Children are notoriously fickle creatures, especially when it comes to their food. I personally know children who refuse to eat any of their food if one ingredient touches the other, and kids that won’t eat “anything that has a hole in it.” Their motivations are a mystery, but their anti-food self-expression is probably one of the most hilarious things about them. One Instagramer, **@mykidcanteatthis**, decided to collect all of these painful protests and put them in one place, an archive you can visit from time to time and remind yourself that kids are simultaneously the best and worst. **The happy face cracker post is just amazing.**
My kid can’t eat this because of the white strings of death are choking out his will to citrus. #MyKidCantEatThis A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 9:01am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it’s in a bag not a box. – @aaashleyrose A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 24, 2015 at 5:48am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it’s too sticky. – @terri.ingalls A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 25, 2015 at 6:01am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis cereal bar because he broke it. – @Christie220 A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 23, 2015 at 8:02am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it’s not made of pizza. – @Lisas3575 A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 25, 2015 at 5:59am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis chicken noodle soup because the noodles are “dry.” – @lysak1980 A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 25, 2015 at 12:34pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because the flour on the bread makes her hands feel weird. – @mhroman A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 22, 2015 at 4:33pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it’s in a new wrapper. -Corey Watson A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 19, 2015 at 4:52pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because of this single bell pepper. – @Shellyyelnats A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 19, 2015 at 4:02pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it has “ants” on it and a hole in it. – @nikki_labarre A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 29, 2015 at 5:33am PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because mommy peeled it and he wanted it peeled by daddy. -Jenn Mace A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 16, 2015 at 6:40pm PDT
#mykidcanteatthis because it was on her plate and not mine… A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 4:37pm PDT
“#mykidcanteatthis because the hot dogs aren’t peeled. #allskinsaredisgusting” -Michelle Leukhardt Holton A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 12:28pm PDT
My kid can’t eat this because I opened it half an inch. Sorry. #MyKidCantEatThis A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 9:05am PDT
My kid can’t eat this because there are no spoons that speak to him today and he doesn’t want to use his hands. #MyKidCantEatThis A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 8:58am PDT
“#MyKidCantEatThis Because Apple skins are inedible, apparently.” – Chelsea Huskey A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 13, 2015 at 3:06pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because the breading is “broken.” A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 14, 2015 at 10:22pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis because it’s too cute. I actually had to freeze it so it could stay like this forever and he could visit it. – @elizabethlynne5 A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 28, 2015 at 1:04pm PDT
#MyKidCantEatThis “because there’s poop in there.” – @kushnerrr A photo posted by My Kid Can’t Eat This (@mykidcanteatthis) on Apr 30, 2015 at 8:57am PDT