What’s your ‘food policy’ in your home?

[Candlealmond]

Is it kitchen only for food or do you allow snacks in living room/dining rooms?

I usually enjoy having a lovely bowl of soup on the sofa after a lovely long walk but I’m about to get a brand new light colour sofa so thinking this might have to stop.

I also love taking my coffee up to my bedroom as I get ready in the morning but thinking with a white carpet i’m due to get soon and white vanity, this will be a thing of the past…

Is it really grotty to be eating/drinking in bedrooms and living rooms?

No food in bedrooms. I don’t want roaches ( not U.K.). Meals only at the table. Snacks ok on sofa but the day I see a roach that privilege will be revoked

When DC were younger I had a pile of fleece blankets in the sitting room to quickly cover sofas etc when food appeared. Most of the time I had them sitting on fleeces on the floor.

When DC were small we only allowed food at the dining table.

Now they're a bit older DD1 sometimes takes a snack up to her room, but we still have meals at the table.

Adults have always been allowed to eat wherever.

We don't have white furnishings though. We have 3 kids and 2 cats. Even without taking coffee upstairs, things would get dirty.

I eat in the living room when I feel like it. My cats have scratched the sofa to death anyway so not much to lose, but I use a tray which captures any spillages.

Dining table for all food, including snacks, and applies to guests too. Drinks can be taken to any room.

We mostly all eat lunch and dinner at the kitchen table except for pizza. DS9 can eat breakfast (if just toast, not cereal) and snacks/drinks in the playroom if he wants. It has a tiled floor though as it's a sort of conservatory. Adults have tea in bed first thing and I'll carry a coffee round the house or drink it while in the shower or whatever. DD 11 months is at the table for all meals/snacks for obvious reasons! May have to rethink others eating elsewhere when she gets old enough to get upset at the disparity but it works for now.

We have low maintenance colours for carpets and sofa though. I think it's so nice just to be relaxed on occasion about where to eat and drink so I'd deliberately not get pale sofa/carpet.

Eating will be the least of your worries with a white bedroom carpet, OP.

We’ve recently moved house and the master bedroom has a very pale cream carpet. It’s a nightmare and I’m getting rid of it ASAP. Every single mark shows up on it and that’s in a house with just two adults, we don’t eat in bedrooms, and typically don’t wear shoes indoors.

Dining table only. Especially for small D.C.
I do find it more comfortable.

Generally, we eat all food in the kitchen. DC occasionally take a snack up to bed, usually an apple - something that won;t cause crumbs. And they've taken to snacking in front of the fire this Christmas, but I pfefer food to be eaten in the kitchen. I hate crumbs.

Meals at the table apart from my daughter eats her breakfast in a tray in the living roomed this is what she prefers.

Snacks are fine in the living room

Absolutely no food or drinks upstairs apart from a bottle of water

Our kitchen is the wrong shape to accommodate a table, so dining table only when DS is awake. DH and I eat on the sofa sometimes if he's had dinner at nursery and we're eating after he's gone to bed. I don't want sticky 3 year old hands and crumbs near my sofa and if he's awake and we're eating together we wouldn't sit on the sofa and make him sit at the table, we'll all sit at the table

Wouldn't have a white sofa or carpet though!

No food in bedrooms or on the sofa, which everyone of my 4 children flout

We eat meals at the dining table, or in the lounge (hard floors, leather sofa) or in the kitchen. Cups of coffee / biscuits anywhere. Try to avoid kids taking food in bedrooms but still end up with cups, crisp packets etc in my teens pit of a room. With hindsight wish we'd been strict on no food upstairs when they were little but it might not have changed current teen behaviour!

@Taswama

Kids only allowed to eat in kitchen or dining room. Parents have coffee in bed, hot drinks in office, wine and chocolates on sofa after kids in bed but no meals outside of kitchen / dining room.

We do this too

You can't keep your soup in a bowl and coffee in a mug?