40 Funny and Ridiculous Reasons Why Children Refuse to Eat (41 photos)

You can cook the most delicious food for your child, but getting them to eat can sometimes be a daunting task! Exhausted parents share stories online about the excuses their children make to skip breakfast, lunch, and dinner.







"He asked for ratatouille, like in the cartoon of the same name." I scoured the internet for a recipe—and now he refuses to eat it because it wasn't made by a rat."





"My four-year-old refused to eat the pie because it was 'too pretty'"



"It's broken." I broke it myself, by the way."



"He's too cute."



"He doesn't eat it because it reminds him of what happened to Snow White"



He refused to eat because I pitted the cherries, which meant I "turned them into olives."



"He's disgusted by these hairs." He's 15."



"He loves onion rings, but now he refuses to eat them because he just found out they have onions in them."



"Because honey cereal is honey flavored, and chocolate cereal is chocolate flavored, and these are probably Elsa flavored, and she doesn't want to eat them." "Elsa"



"She doesn't like 'nipples.' Maybe sunflower seeds? 'No, nipples!'"



Because she asked for 'cheese and crackers,' not 'crackers and cheese!'



Won't eat it because there are too many spoons in the bowl. Guess who put them there?



Won't eat it because the grapes are "too spicy." Spicy!



"I won't, because they're headless," he said, biting off their heads.



"Because she's too "Decorated"



"He refused to eat a cheese sandwich because he has a tail, and he doesn't eat animals."



"Because the honey on the sandwich looks like a rabbit, and he doesn't want to kill it." "rabbit"



"He liked the first half of the cookie, but then he realized they weren't Oreos. I never said they were Oreos. But now he's crying."



"Because she doesn't like the orange on the banana. "This is a fork, by the way."



"Because carrots have legs."



"Because it tastes like different fruits were mixed in it." "Hm, well, you could say that, it's a fruit salad after all."



"Because the mice have already eaten it."



"Eddie refused to eat it, saying it shouldn't have been made so pretty." "cut"



"Because she's a vegetarian and wants chicken nuggets instead of meat"



"Because this cupcake seems to be in trouble, it needs Doctor"



"He doesn't want dumplings because 'they have fingers'"



"Because 'they' uneven"



"Because she doesn't eat things that are cut into pieces, because that could cause her to fall apart and no one to put her back together."



"I bought the kids bat-shaped toothpaste." Now they're crying, and no one can convince them they're not real bats."



"Because it has seeds in it."



"Because when she dropped it on the table, the icing cracked. She's 17"



"Because she wanted this, but while I was doing it, she wanted something else."



"Because it looks like "butt"



"Because someone farted in the room, and now the muffin is dirty."



"She refused to eat the yogurt on the left that I picked out for her, and chose the yogurt on the right for herself. "Find the difference"



"Because I said they were legs, and he doesn't eat legs. Only wings."



"Because he wanted a candy with nuts, and in the candy—who would have thought? — turned out to be nuts."



"Because she wants a goldfish."



"Because she already ate at school." By the way, it's Sunday."



"Because these berries are dead."