How to deal with the CF who has been eating my granola

[JoyceTempleSavage]

Have recently moved into a larger office with about 50 new colleagues.

I have a tub of granola which I filled up last week and it’s now nearly empty. I’ve had it on my yoghurt maybe four times and it’s kept in the cereal cupboard inbetween times in its own special tub.

WIBU to top it up with 90% granola 10% used cat litter and keep my own granola in my locker instead?

What if it's a newbie that thinks granola is provided?
Send an email to everyone and you will provide workplace entertainment, as well as saving your granola.

we grew some extremely hot chillies this year if anybody wants some (dh keeps using whole ones in curry & "forgets" to tell me - I will get revenge) by the by gravy powder is the same colour as coffee mix cheap coffee with it to get smell right or coffee essence. turmeric powder is good for colouring too

If you put stuff in it, that’s not nice, they’ll just spit it out and you’ll be none the wiser. Lots of the laxative chocolate chips would make them want to eat every bit and the teeth colouring tablets ground up to a fine power. You shouldn’t just settle for stopping them from stealing it, you should be able to let them know, that you know who they are, while they’re sitting on the toilet shitting and brushing their teeth. 😁

I read this as "the CF who is eating my grandma" and was like "...that's a new one even for Mumsnet".

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I think we just found your thief. 🤣

This is a great thread in the finest traditions of MN . I particularly like the fact that there are MN who know which brand of cat litter looks most like granola. You are WAY better than google.

This behaviour is rife in my office. The best thing management ever did was get us locks for our drawers. I lock everything away now

Please top up with cat litter and report back OP!!!

Dont replace it with with cat litter. Use dwarf hamster food. It has mealworms in it

I have to say I tittered when the cf at our workplace (the one who used communal tea fund milk for her three times a day cereal habit and who took over the entire work surface to make her very expensive yet full of crap "health" smoothies at lunchtime but never managed to understand how to open the dishwasher door, yes her) how I laughed when after repeated warnings from the housekeeping staff about leaving opened packets of food in the cupboard she dissolved into hysterical sobs when she realised that a mouse, or several mice , had been sharing her granola, possibly for a while.....

Sometimes karma gets it just right.

What if it's a newbie that thinks granola is provided?

Ah bless you. i like your charitable thinking but all of my old colleagues have moved over with me and we are the newbies. 10 years we’ve shared a kitchen and not one incident of granola, poptarts or crunchy nut cornflake snaffling until this week.

We have inadvertently provided the CF with their own daily choice of continental breakfast. I may need to investigate further

@mumwon has it with the turmeric power.

Easily explainable with the trend for turmeric in everything. Stains like a bastard and doesn't really taste of much.

You don't need much.

Oooh yes a disclosing tablet, genius

Or a few drops of indigo food dye

@Shannith & it doesn't smell much (says she looking through spice cupboard for other suggestions - ground black pepper anyone?) Oh this is fun …. I acknowledge I am truly evil

Add something with blue food colouring so the thief’s mouth will be bright blue all day.
If you soak some raisins or blueberries with a mix of blue food dye and chilli powder - that should hide the blue and I'm sure anyone stealing other's food is also likely to chrry pick the raisins and blueberries. Double whamy - nasty shock when they get the chilli hit plus having blue lips for the rest of the day.

What if it's a newbie that thinks granola is provided?

Is your workplace in Shoreditch, OP?

I ate my colleague's Quavers while he was on annual leave. I did however replace them before he got back. Cheeky fuckers!

What if it's a newbie that thinks granola is provided?

I can just see it now, the interview is drawing to a close and the interviewer asks interviewee if they have any questions.

Interviewee: Erm, yes, er, do you provide communal granola?
Interviewer: Yes, as a matter of fact we do. Along with a higher than average pension contribution, childcare vouchers, reduced gym membership and 35 days annual leave we also supply all employees with a cracking granola allowance. It is in a tub labelled with someone's name and kept in a cupboard along with everyone's personal snacks but it really is for the whole company. We're very proud of it.

Airhorn the box?

Definitely something to startle the thief, like a few anchovies or laxative chocolate chips mixed in, and or plastic bugs.

Agree with the previous poster who said to bring your own in a ziploc bag each day.

My vote is for some plastic insects. Big ones so you don't get into trouble with HR for trying to choke CF. Just enough for her to know you've put them in there to warn her off your granola, and hopefully to make her squeal with surprise when she sees them, thus giving her away.

@T0tallyFuckedUpFamily

If you put stuff in it, that’s not nice, they’ll just spit it out and you’ll be none the wiser. Lots of the laxative chocolate chips would make them want to eat every bit and the teeth colouring tablets ground up to a fine power. You shouldn’t just settle for stopping them from stealing it, you should be able to let them know, that you know who they are, while they’re sitting on the toilet shitting and brushing their teeth. 😁

^Yes yes this! And then, OP, you stand there all innocent like, saying: 'oooooo I do hope it wasn't something you ate '

Snap-traps under the box? They are very loud www.amazon.co.uk/Exploding-DETONATOR-DEVICE-Funny-Joke-Prank-Toy-Trick/dp/B071YYXT92?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

If you put stuff in it, that’s not nice, they’ll just spit it out and you’ll be none the wiser. Lots of the laxative chocolate chips would make them want to eat every bit and the teeth colouring tablets ground up to a fine power. You shouldn’t just settle for stopping them from stealing it, you should be able to let them know, that you know who they are, while they’re sitting on the toilet shitting and brushing their teeth.

THIS.

Please do this 😂

The plaque tablets will turn red when the thief adds the milk. Not that I’ve tried adding disclosing tablet to Granola but I’m assuming this will happen as they turn your saliva red.