How do you not eat your kids' snacks?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And this is why my kids are not allowed to have mint oreos for their snacks.

Yep, I only buy them things I can resist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever have roomates? Did you have trouble not eating their food? Do you steal people’s lunches from the fridge at work?

I don’t eat my kids’ snacks because it’s not my food.

No, it would never occur to me do that. But, I get what you are saying-- maybe I really need to see as my "roommates'" (aka kids) food.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buy them in individual packages.

Yup. This is what we do. We buy the portioned bags. If I choose to snack, I can snack on one bag and stop. I won't open a second bag, so that gives me a limit. I also check supplies to make sure that we have enough for the week. If we are running low, then it also gives me a good reason to not snack on their food. I also buy bags of trail mix with nuts and dried fruit that I keep by the computer, which is the most likely place that I will snack and I will snack on that. It's only when I am out of my trail mix that I tend to hit the kids snacks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever have roomates? Did you have trouble not eating their food? Do you steal people’s lunches from the fridge at work?

I don’t eat my kids’ snacks because it’s not my food.

NP. Yes, I did, and then I'd have to buy replacements. I don't eat my coworker's lunches, but I don't need to because we have unlimited snacks at work. Still, I'm scarfing down my kids' chocolate candy any time they're not around.

[Anonymous]

It's impossible. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever have roomates? Did you have trouble not eating their food? Do you steal people’s lunches from the fridge at work?

I don’t eat my kids’ snacks because it’s not my food.

Such a bad analogy. Obviously you have enough to give your kids a snack also, you buy more, or you give your kids something else to eat. They don't go without a snack simply because you ate some cookies.

Plus all the food in the house belongs to us as a family. We are not roommates.

[Anonymous]

Roommate analogy was trash. Ignore that, OP.

I put the kids’ stuff in a cardboard box up high above my head. It really helps not to see the packages when I open the cabinet.

Unfortunately, what worked best for me was developing a food intolerance. I wouldn’t ever cheat, because the after-effects ruin my day. Not helpful to you, I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And this is why my kids are not allowed to have mint oreos for their snacks.

Yep, I only buy them things I can resist.

+1 And I think fruit snacks, veggie pops, goldfish etc are fairly unappetizing to an adult palate so it hasn't been an issue to me personally. But cupcakes and cookies - I have to be careful about those in my house.

[Anonymous]

I use the same trick as others have suggested above. My kids take one carb treat in their lunch each day (chips, goldfish, etc) and I buy just enough to get us through the week.

They know that the after school snacks are fruit and vegetables, and I know that if I dip into their stash, they won't have anything by lunchtime on Friday.

It's admittedly silly as I can go to the store at lunch or any other time, but it works for me.

[Anonymous]

I have no willpower when it comes to many things. But for my daughter, I just figured out what things she likes that I don't really like, and I try to stock those. She likes chips ahoy and other chocolate chip cookies - I do not. She likes jolly ranchers and I don't. She is a fan of potato chips and I am not, unless there is french onion dip available. So I can buy those things for her lunch box and not eat them.

All bets are off when it comes to cheese curls and certain flavors of oreos so I'm careful buying those.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you ever have roomates? Did you have trouble not eating their food? Do you steal people’s lunches from the fridge at work?

I don’t eat my kids’ snacks because it’s not my food.

I think it's a different mentality because OP buys it so it's not stealing like it would be to eat a roommate's or office mate's food.

[Anonymous]

I love carby salts too, but won't waste in on crap kid snacks. Can you get your own snacks that are higher quality? I mean, everything in moderation, and denying yourself isn't working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Roommate analogy was trash. Ignore that, OP.

I put the kids’ stuff in a cardboard box up high above my head. It really helps not to see the packages when I open the cabinet.

Unfortunately, what worked best for me was developing a food intolerance. I wouldn’t ever cheat, because the after-effects ruin my day. Not helpful to you, I know.

This. I grew up the same way as OP and even as recently as a few months ago I would just look forward to the times of day when I could scarf down some Pirate's Booty or Doritos or whatever. I craved crunchy and salty. I had to remove a lot of food groups from my diet due to a chronic illness (grains, corn, gluten, dairy etc) and now that I know what it will do to me if I eat it, it's not appealing to me. I did eat a few Doritos one night because I couldn't fight the craving and I felt physically awful afterward. So now they're still in the pantry but they hold no appeal to me. I've truly battled this my whole life and I even tried to work through it with CBT, but I just didn't have willpower. Even gaining weight or not being able to lose weight didn't help to provide willpower. It would just send me into a shame/guilt spiral. But now that I know how it physically affects me, it's the only thing stopping me from going there. I still do like the feeling of popping things into my mouth, but I do it with foods that won't provide a negative physical response for me.

[Anonymous]

I'm with you OP - I am out of control with the cheddar bunnies (and those little organic cheese cracker sandwiches), and I don't even love them! I have been buying pretzels lately for them because I don't like them, so other PP's suggestions along those lines are good. I'm going to try the individual container approach, though I'll probably end up eating those too, LOL.

[Anonymous]

No I don’t. I love chocolate, but good quality dark chocolate. Get your palate used to that and a snickers will taste gross. I have a little square or two of dark chocolate daily and it is enough. I have no desire to eat cheddar bunnies or veggie straws. I buy bags of gummie things at Trader Joe’s and out them in a glass jar. I really like them and to me it is to store them in a large amount vs individual packages. This was if I have a craving i can eat a couple gummie fish (or whatever it is we have) without having to opening an entire and then feeling obligated to eat the entire pouch.