Anybody wearing aprons when eating ?

Pollycat

I can't remember the last time either of us spilled something down our fronts.
And I cook stuff like chilli, bolognaise, curries and lots of dishes with tinned tomatoes.
My cooking apron is usually pretty stained when I've finished.
I have 5 and rotate them.
I cook batches of chilli, bol etc so am opening lots of tins of tomatoes, chopping veg etc.
I also buy large joints of beef or whole lamb's liver and cut it up myself so there's often some blood there too.
But the stains come out at a 40 degree wash with Aldi liquid.

I wonder if the people who spill food are fast eaters.
We eat very slowly.
When we go out for a meal (rarely) we don't order starters as they usually want to bring out the main course before we're halfway through.
For that reason, we only go out to eat with one couple who eat at the same pace as we do.

For us, food isn't something to be wolfed down so we can be off doing something else.

Floss

I'm still of the view that your children should be encouraged to show they don't need to wear aprons to keep their clothes clean, otherwise you are not equipping them with appropriate social skills.

JIL

I was thinking about being in primary school and staying to school dinners.

If there was an issue with children spilling their dinner down them, not forgetting most days was gravy/custard/baked beans, likely spillers, then surely aprons or bibs would have been used. Because if we were painting or using clay we most definitely wore an apron then.

Floss

JIL said:

I was thinking about being in primary school and staying to school dinners.

If there was an issue with children spilling their dinner down them, not forgetting most days was gravy/custard/baked beans, likely spillers, then surely aprons or bibs would have been used. Because if we were painting or using clay we most definitely wore an apron then.

I think the pertinent words there are primary school. A lot of children wear tabards or similar for messy things such as painting or clay in primary school, my boys used to wear their dads old shirts.

Longwalker

For those that dont know the correct etiquette when it come to eating

Elbows off the table 

Knife and fork in the correct hand - a fork is not a shovel

Get food into mouth. Put cutlery down and chew until you swallow. Dont be chewing with cutlery in hands

Food should be cut small enough so the fork can spear it to direct it to the mouth. Falls off? You aint doing it right

JIL

Floss said:

JIL said:

I was thinking about being in primary school and staying to school dinners.

If there was an issue with children spilling their dinner down them, not forgetting most days was gravy/custard/baked beans, likely spillers, then surely aprons or bibs would have been used. Because if we were painting or using clay we most definitely wore an apron then.

I think the pertinent words there are primary school. A lot of children wear tabards or similar for messy things such as painting or clay in primary school, my boys used to wear their dads old shirts.

My apologies if I didnt word it correctly. My point was that if children in primary school wear aprons for messy painting then why dont they wear them when eating. The answer is the probably dont need to because they dont make a mess whilst eating. 
I doubt your children would have needed to wear their dad's old shirts whilst eating lunch.

Floss

JIL said:

Floss said:

JIL said:

I was thinking about being in primary school and staying to school dinners.

If there was an issue with children spilling their dinner down them, not forgetting most days was gravy/custard/baked beans, likely spillers, then surely aprons or bibs would have been used. Because if we were painting or using clay we most definitely wore an apron then.

I think the pertinent words there are primary school. A lot of children wear tabards or similar for messy things such as painting or clay in primary school, my boys used to wear their dads old shirts.

My apologies if I didnt word it correctly. My point was that if children in primary school wear aprons for messy painting then why dont they wear them when eating. The answer is the probably dont need to because they dont make a mess whilst eating. 
I doubt your children would have needed to wear their dad's old shirts whilst eating lunch.

😊 No they didn't, and if eating particularly messy food they used a napkin.

KxMx

Longwalker said:

For those that dont know the correct etiquette when it come to eating

Elbows off the table 

Knife and fork in the correct hand - a fork is not a shovel

Get food into mouth. Put cutlery down and chew until you swallow. Dont be chewing with cutlery in hands

Food should be cut small enough so the fork can spear it to direct it to the mouth. Falls off? You aint doing it right

Even that is contentious - I am right handed and always eat with my fork in my right hand- to me that is comfortable and natural, to use the implement most frequently needed in dominant hand- yet to others that's quite a faux pas and I've been charmingly called caggy handed before. 

Longwalker

KxMx said:

Longwalker said:

For those that dont know the correct etiquette when it come to eating

Elbows off the table 

Knife and fork in the correct hand - a fork is not a shovel

Get food into mouth. Put cutlery down and chew until you swallow. Dont be chewing with cutlery in hands

Food should be cut small enough so the fork can spear it to direct it to the mouth. Falls off? You aint doing it right

Even that is contentious - I am right handed and always eat with my fork in my right hand- to me that is comfortable and natural, to use the implement most frequently needed in dominant hand- yet to others that's quite a faux pas and I've been charmingly called caggy handed before. 

Im the same. Forever laying the table back to front and I do use my fork as a shovel

But in polite company I use the fork as it should be used, but in the wrong hand 

YoungBlueEyes

Longwalker said:

For those that dont know the correct etiquette when it come to eating

Elbows off the table 

Knife and fork in the correct hand - a fork is not a shovel

Get food into mouth. Put cutlery down and chew until you swallow. Dont be chewing with cutlery in hands

Food should be cut small enough so the fork can spear it to direct it to the mouth. Falls off? You aint doing it right

^^^ This. I would add - 

Your arms should be tight to your sides at all times. We used to have to hold a big book under each armpit while we were eating.

If you have food dropping down your front your posture needs attention. It's food to mouth, not mouth to food (ie don't be bending closer to your plate).