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

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The main issue is that it’s greedy and selfish. It wasn’t just purchased for him and a 13 yo knows (or should know) that. If he doesn’t know that food is for the family to share, that’s on you. If he does know and just doesn’t care, that’s on him.

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you’re making pasta salad for dinner after reading this thread.

Whole Foods has been selling this pasta salad since like 2003 in the DC area, along wth the strawberry and whipped cream pie, etc. Everyone here is acting so "brand new" about it. We all know about this salad, please. In any event, it is not as good as it used to be since Amazon took over Whole Foods some years ago.

Let someone be happy FFS

Your are telling me what to do: am I allowed to say "yes" or "no"? Or is that not an option, would responding be considered offensive then you are going to report to Jeff?

Sprinkle some meds on your pasta salad.

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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.

I have 3 sons... 24, 22, and 18. They are all a normal, healthy weight and have great eating habits. Do you have teen boys? If so, my guess is that your sons will all be overweight by the time they are over 25.

Since we are guessing, I guess that your sons hid their eating habits from you just like those lifeguards pp was talking about.

+1. Definitely an almond mom who eats tiny portions and doesn’t understand that other people don’t enjoy continuous pangs of hunger and dizziness from lack of sufficient food

I am a mom, but I actually eat about 2000-2500 calories per day. Our whole family is into various sports and very health conscious, so perhaps that makes me overly aware of the bad eating habits and overweightness/obesity that occurs in the majority of Americans. I realize that makes me unpopular on DCUM. I'll bow out of the discussion now.

NP. Yes, run away before everyone picks apart your idiotic comments

But that’s what DCUMAD is all about.

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I mean, sounds pretty typical? I'd have a talk about picking what to eat when super hungry to something that isn't intended to be shared but one incident isn't worth getting super concerned.

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My rule is that my son has to tell me if he finishes something so I can buy more. If there is something, I’m saving for a meal. I’ll let him know. I always make sure to ask what snacks he would like because I know that some days he is just really, really hungry, it ebbs and flows. Some weeks I buy way too much food and others the fridge is bare midweek.

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you’re making pasta salad for dinner after reading this thread.

Whole Foods has been selling this pasta salad since like 2003 in the DC area, along wth the strawberry and whipped cream pie, etc. Everyone here is acting so "brand new" about it. We all know about this salad, please. In any event, it is not as good as it used to be since Amazon took over Whole Foods some years ago.

Pp here, all I meant was that I had a hankering for pasta salad after reading this. Lighten up!

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Are you always a b or just save it for DCUM?

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Anonymous wrote:The main issue is that it’s greedy and selfish. It wasn’t just purchased for him and a 13 yo knows (or should know) that. If he doesn’t know that food is for the family to share, that’s on you. If he does know and just doesn’t care, that’s on him.

Except there was a second container there, so.

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OP, you asked if it’s normal or gluttonous, as if those are the only two options. This kind of leap, from zero to gluttony in a single bound, is not helpful to you or to your kid.

All-or-nothing thinking, which is what your post displayed, is a cognitive distortion. From your post and follow-up posts, it reads as if food is an emotionally loaded topic for you, as it is for many. Strongly suggest you look at that directly so you can disentangle your judgements from your son’s eating. It will help you, and by extension him.

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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.

Pretty big jump right here. From one time to every day, forever.

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, there are two questions:

1) Is this a reasonable amount of food for a 13 year old boy? Yes, it is.

2) Does it seem that he considered the needs/desires of others? No, but that's developmentally appropriate. I'd talk to him about not eating all of a specific food, and never mention it again unless it happens again.

This. I was shocked at how much my kids ate at that age. They were rail thin too! Both have always barely been on the low end of normal BMI and very active. At this age it’s important to give them access to lots of healthy protein, veggies, grains etc.

You can’t expect teens to eat like a middle aged woman on Ozempic.

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I do wonder if this was a stepson.

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Anonymous wrote:I do wonder if this was a stepson.

Either that or just a very controlling mom. One or the other for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you’re making pasta salad for dinner after reading this thread.

Whole Foods has been selling this pasta salad since like 2003 in the DC area, along wth the strawberry and whipped cream pie, etc. Everyone here is acting so "brand new" about it. We all know about this salad, please. In any event, it is not as good as it used to be since Amazon took over Whole Foods some years ago.

Pp here, all I meant was that I had a hankering for pasta salad after reading this. Lighten up!

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Are you always a b or just save it for DCUM?

If someone tells me something about myself, and it is inaccurate, so I respond "no", why is that, what you call, "b--chy"? Because the full sentence of "no" is not one you can pull apart and twist to make a snappy comeback? You have to just sit and absorb the power of "no", a pure denial of your words and technique and motives?

But you will like this response because it has lots of words that you can't mentally absord for their intended meaning, they are just tools you can use to craft your comback--because you only hear and listen to yourself. So flame away. But I stand by my original "no." But you will love this follow up post because you see it as attention you deserve.

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Sounds like you need to buy your son more food OP.

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To be fair, that stuff is GOOD!