Apparently there's a meme - we have an ingredient house, not a food house. There's no food and too many ingredients.

the thing is, my kid is a kinda healthy eater. We actually do have chips and snacks, but he turns nose up at them. He's mentioned he'd like us to meal prep for him - I think what he wants is containers of already cooked foods (though he won't tell us which ones and he's a picky eater of the sort that this week chicken would be ok but next week chicken would be a solid no, of course) and he'd also like us to assemble them in correct proportions and heat them up for him (without having to tell us what he wants).

She wants snacks, chips, candy soda.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re only allowed to complain about something once. So I’d just say “that’s one.” when she said it the first time. Say it again? Go to your room. Any time she says it again she gets sent to her room.

1-2-3 Magic on teenagers? Oy, vey.

Apparently it's 1 - 2 Magic.

Anonymous wrote:You’re only allowed to complain about something once. So I’d just say “that’s one.” when she said it the first time. Say it again? Go to your room. Any time she says it again she gets sent to her room.

1-2-3 Magic on teenagers? Oy, vey.

Anonymous wrote:It’s all I hear, especially with this snow storm we’ve been having. It’s what DD (15) is constantly saying, sun up to sundown! “No food in this house!” “No food in this house!” “No food in this house!” It’s honestly driving me bonkers. We have A LOT of food, honestly too much. And still. All the time. “No food!” “No food!” “No food!”

Aaaaahhh. Sorry I had to vent. And ask for advice. Anyone else having this issue? And if so, how are you resolving it?

I am pretty good at translating Teen. What that means is, "There's no food I LIKE in the house." As in, mainly, chips and other shrink-wrapped snack items. And soda or Red Bull or whatever.

This is becoming a society problem. People view “food” as ready made junk and can’t seem to manage to put together a meal or snack that isn’t packaged, frozen to be microwaved, or drop out by DoorDash.

Anonymous wrote:You’re only allowed to complain about something once. So I’d just say “that’s one.” when she said it the first time. Say it again? Go to your room. Any time she says it again she gets sent to her room.

Sending a 15yo to their room?!

So they want to indulge on the top of having breakfast, lunch and dinner?

Anonymous wrote:I remember having that argument when I was a teen, lol. What I meant is there is no food that I can pick up and eat (everything had to be prepared).

Anyway, when my teens say there is nothing to eat, I tell them to add what they want to the grocery list and I’ll get it next time I go shopping. If there’s nothing you want to eat in the house today, it means you didn’t add it last week, so do better next time, kids.

This is what I do. They can add to my list or go get it themselves if they don't want to wait until then. Also, we balance being an ingredients-house and a snacks-house.