Is it common to spill food down your front?

I’m not blessed with a particularly ample bosom, so spillages usually miss the clothes, but I am prone to splattering, particularly when eating tomatoes or oranges.

However, toothpaste always manages to find my bust area (I blame the over-vigorous electric toothbrush). I’ve taken to brushing my teeth before I get dressed in a morning to save on laundry.

DH and I use tea towels every meal when we are at home and refer to them as our “bibs”. I am big busted and that’s my excuse, but I’m inclined to think it’s more a matter of age and hands less steady than they used to be. When we are eating out, I try to eat something with very little sauce/liquid so that I don’t embarrass myself. Sadly, stains are quite difficult to get out of some materials

It's a constant issue for me. That's why I always call to my chap "Have I got a napkin?" Because for sure I'm going to drop half my meal down my front. He sorts out the table or trays so he's napkin (linen of course) monitor! I'm glad it's a more common issue than I thought! Thanks Grans.

Yes, I always do it.

I take it as evidence of embracing the act of eating wholeheartedly.

Kamiso - ‘I have taken to putting on a pinafore before eating as I often eat sitting on the settee whilst watching tv’

I quite like that idea, although I’d probably forget to remove it when someone came to the door!

Yoghurts, not sure why, but every time....

I have taken to putting on a pinafore before eating as I often eat sitting on the settee whilst watching tv. My OH is posher than me and likes to sit at the dining table.

Men who live alone sometimes seem to have the remains of several meals down their front. It does get harder when your sight isn’t quite so sharp.

All DH's tee shirts have grease stains in the same spots.

Have just returned from our local pub for dinner........my white top is in soak in laundry sink ???

I used to share an office and when I came back from lunch my colleague used to say, "now, let me look at your top, so I can see what you've had for lunch"

Every time! No matter how careful.

I'm not quite so bad now, but still regularly find drips on my tops

I have so many tops with the visible evidence that I'm a messy eater! Can one ever get rid of the faint stains on cotton tee shirts? Eating at home, I tuck a napkin in at the neck of my top. Difficult to get away with that when eating out, unfortunately.

I can almost guarantee that if I eat chocolate, tomato sauce or curry with a light coloured garment, I’ll make a mess in a visible place how ever hard I try. This has been going on for years. No other foodstuffs seem to cause these problems. ?

DSiL once sat near Prince Philip at a Navy dinner and was amused to see food stains on the front of uniform.

Very common but dont do as my bil does and wear the stained top again.

We tend to eat in dressing gowns if we eat on our laps!!

I do it all the time. Clean top, first meal oops ?

I forgot to mention, I haven’t even got big boobs as an excuse!

I used to reckon I had a hole in my lip as soup always seemed to spill down my front.

My mother does it almost every meal, but she is 92. She also has a big bosom which probably gets in the way.