Teenagers stealing food

puppypants

Coo, talk about over-reaction OP. Do you not realise that boys of that age "graze" from the moment their eyes open in the morning, until they close at night, and it is totally normal. If they're happy to have nuts and cranberries instead of cookies made from them, so be it. Much healthier for them than a cookie!

Doom_and_Gloom

Barneysmom wrote: »

I really can't believe this thread at all.

Nuts and cranberries, dried fruit, fresh fruit should all be freely available, there should be no restrictions on them..

Sorry but this isn't possible for some. There is just my partner and me here but if I let my partner eat however much of nuts and dried fruit that he wanted to each day he'd easily eat £5 worth each day! That would be things like basic saltanas, basic peanuts, basic cashew, pistashios (hell he could eat a bag worth £5 just of pistashios as I saw him do it once :eek:) etc. That just isn't affordable as you can imagine. I can understand the OP being angry to be honest as they say this keeps happening with the items that are expencive. They are on a more limited income to what they used to be and so they can't have these more expencive items eaten when they were intended for something else as they resent having to buy them again or may not be able to afford to buy them again.

PolishBigSpender

puppypants wrote: »

Well let's face it, you have your own opinions of the feeding habits of British children have'nt you!:mad:

I'd say that most sensible people anywhere in the world would be very happy with children eating healthy food. Certainly, cranberries and nuts would seem to be much better than eating bread and cookies!

GlasweJen

Dried fruit and nuts are a healthy snack, it's hardly stealing to take food like that from the cupboards.

In our house anything in the cupboard is for anyone, my sister enjoys baking and any cakes she makes can be eaten by anyone unless she's put them in a tub with a note on saying that they're for something in particular.

It sounds like your sons are hungry and don't want to fill up on toast all day, couldn't you buy in some other snacks for them and use post its or something to mark anything that is off limits? Seems to me that your "stealing" problem would disappear if there was grazing food available to your kids.

pupsicola

Raksha wrote: »

Excuse me, where did I say I couldn't get a job? I was made redundant with a weeks warning and finished my job last Tuesday. I've already been able to apply for two vacancies. I've been employed for the last 3 years, having been self employed before that. I find your deductions extremely offensive.

The stealing/helping themselves (and they have been asked not to, told that if it's not their to leave it alone) has been going on for months!

the fact that the last theft was of 'healthy' ingredients does not they never steal junk - last month it was 3 of the 4 bars of milk chocolate, they left the 4 bars of dark chocolate of course, because they don't like that.

PolishBigSpender is not happy unless ripping some poor soul to shreds. Treat it like a child and ignore it.

PolishBigSpender

pupsicola wrote: »

Another polite, intelligient, valid post from you. If only.

Do you ever get bored of your own stupidity?

I think this is the first time that I've seen "children eating healthy food" equated with "stupidity".

Rakska wrote:

The stealing/helping themselves (and they have been asked not to, told that if it's not their to leave it alone) has been going on for months!

Imagine accusing your own children of stealing on an internet forum to random strangers. Have you considered that perhaps, they're just hungry? Teenagers are growing, after all.

pinkclouds

In my home and my parents' home (when I was growing up and even now), whatever food or drink is available is there for whoever eats/drinks it first. I find it harsh that anyone would deny food to their kids, unless it is something that is harmful for them (e.g. an allergen or if they are overweight). Surely they are eating because they are hungry? I think the best compromise is to use the widely repeated solution, as posted by several others, of specifying which food is being saved for a particular purpose (for making cookies or whatever) so they know what they can't touch it - whether verbally, in a special box/cupboard or with post-it notes. And if you really can't afford "treats" then don't buy them and explain to your kids that your budget no longer allows for such things. I'm sure they will understand.

[Deleted User]

those teenagers must be hungry. For goodness sake sake, feed them. Calling their snacking `stealing` is way over the top so no wonder they take food in secret. It sounds like the Dickens era in your house

My children never had to take food in secret. If they wanted something then they just asked me.

pupsicola

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

I think this is the first time that I've seen "children eating healthy food" equated with "stupidity".

Your comment makes no sense as usual. The way that you approach replying to posts shows your stupidity.

To think that it is normal and acceptable to post something so vile about a person loosing their job proves this.

Do you have mental health problems or are you just one of lifes sad vicious types?

Raksha

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

I think this is the first time that I've seen "children eating healthy food" equated with "stupidity".



Imagine accusing your own children of stealing on an internet forum to random strangers. Have you considered that perhaps, they're just hungry? Teenagers are growing, after all.

stu·pid·i·ty (st-pd-t, sty-)
n. pl. stu·pid·i·ties
1. The quality or condition of being stupid.
2. A stupid act, remark, or idea.

Based on not knowing the full facts behind my situation, I'd say that covers your comments

steal (stl)
v. stole (stl), sto·len (stln), steal·ing, steals
v.tr.
1. To take (the property of another) without right or permission.

I wish I didn't have to use the word, but that is what they are doing - the food does not belong to them, and they have not been given permission to eat it.

Believe me, they are NOT hungry - but one of the biggest problems is encouraging the main culprit to eat the food that is put infront of him. I'm a good cook, but there is so much he turns his nose up at. I try and encourage him to help me with the cooking, suggest menu ideas that he'd like but he fills up on his 'stash'.

We have the majority of the 'treats' locked away, but if you leave anything out for more than 24 hours because you intend to use it sooner rather than later, it dissapears.