Teen son ate an entire large container of Whole Foods smoked mozzarella pasta salad

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Anonymous wrote:Welcome to having teen boys. Mine seem to eat all the food in the house every night between dinner and breakfast. It’s crazy but you get used to it. It is a huge relief when they go to college.

I don’t buy expensive “special” foods unless I’m serving them at dinner or eating them right away. Still, we spend several thousand a month on groceries.

I'm the PP whose teen ate a package of bacon and a carton of eggs...kinda routinely. Yeah. Grocery bill when they left was probably halved. I was lucky in that they were pretty good about asking me if something was being saved or used for a special purpose if it wasn't something we *always* had in the house.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him to take a delicious piece of fruit and eat it outside.

LOL after he's eating a couple of those delicious asparagus spears on his dinner plate.

These women know nothing about growing boys. Nothing.

We do know that the majority of 13 year old boys do not need to eat more than 3500 calories per day. Did you know that?

Thanks for confirming that you know nothing about teen boys.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes it was rude
He overeats like most Americans.
And no you can't say anything because shaming

You have something against Americans, PP?

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The step son should go to the nearby park and forage for edible roots and leaves. If he catches a squirrel it’s fair game but he should not eat it all in one sitting.

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Sounds like the poster a few months ago about the kid eating pizza.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell him to take a delicious piece of fruit and eat it outside.

Ha ha. You don’t know teen boys, do you?

Maybe but she does know old DCUM jokes!

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Anonymous wrote:Growth spurt. We’ve had entire containers of raspberries not make it to the fridge. Remind him there are other people in the house who would like to have treats too.

We buy two containers of this specific pasta salad each WF shopping trip. It's lasts about 4-6 days because the rest of us just take a little bit as a side item for lunch or maybe a snack. It seems at the very least uncivilized to hoover an entire container. Even if he's hungry, it's overboard, right?

You shop at WF, you have money. Why not buy enough to satisfy the family. Posts like this show how messed up some people are around food.

I can't tell if you all are just being mean just for sport. You think we should just add 7x 1lb $11.99 each large containers of WF smoked mozz pasta salad to the shopping list so a 13 year old boy can binge eat one before bed every night? This is extremely indulgent and rude to the rest of the family.

That’s fine, but that was not the question you asked initially.

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Anonymous wrote:Growth spurt. We’ve had entire containers of raspberries not make it to the fridge. Remind him there are other people in the house who would like to have treats too.

We buy two containers of this specific pasta salad each WF shopping trip. It's lasts about 4-6 days because the rest of us just take a little bit as a side item for lunch or maybe a snack. It seems at the very least uncivilized to hoover an entire container. Even if he's hungry, it's overboard, right?

You shop at WF, you have money. Why not buy enough to satisfy the family. Posts like this show how messed up some people are around food.

I can't tell if you all are just being mean just for sport. You think we should just add 7x 1lb $11.99 each large containers of WF smoked mozz pasta salad to the shopping list so a 13 year old boy can binge eat one before bed every night? This is extremely indulgent and rude to the rest of the family.

I would not buy so little of a family favorite that each member could only take just a “little bit as a side item” for snack or lunch.

I find complaining about WF prices while shopping there for indulgent items to be silly.

Pasta salad is not a meal. Eating over a pound of cold pasta salad is not normal. A small, snack-sized portion to nosh on is the appropriate amount. Delis have those tiny quarter pound containers, that's an appropriate amount to snack on. A 1lb container is four times that size.

One pound of cooked pasta is not that much. This is a 1 lb deli container:

No, that's a half pound. A full pound container is the tall container.

Wrong. The container shown is a pint. Also known as “a pint is a pound the world around.”

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It sounds like OP has had an argument with someone (maybe her DH) about her take on this and wanted validation that she is not getting here. I'm a NP and I do not think this is gluttonous. I guess it was mildly selfish, but every 13 year I know is majorly selfish, sooo...

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He needs more protein and that will keep him satiated. Make him a steak for dinner.

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I could do that and I’m a 120lb woman. That stuff is yummy.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm with you OP. That is glutinous behavior. He could have easily selected an apple, sliced veggies with greek yogurt or hummus, or had seconds of dinner. No need to consume all of those carbs right before bedtime. Next time tell him to take 1/4 of the salad, and pair it with something else. Just because he's a boy doesn't mean he can eat you out of house and home.

Is this a joke? If not, you're out of your mind and/or still have toddlers.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP has had an argument with someone (maybe her DH) about her take on this and wanted validation that she is not getting here. I'm a NP and I do not think this is gluttonous. I guess it was mildly selfish, but every 13 year I know is majorly selfish, sooo...

This. Mildly selfish, in that he was hungry, it was tasty, and he likely just didn't think about it. My sons did this at that age, and then just had to be reminded to please ask about some items before eating them in their entirety. Problem solved. Oh, and I learned to cook for 6-8 even though there are 4 of us.

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like OP has had an argument with someone (maybe her DH) about her take on this and wanted validation that she is not getting here. I'm a NP and I do not think this is gluttonous. I guess it was mildly selfish, but every 13 year I know is majorly selfish, sooo...

This. Mildly selfish, in that he was hungry, it was tasty, and he likely just didn't think about it. My sons did this at that age, and then just had to be reminded to please ask about some items before eating them in their entirety. Problem solved. Oh, and I learned to cook for 6-8 even though there are 4 of us.

This exactly. —mom of 2 teen boys

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Anonymous wrote:Growth spurt. We’ve had entire containers of raspberries not make it to the fridge. Remind him there are other people in the house who would like to have treats too.

We buy two containers of this specific pasta salad each WF shopping trip. It's lasts about 4-6 days because the rest of us just take a little bit as a side item for lunch or maybe a snack. It seems at the very least uncivilized to hoover an entire container. Even if he's hungry, it's overboard, right?

You shop at WF, you have money. Why not buy enough to satisfy the family. Posts like this show how messed up some people are around food.

I can't tell if you all are just being mean just for sport. You think we should just add 7x 1lb $11.99 each large containers of WF smoked mozz pasta salad to the shopping list so a 13 year old boy can binge eat one before bed every night? This is extremely indulgent and rude to the rest of the family.

I would not buy so little of a family favorite that each member could only take just a “little bit as a side item” for snack or lunch.

I find complaining about WF prices while shopping there for indulgent items to be silly.

Pasta salad is not a meal. Eating over a pound of cold pasta salad is not normal. A small, snack-sized portion to nosh on is the appropriate amount. Delis have those tiny quarter pound containers, that's an appropriate amount to snack on. A 1lb container is four times that size.

Not normal for YOU. Totally normal for a teen boy, especially if he's an athlete.

I can't stop laughing at the word nosh. Teen boys don't "nosh" on anything, they're not your aunties at a kaffee klatsch. They're more like termites on a mission, they just steadily inhale and chomp their way through everything.