Do you hide food from your family?

[OutInTheStiks]

I don't hide food, but I might "forget" to mention that I pick something up. Usually Peanutbutter Cap'n crunch. I don't buy it often, but when I do I want the whole box. I've considered snorting the crumbs so that absolutely none goes to waste.

 

[rancher hicks]

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My DD came home from where she lives and there is a cookie company that has great cookies and she brings them when she comes. I hid 3 for myself cuz the rest of my family will eat them all includeing the DD that brought them. And I'm expected to pay for them! You bet your bippy I'm hiding some.

I expect in the OP's case the family will eat his first and then eat the rest of the cereal in the house. I would just buy Alpa-bits and no other kind. That'll fix them.

 

[Amyable]

It's not selfish to stow away something I bought specifically for myself. I do all the cooking and baking; nobody is deprived around here. Like others say, you have to dole out the treats so they're not gone in 2.75 seconds. I don't hoard healthy foods.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

I find my pockets are not so shallow, or my favorite foods so hard to find, that I cannot share them with my family. We dont have things that are exclusively ours, but we have things we all know one person enjoys the most, so we share a little and give the rest to that person.

I think its pretty normal though for family members to have their own personal food stash. I had friends that way growing up. I just wasnt raised that way and so I dont do it with my kids. But I think its normal... lol.

My mom always said hiding food makes you over eat, and it makes you selfish in other areas. Personally I cant enjoy something alone, I can only really enjoy it with others. Especially my family.

 

[1_FnkyFrm]

So teach them self-control. All your doing is teaching them how to hide things from you. Don't get mad when they hide something from you cause that is what you have taught them to do!

 

[chickenlover54]

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Your not teaching them to hide if they don't know that anything is being hidden

 

[darkmatter]

My Kids were full grown and out of the house before they found out about venison tenderloins. We never pulled those packages out when the kids were young except when they wouldn't be around to see/eat it. I love my tenderloins.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I may hide my Sour Cream and Onion Pringles...but ONLY bc DBF is addicted to any type of chip.


As in he eats all of these within a day of purchase:
Plain chips
Ruffled chips
Off-brand chips
Sour cream and onion chips
Cheddar chips
Baked chips
Tostitos chips


Name a chip..he's on it.

 

[Jkioneil]

i keep everything in the kichen and when the kids are hungry they ask if they can have something. sometimes the answer is yes and sometimes no how bout you have.... if we let them just eat what they wanted we would have no snack foods as soon as they came home from the store. with seven kids it is difficult to keep anything around for very long but i have learned to portion control. they can go get cereal and sadwhiches fruit on their own but none of the snacks. they can go through a 66oz bottle of salsa in one sitting if i let them. as far as hiding it seems easier to make them ask for it then hiding it. i do by request of my husband hide any candy. not from the kids but from him. He has the worst sweet tooth. if I buy candy I will hide it and give it to him ow and then. I guess if he does not see it then he does not crave it. so i do that for him.

interesting though our 17 year old got some cereal and we caught him trying to take it up to his room to hide. that is unacceptable in a family of 9 we need all we can get and hiding food that everyone needs and can use is not cool. i set aside a large portion for him and shared the rest. now he asks if we can do that when there is something special he wants.

sometimes it is hard though we had these pineapples and they got demolished and i never got a taste. sometimes my husband and i dont get the dinner we spent two hours making becasue there is not enough after the kids eat. feeding 9 is not the easist thing in this economy on the very little we have these days. i have learned to do special treats for the kiddos one by one. like if one child is with me at the store i might get them a little something as long as they eat it before we get home. i try to make it even and not rub it in the others faces. i have no problem with those that hide food. i myself have just found it to be easier to develop a policy of asking for treats rather than a free for all in the kitchen.

 

[ChooksChick]

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That's precisely WHY I 'flag' stuff. I don't think it's unfair to dictate 1/4 of the stuff my family horks down faster than I can consume 'my' share.

My kids won't lay off the juice, and to get an occasional glass, I have to tape across the lid when it gets to one glass left or they finish it. Same with anything else good, like sweets (super rare around here due to Diabetes) snacks (also rare) and dried fruits- the girls will open and finish a bag before I can nab a single shriveled piece!

Fortunately, they know the signals that they need to keep their hands off or result in nubs.