She ate all the biscuits

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I got a pack of chocolate chip cookies for today after dinner for everyone to have a few-Dd has a balanced diet but we don’t have a dessert or biscuits, crisps etc every night or in the house that often-more on weekends or if we bake something.
I hid the rest of the biscuits away for another day.
I went to have a shower, when Dd came up to bed, she told me she looked everywhere for them, found them and ate them.

Would you be cross? She’s 7

Me too. A pack of biscuits will go quickly so I only buy them occasionally.

Because they are bad for you! Kids shouldn't be scoffing entire packets of biscuits. T-hey are full of sugar and emulsifiers which damage the lining of your bowel and give you bowel cancer. Why is everyone acting like it's strange to hide junk food? She's not hiding the fruit.

Exactly what I thought!

The trouble is that food manufacturers know how to get us hooked. Taste sensations! It's hard enough for adults to cope with the onslaught, let alone children.

Yeah sorry I don't think this is good behaviour or normal. Its more than having a sweet tooth. She's gone hunting through the cupboards becuase she knew they were in the house and couldn't control herself and has eaten a whole packet. She knew she wasnt allowed them, thats naughty, plain and simple. Its like an alcoholic. If I gave DS a full packet of biscuits there is a chance he would eat the whole lot, not a guarantee. We're currently sat watching a film and I have bought dessert for after dinner and DS has a tub of sweets in view and an Easter egg bought days ago. My kids have big sweet tooths, sometimes I worry about it. Ain't no one begging for sweets, or sneaking them. I don't think it's normal that you can't have anything sweet in the house or she'll eat it all.

She's little, they're tempting, let it go.

Personally I'm surprised how many people seem to keep things under lock and key, one poster said their children wouldn't even take an apple from the fridge without asking! It seems so joyless and punitive to me. This is our shared home, my children don't need permission to eat an apple or grab a little treat.

I understand it's the issue is biscuits, you wouldn't have minded if it was something less unhealthy, but beyond a 'darling you know you're not supposed to eat that many biscuits in one go' i could not get worked over something like this.

As a child I’d never have done this. My sister would. Even now (in our 50s) I can have 2 biscuits and leave it at that but my sister will eat a whole packet (even if she doesn’t like them!) Greedy

I think it’s a bit of a straw man argument to say chocolate is only gorged because parents present it in the wrong way. Chocolate (biscuits) send your taste receptors into a state of bliss, that’s the point. Some people find that harder to resist than others. If your DD is really drawn to scoff the lot I would set clear consistent rules. No more than 4 biscuits, say (depending on size - I’m thinking Bourbon size but a cookie might be one). When something is bought for the whole family, remember only a quarter of it is up for grabs or you’re eating someone else’s portion

"You shouldn't hide food, my kids know not to overeat sweets or take food without asking."
OK. But OPs daughter doesn't. She will eat an entire birthday cake in a day. She will search high and low for the rest of a pack of biscuits she's already eaten half of.

I think you need some specialist advice on how to parent kids with this particular relationship with food because she'll end up making herself ill.

Also, these people saying its perfectly normal to eat a full pack of biscuits, how many have always maintained a healthy weight? I'm overweight with a sweet tooth but couldn't eat a full pack of biscuits or cake in one sitting. Binge eating isn't healthy.

But surely they have "been made" into treats because they are?

Nothing wrong with everyone having a couple & then them being put away for another day.

I thought that that was usual?

People here just like to be contrary here, OP. If you say she rarely has treats, they’ll say you’ve put them on a pedestal and she craves them. But if you say she has treats all the time, they’ll say you’ve encouraged greed/poor eating habits. If you left them out, they’ll say you shouldn’t have tempted her. If you hid them, they’ll say she stole them because you’ve made it a forbidden treat.

I’d be cross that she openly doesn’t see an issue in taking food she knows you’ve put away and don’t want her eating now. And I’d be cross that she’s eaten all of them without any thought for other people. I wouldn’t be angry but she’d certainly know I was disappointed in her for being selfish and sly. My 4 year old understands “if I put these away, they’re not for eating now”.

Lol. I can’t be trusted around biscuits either. Ask my colleagues 🙄 I downed a packet of these last weekend. All on my own. In a hotel room. I know how to live 🤗

Maybe you need to have more biscuits in general. As long as she eats a balanced meal.

I actually think it's weird to give a bowl of biscuits completely. What's wrong with one or two max? No one needs more than that. I think you're encouraging binging.

You have said multiple times you don't care for sweets. Your daughter obviously does. I remember being a kid and dreaming of working and spending all my pay on chocolates or whatever. Of course you don't do that as an adult, but it seems feasible as a kid.

As an adult I don't have biscuits etc in the house as you pick away at them because they are there, not because you are actually hungry.

However as a child mum always had cakes etc for morning tea. We never gutsed them. Same with biscuits. You see kids with food restrictions at birthday parties and they crowd the food table as they never get it at home or it's severely restricted.

When you cook on the weekends, do you reduce the amount of sugar in recipes, or use use sugar substitutes, becauseyou think the recipe is too sweet?

You need to teach your daughter to self regulate. You shouldn't be hiding food because she'll guts it. Creating a scarcity mindset makes whatever is scarce valuable. You need to speak to your daughter about her inconsiderate behaviour. She can have a biscuit, she can't have the whole pack as others want to eat some too.

How many biscuits did she share with her father and how many were left in the packet?

I had friends who were super strict about not letting their children eat sweets, chocolate, etc. They came to my home one Easter for dinner and their children went missing for a few minutes and were unusually quiet (age 4). Their mother ran into the kitchen to find them eating a bowl of mini chocolate easter eggs from the fridge with the foil still on.... They shoved as many as they could in their mouths when their mother arrived and she used her forefinger and thumb to prize the chewed-up chocolate out of their mouths.

They cried their eyes out.
Hilarious.

She's 7 not 2. Yes, I would make sure she knew she had taken something which had been put away. Being told off for that won't cause an eating issue.

Buy the biscuits more often. Shes a child. She needs biscuits! The more of a rarity you treat them, the more she will crave them.

Buy more biscuits so the rest of the family can have some. She should go without as consequence for taking the others without permission.

Nope. She’s 7, not 2. She’s old enough to understand.

She’d been allowed to have some biscuits. Then went hunting for more and ate the lot.

Unless there’s a drip-feed about SEN, I’d be annoyed too.

Brutal.

Not compared to what would have happened in my generation as consequence for this type of behaviour

My kids once asked me if they could have a Jaffa cake, I said sure, you can have 1 each ( they were like 2 and 3yo at this stage. Maybe 10 mins later older one comes to me and says she tried one but didn't like it, but 2yo has eaten the packet. I said "you mean one Jaffa cake?" She said "no, one packet." Turns out I should have been more specific and said they could have 1 JAFFA each 😂. Didn't get mad, just watched how much sugar she ate the rest of the day and now it's a funny story to tell at family dinners.

The responses on here are ridiculous.

She's 7 and she ate all the cookies because they taste good and she probably felt a bit sick afterwards.

Of course it's not going to cause an eating disorder to tell your 7 year old that eating a whole pack of cookies is not acceptable.

I’d be annoyed and explain that eating all the biscuits and leaving none for anyone else is greedy but leave it there