To go and buy a lock?

[WhyCantIuseTheNameIWant]

For my fridge.

To stop my 12 year old stealing food and lying about it. With his mouth full of said food. All smeared round his face and dropped on the floor and over the clean laundry that was waiting to go in the drier...

It's not a hunger thing. It's a cheese thing. He can eat his dinner (generally a good eater, not fussy) then as soon as I leave the room, he is stuffing his face with cheese.

I try not to buy it too often, as he just eats the lot. But if we have pizza or baked potato, I buy some.

There is no phone until the mess is cleared.

Yes, he chose Red Leicester as 'his cheese'. Has done for the past year or so.

He also knows he can have a 'portion cheese', so everybody gets some. We all like cheese!

but the grated is not on offer he chose to eat it knowing it was for something else

serve him pizza with no cheese?

i honestly wouldn't lock the food away as my ex husband did this i now have a child with piss poor personal control around food and she is now fat im having to stop buying unhealthy snacks in because she won't regulate her eating (she is 15 she is capable and chooses not to)

but you're right you may have to not buy it untill the day you want to use it or buy it and freeze it frozen cheese tastes shit

is he dehydrated at all? people who are "starving" to the point of gorging on foods even though they have eaten already are often thirsty

while its technically not stealing to eat food when you're hungry in your own home

Until he contributes to the rent, I am firmly of the belief that it is primarily his parents' home, and ultimately anything in it belongs to them. But there is a soft subset of MN that sees this line of thinking as "cruel".

I never would have helped myself to dos from the fridge as a teenager. I'd have asked mum and she's have said what was available for snacking on. Otherwise what's to stop you wolfing down a whole pack of feta that was planned for the whole family or something?

We had a phase when all the cheese was being eaten in one day when it was enough to last 2-4 weeks (think £10-15 worth)! I got a Tupperware box each and labelled it, popped one packet of cheese in each and told everyone that they could only have theirs (ds 13, dsd 17 and dh) and it worked.... found out who ate cheese quickly -dsd and no more arguments. Did the same with treats.....

Darth that's a ridiculous opinion when it comes to food, yes I can understand that kind of reasoning if he was taking money or clothes or CDs or anything else but food - how can you steal food in the house you live in? It is not the Parents food - it is food for everyone in the house to eat.

Given he is eating lots of other food and playing sports I'm not surprised a growing teenager is hungry. I would agree though that pot noodles and food similar to it are not filling or nutritious they are just snack food.

Iampissedoff my brother used to do that, he played football all the time and was always hungry.