AIBU to hide food....literally!

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I have got to the stage where I cannot wait to see my DCs go back to school tomorrow.
In the last week and a half they have eaten me out of house and home.
As soon as I walk back through the door from the supermarket laden with bags, they are round me like vultures, picking over a carcass.
They seem to think that just because I bought the food that say, it has to be eat that day.
I have decided to actually hide food to make it last longer than one day instead of putting it in the cupboards, fruit bowl etc
AIBU

I saw an episode of Supernanny where she got the kids to pick 3 snacks each, they went in a jar in the kitchen, and the following day they could eat those 3 snacks at set times. Everything else was locked away. Worth a try?

Oh and here the kids eat LOADS of raw carrots because they are the cheapest foodstuff available. So you peel, put them in water in a bowl/pot and leave them in the fridge.

Mine are exactly the same and seem to resemble locusts when the food shopping comes in , I had to stop buying goodies and then i hid some ,I now don't buy so much if its not here they can't scoff it if they are starving they can have toast , oh toast isnt a sweeties you can't be starving then

What happened to saying "no" and then punishing them if they help themselves when your back is turned?

Or am I just hopelessly old-fashioned?

If you are then so am I Lapis

........and me too Lapis / Bofeyface!

Well that works fine with four of mine but has feck all affect on DS2.
Hence the lock.

What kind of lesson is being learnt when you simply let them help themselves, OP? Without any approbation and no come-back?

Do you simply go and buy more food? Is money and budgeting not an issue for your family?

I'm sorry, I sound like an old bag (and these days quite look like one) but if my sister and I had behaved in the same way that you describe your children, we would have a) been severely punished and b) been given a serious talking-to about money not growing on trees.

I think for ever person appalled at letting kid help themselves there will be one who feels the same about expecting children to ask for food.
My DM (who is 70) feigned at children 'having to ask for an apple!'
She was the same with children having to earn pocket money 'my children DON'T work for me!' etc etc

My children always have to ask for food and are expected to help around the house but there are loads of MNs who find that distasteful and they are from all ages and backgrounds.
I know this to be so because I have seen tone of these threads :)

Surely if they are quite small a lot of this can be solved by just storing things too high up for them to reach?

If they are constantly starving perhaps you could increase their portion sizes at the meals? Or have you tried that? If they are willing to eat anything & everything they are either bored, or genuinely hungry, or both.

There is nothing wrong with kids having toast (bread is cheap compared to other foods) with peanut butter or marmite mid-morning or mid-afternoon. But basically you need your children to understand that home is not an all-day eating party. Can't you get them out of the house more as well?

I have to hide the kids' lunch stuff from my DP. He hoovers everything up!

Can't you just tell him "No", Faulkner? Who's the adult here, eh?

Lapis as you will have seen from an earlier post, I DO chastise them and they have been grounded before over this matter. Trust me, I don't just stand and watch whilst they gorge, they are very, very sneaky.
Elephants, get them out of the house more. Hah ha, very funny....the moment we get home from school they climb out of the car and start climbing trees in the woodland across the road. Believe me, they are seldom inside unless it's chucking it down.