to expect to eat the food I buy

[superbagpuss]

how do you ensure that you get to eat the little something you buy for yourself?

should I expect all food I get be fair game to all members of my family and its my fault for not eating them quickly enough?

You need to create your secret space.

My secret spaces are at the back of a cupboard behind all the tall stuff, like squash and olive oil bottles, and the back of the middle drawer in our big fridge which is in the garage.

Eat it in the car on the way home from the shop. Or hide it when you get home.
My mum puts her treats in the salad drawer of the fridge because my Dad and brothers would never go in there!!

I do have a treat box in the cupboard for me
dh also has one as does DC

however didn't stop my ice creams disappearing
now I remember why I get ones dh doesn't like normally

second the salad drawer, also telling everyone else not eat it works well in my house, its just me and two teenagers and I have finally trained them to ask before they eat only took 19 years..

You need to follow my dads lead and claim your own cupboard/drawer. His is in the side table in the dining room, conveniently close to his recliner. Hes got a right little stash in there....and he knows when you have looked in it. He can sense it.

Hide it. Maybe at the back of the freezer in this case ......

We all have a treat and all treats are shared. Never been an issue.

hahaha super: my taste in food has also changed since DH and I have shared a house.. most of my treats contain at least one thing he is allergic to

Otherwise I just eat them right when the delivery guy comes or buy enough of them for everybody to have a piece

It's obviously up to you and your partner how you organise food, but personally, as the cook in the house - and also the person who plans, buys and puts away all the food I feel I should get most control over when it's eaten. I don't mean that to sound draconian but if you're a) not made of money, b) not prepared to make several unplanned trips back to the shops to replenish supplies and c) not happy to have your planned meals sabotaged because someone's eaten half the ingredients - and you only get to find that out at the time you start cooking then I don't think it's unreasonable to lay down the law to some extent.

I always have fruit of some sort, and am happy for that to be eaten whenever, along with cereal which is also filling if you're feeling peckish, but am not so happy about crisps, biscuits, choc, icecream and other "treat" type stuff to be scoffed whenever someone fancies it. Mainly because I simply can't afford to replace it just like that, and also because if I gave the kids free rein, I'd probably never see much of it myself and they'd have an imbalanced diet to boot. When my son was a teenager he could easily demolish a whole packet of biscuits or cakes in one sitting and it wasn't fair when I'd been anticipating a treat - for everyone - to then find it had disappeared. It was a bone of some contention and I'm sure he thought I was making a fuss over nothing and being a control freak.

I admit I ended up hiding stuff in big stockpots on top of cupboards so I wasn't cleaned out! And yes, if I ever bought any "nice" chocolate or nuts I'd definitely hide it ...... that's not to say I wouldn't share it sometimes but I used to get fed up with stuff constantly disappearing.

Hide them in an empty veg bag. You know the ones of individual steam cook ones.

I have also found that a large bar of chocolate fits neatly in my make up bag.

And that if I take out half a box of chocolates and pop them in a sandwich bag they fit nicely in an open bag oftteabags I the cupboard.

It's not that I have food issues. It's just that I am pg you see and DP and DD are gannets.

You need to save the packaging of a boring freezer food (eg spinach) and hide your ice cream inside it.

we had got dh some ice cream that he likes and DC have ice pops

I thought I would try something new

managed to have the last one in the pack tonight, it was very nice so now need to remember where I bought it from

also dh still has his ice creams left

Oh yeah ..... keep an empty cardboard box, like one which had breaded fish in, and hide your icecreams in that ! Bit harder to disguise the Haagen Das though ....

My method is marry men who don't like cheese or pickles ( both of them!). Then your stinky blue and runny brie are never touched you also don't get kissed a lot but it's a price worth paying .

Dp used to eat the few treats I buy just for me.
Yes used to.
Until one night, when I was pregnant. Well I say night. It was about 3 in the morning and snowing heavily. I had warned him countless times to leave my stuff alone. But he didn't listen. I was craving the thing the greedy fucker had eaten. Like a crazy, possessed person I woke him up. I told him I wanted that item. He laughed and tried to go back to sleep.. Needless to say he had a long, cold walk to find the item.. I fell back to sleep and he still wasn't back. I remembered about an hour after sending him out, that I had another one stashed elsewhere.