Marital vent: stop eating the Babybels

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha! We have a similar issue at our house with bananas. DS likes to have one in his cereal in the morning. Sometimes DH will eat none, and sometimes he will grab 1-2 on his way out the door in the morning. It happens in spurts, so it’s hard to plan for. I guess I could just buy 10 extra bananas every week, but that seems excessive.

I have jokingly asked DH to let me know if he’s going to be on a banana binge, so I can buy more. He never has .

Annoying! If you do end up with extra bananas, let them get ripe and then mash them with yogurt and freeze. Easy starter for banana bread!

Or for smoothies!

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Nodding. Yes.

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Get string cheese for DH.

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Anonymous wrote:Agree, just buy more cheese.

There is never enough.

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Impulse eater spouse and oldest kid. We have to keep snacks hidden. Spouse will INHALE a months worth of sports or lunch box snacks in a couple days and his mini me sneaks them to her room and gorges on candy, baking items, snacks.

MIL told me long ago she never had snacks except fruit in the house. It wasn’t because they’re all healthy, it’s because they have no self control and cannot stop. Same with soda, desserts, cake, etc. The kid gots sick at buffet picnic school things gorging only on the dessert table. And we do eat dessert 1-2x a week...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Impulse eater spouse and oldest kid. We have to keep snacks hidden. Spouse will INHALE a months worth of sports or lunch box snacks in a couple days and his mini me sneaks them to her room and gorges on candy, baking items, snacks.

MIL told me long ago she never had snacks except fruit in the house. It wasn’t because they’re all healthy, it’s because they have no self control and cannot stop. Same with soda, desserts, cake, etc. The kid gots sick at buffet picnic school things gorging only on the dessert table. And we do eat dessert 1-2x a week...

My ex husband was the same way. Last time I saw his pantry it had nothing but oatmeal and grapenuts, but he looked healthier!! when he has our daughter she comes with snacks or they’ll shop together. Me? I rarely finish an entire bag of anything. Cookies, chips, candy. I was an intermittent faster before it was a “thing”, I fed myself on demand because I got tired of wasting food when I didn’t have the appetite others did at lunch. Now I’m my 40s it is helping be not become overweight. I did this with my child too — made sweets ALWAYS available and letting her eat to her hearts content. She did that one time, then the excitement was gone.

Oversupply always reduces demand! but I understand engrained habits are not easy to break. Now she craves healthy things and sometimes junk food too but she does everything in moderation.

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I agree with doubling the cheese supply. Put one pack out in plain slight and one in the vegetable drawer. Chances are, DH won't look there

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Hide them!! Place the extra Baby Bells in a cleaned cottage cheese container or similar. No man is actually going to dig around in closed containers in the refrigerator.

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Did you actually tell him that there needs to always be some available for the kid”s lunch? I have a mindless eater spouse who views every package as a single serving, so I have learned to point out items that if he eats them all I will hurt him. We have plenty of food in the house that he can eat, but I have learned to point out certain menu items that I need for a recipe or that I bought as a treat for everyone. And before people go on about policing a grown adult, that only counts if they also participate in the meal planning and shopping. Yes, he will go buy a particular item if specifically asked and reminded, but he will never look to see what we’re out of or worry about what a kid needs for lunch. He’s good natured about it, but it is frustrating. But after all these years, I have just learned to say “I need five apples left for lunches”.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with doubling the cheese supply. Put one pack out in plain slight and one in the vegetable drawer. Chances are, DH won't look there

This! Anything I really don’t want DH to find goes in the cleaning supplies or the financial paperwork, althoug of course that wouldn’t work for cheese!

At the beginning of the week I start 4-5 lunch containers for DC and immediately include anything that’s likely to get eaten otherwise. So right now we have two with fully packed sandwiches and fruit and babybel (haha), and two with just sandwich rolls and babybels. If it’s in a “kids lunch container” DH and DCs are much less likely to munch on it.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe put his when you buy them in a special bowl? My husband will eat ALL the sweets. I would like to savor them over many days. When we make a batch of cookies or have a bag of candy we divide in two Tupperwares. He can happily eat his in a sitting, I can happily munch for days.

