I buy protein drinks for my breakfasts. I noticed they were missing and SD17 mentioned how good they were. I put a big sign on the box that said, "DO NOT EAT!" She made some crack about it later saying how I "banned her from drinking them." To which I said, "Damn right."

I see this as a bit of a grey area. If yo normally don't have candy in the house then yes dh should have realized that it was bought for a special reason. But if you do occasionally buy candy for general household consumption then a note probably should have been in order. Or maybe just mention to dh not to eat them because its for a school party.

We have that situation sometimes where a skid needs chips or cookies or something for a school party. I alsway make sure that everyone knows not to touch it because how are they to know that bag of chips are f any different than a normal bag of chips?

But a big bag of candy.... I wouldn't say anything about. I don't ever buy candy for the household so everyone knows that it must be for something special. Dh would def ask before opening because he knows I wouldn't have just bought it for no reason.

Yep. If you don't want someone to eat it you either need to label it, get everyone together and exlain they are not to be eaten (maybe both) or you hide it so no one can find it. I have had this problem for 8 years. My SS sneaks food, meaning he manages to eat a whole bag of chips without anyone knowing he had any. I swear he gets up in the middle of the night to eat them. Oh I should clarify he does not eat the whole bag but leaves 5 or 6 chips in the bag, then when you ask him did you eat all the chips he says NO I left some in the bag!!!! All my treats/snaks are hidden in my bedroom....or I buy things I know he won't eat...lol

i've had to say things to bd17 about food many times. she is the type that if i buy something even slightly out of the ordinary, she will eat nothing but that until it's gone. i made a dessert for a get together a few years ago, and she was wanting to take like half of the leftovers for just herself, stating that "if i don't, YOU will eat it all!" she is lucky i didn't slap her into next week, as the only person in this house with a habit of devouring things before anyone else had a single bite is HER. i've also had to tell her to stay out of things like noodles or rice, as they are side dishes for dinner and not meant to be a meal for her. food has been an issue with her since she was little and i don't know why. it's not like she has ever been starved. but she still acts like a damn dog and wants to have everything "good" just for herself. pisses me off.

I have done that since I was a child!

Different, but still food issues here. Boyfriends teenage son has such terrible table manners. So much so I can't even look at him when he eats. He literally puts his face inches above his plate and shovels the food in .... it is sooo gross! At night he raids the kitchen, eats everything (he likes) in sight, takes food in his room and leaves food wrappers and containers all over. He has no regard for leaving anything for anyone else, he will literally eat an entire box of cookies by himself. I understand growing boys have big appetites, but his habits are disgusting and there is no enforcement of what is ok to eat when. When they aren't here, I buy healthy organic food and cook for our meals. If I cook anything healthy when they kids here it just goes to waste, so I just buy the cheapest stuff I can find for them, they just fill up on crap anyhow. Obviously, their parents don't care what they put in their bodies. I don't think their BM even cooks for them. My boyfriend said I was the first one to get them to sit down and eat at the table...now that I see how they eat, I wish I hadn't LOL!

I refuse to label, so the debate rages unchecked at our house. Chocolate chips bought to make holiday goodies get eaten. Hot dogs bought to make dinner get eaten. I bought candy bars as a surprise for BD6's holiday party. Put them on top of the refrigerator where I thought no one could see them. Put extras into the refrigerator for general consumption. What does DH do? Announce loudly that said candy bars are available to eat. Um, no.

SD used to eat things indiscriminately and made me quite mad. I would hide them in the very back of the fridge behind staples nobody touched and she would find it and eat it. Then she had the nerve to have her dad buy her frozen pizzas and she wrote her name all over them. Brat! It's not your unless you paid for it!

I had to do that with SD14. She'd eat anything and everything unless it was labeled. I cleared out a section of the fridge for her specifically and also a cabinet for just her stuff. She had to ask permission to take anything else. I was so tired of buying stuff only to have her wolf down everything in a day or two and still complain she was hungry at mealtimes.

I brought home a bunch of 6 bananas on a Thursday. By Friday when I got off work, every.single.one of them were gone. I asked DH if he had any of the bananas. He said no. I had none. Guess who ate 6 bananas in less than 24 hours? Yep, got sick of not ever having anything in the kitchen!

I have to hide food or else skids will eat it all (or eat some and waste the rest) and not stop to think that maybe someone else would like some too. I don't buy candy because it would be gone in two seconds with skids never asking if they can have some or if anyone else would like some.

I *always* tell my family if food is off limits for a specific reason because of this exact situation. We will be having guests over for Christmas this year, and I really didn't want to come up short on something, so I made it perfectly clear to DH and DD11 what was off limits. We practically never have sweets in the house, so you'd think that the sudden appearance of a plethora of sweets would set off their alarm bells. Nope. If I don't specify, it will be eaten.

Next time put the food that you don't want eaten in the cupboard with the cleaning supplies. The food should be safe there from your DH and SS. (At least that's the way it would be at my house)

My ss14 has always had food issues. As a young child he would get up in the middle of the night and gorge himself until he vomited. He would eat whole boxes of little debbie snack cakes, the large package of nutter butters (he ate this and it was intended to be used to make a snack for his holiday party in school), whole jars of peanut butter, boxes of jello (he'd just eat the sugar stuff). He would go out to a restaurant and devour everything on his plate in minutes and go out to the parking lot and vomit.

When he lived with us the 4 months this year-he ate EVERYTHING. I'd buy two boxes of poptarts-he'd eat them all in one day. The box of 12 peanut butter crackers gone in one day. 5 cheese sticks at one time. Frozen vegetables. I asked him specifically to please not eat things that he knows are for dinners-such as the frozen vegetables and he straight up told me "No, if it's here and Im hungry I'm going to eat it". I stopped buying food at that point and took my kids out every night.

Since I live in a house full of men, anytime I have had to buy something for BS15s school or to take to a dinner party or whatever I always have to announce to the entire house "HEY EVERYBODY THE BOX IN THE FRIDGE IS NOT FOR US DO NOT TOUCH IT!" Because plenty of times they have eaten it. My DH once called me at work to ask if he could take a slice of cake that I had bought. I thought it was funny because he asked me if it was for a special occasion or if it was for the house. That time it actually was for the house.