OH sabotage of batch cooking!

rev229

I got so fed up with my son eating all the stuff for pack lunches etc that I have a lock on both the fridge and freezer in the garage and also have locks on the cupboards in the garage where we store crisps, snacks etc. I have even padlocked DD sweet jar as he would help himself to those also. Food is lasting much longer and our food bill has definately been less since putting it under lock and key.

Eltee12

adelight wrote: »

Put it in the salad box? Never fails with my family.

:rotfl:That's where I hide things. Also I hide eggs in the wine rack - my son (almost 22, does weight training) eats millions (feels like) of them. Am suprised he doesn't resemble Humpty Dumpty.

Uniscots97

I have the same problem. I cook a whole chicken and strip the carcass OH and his son think its fair game. I get in with shopping and even though I'm about to dish up whats in the slow cooker for tea DS will take 2! yoghurts (I find the empty pots afterwards), moan he hasn't got enough on his plate, give him more he leaves half of it and chucks it in the bin only to moan 2 hours later he's hungry! I went mental after I saw perfectly good food in the bin. Told him not to be so greedy next time! OH will moan if it means opening a tin, making custard etc. .....Yes I hide things in the freezer too!

irishgirl62

I swear my teenage kids have built in sweet antennas as they find every hiding place where i hide food...my mother had a cupboard built inside her larder with a lock and left what she thought was plenty of buns and cookies daily in a tin I used to think that was very cruel and I would never ever do that to my kids... well... I NEED a locked cupboard!!! I baked a cake, went out for an hour came home no cake left!!!!

Penny-Pincher!!

What about making up cheap fillers like spagbol (not a lot of meat), tuna pasta, rice with small amount of meats in it, home made soup etc?

Really it just comes down to common courtesy and you need to put your foot down and stipulate rules if you need to cut back financially. Tell him to stay away from anything on the top shelf and place anything you need on that and he can help himself to the rest.

You can buy chicken drumsticks very cheap (99p) at some places and you get lots. Cook them up and leave in the fridge.

PP

meritaten

Nottoobadyet wrote: »

For a moment I was afraid Meritaten was suggesting what to do with the body after the homicide!!! :eek::eek:

believe me, some days I HAVE considered it as he spends so much time rooting around in there!

EllieA_3

Well i've learn't from yesterdays mistake.

Thanks for the sugestions.

Made the bean and ham Cassarole as planned with what was left of the gammon even though i now won't have enough for carbonara tommorrow.

Added loads of extra beans/vegg's and actually made enough for 2 days this time i've just left a little scoop of leftovers in the slowcooker because i know he will expect to find at least some somewhere.

The rest is boxed/labled and hiding in the veg cuboard behind the sack of potato's while it cools as soon as it has it's going straight in the freezer.

brighthair

My Dad does this - Mums best cake is homemade Mars bar cake, but to make it the Mars bars have to be cold. Guaranteed she will buy 6, put them in the fridge, come to make the cake, and they've all gone!

Cheeselady

Omg, so glad it's not just me who has this problem, my DH is always going in the fridge, and it drives me mad! Since we moved house, there was a fridge already in the new kitchen, so our old fridge freezer is in the garage, and I put anything that may tempt him in that fridge, because I know he's too lazy to go out to the garage! :rotfl: Like others, he never thinks to get something out of the freezer it's always something 'easy' that he can stuff down his throat, like the bread, butter, cheese slices, even ketchup he is so vulgar it's untrue! :mad: Why can't men realise that when they eat the food they are actually eating the money, I just can't seem to get it into his head, so yes, agree with another poster, murder must be easier than this! :rotfl:

elona

If you really wanted to be impelled to murderous rage (and a jury of women would understand) wait till they eat the next family meal as a snack for one and then tell you "I ate that up for you!" and then actually expect praise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When I was trying out ideas using the slow cooker I used to put the ingredients in overnight thinking I could freeze stuff later when it had cooled.

I would come downstairs and look at the slowcooker which had been filled an inch or two below the brim the night before, to find it was a third down!!!! Just as I was about to play hell with the manufacturers thinking it was a design fault, I came downstairs at 7 .30 in the morning to find DH eating curry from the slow cooker:eek:

He seemed to think it is like the "magic cooking pot" fairy tale and the more he eats the more there will be .

We had a "chat" and that has not happened since mainly because I don't let him near a freshly cooked family meal and hide things in the microwave.