Betty by Gary Delainey and Gerry Rasmussen for March 08, 2022

Bhsc Betty

Ask your grandma. Because she said the same thing to me a few thousand times while I was growing up.

I’m calling her on that too. That sort of thing leads to eating disorders. He finished a plate of food. He isn’t malnourished. What is going on here?

In grade school the tried to make me eat prunes. I’m now 74 and the $£%&@s STILL haven’t succeeded!

And this is why we become obese….the “Clean Plate” club.

I gave each of our three girls One Thing they didn’t have to eat. Eldest Daughter chose peas. I can’t remember what the others chose.

Hideous woman

But he didn’t put it on his plate, she did. So he doesn’t have to eat it. Well at least at our house anyway. He did clean his plate .

My mother had a simple rule, you have to try it, don’t have to eat it, just try it. Prevented me and my brother from being picky eaters.

“Today’s Menu: Eat it or starve.” I was brought up in post-war England, that was the rule.

The rule I remember is that you don’t have to eat everything on your plate, but if you took seconds then you had to eat of it.

That was my parent’s rule, too. I couldn’t leave the table until I’d finished everything. It’s why I hid any greenery I could in the metal expansion runners of the kitchen table. Green beans, Lima beans, little pieces of cauliflower. They all went in the guides. One day Mom needed to move it to strip and wax the kitchen floor. Dehydrated garden items went everywhere, old beans skittering across the floor. That was a bad day for me.

He shouldn’t have to eat it since he didn’t ask for the second helping you put on his plate.

Yep. Grandma rules!

One rule, if you’re not hungry for the food on your plate, you aren’t hungry for desert.

Random musings:

(1) He won’t win this one, google or Grandma notwithstanding. Mom gets the final word.

(2) I just hope the next installment doesn’t go to the stupidity of that irritating commercial where the “I won’t eat this!” fight is resolved by mom preparing (and hosannas being sung to) Kraft Macaroni & Cheese.