To spike the milk?

[PeachBellini123]

Due to a dairy intolerance I buy almond milk to have at work, which is kept in the office fridge. Have realised over the past couple of weeks it has been going down very quickly. I caught a colleague using it and did say 'oh can't you use the office milk?' They looked a bit guilty but not sure if they've stopped using mine. And I think it must be more than one person.

Would it be really bad if I spiked the milk to teach them a lesson? Having my name on it hasn't helped.

It would be something safe to consume but taste bad...

of course you can "flavour" your own drinks or food.
(chilli powder ? salt?)

Laxative?

Dye it green!

Could you decant your milk in to a plain bottle and label it "Sample One". Or something equally discouraging to others.

All of the above!

Dye it green, add some chilli powder and fish sauce, maybe a touch of laxative and voilà! Fake gone-off milk

I agree that adding food colouring is the best bet though. Just add a touch of green or black food colouring, enough to make it look very suspect, and you'll have milk other people will think is off but is perfectly safe for you to drink so you aren't wasting any.

When this happened to me I printed a sign like this and stuck it to the container. It worked.

acasualobserver to be pedantic that's a transport label, not a label for supply and a milk bottle is likely to be in limited quantities anyhows. Also, a food, so exempt for labelling for hazards and packaging

Can you decant it into a breastmilk expressing bottle?

Good job none of my colleagues were well versed in hazchem protocols!

Are you sure all your colleagues know that it's your private supply?

can't you decant it into breast milk expressing bottles
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That would work....... though you might get some looks when you use it.

Green food colouring is the best idea, you can still use it but they'll think it's gone off and won't dare admit they've used it so won't pull you up on it.

Win win!

Label it as Breast milk.

Send an email round the office asking people to stop stealing your mixture of almond and breast milk. Because it takes a long time to express enough for your week's drinks as it is.

Colour it bright blue, then go around the office and ask people why their tea is blue...Itll be hard for them to style that one out.

This sort of thing makes me irrationally angry.

Spike it by all means. I'd also invest in a nondescript container.

I love this idea of dying it, although I guess it wouldn't show up in coffee (maybe tea, though). And it might put the thief off.

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I know someone at work who did the labelling it breast milk thing and it still got stolen!!!

Can't you put a note on the fridge saying something like -
"Please could people not use OP's almond milk as I it is the only thing that I can drink as I seriously allergic to cows' milk"

We had this at an office related to my work. A group of people who were having their food nicked got together and spiked it with one of those dyes that are invisible in the food but stain your mouth and teeth yellow. The perpetrator was duly identified... .

However, they complained to management, who decided that as the victims had got together it was classed as entrapment and they very nearly got fired. Nothing was done to the thief at all .

However, they complained to management, who decided that as the victims had got together it was classed as entrapment and they very nearly got fired. Nothing was done to the thief at all

Unbelievable!

Next time they should call in the police (theft is theft). The management obviously has no balls - the thief probably ate them too .

A couple of drops of pure capsaicin should do the trick......

Put a sticker on it saying "I've spat in this".

Then on the other side of the box put a sticker that says "And I've licked it too"

People used to steal my line cordial at work, a bit going missing wouldn't have bothered me greatly but when the entire bottle vanished I was very pissed off. So I bought a new one and stuck a note on it saying "I might have pissed in this"
It didn't go missing anymore after that.
I think you should put a drop of green colouring in it.

This happened to me all the time (with normal green top milk). I used to put it in a red top carton, it worked well, suddenly people weren't so keen thinking it was skimmed (and would pinch someone elses).
I also put Humphrey signs arouund the kitchen.