him scrambled eggs with cheese and toast at 215PM when he finally got his staying up all night screaming at the video games ass out of bed,  he would go eat an entire jar of banana peppers, or a whole block of cheese, or an entire box of pop tarts (raw, because he couldn't use the toaster). And then call his grandmother to go get him some McDs, because I wasn't feeding him. She would get up and make the 40 mile round trip for his rotten ass.

Of course I was the bad guy for "not taking care of him" and if I would just love him like he needed to be loved, everything would be so much better. 

Whew. Yea, glad I left. 

ss eating habits are constant junk food fried in oil then claims he’s on a diet from eating dinner to slim down and skip breakfast etc.

i cook at home most of the time and we eat healthy food (me, husband and our 2 toddlers), hubby will force ss to eat some of what i cooked but ss doesn’t dare help himself because he’s too ashamed since he trashtalks me. He does often help himself to juice in the fridge that i buy.

if ss has bought takeout and my kids think he got food for them (my kids are 3.5 & 2.5), ss ignores my kids or laughs if they cry when they realise he won’t share. He only cares about himself so i do not care about him.

You can read my blogs...OSD with selective eating disorder and the other now in hyper-control issues. Either way I disengaged becuse DH didn't/doesn't want to hear it. I buy basics for household and that's it. DH can spend his own money on food that either is high end or won't be touched.

My 11 year old SD eating is rediculous, I now refuse to cook for her. There's hardly anything she will eat that's not rubbish, if I get something in for her that she likes she won't eat it because I cooked it, but if her dad cooks it she'll eat it. It's all about control except I don't care if she goes hungry.

Also she will like and dislike the same thing depending on it's form. I.e loves pigs in blankets (sausages wrapped in bacon) but doesn't eat sausages. Likes chicken and pies but won't eat chicken in pies.

Dont even get me started on eating out, I've watched her order a fillet steak off the adults menu when her grand father was kindly taking us all out for dinner, if it was my kid I'd say it's rude to order the most expensive thing on the menu when someone else is paying. Of course she hardly ate any of it and was then allowed to order an adult desert - her food bill came to double that of everyone else's. 
I put my foot down when her dad was going to let her order a man-vs-food challenge item off a diner menu. She had a massive strop when he made her order off the kids menu

SD16 and SD12.....same diet for both and neither can make food for themselves.

on school days when they get picked up BM or MIL and sometimes DH gets them drive thru fried and nuggets....almost daily.

they also eat....chips, ramen noodles, can chicken noodle soup, and frozen waffles....that’s it. And neither drink a drop of water.

can you imagine my dumbfounded look when MIL and DH can’t understand why the kids are always sick and tired. Hmmmmmm

My SD17 is VERY picky. There is not one meal I can rememer her not picking something out or making a comment. *nea* She is also, I believe, slightly anorexic. She barely eats throughout the day, at all. She has recently lost weight and is very, very thin. She weighs anywhere between 89 - 92 lbs, but is only 4'11". The "ideal weight" charts say, with her small frame she should be at least 100 lbs, preferably 103. 

My SD was not really a picky eater but she was kind of timid, so did not go rummaging about the pantry and fridge for food to feed herself. That was fine with me, DH made sure she was fed, it was not on me, at all.

Now that she's a mom, DH and I roll our eyes at her menus and what she feeds her kids. Total crap. Oh well, not my problem. Sometimes she will call DH and ask him how to make something that doesn't come out of the freezer in a box.

My SS9 is, surprisingly, not all that picky. He doesn't like anything he thinks is hot or spicy (basically, anything not bland), but that's not out of the norm for young kids. Hates mashed potatoes, though. Loves broccoli, fish, pretty much any fruit or vegetable. So, that's nice.

Where we run into trouble, though, is table manners. Likes to eat with his fingers, which DH and I both get grossed out by.

A couple of weeks ago, after finishing dinner, SS actually ran his fingers across his plate and stuck his fingers in his mouth. I was stunned. DH reamed him out good for that one. Apparently BM is lax on table manners. SS was legitimately surprised to hear he'd done something wrong. 

Skid has always been a terribly picky eater.

Junk food, fast food, restaurant food. She likes it all. But she’s picky with that stuff too. 

She’s all about the pizza and funky fast food chicken. She cannot handle any kind of sauce that’s semi healthy. She’s all about butter, salt, and cheese.

