Is is "stingy" to have your kids split an entree at a restaurant?

Question

My kids split entrees all the time at restaurants (well, they are also 3 and 1 year old).

Do you see that a smart saving or stingy parents?

Answer 1

I cant even eat a full entry, so I think its great that they can split the meal. It saves you from spending more money and wasting food that wont get ate.



Although, I would assume you are splitting an adult sized entree. Im not sure the kids menu would have enough portions to split.

Answer 2

Smart saving for sure! My kids sometimes just eat for free off buffets. I don't even buy them an entree. There is no point. They are so little they hardly eat anything anyhow. Soup and salad and bread is good enough for them. Mine are 2 and 4.



EDIT: After reading the other responses I have to add that I don't see a problem with grown people sharing either. If it is what will make them full then why not? Why order 2 entrees and have to take home or waste part of it. Things today come in huge portions that most people cannot finish alone anyhow. Especially 2 older women. And as for the water with lemon....I order nothing else when I go out to eat. I save so much money that way. Why pay $2 for $.43 cents worth of soda which is horrible for you when I can spend nothing and be hydrated anyhow with fresh clean yummy water? People are so ignorant sometimes.

Answer 3

As a waitress I never minded that much when kids split food. Now when the old women did it and ordered water with a lemon and emptied their coin purses on the table as a tip, that's stingy.



J and D's Mom, clearly you've never been a waitress. When you serve and get paid 3.50 an hour and some grumpy old women splits a salad with her friend, asks for a bowl of lemons to make her own lemonade, demands her free bread be brought out straight away than leaves you 50 cents you would understand that that is stingy and annoying. You are ignorant.

Answer 4

As long as they can agree on an item they both like (at the age they are now, that doesn't matter).

I cannot see myself buying an entree for my 1 year old. He would be sharing with someone. Either me or my hubby or another of my children. Especially since neither one of them would need to eat any more than half of it to be full.

Answer 5

I think it's fine, the kids wouldn't be able to finish a whole one anyway. When everyone from the kids care home I work in goes out for dinner, the seven year old just eats about three bites off someone else's plate and then he's done. It all depends on the child's appetite but at three and one they probably wouldn't be able to manage a kids meal.

Answer 6

Smart Saving, especially considering your kids are so little, i can't imagine them getting through a whole entree by themselves any way.

Answer 7

Eating too much can also cause unhealthy weight gain. I would definitely have them split their entrees because it does save money, but they simply don't need that much food.

Answer 8

Smart saving!!! My husband and i even try to spilt. The portions here are so much bigger here than they are in europe that it seems like in america you get combined 5 course meal. So no..and kids don't even eat that much at that age so why spend 6.99 on 2 meals that they won't even eat all of?

Answer 9

i do no longer purchase that's what youngsters like. that's what we tell ourselves youngsters like and are subject to consume. while my daughter went from toddler nutrients to table nutrients she ate what we ate. i be attentive to such extremely some people who have been shocked. They made gorgeous "finger nutrients" for his or her youngsters. Nuggets and all the different issues you have indexed because of fact they reported that's what they might consume and it is easy for them to %. it up. They have been stunned while my then one million twelve months old ate turkey Chili, Shepard's pie, salad, poultry, and what ever else we had. particular she have been given those different issues as treats yet she ate/eats greens and a balanced nutrients plan. in case you initiate them out with it they on no account be attentive to the version the comparable with spices. needless to say you do no longer provide a new child warm peppers yet they might take garlic, herbs, and a sprint black pepper. I prepare dinner low sodium besides so i did no longer ought to alter that for them. while we bypass out she eats from our plates yet each and every so often we do order youngsters menu stuff. Many substantial stream chains to grant fruit and or greens as a side you in simple terms ought to ask. We get this to stability out the poultry nuggets or grilled cheese and back persons are surprised while my now 3 twelve months old eats the broccoli first and says issues like i admire broccoli. that's using the fact we consume it at abode. short answer human beings do no longer provide youngsters credit. they think of that's all they desire to consume yet you would be shocked.

Answer 10

Smart saving!

Answer 11

It's fine.... do people look at you like you're stingy? i don't really think its being stingy or smart savings. it's common sense. who would buy their one year old their own dinner?

Answer 12

It's not just about money. You're modeling the kind of behavior that will help your children grow into thrifty socially responsible adults.

Answer 13

Shoot I would do that. Thats being smart. All people should understand something like that. Especially with kids.

Answer 14

No not at all unless one of them are hungry after wards it is fine you are doing the right thing saving money

Answer 15

That is smart savings

Answer 16

super smart!! my 3 year old NEVER finishes his meal!! i cant wait till i have this baby and he is old enough to eat some food so that i wont be ewasting it anymore! good idea!!

Answer 17

Definitely smart savings... even my husband and I will share. (We usually share a sub at lunch.)



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Answer 18

Off the child's menu? Then yes. I know 2 adults that do it all the time. I won't go out to eat with them. It's rude.