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Cover1W's picture

So since I've been fixating on the last food blog about having to keep skids out of food stashes (an amazing recurring theme!) what do you buy that NO ONE else in the house likes to guarantee you have that item(s)? So you have at least some kind of a treat for yourself on hand?

1) Anything with raisins or currants or dates in it. DP hates that stuff and his ranting about it translated to the SDs not touching the stuff either. So I can buy raisin bread (goes so well with peanut butter/almond butter and bananas!) and have my own bread that lasts all week. Same with cinammon raisin bagels.

2) Mint ice cream. Win for me even though I don't eat ice cream that often. DP likes fruity ice cream too so that won't work.

3) Fruity flavored yogurt. All mine.

4) Peanut butter/almond butter/all nut butters. Win for me again!

5) Dark chocolate. DP likes this ok but only if he's desperate. Anything with "dark chocolate" on the label is avoided by SDs (although I'm starting to wonder if SD11 is getting to like it...)

6) French Rose wine. Well, obviously not for SDs, but DP doesn't like it much so I can make a bottle last for several days.

EDIT: This is fun stuff I used to take for granted. SDs and DP consume a huge amount of bread (the good stuff) so often I come home for the weekend on weeks we have them to no toast for me - or cereal, or eggs.
I gave up for a while on yogurt b/c DP would eat all my vanilla yogurt in his smoothies.
I don't get mad about it just had to change my habits.
Both SDs are thin (if too thin but we are working on that with healthy alternatives that they will eat and DP and I are both healthy weights and active). I just like to know when I come home after a 12 hour day (and DP and SDs have been there hours before me) I get a little something I like.

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WTF...REALLY's picture

I have never understood the whole food thing. If the kids ate it, oh well. I'll buy some more. Food was never a hill I would fight on. Sure, I'd be bummed at times when I wanted something and it was gone - but their kids. Eat up! Both DS and SD are very fit - they need all the calories they can get.

Cover1W's picture

I used to think this until I stopped watching food bills and got hit with grocery costs this summer in the upper hundreds of dollars. Because it's a lot of expensive processed food.
And DP wasn't helping buy it.
And some things I had bought specifically for myself disappeared. Bummer.
They are kids and we make sure they have what they like (not everything they want) but it's excessive sometimes. DP and I coordinate better about what's in the house for them (i.e. I monitor and he buys it). He was even getting pissed at what was disappearing...chips only for lunches and right before dinner so dinner wouldn't be eaten, stuff like that.

WTF...REALLY's picture

We are Costco shoppers and I do home cook meals almost every night. Only way we survive the cost. Kids are $$$$$$$$.

Can't wait till we are only buying food for two. Then maybe I can afford really good red wine. Wink

notasm3's picture

Maybe it was because we were dirt poor and food was limited - but we were never allowed to just eat anything in the house. We never went hungry - but we would NEVER have just eaten all of something. If we were hungry we asked what we could eat. And this was an intact home.

What is it with this feral, free range feeding of today's children? So many pig out on shit and end up obese at 8 or 9 years old.

WTF...REALLY's picture

"feral, free range feeding of today's children"

bawhahahahaha - this cracked me up.

I have two very fit kids living in my home. Just yesterday DS15 ran 5 miles and SD14 swam 1500 meters. Not an once of body fat on either of em. Gotta keep movin! Biggrin

JustAgirl42's picture

I don't have to hide anything from them because they only eat processed ready-made food.

BTW, my favorite ice-cream is Breyer's chocolate mint chip, it is awesome and I can't ever buy it because I will eat the whole thing by myself!

Last In Line's picture

There are a very few things I have found that they won't either open and waste or eat in a crazy short amount of time (entire package of chips ahoy cookies will be gone in a day).

Cheddar Chex Mix, dark chocolate raisinettes, any sort of salad, pretzels, block cheese (can't be bothered to actually have to SLICE it!), soup. That's about it that they will just leave alone.

Tuff Noogies's picture

the boys are the same way. like dumpsters!!!
there's not much in the house that they wont scarf down. so what happens is that when something is bought, if i consider it a treat, i take my portion and hide it. but you are right about the block cheese!!!! heaven forbid they exert the effort to slice it Blum 3

Last In Line's picture

Have mercy, I hope they never get that idea! LOL Only one of the two will eat cheese anyway. I might not be able to control my tongue if I found a wasted block of cheese with a bite out of it.

oneoffour's picture

Marmite and Vegemite. Except my kids love it ... damnit. It is an accquired taste but NZers and Australians are raised on it. And my grand daughter loves it. DH and ssons will not touch it. Oh well! I add a 1/2 tsp full to all casseroles and no one knows!

Cover1W's picture

Dammit.
I forgot to bring the rest of my cheesy popcorn to work today.
Say good-bye to a half-bag of it today as SD11 will be home from school and it's in plain sight. *sigh*
I'll have to get another bag on my way home (it's Cover1's Netflix show night on Wednesdays!)...see, a bag of popcorn CAN last a week!
:O