Does anyone lock up their food?!

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I'm half joking!
I've got a 12 and 14yo. Both are sporty, neither overweight. 14yo waiting for an ADHD ax.

I went shopping yesterday. I bought a pack of brioche swirls (6) - all gone this morning.
A bag of honey peanuts - all gone.
Multi pack of Twix - half gone.

Last week sent shopping on Monday and bought two packs of croissants - all gone by Wednesday.

Crunchy Nut Cornflakes on Thursday (not our usual choice of cereal but bought in an emergency) - it's all gone.

I don't want to think about how much yoghurt they've had this week.

There is of course lots of "proper" food available. Pasta, sandwich ingredients, lots of fruit and salad veg. They do eat fruit but veg would only at meal times. They eat proper sized dinners.

The older one will often have a bagel with honey or peanut butter just before bed.

I know people will tell me off for buying the treats / carbs but I keep telling myself that as long as they're eaten as part of a proper diet it's fine, but they just inhale them.

Is this normal and basically I just need to stop buying the "nice" stuff?
Is a tin of biscuits / pack of Penguins or pack of nicer breakfast things just something I have to accept we can't have right now?

Argh!

I stopped buying all of the nice stuff until it was the weekend as I was sick of it being gone in 24 hours.
So they then started ‘baking’ hideous brownies/cakes etc, using whole packets of butter, all the eggs etc. Making macaroni cheese at 10am with real cheese sauce(ie using the whole weeks worth of cheese) is another favourite of theirs.

Mine can eat what they like but when it’s gone that’s it till the next weeks shop. If someone is taking more than their fair share of something then they get separate portions, this has only ever happened with a particular cereal which means I just buy them a box each.
They have their favourite snacks which they tend to leave each others alone, eg DD loves Jaffa cakes, DS prefers Oreos.

Ha!

Yes - middle DS is a fan of following insane TikTok recipes that use crazy amounts of eggs / sugar / chocolate & are rendered inedible (to all but him).

No, we have a snack cupboard. I put a week's worth of snacks in there.

Once ds has eaten them, there's fruit and toast.

Everything else needs cooking or defrosting 😀

I used to have a houseful of my children and stepchildren, and none of them ever touched my personal chocolate stash or ate food that was intended for a family meal, but there were a few things I had to lock away and dole out because some of the young folk would have eaten more than their share or squirreled them away if I hadn't. I remember having a stack of Kit Kat Chunky bars in the bottom of my wardrobe.