THERE’S being a picky eater, and then there’s being criminally unreasonable.
One fed-up woman opened up about how her stepdaughter filed a lawsuit against her after discovering what she was feeding her.
Redditor HatNo7106 shared the family drama in a post.
She explained that her 15-year-old stepdaughter, who lives with her and her husband biweekly, developed a strange food obsession.
“For the past year, she has been a nightmare when it comes to food,” she said.
“First, she became vegan, which I have no problems with. I just make her food sans animal products, but that didn’t stick, and that’s normal, too.
“Now she is holistic, and she started having allergies to everything. Salted nuts, lactose, processed foods, gluten, red meat, mustard, mushrooms, and anything a loser Instagram influencer is making money telling people is dangerous.”
The last straw, she said, came when her stepdaughter started demanding that she separate her cookware, even in the dishwasher.
Her stepdaughter’s mania only grew worse.
“[She wanted me to] separate her food in the fridge and freezer,” she said.
“[She also wanted me to] take out all my salted nuts and sugars, etc, and [throw] them in the trash because she complained about stomach pain that she attributed to contamination from the pantry.”
The original poster explained that she put her foot down but to no avail.
“I told her that she should either eat outside or do her own cooking and cleaning from now on. She started raging, saying that I was treating her differently from the rest of the family and I was the evil stepmother,” she said.
“My husband started yelling at me. I asked him to take her to do an allergy screening and seek mental help for eating disorders, and surprise, surprise, she had no allergies, but her answer was that this doesn’t matter; what matters is what she believed.
“I can’t have anything in my house now, and I have to make her food in almost a separate kitchen.”
She started testing her theory that her stepdaughter’s food obsession was fishy.
I will be damned if I start to abide by the rules of a superficial teenager with mental issues and delusions.
Redditor HatNo7106
“I started putting gluten and lactose in almost everything she ate, especially the chicken soup that she loves so much,” she said.
“She has been eating this for the past 6 months until her mom dropped her off one day and stayed for coffee, talking about how actually their health has been better since her daughter’s new kitchen rules.
“I just said, ‘Really? She feels better?’ The daughter yelled at me, ‘Yes, I don’t have stomach issues anymore.’
“I just calmly said, ‘Great, I wonder what changed because you have been eating the same food as the rest of us over the past months, especially the chicken soup you love so much.’
The truth unreleased a temper tantrum from her stepdaughter, who started throwing items off her shelves.
“Her mother started yelling at me, too, and they left. My husband was angry at me and called what I did reckless because she is refusing to live with us now, and I said great, if you want her to live with you, then you can move the hell out, too,” she said.
Worse, her stepdaughter filed a lawsuit against her, but the Redditor explained that she wasn’t worried.
“It will get dropped the minute the judge looks at the case,” she said.
“My husband is still angry at me, but I will not change my mind that if he wants his daughter, he should move out to be with her, and I would actually understand if he chose his daughter over me.”
She added that she’s a medical professional who knows better than all the parties involved.
“I am a nurse, and I work almost 60 hours a week. Making time to make food and clean is a luxury for me, and I will be damned if I start to abide by the rules of a superficial teenager with mental issues and delusions,” she said.
People agreed that her course of action was not a mis-steak.
“Throw the whole family out with the trash….. including the husband,” said one commenter.
“You are right that this kid needs psychological evaluation along with both her parents,” said another.