DH, who also LOVES salt, used to salt her already salted food, or sit there at the table with his thumb up his arse, while super young skid grabbed the salt and over applied it to her food. 

I don't have a problem with my SD being a picky eater.  My problem is that she is an over indulgent eater.  She never asks if she can have something she just helps herself.  Which isn't that big of a deal but I find it a bit annoying when she consumes all of something before the other 4 people in the home have any and then lies about it (which happens often especially with sweets).  She will sneak food in her room (they aren't supposed to eat in their bedrooms) and then hide the wrappers in her closet.  Anytime she has any cash to blow she has to spend it on candy.  Her eating habits honestly disgust me.  She loves candy, sweets, fast food, fries and mashed potatoes.  One time I had the premade Bob Evans mashed potatoes I was going to use with a meal (it feeds 4-6).  She decided she wanted to eat that as a snack.  Ate half of it and threw the other half away.  A pet peeve of mine is waste.  She is very wasteful.  She eats like crap then she complains about being fat......I don't intervene in most of it unless she hoards something that was supposed to be for everyone to herself.  This happens so often that I stopped buying any type of treat or special items when we have her.  I also wait until she goes back to BM before I go to the grocery to stock up on anything that we are low on.  She will seriously consume all snacks in the house in a weekend if they are available.  One time she tried to get DH to save her the last pop tart until her next visit....WTF?!? I told him hell no.  If the people in the home full time want the pop tart they can eat it.  We aren't saving it for her.  She has no manners when it comes to making sure every one has firsts before she has seconds.  Usually the first thing she wants to know when she gets to our home is what is for dinner and every meal after basically.  I could go on and on but I'll stop there. DH has some weird obession with making sure she's had enough to eat but doesn't worry about anyone else.  I have called him out on this before.  "DH why are you so worried about SD being fed and not YDS?"....his response "I didn't think she had anything to eat yet"....his head must really be in the sand.  The one day he was all worried about it I had just watched her eat nachos, a huge plat of french fries and 2-3 donuts.  Or like the other day when we got taco bell "I'm surprised you only got 2 tacos SD!"  You can see she isn't by any means starving.....it is like he wants her to be fat?!?! I don't get it.  And yes, I know this is more a DH problem than anything. 

My Skids have a preference for junk food and overly sweet or salty things. They will eat real food when we make it and often will say "it's the best dinner we've ever had", but I think that is teen exaggeration. I don't think BM does much cooking, despite what she says. I try to limit the amount of food we buy when they are around, because I know they will eat a week's worth of food over a weekend, leaving me with nothing for the week following their visitation weekend. They can't be satisfied with eating "some" of a treat, they must eat it all at once. I have also learned to hide food I've purchased for myself or hold off on buying it until they've left. 

My SS11 drives me nuts with eating, although it usually only becomes an issue when he stays longer than a normal weekend.  I try to mix things up a little bit and he never wants to eat the stuff.  I try to cater to his limited preferences and 99% of the time there's still SOMETHING about it he doesn't like.  Suffice to say he eats a lot of variations of PB sandwiches at our house.

Food issues have definitely been some of the most frustrating and challenging as a SM. Both my SSs were VERY picky eaters. Their main diet with BM  (when not eating fast food, which was frequent) consisted of frozen chicken nuggets and Mac n cheese. I didn't feed my family that crap, so meals at home were a challenge. On Friday nights of visitation, we'd order pizza. They ate only cheese & pepperoni, common for kids, but that wasn't the bad part. The bad part was, OSS would wipe his greasy hands either on my custom made fabric chair pads or on his jeans. DH would not say anything to him. I'd try to remind him nicely and was ignored.  Eating out brought other issues. I mentioned on the other blog that oldest SS would order the most expensive thing on the menu and not eat it. If we went to a Chinese buffet, oldest SS would eat only chicken nuggets & white rice, while we paid for a whole buffet. 

