Anonymous wrote:From reading all the comments, I believe most families would be surprised to learn that if you always offer the "special foods," your family/children will not scarf it down as soon as it crosses the threshold of your home.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s evil behavior. Two years ago DH bought me a fancy box of chocolates at Christmas. The kids devoured it. They don’t care if they are expensive or cheap. No one got angry. This year he bought two. One for the family and one he told me to hide in the bedroom. They are teens. Any food is gone in seconds.

I currently have a box of thin mints and Samoas hidden in my closest under sweaters. I’m not sure how many they already ate but these are mine! It would be crazy to keep them in the kitchen and expect no one else to eat them.

My mom kept Milano cookies in her underwear drawer (she may still for all I know!) I keep pricey Camembert behind the lettuce. I think it is 100% fine!

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s evil behavior. Two years ago DH bought me a fancy box of chocolates at Christmas. The kids devoured it. They don’t care if they are expensive or cheap. No one got angry. This year he bought two. One for the family and one he told me to hide in the bedroom. They are teens. Any food is gone in seconds.

I currently have a box of thin mints and Samoas hidden in my closest under sweaters. I’m not sure how many they already ate but these are mine! It would be crazy to keep them in the kitchen and expect no one else to eat them.

Anonymous wrote:Mommy has special ice cream, special rolls, special chocolate, special risotto, special heirloom tomatoes, even special Medjool dates. She is the only vegetarian. Even DH knows to ask before drinking some of her Jonagold juice. If there is any doubt, the item in question is labeled. If there is suspicion of potential foul play, the item is photographed and marked to indicate how much had been consumed. Cookies are counted and logged so that Mommy knows precisely what amount of unauthorized consumption has occurred in her absence. Mommy's vengeance is swift and unerring.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s a sumo orange?

+1 Must look this up

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Anonymous wrote:Here’s what you do:

Buy a bag of Hershey’s kisses. When you get one of your chocolates offer the kids one of the candies. Done.

Is your husband controlling about other things too?

+1 this is some red flag behavior. Wonder what was in his upbringing that caused him to react this way.

You must be the parent of little kids. As they get older, they just go into the kitchen and get what they want. Which may be ALL of your bag of Hershey's kisses. Which is why I have my own secret stash of whatever it is. I'm happy to buy them what they want, even the Hersheys kisses or belgian chocolate or whatever they want, but I keep my own because my husband and tween/teen boys eat it all really fast, as I mentioned upthread. They are not waiting for someone to 'offer' it to them.

Anonymous wrote:I have my (bio) daughter a Hershey’s kids while I ate a fancy truffle the other day. I suspect she liked what she got better. (She’s two. No way am I wasting my nice chocolate on her now or possibly ever.)

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Anonymous wrote:Can’t you buy enough of the good chocolate for the kids to enjoy too?

The vast majority of young kids are not going to not going to distinguish between good chocolates and a box of Whitman samplers (or may even prefer the latter).

Anonymous wrote:Every now and then I treat myself to a box of the fancy, expensive Belgian chocolate from Rodman’s. Sometimes I let the kids have a piece or two as a treat but mostly I keep it for myself, eating a piece after dinner every day until the box is gone. This absolutely enrages DH, he thinks it’s evil stepmother behavior (his words) to keep any food for myself and deem it “off limits” to the kids, and seems to take special pleasure in giving the kids some whenever I’m not around to say no. I asked him please not to give away stuff I bought specifically for myself and he just went on an extended rant about how horrible I’m being, and how my own parents would never have done that to me (I feel like they would have, but admit I can’t recall any specific incidents). Does he have a point? I don’t even know.

Anonymous wrote:You husband is nuts. I don’t share my good chocolate with my bio kids, that would be a huge waste!

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Anonymous wrote:This thread sparked a really interesting conversation amongst a group of my friends. I tend to buy nice desserts, cheese, cuts of meat, etc for just the adults in the house. If our kids ask, we tell them that they can try a bite but its for the adults.

One of my friends thinks that is horrible and that any food in the house should be fair game for all family members.

Another one of my friends told a really funny story about how she hosted a party and set out a tray of expensive cheese, olives, prosciutto and salami. The 3 kids at the party polished off the entire tray before the adults got any and she was pissed!

A third friend said that she always buys an alternative for the kids so they still feel like they are getting something special.

This is what happens when their parents don’t let them eat this stuff at home.

Anonymous wrote:This thread sparked a really interesting conversation amongst a group of my friends. I tend to buy nice desserts, cheese, cuts of meat, etc for just the adults in the house. If our kids ask, we tell them that they can try a bite but its for the adults.

One of my friends thinks that is horrible and that any food in the house should be fair game for all family members.

Another one of my friends told a really funny story about how she hosted a party and set out a tray of expensive cheese, olives, prosciutto and salami. The 3 kids at the party polished off the entire tray before the adults got any and she was pissed!

A third friend said that she always buys an alternative for the kids so they still feel like they are getting something special.