To eat some cereal that was in my kitchen

[Teenprobs]

My 19 year old son has just came in and went ballistic that his cereal he brought had been eaten. I assumed my DP had bought it when he did the shopping yesterday in tesco as normally we buy Aldi.

Just to clarify he usually eats elsewhere and sorts himself out, but he can 'eat' our food whenever he wants. I imagine he used My milk for 'his cereal'

To save the hassle I just said take it off your board this month.

AIBU, to think if he wants his own food he either needs to hide it in his room, or he needs to buy everything himself? Eg washing powder etc.

Anyway, if everyone likes it why don't you just add it to the regular shopping?

Mine top up the food we buy with their keep with extra ‘nice’ bits; they’ve learned the hard way that if they leave it in the kitchen in a busy home someone will think its available and eat it.

It was simple mistake, he over reacted. Ideally glide have apologised and offered to replace when next in the shop but if they’d over reacted I’d refuse.

Teens full of raging hormones, nightmare
i would not go to war over anything.
would do the clear half a cupboard thing
wether he’s keen or not . Also a post it note and marker pen in a pot out on the side easy to find , I would start the cupboard thing but buying him a new box of cereal.
his reluctance to have this system, I think is a
I’m not wanting to be independent!!
Then it’s my stuff I’m independent!!
my 19 year old is the same it’s a thing rubber band like , they don’t want to be parented
but still behave like children.
My first instinct as a mum when my teen is kicking off is to , be a mum and point out this behaviour sucks.and it’s not acceptable.
a wise woman, advised me ,
actually it just
alienates them ,more I’m using humour and a oh ok attitude seems to work a lot better.with some boundaries in that Delvererd carefully
also if they get in trouble in the world better to
have good communication lines open .so much in there world drinking drug use etc

good luck

Also, having half your recommended daily intake would only make you obese if it wasn't half your daily intake.

Can’t make sense of this. My point was that this would be half the recommended daily calories in one meal.

Sorry iPad fail - wrong thread.

At my house we label food that each of us buys with our names if we don’t want some one else to eat it. For example, my grandson in law labels the food for his lunches. My granddaughter labels her almond milk since she can’t eat cows milk or dairy products. I buy the majority of the groceries and butter, salt and pepper I figure we all eat. Meat we all eat. Potatoes are fair game. I have found there is less fighting over food when we respect each other.

Maybe it's time for him to move out and deal with flatmates...