Now that SSs are grown, OSS is a weightlifting nut and eats expensive high-protein foods (which becomes a problem when we take them on vacation and pay for everything.) OSS's 2DDs (SGDs) are as picky as he was but eat much less. When on vacation with them,  it drives me crazy that they each order a separate meal of the same thing, eat three bites and then take it in a "to go" box back to where we're staying, only to be thrown away by me when cleaning up to leave. If they were my children, or even my DSs' children, I'd suggest they order one meal & split it, but if I do that with my SS's kids, I risk making him mad or looking like a b*tch. This post is giving me anxiety reliving all these things. Lol. Just know you're not alone!

in no particular order:

1. cheese pizza
2. doritos
3. oreos by the sleeve
4. chicken nuggets/mcdonalds or BK
5. hotdogs with no grill marks
6. chocolate ice cream with choco syrup
7. kraft dinner
8. lunchables
9. kids kuisine
10. crustless PB&J  heavy on the "J" with a speck of PB
11. gatorade
12. soda
13. reeses peanut butter cups   (odd considering #10)
14. donuts
15. chocolate milk or cocoa cooled down to room temperature

My SS19 had/has good table manners. He's always been a good eater, as well, and DH didn't get him much junk.  Both BM and DH like to cook, so I think he ate decently, though BM certainly indulged him more.

When he was gone (alienated) for 3 years, he grew tall and is now significantly overweight. Drinks pop like water, and loves to eat, period. Not sure he has much else in his life than food and video games.

Since we moved on to table manners...still dealing with those issues.

I refused to go to restaurants with SDs for about 1.5 years because it was always a bad experience.  They refused to take off coats, but took off their shoes, hid under table, jumped on seats, RAN down the aisles, ordered too much food - which usually was chicken strips and/or french fries, OSD ate the sugar packs and drank the coffee creamer (I had waitress remove those from the table if they were there), yelled, begged to leave as soon as THEY were done eating or bored.  This was ages roughly 8 and 10. 

They ate with their hands at home, no napkins.  They didn't help set/clear table until I demanded DH make them do this.  They didn't know how to use a knife/fork properly.  Food would end up all over the table and floor.  They would sit on their feet and "crouch" on the chairs. 

OSD eventually grew out of this pretty well, but YSD is now pushing boundaries at almost 14.  Crouching on her chair again, messing around on the chair, using her fingers to eat, reaching all the way across the table for something instead of asking for it to be passed to her, food everywhere, just awful.  One night DH thought I was being too hard on her - oh, ok!  So I started acting like her, leaving food on the table (you know, serving yourself with plate FAR away from the bowl so it spills off the serving utensil), reaching across them for things, talking with my mouth open...both of them noticed and were like, "what are you doing?" Genuninely confused.  "I'm just doing what others at the table are doing, it's much easier."  DH has been on her since, but sadly, not consistently enough...she also just damaged a chair last week (it was already a bit roughed up but it's now in storage waiting for repair.....).

My SD is SOOO picky it's infuriating. There's only about 4 meals she will eat, and she always nags for sweets and crisps. We can barely keep up as she loves a food 1 week and then hates it the next. She never finishes a meal, no matter how much or little is on her plate. And she eats like a damn animal...it knocks me sick. She can barely use cutlery and still needs prompting to use a knife, rather than nibble the food off the fork. She chews really loudly, practically dislocates her jaw shoving too much food in at once, and gets food everywhere, while chewing with her mouth open. It's disgusting....my 14 month old makes less mess than her at mealtimes. 

BioHo raised the skids on a steady diet of fast food, junk food, and gallons of pop. "Homecooked" meant a chemical-laden frozen entree heated up in the microwave or oven. I once saw pics of their kitchen. Every surface was covered with junk:

• numerous family-sized bags of chips
• a case of Pringles
• jars of cheese dip
• a dozen or so bags of store-bought cookies
• stacks of Little Debbie snack cakes
• about 20 2-liter bottles of pop
• PopTarts
• marshmallows
• peanut butter
• countless jars of jelly
• several loaves of white bread
• a case of Kraft mac & cheese

The refrigerator door was open. The door had jars of jam and jelly. Nothing else. Packages of hot dogs and cold cuts, a "loaf" of processed cheese slices. YUGE bottles of ketchup and mayonnaise. More 2-liter bottles of pop. The entire bottom shelf was wine bottles stacked on their sides. 

To this day, the only veggie the skids like? Potatoes - in French fry or tater tot form. 

We rarely wasted money taking my SD out to a an actual restaurant. She once declared that she loved Chinese food, so we took her to a Chinese buffet...where she ate fried chicken.