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

Hiding food and restricting, making it forbidden is always going to make most people binge it when they find it, kids are no worse.

you need to be able to have a healthy attitude to this stuff, make it no different to other food, where she can have a small amount and learns to self restrict,

righr now it seems a lot of damage is done, but you’re going to really have to stop hiding food like this, start working on portion control,talk to her properly about how it’s not restricted but a biscuit or two is fine.

Why were you in the shower when you were supposed to be looking after her??

Absolute rubbish. You can put your man hating credentials down now.

Can't believe how many posters are trying to pin this on the OP and not recognising that every child is different and what works for one doesn't work for all.
We have one food seeker who constantly eats bits and bobs that he can find, and just even carries the pack of biscuits around. And the other is a total feaster and would probably eat one massive meal a day of one food if left to his own devices.
Luckily it's easy to keep both of them on a reasonably balanced diet, but it certainly is more luck as it is judgement.
I would suggest to the OP to try to give more control to your child, I found talking to my children about 5 a day and healthy eating helped them to take a bit more responsibility. Maybe even a chart like the eat well plate where they can fill in for food ideas and tick off what they had. Then the attention is on what food to choose from rather than to avoid.
Also the good thing about biscuits is they are ready made, so it could help to have some ready made other foods around.
Also to stave off hunger maybe build in more snacks, we do fruit on the go to take the edge off.
I'm sure you've tried a lot of the already but just to throw some ideas your way! And good luck.

Its hard at that age
Anti diet kids on instagram is really good. similar issue with child in my family, enough was never enough. Tried free access to stop making it forbidden fruit, didn't help. He grew out of it. Xxx

@CurlewKate

so daughter wouldn’t eat them all and leave none for anyone else. Obviously.

Are you being serious 🤣🤣

But she isn’t denied them. Just yesterday we did the weekly food shop and she chose crisps and a chocolate bar. Today we will make chocolate banana bread etc.

What absolute nonsense.

Her eating everything in one go is not normal. So I think it might work better to have one thing, such as biscuits, always in the house. But to agree a clear rule with yoy and DH that is 'you can only have biscuits when mum or dad says yes and 2 a day is the most we'll say yes to' or similar. You shouldn't have to hide food from kids. They need to understand self control and sharing and at 7 they are perfectly able to understand this. I think it's essential for kids to understand that eating a whole cake, or most of a pack of biscuits or a while big bag of sweets is not at all acceptable or good for them.

. I think it's essential for kids to understand that eating a whole cake, or most of a pack of biscuits or a while big bag of sweets is not at all acceptable or good for them

Could always buy a lot of biscuits,.put them down in front of her and say go on then. Might totally sicken her.

My youngest snuck a bag of Doritos once and decorated the passage when he ate too many. He's never touched them since.

Start establishing a rule for everyone of 1 biscuit a day

One a day? But that restrictiveness goes against what a lot on this thread are saying - that we shouldn't restrict food.

And it seems as if OP is already pretty generous and laid back with her D's treats, so it may confuse her more now, for such strict restrictions.

The problem is the daughter's lack of self-regulation, not what she is allowed.

Getting a bit worried mow.
Just been making chocolate banana bread and she was grabbing the pieces of chocolate, eating so many of them, really quickly as she knew we needed them for the cake and I was saying not to. She was also trying to eat the golden caster sugar as we were measuring it out. Wasn’t like this even as a toddler when we baked, it was really calm 😔

What did you do/say?

I'd have stopped making cake, put everything away and said 'right you ate all the chocolate we don't have enough for the cake so we can't make cake now' and then taken her to do something else, somewhere else, so its a clear end to the cake making context.

I genuinely think you should ask the gp or something. I don't really know who but I really don't think it's normal. Its either misbehaviour or like an addiction. Or maybe there's an issue somewhere like an underactive thyroid. I don't know. But it's not normal to always have an uncontrollable need to eat everything

I agree with @WiddlinDiddlin , I would have stopped baking as well since she ignored a clear instruction not to eat the ingredients needed.
If you told her to stop doing something but she continued anyway then there should be a consequence of some sort, so she learns that if she ignores mum or dad then she loses out.

I'm wondering, based on your posts, if this is more to do with her having become used to ignoring you because she thinks there won't be any consequences? I'm interested too in what you did/said after she continued to eat the ingredients even though you told her not to.

It’s not eating everything,only sweet stuff

In the future, since you know she has a sweet tooth, you could set aside a small amount of the chocolate on a plate for her at the very start and tell her she can nibble on that while you're both baking but clearly explain the rest of the chocolate and other ingredients are off limits as they're needed for baking. If she eats her allocated amount and then also tries to eat the chocolate for the cake you can then impose consequences for ignoring you

Yes, I said she can’t just eat so much of the chocolate as it’s for the recipe (she didn’t eat all, but was lots of pieces) I took the bowl away and said I would finish it as the behaviour wasn’t good and she can’t just grab at things.
Bearing in mind, she had a good breakfast and lunch

I really think she just really wanted the chocolate, it wasn’t a deliberately naughty thing to disobey me? Sometimes she’s a bugger if I ask/tell her to stop/not do something-eg-bounced the ball i side today when i’d asked her to do it in the garden, she carried on and kept ignoring me, so I took it away. Other days she’ll be fine and do as I ask straightaway no problem.

I let her have a few pieces whilst we were making it, but it has to go over the top and she takes much more

The issue is: why can’t she control herself? 7 is plenty old enough to understand that just because you want something it doesn’t mean you can have it. This is what you need to work on. Not hiding food - getting her to learn self control.

I don’t know why she can’t control herself 😔

If she's just craving sugar, have you had her checked for diabetes? I'm type 2, and my main symptom when it's not under control is wanting nothing but sweet things