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.

You are determined to be offended. If you never told him not to do this, it is on you. Now use your words and inform him this is a good to be eaten in moderation, and supply him with some tasty to teenage boys other options for his snacks.

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Anonymous wrote:I sincerely don't understand the mean posters. Were you never new to something? Have you always known ALL the things? Be nice.

OP, you got plenty of reassuring answers. But it reminds me...
My mom was what is referred to today as a "handful of almonds" mom. There were meals, and there were limited healthy snacks. Period. And then my brother and I hit the teen years and were always prowling around for more food, getting in her way, eating things she had earmarked for a specific purpose-- we were so desperate for calorie density that we ate baking chocolate. I don't remember a specific trigger, but at some point, she threw up her hands and started buying those cheap frozen burritos. Just for a few years. Adolescent metabolisms are a force of nature; don't try to fight it

No one is being mean, just direct. OP has a teenager and from it sounds like, multiple children. I don’t know what you mean by new. It is very well known that teenagers, particularly boys, eat a lot.

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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.

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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 seem like you're desperate for this to be a problem, but it's a normal amount for a teenage boy to eat.

Exactly. You can tell him to eat a more varied diet, and point him to other foods, and remind him it's not nice to finish off something in the dead of night without asking others whether they want some... but your son NEEDS food right now. He's in a growth spurt. He won't eat like that every day, but he might be ravenous for two weeks, and sleep like the dead, before the end of that particular growth spurt. And then he'll revert to a more normal diet. And then in 6 months, he might get another growth spurt. Adjust accordingly. Do not blame.

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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.

My 3 boys would beg to differ.

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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?

Oh give it a rest. Food is to be eaten.

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Second dinner is a thing. Get ready.

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Op, you need to stop. Your kid is HUNGRY. He didn’t eat everyone’s Easter candy. He didn’t binge on a tub of ice cream. He ate pasta salad, it doesn’t matter what kind or where you bought it, Whole Foods or Safeway it doesn’t matter, feed your teenager and don’t shame him for being hungry!!!

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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?

That was always our take. No one person needs to consume something purchased for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:While teens should learn to prepare foods, we all know they don't really want to and often don't have the time. Prepared foods from WF are very attractive when you open the fridge. For some reason, those containers call out to people (me included) more than old Tupperware from the draw. So, the solution is this:

Make a giant batch of pasta salad, however you want to. (Do include cheese, though, so there is protein - could also include leftover chicken from a previous meal, etc..) Fill 3-4 of recycled WF containers with it. Put them in the fridge. Viola. Your teens will eat it, and the cost is probably $10 or less.

I sort of addressed this already. He wouldn't binge eat that, he's binge eating more premium snack items. If I made cheap bulk quesadillas or enchiladas and put them in the fridge or freezer, he'd barely touch them and want to order DoorDash. But if we bought the same items from WF's deli, they'd quickly disappear from the fridge. So is he really starving from growing or is it just self-centered and spoiled gluttony?

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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:

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He's growing. It's amazing how much food they can eat.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is the kind of food dysfunction I’m talking about. Since you did not educate your family on this, I’m guessing they disagree with you. Also I’m quite sure many other people disagree and think pasta salad can be a meal.

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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.

Who made you the boss of pasta salad consumption?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:While teens should learn to prepare foods, we all know they don't really want to and often don't have the time. Prepared foods from WF are very attractive when you open the fridge. For some reason, those containers call out to people (me included) more than old Tupperware from the draw. So, the solution is this:

Make a giant batch of pasta salad, however you want to. (Do include cheese, though, so there is protein - could also include leftover chicken from a previous meal, etc..) Fill 3-4 of recycled WF containers with it. Put them in the fridge. Viola. Your teens will eat it, and the cost is probably $10 or less.

I sort of addressed this already. He wouldn't binge eat that, he's binge eating more premium snack items. If I made cheap bulk quesadillas or enchiladas and put them in the fridge or freezer, he'd barely touch them and want to order DoorDash. But if we bought the same items from WF's deli, they'd quickly disappear from the fridge. So is he really starving from growing or is it just self-centered and spoiled gluttony?

He’s your child. We have no idea, but you don’t seem pleasant so there is that.