That's It! Cheese Rationing In Effect!

[Narnia]

My kids love to eat they will eat anything. I love cheese and I have cut down buying. I buy it from the states only. I have started to buy really spicey ones since my kids hate anything too spicey.

 

[extremesoccermom]

Glad to hear I am not the only one that has to hide food from the family in order to have enough to last more than a couple of days.
We get the 5lb American slices from Sam's Club and I think it should last a month but if I don't hide it it is gone in a couple of weeks. Luckily we have 2 fridges and no one wants to walk down the stairs to the basement so I put some in one of those cheese keepers from Kraft in the kitchen and hide the rest in a bag in the veggie draw downstairs.

I buy most items in bulk or if there is a great sale I will stock up I have a hall closet that I can lock that contains extra fruit snacks, cookies, chips, crackers and chex mix.

Cases of soda are hidden in the chiffarobe behind the seasonal clothing.

 

[lifeisgoodforme]

Who cut the cheese???

 

[frannn]

Bought a 10 can case of Chef Boyardee for DD18 on Sat afternoon- it was gone by Wed afternoon! Two full shopping bags of lean/hot pockets are now finished. A pkg of cookies and a full Entemanns cake took 2-3 days. Forget soda. DD can polish off a bottle in an afternoon. Its DD5 who loves the cheese. Looks for it everyday after school. Can't eat her weight in it yet, LOL. I buy myself the diet stuff, but they eat that also. Only thing I'm safe with lately is fish, so I guess I'll stock up!

 

[unbroken chain]

You can buy a regular exterior locking doorknob and easily replace your pantry doorknob with a locking doorknob using only a screwdriver. Less than $20.

Good for hiding things in refrigerator: Empty margarine box for lunch meat, under several full margarine boxes. Wax milk 1/2 gallon carton - buy 8 at a time, always have the "fake" one in the back, moving the others to the front as needed.

My mother had a second refrigerator in the garage with a chain run through the handle and around the whole refrigerator, and padlock on the chain. No, not kidding. Of course she had 4 teenagers.

 

[runwad]

I was just complaining to a co-worker about this...my kids & DH eating up all the food. I too have to hide stuff usually in this big red cooler down my basement that I put under the utility tubs. But now DH found that spot so I'm screwed I just don't have a lot of other spots left. I used to hide stuff in my roaster pan but they figured that out...had a big pasta pan in the basement and put things in there and they found that too. I can't really keep things in the car...I think I need to go buy another rubbermaid bin to put snacky food in. I have a bunch of bins w/kids clothes in the basement so I could put food in them and maybe they won't find it. I too like to stock up when theirs a good sale and my billy goats will just keep eating and eating till it's all gone.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

Wow! I cannot believe that people lock their food away?!

 

[Miss Mary Poppins]

All I have to do to hide things from my DH is to put something in front of what he might be looking for and he can't find it in the cabinets or fridge. Also, aluminum foil has power beyond any force on earth. No one in my house will take the time to look inside it to see what it's hiding. It makes everything invisible.

 

[unbroken chain]

I don't lock all food away - but I have a cookies/chips/crackers/soda pantry that has a locking doorknob, and a cereal/bread/oatmeal/canned fruit/soup etc. pantry that is not locked, along with lots of fresh fruit that I keep on the table.

It's surprising how quickly a couple of teenagers can run off with a Costco-giant-sized box of cookies otherwise good for at least one week of school lunches and inhale them. (They are allowed to run off with all the fruit they want, but I haven't had a problem finding empty fruit cans or apple cores stuffed under their beds while each claims the other gobbled it down.)

 

[Jenna45]

I will second you on that

Wow! I cannot believe that people lock their food away?!

 

[Michelle67]

I broke my family of scarfing through cheese so fast by buying blocks only. None of them want to work that hard to eat it. Slices disappear at the speed of light.

Bought a 10 can case of Chef Boyardee for DD18 on Sat afternoon- it was gone by Wed afternoon! Two full shopping bags of lean/hot pockets are now finished. A pkg of cookies and a full Entemanns cake took 2-3 days. Forget soda. DD can polish off a bottle in an afternoon.

I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one whose daughter (not son or hubby) is the piggy pig. You'd think my 18 year old weighed 1000 pounds the way she can put away the junk. It's crazy! What really drives me is that she will eat all but one cookie (for example) and put the package back in the cupboard with that one stupid lonely cookie in there. What, you knew I'd be mad if you ate them all, so you left ONE??? Sometimes there is none at all, she has just shoved the empty box back in the cupboard or pantry.