This is a great solution! Made me laugh because I’m like your DH, but have to *pretend* to be the adult when I’m around my kids and trying to regulate their own sweet intake. Then when they go to bed, I’m munching the cookies, or eating the Easter candy. Oy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Impulse eater spouse and oldest kid. We have to keep snacks hidden. Spouse will INHALE a months worth of sports or lunch box snacks in a couple days and his mini me sneaks them to her room and gorges on candy, baking items, snacks.

MIL told me long ago she never had snacks except fruit in the house. It wasn’t because they’re all healthy, it’s because they have no self control and cannot stop. Same with soda, desserts, cake, etc. The kid gots sick at buffet picnic school things gorging only on the dessert table. And we do eat dessert 1-2x a week...

My ex husband was the same way. Last time I saw his pantry it had nothing but oatmeal and grapenuts, but he looked healthier!! when he has our daughter she comes with snacks or they’ll shop together. Me? I rarely finish an entire bag of anything. Cookies, chips, candy. I was an intermittent faster before it was a “thing”, I fed myself on demand because I got tired of wasting food when I didn’t have the appetite others did at lunch. Now I’m my 40s it is helping be not become overweight. I did this with my child too — made sweets ALWAYS available and letting her eat to her hearts content. She did that one time, then the excitement was gone.

Oversupply always reduces demand! but I understand engrained habits are not easy to break. Now she craves healthy things and sometimes junk food too but she does everything in moderation.

Not when it comes to chocolate or ice cream. No, it surely does not.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. I know it’s silly. Part of it is that I tend to be thrifty about groceries and drives me crazy that those damn Babybel are so expensive and yet they’re one of the few things that my my rail-thin, not-interested-in-food kid will eat at lunchtime. Not a Costco member, unfortunately. But I will combine the previous advice, buy two next time, and put one package in a Tupperware. That way I won’t worry that there won’t be enough left for lunches. And the expense I will just have to get over. We lived hand to mouth for so long that sometimes it’s hard for me to take on board that we’re doing OK now and can afford an extra package of Babybel.

I guess that was a lot emotionally packed into a tiny red wax package...

You so remind me of me having lived hand to mouth and worrying about the expense. But, really, Babybels are cheaper than therapy or divorce. Not worth the emotion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Get string cheese for DH.

I was thinking this too. They are much cheaper than Babybel and often on sale

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Impulse eater spouse and oldest kid. We have to keep snacks hidden. Spouse will INHALE a months worth of sports or lunch box snacks in a couple days and his mini me sneaks them to her room and gorges on candy, baking items, snacks.

MIL told me long ago she never had snacks except fruit in the house. It wasn’t because they’re all healthy, it’s because they have no self control and cannot stop. Same with soda, desserts, cake, etc. The kid gots sick at buffet picnic school things gorging only on the dessert table. And we do eat dessert 1-2x a week...

My ex husband was the same way. Last time I saw his pantry it had nothing but oatmeal and grapenuts, but he looked healthier!! when he has our daughter she comes with snacks or they’ll shop together. Me? I rarely finish an entire bag of anything. Cookies, chips, candy. I was an intermittent faster before it was a “thing”, I fed myself on demand because I got tired of wasting food when I didn’t have the appetite others did at lunch. Now I’m my 40s it is helping be not become overweight. I did this with my child too — made sweets ALWAYS available and letting her eat to her hearts content. She did that one time, then the excitement was gone.

Oversupply always reduces demand! but I understand engrained habits are not easy to break. Now she craves healthy things and sometimes junk food too but she does everything in moderation.

Not when it comes to chocolate or ice cream. No, it surely does not.

+1. If you don't have a sweet tooth, you don't get it. I have one kid that can take or leave sweets, eat a piece and be satisfied, just like my sibling. My other kid is like me, I will inhale all chocolate, ice cream, cake until it is gone.