Binging on Junk Food
So this morning, I went up to SD10's room to make sure she had made her bed as DH had already left for work. I went to throw something away and noticed a huge amount of wrappers. They happened to be honey bun wrappers. There were a total of 12 of them. She has only had acess to them after school when we are not home and only since Tuesday. 12 in 2 days!!!!! Normally she would not be home alone but her grandfather is in the hospital so she has been home for exactly 1 hour for 2 days. Does anyone have suggestions for how we are to deal with this situation? DH and I discussed it this morning but are at a loss.
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This ... my skids can't
This ... my skids can't really help themselves to whatever they want - because we don't have it. They know there are certain snacks they can have. We have fruit, peanut butter, crackers - there's always sandwich fixings and they can make a sandwich at any time. If they want something sweet, they usually have a PB&J. If we have any sweets around, they are usually homemade and go really fast. If they want cookies or cake, they have to bake them, but whatever it is it's gone in two days between the three of them AND they have to clean up their own mess. If we're watching movies, I'll cook up a big bowl of regular popcorn with real butter and not all the mystery stuff in microwave popcorn and for a fraction of the cost.
They get junk food on special occasions like family gatherings and parties. They also get plenty at MIL's and BM's so I don't worry about their deprivation.
My brother and I were latch
My brother and I were latch key kids and my mother did the shopping every so often. She'd buy limited amounts of the stuff she knew we'd go through in a hurry. If we ate all of our favorite snacks up in the first two days, too bad. We didn't get anymore until she went shopping again. I remember munching on dry spaghetti for a crunchy fix at one point. lol
The only things she'd make sure we had was milk and bread. My brother could go through a box of Lucky Charms in one sitting. That adds up. I don't even buy cereal with little blocks of hardened sugar in it.
The problem is that we
The problem is that we currently take care of her great grandfather to prevent him from being shoved into a nursing home. The items she is taking are not from our kitchen! She is sneaking into his living area late at night and binging on cooking and honey buns that we do not buy but are bought for him as he enjoys them. We cannot lock these rooms off to her because doing so would lock him out as well. I am at a complete loss and know that yelling wont solve the problem but putting the food away wont either as its not ours to begin with.
My SS binges. To the point
My SS binges. To the point where he'll eat raw cookie dough in the freezer if there is nothing else. He's currently seeing a psychiatrist and has been diagnosed with Aspergers, which is unrelated to the binge eating...however the psychiatrist suggested we lock the cupboards and fridge..so we do...and now the deep freeze..after he polished off half a container of raw cookie dough in the 20 minutes he was alone before school... so it's a real pain, but it works.. the only thing he can binge on with everything locked is the fruit bowl which I keep on the counter.and for some reason he doesn't want to eat 12 banana's or 8 apples... so it's working.
We used to buy SS things he
We used to buy SS things he wanted when we had to work so he would eat, His hot pockets, tv dinners, pizza or anything easy to make in a microwave so he would have something to eat the day or two a week he might have to fend for himself when we had to work. He was too lazy to put them in the microwave and would eat all the chips or cookies for dinner instead of making something that required he open the box and put it in the microwave and push a few buttons. I dealt with that the first year he lived here. When he landed back he was required to pay for any snacks he ate the entire bag of instead of eating the food we bought for him (all stuff he said he liked and was easy to make) I stopped buying snacks at all and it bugged the heck out of me. Actually hubby and I stopped grocery shopping at all the last two weeks SS was here. It cost us a ton to eat out that 2 weeks but it also made SS buy food which he did, he bought bread, milk, chips and cereal and bitched at how much they cost. We didn't eat any of his food and we told him now he knows how we feel when he eats everything. It was so nice when he moved the last of his stuff out and I was able to put food in the house again.
My SS13 will eat an entire
My SS13 will eat an entire box of twinkies if I leave it out. He has also eaten an entire sleeve of chips ohoy cookies in one sitting. We tried to talk to him about gorging on snack food but of course it fell on deaf ears.
I have since stopped buying that kind of food. If on the occasion I buy it because DH likes a snack in his lunch I hide it. I will take one or two out of the pack and leave it in the cabinet that way if he is hungry he will make something healthier. This hasn't worked yet but hopefully someday. As of now, he just goes without snacking because he is too lazy to make the effort! Oh well! Not my problem!
My ss had a huge binging
My ss had a huge binging problem when he was younger-like ages 4-10. He would get up in the middle of the night and eat boxes of jello (just the sugary poweder), uncooked packages of oatmeal, He ate an entire pkg (the large kind) of nutter butter cookies, he could put away a box of little debbie snack cakes in about 2 minutes. He would then go puke and want me to make him something for breakfast. I stopped allowing him to have snacks at other times (they always took one to school). So if he ate a whole box of them-he didnt get one all week. He got no sort of snack all week or dessert. Just meals.
My ds is now the binger. He loves sweets. So, like the others, I just dont buy too many of them for the house. We have yogurt, popcorn, fruit, cheese stix, and then I will usually buy one junk thing a week. If the kids eat it in one sitting, so be it.
If your skid is eating grandpa's food-I would buy him a nice lockbox or if he cant figure that out-help set him up some sort of hiding place for his snacks-even if you have to lock them up and get one for granpa whenever at least that would keep her out of them.