All I have to do to hide things from my DH is to put something in front of what he might be looking for and he can't find it in the cabinets or fridge

Thank goodness a lot of times this works with my daughter too. She is too lazy to work for it, so if I put things out of sight behind something else it may be safe for awhile.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I don't lock all food away - but I have a cookies/chips/crackers/soda pantry that has a locking doorknob, and a cereal/bread/oatmeal/canned fruit/soup etc. pantry that is not locked, along with lots of fresh fruit that I keep on the table.

It's surprising how quickly a couple of teenagers can run off with a Costco-giant-sized box of cookies otherwise good for at least one week of school lunches and inhale them. (They are allowed to run off with all the fruit they want, but I haven't had a problem finding empty fruit cans or apple cores stuffed under their beds while each claims the other gobbled it down.)

Not flaming but nobody in our home growing up nor anyone else that I knew ever had problems like that. Apparently there are a whole underground society of teens like that now that I've read this thread!

 

[HeatherAnn23]

Your husband works at one of our favorite places! My ds could watch them make cheese through the windows forever! Of course, maybe he just knows that there will be wonderful ice cream at the end of the visit!! Give your dh an extra hug from us tonight - he does great work!!

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.....

 

[TexasTodds]

I have like 4 boxes of instant oatmeal, one for real, and 3 for hiding "lunch box" items! They are on one of the higher shelves of the pantry, and so far haven't figured it out yet. If my DD4 ever figures it out, I am truly in trouble! She has already figure out the pantry door knob cover, and I don't want to do an actual lock.

I also have a lid-less box that reams of paper come in on the top shelf of the pantry for other lunch items I have purchased ahead of time. If only I could figure out a way to hide the yogurt cups...maybe I will have to try the "shield of foil" trick!

 

[Gisele]

Wow, very interesting and humorous tales of cheese indeed!
I would love to be in the cheese making business, or to be a cheese broker, for not only being in need of a real job,(still) I love cheese! Cheddar, Provolone, Swiss, Brie, American, etc. however my most favorite is sharp cheddar cheese, when I go downstairs later, I will have to get a bit of my cheddar.
God how I so love that stuff!
I can understand the need for locking some groceries away, for between the cost, and the economy, and people eating as if they had just been released from an allied p.o.w. camp, yes I most definitely can agree with doing that! so no funny looks from me here.

 

[In a hurry]

What happens when you ask them not to eat these things? I don't get it. Do they understand that they aren't supposed to?

I would never have taken the school snacks, or eaten all of the cheese, etc., and can't imagine my kids doing this either. We weren't poor growing up, but my mom was on a budget.

 

[Mouse House Mama]

What happens when you ask them not to eat these things? I don't get it. Do they understand that they aren't supposed to?

I would never have taken the school snacks, or eaten all of the cheese, etc., and can't imagine my kids doing this either. We weren't poor growing up, but my mom was on a budget.

I agree. It doesn't make sense to me that if you put food out they eat every last drop of it.

 

[mskayjay]

Not trying to dismiss the hit to the budget, but I'm glad your kids are eating something healthy like cheese instead of chips! Good for them! I'd seriously be stockpiling when it is on sale though! lol I just bought a 2 pound brick of Cabot Seriously Sharp yesterday and it set me back $12. We are renovating the kitchen and I like to put out cheese and crackers for the workers to nibble on. On a personal note, I no joke, could eat that whole 2 pound block myself in less time than your boys ate it!

 

[Todd&Copper]

Not flaming but nobody in our home growing up nor anyone else that I knew ever had problems like that. Apparently there are a whole underground society of teens like that now that I've read this thread!

Haven't you ever seen those 150-lb babies on Maury???? Those toddlers who can eat a whole pizza themselves do grow up, you know . . . .

 

[HopingToGetEngaged]

I'm so glad to know that I'm not the only one whose daughter (not son or hubby) is the piggy pig. You'd think my 18 year old weighed 1000 pounds the way she can put away the junk. It's crazy! What really drives me is that she will eat all but one cookie (for example) and put the package back in the cupboard with that one stupid lonely cookie in there. What, you knew I'd be mad if you ate them all, so you left ONE??? Sometimes there is none at all, she has just shoved the empty box back in the cupboard or pantry.

I believe that your daughter and my father come from the same family tree! I no longer live at home - but I have to say that this, along with all the amount of stuff my father eats is my Mom's #1 complaint on our daily calls! He can, has - and I'm sure - will continue to eat her out of house and home! Oh yeah - he's fairly thin too.. ugh! She's also a notorious "hider".

I used to live with my ex-boyfriend. I have serious portion control issues - so I'd purchase the 100 calorie packs. I came home from work one day (a 9 hour day mind you) to find that the other 5 packages of my 100 calorie Doritos had been eaten! I never cared if he at something that was "mine" (as we purchased groceries separately) - but seriously?! Dude - for what I spent on those little packs, I could have purchased 2 family sized bags of Doritios for you!