Here Are Some Creative “White Lies” Parents Tell Kids To Get Them To Eat

If you have kids, you’ve probably experienced the battle that dinner time can become when a kid refuses to eat what’s on the plate.

So, parents come up with different strategies to get picky and stubborn eaters to actually eat.

Someone asked the parenting section of Reddit, “Is it bad to lie about what is in a dish in order to get a kid to eat it?”

And hundreds of parents have weighed in with their thoughts on rebranding what’s on the menu… here’s a sample as there are a TON you can check out:

“I love the fun names trick. I successfully branded chili as ‘cowboy chili’ after a book that had cowboys eating out of an ambiguous pot, and my 4 year old now LOVES it.”
“A lady I know used to tell her kids that she was making ‘golden fluff’ for breakfast because they insisted they hated scrambled eggs. Golden fluff was their favorite. But scrambled eggs? Yuck.”
“My kids don't like curry. But they like chicken, rice, and ‘sauce.’”
“In our house, broccoli is also known as dino trees, because otherwise my preschooler won't touch it.”
“Telling your child tonight's meal is ‘pizza chicken’ and not chicken parmesan is about survival.”