That's It! Cheese Rationing In Effect!

[DevilDuckie]

I am at my wits end. Really, I'm just done with these boys.

On Saturday I bought a two pound block of cheddar cheese. Five days later I go to get some to make bread and it is GONE. $8 worth of cheese in FIVE days!

Our grocery budget does not allow for that sort of rampant consumption. They know I need the cheddar for bread. They know there are two other kinds of cheese (bought at their requests!) in the fridge. I swear I'm going to go buy another firesafe like the one I keep meds in and start locking up ingredients in the fridge!

Seriously. I had like 2 oz. That means they ate 15 oz. a piece of cheddar alone in 5 days. We also had tuna casserole (2 cups of jack) and I've seen them munching on string cheeses too. Enough with the flippin' cheese already! Have a friggin carrot!

 

[Fizzgig]

But on a humorous note, you're spending less on toilet paper because they're so constipated!

Good luck with that!

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I feel your cheesy pain We go through it quickly too...DH has said we should just buy the damn cow and get it over with - with all the milk, cheese, and ice cream we go through

 

[StillPinballFamily]

Wow! We've got some heavy-duty cheese-eaters here, too.

I also make cheese bread (use shredded cheddar) and keep "my" cheese in the freezer until I need it. If I don't purchase the pre-shredded type (depending upon sales/coupons), I shred the block immediately, put it into a ziplock, and toss it in the freezer. Everyone leaves it alone! Don't know if they can't find it, or just too impatient to let it thaw...but I don't care! Our cheese for "general consumption" is in the fridge - and everyone, including the dog, hits it pretty hard!

 

[HM]

My DH would eat a whole 12 oz chunk of cheese a time if you let him. DS wouldn't be far behind him. I feel your pain.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

I would love someone's cheese bread recipe though

 

[DevilDuckie]

I would love someone's cheese bread recipe though

I use the one from Joy of Cooking. There's only a cup and a half of cheese in two loaves, so it's not super cheesy- just enough to give it a bit of a savory kick and some moisture. I found their white bread to be too dry and we all like this better.

It's probably online somewhere. Color me lazy, I don't want to type it all out! I will if I need to, though.

 

[StillPinballFamily]

I would love someone's cheese bread recipe though

We have an ancient West Bend bread making machine (from the early 90s!), so not sure how others could adapt this recipe for oven baking...but feel free to try! I just dump the ingredients in the pan, press a few buttons and walk away to have hot bread about 3 1/2 hours later. I "make" many different breads, but this is my DHs favorite.

9 oz. water (about 80 degrees - warm, not hot)
1 large egg
4 tablespoons butter, cut into about 8 pieces
3 1/3 cups flour - I usually use King Arthur unbleached
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons yeast
2 cups FROZEN cheddar (or blend of your choice) cheese - added at "the beep" of the bread machine

 

[Todd&Copper]

My DH is a bottomless pit and the only way I can get him to not eat things is to not buy them. Or hide them. I have a bag of sea salt & vinegar chips stashed away for the 4th of July and I pray he doesn't decide to rifle through the back f the low cupboards . . . .

I bought grapes for 99 cents a pound on Saturday - two of those sacks at the grocery. By yesterday evening (Wednesday), he had eaten a bag and a half himself. I was planning on taking them for a snack to go with my lunch for the entire week, but today & tomorrow I have to eat mini-carrots, which are not as yummy to me as a bunch of ice cold grapes.

 

[Grumpy'sWife4Ever]

I hear you about the bottomless pit thing. I can't say that we are ever out of cheese around here - my husband actually makes Tillamook Cheese so you can imagine that we are always stockpiled cheese-wise. We do eat a lot of it, though. However, my boys tend to burn through crazy things likes pretzels, cereal, bagels.....things that I buy one day and they are gone the next. Hello??? And they are only 10 and 7, I'm really dreading their teen years.....Oh, and my DD 3 is a pretty good eater as well, and she gets her brothers to help her reach the good stuff I stash up high.....

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

Freeze the Cheese.!!!! Freeze the Cheese.!!! In the back of the freezer with tin foil around it..... Boys are tooo lazy to look for it... Give them a few nibbles in the fridge!!

