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Bloody scavenging children!

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 12:29

I was going to have left-over pasta bake for my lunch - there was one portion left, and as I don't make this particular pasta bake very often, I was looking forward to my lunch - but one of the bloody children has had most of it for their breakfast!!! We have a cupboard full of cereals, a bowl full of fruit and plenty of bread to make toast, and tasty things to put on toast. Plus, they have £2.50 dinner money from us, and their own money, and are going to get a proper dinner tonight.

So - am I being unreasonable to think that whichever child it was could have left me these leftovers for my lunch? They didn't need them for their breakfast.

I tend to make a bit extra of some meals, on the basis that the leftovers will do me for lunch the next day - otherwise I tend not to plan anything for my lunches, and end up having to scrabble round for something to eat - and the dses know this. And they've been told that, generally speaking, leftovers are not for anyone's breakfast.

But still the one thieving little what-not has eaten MY lunch - and now I am going to be stuck with cheese on toast.

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GloriaSmut · 19/04/2011 14:28

"I now wait till after their bedtime before I have my dinner then at least I have one meal a day without them pestering for my food on my plate."

Even the dog isn't allowed to do that here!

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 15:18

They are due home from school soon - and the prime suspect will be strapped down in a chair with a light shining in his eyes the minute he crosses the threshold. I WILL get to the truth - and then there will be a full reading of the Riot act, together with all supplementary clauses and addendums (addenda??), full orchestra and soloists.

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dementedma · 19/04/2011 15:20

would you like to borrow my thumbscrews?

Mack3 · 19/04/2011 15:30

Take away x box or electronic device of choice untill the truth comes out?

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 19/04/2011 15:33
zipzap · 19/04/2011 15:40

As per mack3 but also keep hold of precious item for penalty time once you have found the culprit. Week of no xbox etc should be sufficient to remind most pasta bake thieves that there should be no repeat offences. Especially if things go for a month for any second offences Grin

HecateQueenOfTheNight · 19/04/2011 15:43

I suppose it would be too cruel to make a special leftover?

Filled with extra hot chillis and the like?

[evil]

HecateQueenOfTheNight · 19/04/2011 15:44

and for the second time in 5 minutes, I appear to be a bloody parrot. tsk.

polly wants a cracker. squark.

Clary · 19/04/2011 15:46

How come you are still at school anyway DT's girl???

(I feel yr pain on the food btw - it's the same here "who ate my last Haribooooo?" wails DS2. Not me that's for sure {bleurgh} but who scoffed that last Celebration? Hmm? From a packet I bought?)

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 16:19

Clary - we live in Scotland, and the dc went back to school today after their spring holiday (can't really call it the Easter holidays).

Thankyou for the offer of the thumbscrews and the whip, demented and ChippingIn - but I fixed No1 culprit with my beady glare, and he owned up immediately. He did know it was wrong too.

I have informed the dses that if this eggregious theft of food items happens again, I will be making creamy tomato testicles pasta bake!! Grin

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dementedma · 19/04/2011 16:24

glad you tracked down the thieving git culprit.
In Scotland here too so thumbscrews probably within courier distance Grin

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 16:30

What part of Scotland, if you don't mind me asking, dementedma? I'm near Paisley.

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ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 19/04/2011 16:36

Little git darling. Is he cooking dinner tonight then??

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 16:49

No - I'm cooking tonight (shepherds pie) - but he won't even dare look at the leftovers - I am sure of that! Grin

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NettoSuperstar · 19/04/2011 16:57

I'm glad DD's back at school this week as I've been eaten out of house and home the last couple of weeks.
She never bloody stops!

WhatOnEarthIsIt · 19/04/2011 17:04

YANBU!
It's the same in this house. They aren't supposed to eat anything other than fruit without asking first, but one of the little buggers has been eating all of the sliced ham and cheese [mad]. It wouldn't be so bad if they were making a proper meal or snack with it, but they're just grabbing what they can and stuffing it in their mouths the minute my back is turned. They then deny all knowledge and blame eachother!

I buy enough sandwich fillings to last a week but after two days they've eaten the bloody lot and we're back to marmite.

I am seriously considering putting a bicycle lock on my fridge. I kid you not.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 19/04/2011 17:07

Blimey... must be a generational thing. As per squeakytoy, we didn't go in the fridge or cupboards as kids. Kids can be very greedy and will scoff anything, regardless of what it is or whether it belongs to somebody else. I don't allow it but they have free access to the fruit bowl on the proviso that they eat their fair shares.

maighdlin · 19/04/2011 17:12

YANBU i had stashed a bag of caramel nibbles in my car for after my last exam in january. long story short i got a lift home with my sister and DH took my car home with DD. went to get them that evening to have in the bath and the bastards had eaten them whilst stuck in traffic Angry still annoys me. the whole fecking bag and it was big bag not the ones with 10 in them

GabbyLoggon · 19/04/2011 17:40

staying, I thought you meant scavaging in the streets...in the bins etc
it happens in Brazil

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 18:13

I've just emailed dh to ask if I can kill ds2 (hereinafter known as The Culprit) - and he said No!!!???

How unreasonable is that??

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StayingDavidTennantsGirl · 19/04/2011 18:17

I should also add that the fruit bowl is the one food source that is utterly safe from the scavengers in this house. Perhaps next time I should hide my leftovers in a tupperware box markede 'Cut-Up Fruit' - they'd never go near it!!

It's not that they don't like fruit either - and I buy the fruit they like - it's just that they like it, but not enough to actually eat the stuff.

I once suggested plastic fruit for people to put in their children's lunchboxes - to deal with the problem of the Lunchbox police and children who won't eat fruit (I used to have boomerang fruit that came home day after day until it got too battered to send back) - perhaps I should invest in plastic fruit for my fruit bowl, so that I look like a good mother!

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BendyBob · 19/04/2011 18:17

OMG isn't it ANNOYING??!Hmm You have to nail things down here or they get gobbled up.

It's worse during the holidays too. They're all constantly starving. No sooner have we cleared up from one meal than they want to know about the next. It's driving me nuts

BendyBob · 19/04/2011 18:22

Agree agree Squeaky! I am also from that generation. I feel quite strongly that dc shouldn't be grazing out of the fridge especially without asking. It's a constant bugbear of mine. My mother would've had a fit.

But then they're constantly asking all the time until I yell Oh just help yourself for pete's sake. I shouldn't cave in, but after the zillionth time..Hmm

dementedma · 19/04/2011 20:41

davidsgirl I'm in Fife. it's horrible, but someone has to live here Grin
I wouldn't dare take any food without asking at my mother's still and I'm 21 47! However the kids regularly raid the fridge here. On the plus side, they also cook their own meals a lot of the time so can't really complain!

ChippingInLovesEasterEggs · 19/04/2011 20:58

DH said 'No'... it wasn't his bloody lunch!!