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YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING

Parents reveal the funny – and downright bizarre – reasons why their children refuse to eat certain foods

Welcome to the Picky Eaters Club - those with adventurous taste buds need not apply

GETTING your child to eat their vegetables is a challenge most parents know only too well.

But spare a thought for the mums and dads whose kids refuse for to eat certain foods, thanks to a variety of hilarious, bizarre and downright baffling reasons.

Welcome to the – those with adventurous taste buds and a penchant for experimental cuisine need not apply.

Blogger Ilana Wiles, who runs the website Mommy Shorts, asked parents for comical tales of their children’s fussy habits – and she was inundated with laugh-out-loud stories.

From the youngster who won’t eaten granola bars if they are broken in half, to the little girl who dines every evening with her Frozen dolls, here are the funniest confessions.

She just can't Let It Go

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Cereal (bar) killer

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Brotherly love

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Milking it

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She's going condi-mental

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Clucking hell

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Egg-streme eating habits

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Cheesed off

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Have your cake and eat it

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Bad apple

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You bread-er believe it

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Give peas a chance

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Bear with him

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Egg-cellent meal request

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Anyone for a side of 'little trees'?

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Keep waffling on

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Like father, like son

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Broken dreams

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