 

[jennyopenny]

My DH is too lazy to cut a block of cheese, (no pun intended ) but pre sliced lunch meat...LOOK OUT. Two pounds of deli meat can be gone in an afternoon!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

My husband is a cheese broker. I have enough cheese to chock a herd of horses. Now if we are talking about cereal ( a word which is synonomous with boys), frozen pizza, or ice cream ....or just about anything good well it is gone in my house too!

Once I was standing in the grocery store looking at frozen pizzas on sale. I said to my husband, " should I get some for the pig." This woman looks at me funny and she says, " are you talking about your son?" I think she is going to reprimand me for calling him a pig. I say in my best nasty voice, "yes!" She replies, "I was JUST standing here thinking the same thing about my son, we call him the pig too." She then goes on to say they have to lock all their snacks in a closet in the upstairs of their home if they want to get any for themselves.

Don't I know the feeling...you come home dying for a treat you think I know I can have a 100 cal pack of Oreo Thins. I hide my goodies in an empty box from something healthy like instant oat meal. EVEN THEN HE FINDS THEM!

My last resort was to put my 100 cal packs in a plastic bag and hide at the bottom of my white clothes hamper. Gross as it may seem it has worked.

 

[Momma2dakidz]

UGH! I have teh same issue too. John will devour things just because they are there! He hates mint stuff i love it, i bought girlscout cookies for all of us, he devoured his in a day, then started in on my mint ones!

I seriously hide food in my car. its the ONLY safe place.

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

UGH! I have teh same issue too. John will devour things just because they are there! He hates mint stuff i love it, i bought girlscout cookies for all of us, he devoured his in a day, then started in on my mint ones!

I seriously hide food in my car. its the ONLY safe place.

Well if you have a junk food eater who will not touch healthy stuff then the decoy box trick works well. The only reason it failed for me was once the box fell out of the cabinet and opened in front of my son and the game was up. Really get some thing like oatmeal, or heart healthy cereal. Eat the contents and then use to hide goodies. It worked for me for at least 3 years. Then it was on to the hard core hamper.

 

[TPCShauna]

my husband actually makes Tillamook Cheese

Your hubbie is my hero. I Tillamook Cheddar. Yay Mini-Moos!

 

[ckmommy]

We bought this for my pantry:

http://www.lowes.com/lowes/lkn?action=productDetail&productId=39844-352-FE595VCAM619ACC&lpage=none

Paid for itself in a month---those food bandits (aka my 5 kids) are always trying to figure out the combo, but have not broke the code yet!!

I am still looking for something for my fridge!!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

We don't eat any dairy in our house anymore. (health reasons) We used to go through tons of cheese too. Now that I don't buy it the kids actually do eat the tons of other stuff I buy (fresh fruit, carrots and hummus etc.). I do miss my fresh mozzarella though....

 

[Todd&Copper]

Once I was standing in the grocery store looking at frozen pizzas on sale. I said to my husband, " should I get some for the pig." This woman looks at me funny and she says, " are you talking about your son?" I think she is going to reprimand me for calling him a pig. I say in my best nasty voice, "yes!" She replies, "I was JUST standing here thinking the same thing about my son, we call him the pig too." She then goes on to say they have to lock all their snacks in a closet in the upstairs of their home if they want to get any for themselves.

SWEET CHICKEN, that is hillarious!

Well if you have a junk food eater who will not touch healthy stuff then the decoy box trick works well. The only reason it failed for me was once the box fell out of the cabinet and opened in front of my son and the game was up. Really get some thing like oatmeal, or heart healthy cereal. Eat the contents and then use to hide goodies. It worked for me for at least 3 years. Then it was on to the hard core hamper.

GREAT idea! My DH loves oatmeal and just about any kind of cereal. Wish they sold boxes of cauliflower. He will not even look at the stuff. Or maybe I can find some "women's nutrition" product in a box - tell him he'll grow ovaries if he eats it and he'll back off right quick.

 

[Tinker'n'Fun]

Oh empty Tampon boxes work great for packaged snacks.... Anyone else hear of 100 calorie Tampon packs... My DD and I have them!!