JFF: Do You Hide Your Snacks, but Eat Your Kids Snacks and Blame It on Dad?

I have hidden goodies from the kids,usually a treat my husband and I want and don't want to share. The kids are never deprived, so it's not like a double standard or anything. If my boys found what I was hiding, there is a good chance it would be gone before we get any. If I want to really hide something, from my husband too, it goes in one of my clothes drawers, lol! My husband will hide things too. It's hilarious to me, but not so funny to him, that whatever it is that he seems to pick out, the boys love it and eat it. It will be gone before he has any, or he will only get one serving of it. If I pick out something, it seems the boys don't care and don't eat it up, so I always tease my husband that he should be flattered they like his tastes. Then he grumbles because his special cereal is gone, or his new flavor of jelly is almost out, or his malted milk balls are nowhere in sight. It's even more funny, because if the boys have friends over - guess what - they want my husband's choice foods as well.

What "rapper" is next to him when he falls asleep? Jay-Z? Ice T?

There is nothing JFF about sneaking and lying about food. Sorry :(

LOL! This is a great post! It is a wonderful confession and at the same time very incriminating.

Yes, I do. That's why there's a door in our laundry room...so noone can see or hear.

Mothers who hide snacks from their families - UNITE!

LOL...The food I sneak doesn't even make it in the door. I eat it in my car. On days where no one's home, I might get it in the house, but then I erase ALL TRACE of it (even to taking out the garbage).

Kiddo starts taking "mine" over "his". I stop buying his, and double up the quantity of "ours". Somehow though, his half always ends up being a little bigger than my 'half'. That's why the top of the fridge is great. :D I can at least stash ONE up there.

My husband is the one who eats our son's food. And not just snacks. The man is a vacuum. I can have dinner made so that we can come home from sports and eat, get back, and it's ALL GONE. What??? "Well I got hungry." "That serves SIX, there are only THREE of us, and I doubled the recipe for leftovers, it should serve 12. How could you 'eat the whole thing'???" ((This is why I've learned to always have hotdogs in the fridge for emergencies. My husband hates hot dogs. ;))

My sister and I used to love Campbell's soup when we were kids. My mother would do a large shopping trip once a week but only buy about five cans of the coveted double noodle chicken soup. They were easy for us to fix for ourselves after school so they were usually devoured before the week was out. My sister started to hide a couple cans up under her bed every shopping trip so I never got soup very often. One day my mother decided to really clean out our rooms and discovered my sister's stash of soup under the bed. We laughed about it for years.

Now that I'm grown and have a family of my own I try to downplay food as a limited resource. If my daughter panics because I take a package of one of her fruit snacks I ask her what she's worried about. She said, "If you eat them they'll be all gone!" I asked her what do we do when we run out of something in the pantry. She replies, "We put it on the shopping list!" I tell her she is correct and ask her what happens next... and she thinks about it for a second (she's four) and lights up to say, "We get more!"

And then she doesn't care if anyone eats the communal food in the pantry because when we run out of something it goes up on the list. If something goes faster than usual it's no trouble to swing by the store for just that one thing. Everyone in the house knows the story of Auntie D and the Great Campbell Soup Stash... =)

OMG, I must be the stupid one...what a great idea. I never thought of this...

For me, it's Pepperidge Farm Mint Milano cookies I bring home and the kids devour them before I get even one sometimes...so I definitely see your hiding technique in my near future.

Although when I was pregnant I would pick up pastries for the 2 of us and eat his, and then never confess to having bought him one. So he never knew anyhow.

I do hide mine but no I don't tell my kids hubby ate their snacks if I do eat them.

hahahahah, no, unfortunately my husband works out of town and cant play that card.........but yes i have snacks i hate to share, i buy the skinny cow ice creams, they are expensive, low fat and cal ice creams. I hate sharing them because my girls have their own ice creams. lol They just want mine too, so i eat it alone.

On the occasion my dd gets candy I usually get her fruity stuff as I am more of a chocoholic so I won't be tempted to eat it. :-) That goes completely out the window at easter, halloween and Christmas and the downside is that there is only 2 of us in the house so if it goes missing she knows it was me. :-( Plus she has an amazing memory, so I can deny, deny till the cows come home but she knows the truth. yum yum. :-) She actually loves sharing and if I ask she will always give her poor mother something out of her stock-pile. haha

ha. Why not just buy all welches and no nasty pony ones? My son likes any and everything sweet, so I know what you're saying about letting him have the ones that aren't quite to your liking. Last week, we were all eating some clementines (little easy-peel mandarin oranges). I peeled #1 and gave it to my son (all of it). Then peeled another #2 and gave some to my husband. He said it was real good. So before I gave more to my son who was requesting more, I peeled #3, tasted it, said it wasn't as good as #2. So we gave our son #3 (the not as good one) and hubs and I ate #2 (the better one). My son doesn't care. He likes them all. Husband does care. So was that mean? Eh I dunno. Our kid loves any and all fruit, so I don't see the big deal.

And yes - I have a candy stash. Reeces PB cups, Reeces pieces, and Twix. If husband knew where it was, he'd eat it all. If I left it out he'd eat it all. I would rather my kiddo stick to the fruits than the chocolate fix. We have a few M&Ms that stay out in the open to remind him of a potty treat. But my stash is my stash! I eat them when he's napping most of the time.

I absolutely know what you're talking about & I do it, too! I've had conversations with people before who have acted like I was up for the "World's Worst Mother Award" for doing this, but I honestly don't care. My kids & husband would eat every single yummy thing down to the last crumb if I didn't hide something for myself once in a while. My big ones are cans of cashews or particular types of candy like Mars bars or Almond Joys. I bought myself 3 Mars bars & hid them in the freezer for emergencies (lol). When I went in there months later they were mysteriously missing so I clearly didn't hide them well enough!

yes, on hiding my higher quality snacks from grubby hands. no, to blaming dad. I buy the chocolate covered pretzels and occasionally a high quality dark chocolate candy bar. I'll hide them in the dairy bin in the fridge.