To never buy snacks/squash/sweets etc again

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Every single time there is somthing remotely snackly in the house it just gets taken and eaten. The large double concentrate bottles of squash gone within 24 hours, any kind of sugary cerial gone the same day they come through the door.
I dont like to use the word 'steal' but tonight its the only word i can use because my daughter actually STOLE my can of coke.
We never usually buy coke or Fizzy anything, nut it was my eldest sons birthday and all the children had a can as a very rare treat. My daughter actualli hid my can up her sleeve (after having drank hers earlier in the evening) and went and drank it in her bedroom.
Even my toddler daughters 'treats' like 'GoGo' biscuits and 'Goodies' puffs just disapear before she even knows theyre there.
We have a full fruit bowl, two actually, every day and even they get emptied. They have hot meals every day so theyre not 'hungry' just greedy.
I just dont understand why they do it and im seriously considering just not buying again.
My toddler will happily drink water (theres hardly ever any squash left for her anyway)

Or you could read the thread, Fash, and see that I was talking about people who drank eight glasses a day, not one glass in the evening on top of normal water - but don't let that get in the way of being rude

Why can't people just hold their hands up and say "yep, squash, load of sugar / sugar substitute with little or no nutritional value, but meh, we like it so there" instead of twisting themselves into pretzels trying to pretend it's not unhealthy? You're adults - own your choices.

Exactly this.

Albertasimmons you seem to be avoiding acknowledging that your post which included, amongst other gems, the statement that “adding anything to water makes it food” are a load of tosh.

No one is saying squash is healthy. Heck, water isn’t healthy. It’s just fluid.

ifailed give it a quick google if you’ve missed all the public information campaigns....

Also- literally everyone defending their choices is owning it.

Let me just clear something up.
Yesterday my shopping was delivered and as usual the kids started at everything as soon as i was bathing the youngest and and getting her settled to bed.
Funny how its gone from 'OP stop depriving your children' to 'OP is buying too much shit'
I do neither.
I dont really want to stop them having 'unhealthy' snacks because when eaten in moderation they are not so unhealthy. The issue is they are NOT moderating and they know my views on it so they do it when im not there.

Yes 'COKE' is a very rare treat. I didnt say i bought snacks/squash occasinally AT ALL and neither did i say they at a packet of biscuits every day. I said they will eat an entire packet of biscuits.
I dont replace it until the next shop, that wasnt my point. 'when its gone its gone' fair enough but I dont want them doing it AT ALL.
Im not going to start locking stuff away because i really dont want to live like that... So, is it wrong that i just stop buying it all FULL STOP?

Wouldn’t you want to eat such things too though OP?

You don't need to stop buying it, they just need to learn to ask for a snack. Same way they'd ask for other things. Basic respect and manners I'd have thought.

OP I hear you!! Mine went through that phase and I just stopped buying stuff. Used to drive me insane, the greed, they were like vultures.

They didn't even seem to notice when I stopped, it was just like because it's around I'll eat it!

Honestly, it's a phase, I started buying the stuff a few years later when they were a bit more considerate.

I think it's also "lazy" food, I can eat that in 30 seconds or I can make something that might take 10 mins. I'll take the 30 second option.

But I still don't get the big deal that some one drank 'your' coke. If you like coke so much just buy a bigger bottle. Everyone's happy.

You tend to find it’s people who struggle with their weight who have these extreme rules.

Extreme rules like telling the dc they can buy their own crap with their pocket money rather than loading up in the weekly shop? I'm not overweight btw and neither are my dc.

So, is it wrong that i just stop buying it all FULL STOP?

Absolutely not.

But you can communicate with teenagers. You can ask them not to stuff their faces with the items you've bought, but to wait until another time to eat these treats. It is possible.

Nicking your can of coke is certainly not on. Your DD should have more respect.

I think it's mean that they eat your toddlers snacks. That's unfair and I would punish them for it. Seems they have little respect.

I don't have teenages OP but I would probably buy the usual items one more time with a warning that if they go over the top then you will not be buying any next week. And if they take anyone's snacks that clearly aren't theirs then they will be disciplined accoringly. No console that evening etc.?

This is exactly like my house. Not just treats either 2/3 of the stuff I buy for packed lunches gets eaten before it even sees a lunch box. I was so fed up of going to get cereal bars in the morning and finding an empty box and nothing for lunches I bought a combination padlock and a hasp and staple for a small cupboard in the kitchen. Doesn’t stop them raiding the fridge though. Huge bottles of orange juice gone in half an hour. So yes OP I have stopped buying lots of things like squash and OJ and even punnets of berries. The rest gets locked away. Oh and I’ve been a parent for over 20 years

Really doing the children a disservice by feeding them like that. Constant grazing and snacking is often ignored when people add up their calorie count for the day so it also leads to denial about why people are fat

Absolutely. I spoke to sil about why she would feed her kids like that but she got fairly defensive as you can imagine. I think a lot of it was to do with her guilt about them coming home from school and her not being there. She said they are kids and have to have sweets. She wants them to come straight home after school and have a nice time. They will slim as they grow up, it’s just puppy fat.

For all those posters saying locking this kind of food away is poor parenting and forbidding kids having treats will make them binge on it later.... this sugary stuff is lethal as you get into adulthood. You are talking serious health problems. Would you leave all your medicines, matches or cleaning products where your kids could get them at will?
Yes kids might have a phase where they eat unhealthily as they get older, just like they experiment with lots of things but if you’ve set an example and given them good habits they will revert to that eventually.

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You tend to find it’s people who struggle with their weight who have these extreme rules.

Extreme rules like telling the dc they can buy their own crap with their pocket money rather than loading up in the weekly shop? I'm not overweight btw and neither are my dc.”

Why do you think my post relates specifically to you?

No-one 'owns' any snacks in our house. Just buy more of what ever is popular. Easy

@adaline
Maybe read my post that stated I drink between 750ml to a litre of squash a day and include it in my fluid intake, it was the first post you dismissed as squash not being water, although clearly it wasn't what anyone was saying

@lethaldrizzle so if biscuits are popular the OP needs to keep buying packets and packets of them every week to make sure there’s always a readily available supply of them?! Weird logic

OpP. My advice would be do what you feel.is best for your family. MN is full of black and white positions and judgement. Good luck x

Just buy more of what ever is popular. Easy

Just buy more of the sweets, crisps and biscuits then. Really ????

Whoever said that squash doesn't count towards your fluid intake a day, that is ridiculous. Squash is made with water, the H2O doesn't change into another chemical because it's got a bit of squash in it. It certainly does not make squash a food. As I posted earlier, the NHS themselves recommend adding no sugar squash to water if you aren't a fan of drinking water itself.

I have four kids, all of them gannets! We had similar problems to this, and there was a lot of squabbling about food.
We put them in charge of their own treats- they use their (slightly increased) pocket money to buy sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks etc. That way they have their own stock of snacks and treats, which they have chosen. Strangely, once they felt secure in being able to have what they wanted, they started sharing more, and also eat less sugary stuff than before. There is no problem with anyone taking food that doesn't belong to them.
I don't buy squash type drinks, just because I don't like them (some of them look like they'd glow in the dark!). Nobody has ever complained about it and they could buy their own if they wanted, but they don't. Their dentist said that even NAS ones are bad for teeth, anyway. They mostly drink milk or water but have hot chocolate at weekends and a couple of them like tea in the morning.
They are all fit and healthy and have good teeth.

OP once everything is gone how are they with food? Do they then raid the 'normal' food or do they just stick with meals?