Oh No!! DS has rumbled our secret goodie stash!!

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Dont know if i'm being unreasonable or not, but my DP and I started to keep a little secret stash of goodies in one of the kitchen cupboards that DS never bothered to look in. It's just for things like crisps and biscuits which my DS would other devour, locus stylee.

So this morning I'm up really early (ggrr) and decide to make a cup of tea a have a couple of biscuits, only to discover that - HORROR OF HORRORS - the biscuit stash has seriously gone down since last night and it DEFFO wasn't me or my DP!!

I do feel a bit guilty about having to hide stuff like this, but he is very much the munch monster when it comes to anything nice, including bread, milk, sugar (OMG, i cant believe how much he goes through), squash and cereal. He has 3 sugars in his tea and has his squash really REALLY strong, which hacks me off coz he uses so much of it!!

I know he's got to eat too and is entitled to treats now and then, like us, but am i being a git for hiding stuff from him?

If particular items are so important would it be too much trouble to label it -- or have a single whole cupboard labeled; "This stuff is for later!" that they mustn't dive into without asking first? Would that not work?

You most certainly probably do popsycal!!! I've done all the explaining til i'm blue in the mouth business too but all i get is "oh sorry" but nothing actually changes!!

lljkk - quite simply, no. That wouldn't work. It would get eaten regardless.

seriously teen boys are HUGE eaters and it seems you can have all the fruit and cereal in the house you like they will almost always opt for the least healthy alternative and if you have younger ones also and like to give them a treat once or twice a week it is rare that there is any left to do so.......it really p*sses you off when you ahve been promising the younger ones some ice cream after dinenr this evening if they eat it all - they do - you go to get the ice cream and there is a tea spoon left in the bottom corner

That sounds about right, Riss!!

When I was little my mother used to buy us each a large tub of ice cream for the week; my teenage brothers always scoffed theirs in 1st 2 days and mine always lasted the week. My brothers didn't touch it even though they were smelly horrid impulsive self-centred lads in every other respect. Can't believe other teen boys are THAT unable to follow rules, surely?

What if you padlocked the "Don't touch" cupboard in question?

I could padlock it but we're moving house soon so no doubt we will find new hidey holes

I have no idea what you should do to be hoest but if you work it out let me know - I just keep finding new places and eventually he finds them - I too have taken to purchasing items that I know he does NOT like such as No Nome or Home Brand chocolate spread etc (HE - as usual with teens only likes the brand names) they are not safe but do tend to hold out a little longer

lol @ you Riss. I will let you know if i find a solution and would like you to do likewise if you get there before me!!

Well, when you get the new house, get a carpenter in to build you a secret cubby hole (make sure he comes during school hours) and put a combination lock on in case ds finds it. It's the only way!

Good idea edam. I'll have to get it done on the days he's at college.

I have a secret stash of biscuits and chocolate, and I don't even have teenagers, just a 6 year old that can eat for england

dh has a secret stash in his room as well.

because dd3 at age 2 is a food monster and raids the kitchen constantly (just an idea of breakfast to get you started, toast with marmite, bowl of shreddies, apple/banana on the school run eaten in the buggy, porriage qwhen we get back as she shares with dh, another piece of fruit, then try and hold her off till lunch!) and she is teeny.

OMG Misdee, she sounds worse than my DS!!!

I'm on the 'teenage boys are selfish, self centred food dustbins, who don't care if the rest of us starve' side of the fence.

I have things that they (teenage dds not dss but they can eat a lot too!) can snack on freely, things they have to ask about and things that are for meals etc that they don't touch. They usually ask before eating anything as they know the rules.

I do hide my venus razor unless theirs are in teh shower too and my hairbrush as they riuned the last one using it with the hot hairdryer. I also hide my tweezers, mascara and nail varnish!!

They are a nightmare but I think they can learn that there are rules about snacking and just taking all the nice treats leaving none for anyone else is not acceptable!

I think nearly everyone is our house has their 'stash'. My 7 year old dd still has Easter eggs! But they would never touch 'my chocolate' without asking nor my Diet Cokes!!

DS1 is home from uni so there are 3 of the locusts in the house now (19, 17 and 15). I have to hide squash because no sooner do I buy it they scoff it all. I bought a 2l bottle of coke for all of us and after one evening they'd had the lot, yet they buy it and keep it in their bedrooms so they don't have to share.

I was furious yesterday to find they'd eaten 3 boxes of cakes (and left 2 of the empty boxes in the cupboard) and a week's worth of cheese. I go to make the dinner and half the ingredients I've (just) bought are missing. The worst of it is that nobody will ever own up. Each one of them says "it wasn't me".

Grrr look on thread entitled Why oh why oh why. Lots of posts about this on there.

We hide them in the wardrobe, and in nice weather, in the bushes in the garden (seriously). Also car is good if it isn't hot weather. Dp hides his beer in there

Colleague at work made posh pasta dish for dinner party next day, and put it in fridge overnight.

Teenage sons came in when she was asleep, and I am sure you can guess what happened next

They are like locusts, all of them. AND, I work as a teacher in a secondary school, and the stampede to get into the canteen at dinnertime is like a frenzy, and you can hear it all across the building, as it vibrates to the sound of 1800 starving teenagers.....