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

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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.

You are either not a parent or have tiny ice skating daughters.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

The real issue is the "setting aside" was not communicated to the poor kid, who reasonably thought, well, there is another whole container.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

The real issue is the "setting aside" was not communicated to the poor kid, who reasonably thought, well, there is another whole container.

Also, this is apparently something he has only done once. It’s not a habit and not something he was specifically instructed not to do.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

The real issue is the "setting aside" was not communicated to the poor kid, who reasonably thought, well, there is another whole container.

He needs to be brought to costco for him to pick out sensible "yes" foods. He needs to eat but he doesn't need to eat a pound of froofroo pasta salad

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

Try harder.

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I think consensus is that OP is 1) crazy and 2) needs to use her words and not expect a ravenous teenager to be a mindreader

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

But by that logic no one would be able to eat any food, because if anything other than an infinite supply is "limited" then "limited supply" applies to every food in the house.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

Try harder.

I'm the one who understands words. No need.

Do better.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

But by that logic no one would be able to eat any food, because if anything other than an infinite supply is "limited" then "limited supply" applies to every food in the house.

Yes, "two" is not "unlimited." What is wrong with you?

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

But by that logic no one would be able to eat any food, because if anything other than an infinite supply is "limited" then "limited supply" applies to every food in the house.

Yes, "two" is not "unlimited." What is wrong with you?

So, to say that the kids can't eat anything that is in "limited supply" basically means they can't eat? I understand that you have "thousands" of snacks nin your house, but which of those are in "unlimited supply"?

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

But by that logic no one would be able to eat any food, because if anything other than an infinite supply is "limited" then "limited supply" applies to every food in the house.

Yes, "two" is not "unlimited." What is wrong with you?

So, to say that the kids can't eat anything that is in "limited supply" basically means they can't eat? I understand that you have "thousands" of snacks nin your house, but which of those are in "unlimited supply"?

Nope, not what I wrote, but of course you knew that.

"I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from MORE EXPENSIVE FOODS in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of SOMETHING SET ASIDE TO BE SHARED BY OTHERS."

It's all there in black and white, still. Talking with you in real life must be just as excessively tedious as this.

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Just thought of this thread because I made a double-batch of a much beloved baked pasta dish last night, and this morning I cut the leftovers into equal pieces and told the kids they were welcome to have theirs for breakfast or take it for lunch. If someone had come downstairs last night and eaten half of what was left, no matter how hungry they were, I would have been mad.

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Anonymous wrote:Just thought of this thread because I made a double-batch of a much beloved baked pasta dish last night, and this morning I cut the leftovers into equal pieces and told the kids they were welcome to have theirs for breakfast or take it for lunch. If someone had come downstairs last night and eaten half of what was left, no matter how hungry they were, I would have been mad.

I agree. It’s just manners and OP’s son needs to be taught this. It’s clearly not his fault - someone just needs to tell him not to do this, with pasta salad or anything else. Explain why and what to eat instead. It’s not rocket science - he can get it.

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Anonymous wrote:I come from a family of 5 girls and 1 boy. Us girls always felt like we had enough to eat. We were thin. Years later my brother told us he was always hungry and would steal other kids lunches at school. We were shocked! We were middle class, but he considered us poor because he never had enough to eat. When he got a family of his own, he always bought lots of food so no one ever felt hungry. We had no idea he felt this way growing up in the same household. He said he expressed these feelings to my mother at the time, but she would tell him he had plenty and was just being greedy. He grew to be 6 feet tall and was athletic in school.

I feel so bad for your brother. He was legitimately suffering from hunger and called greedy. I’m sure your mom just didn’t know better.

My dad told us that once, when his mom was out of town, his widowed grandmother stayed with his family and cooked dinner for them. She cooked the same tiny portion of food for each person — only the amount she could eat. They didn’t want to be rude, but at the time, my grandfather was performing physical labor and my dad and his brother were teenaged athletes. They waited for her to go to bed for the night and then they made a second dinner because they were all so hungry.

This should be required reading for the posters on this thread.

https://www.apa.org/obesity-guideline/estimated-calorie-needs.pdf

I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from more expensive foods in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of something set aside to be shared by others.

Limited supply? There was a whole second container.

Yes, two is not infinite. Are you okay?

But by that logic no one would be able to eat any food, because if anything other than an infinite supply is "limited" then "limited supply" applies to every food in the house.

Yes, "two" is not "unlimited." What is wrong with you?

So, to say that the kids can't eat anything that is in "limited supply" basically means they can't eat? I understand that you have "thousands" of snacks nin your house, but which of those are in "unlimited supply"?

Nope, not what I wrote, but of course you knew that.

"I don't see where that chart says teenage boys have to get the calories from MORE EXPENSIVE FOODS in limited supply, as opposed to making themselves a peanut butter sandwich, or one of a thousand other snacks that don't hoover up the rest of SOMETHING SET ASIDE TO BE SHARED BY OTHERS."

It's all there in black and white, still. Talking with you in real life must be just as excessively tedious as this.

Every post you make is gaslighting. “Are you OK?” “What is wrong with you?” Blah blah. You sound like a moron.