Yes,when DGS is here I have to or he would eat everything that isn't tied down.LOL

When we were kids my younger brother always got home from school before i did and he'd have the first choice of snacks we had at home, so if i knew there was only one left of a certain item i wanted I'd hide it so he wouldn't get to it first. LOL!

I put peanut butter in the trunk of the car. Yes indeedie!

Not any more, since I'm the only one here.

But when the kids were younger, and my "habit" was a Coke (as in Coca Cola) I didn't really hide them, but if it happened that there was only one left in the fridge, it was Mamma's! and they knew better than to touch it!

They still mention that from time to time. :O)

Sue

Yup, sure do. DH will eat anything and everything. So if I have just a small something I want to keep secret, I have a special hiding place in the fridge.
Sometimes, I forget I even have it and end up tossing it if it is too old.

Sad, but true.

Trin

No. If anyone ever hid any from me, I never knew about it.

I hid some chocolate one time in my life. My brother would eat every piece if he found it, so one time I slipped it into a small hole that lead under the bathtub. My Daddy hadn't finished with the bathroom at the time. Well I forgot about it and Daddy went and finished up the bathroom and my chocolate is probably still there unless the owners have remodeled that bathroom and found it. LOL At least my brother didn't get it. BWAHAHAHAHAHA

But no, I don't hide food anymore at all, and really never felt the need after that chocolate episode.

Helen

I don't hide food but this thread reminded me of my mother. She didn't hide food either but , if we weren't allowed to eat cookies or whatever because she had made them for her bridge club or some such event, she would tape little notes to the tin or package. They read "Paws Off!" or "Don't even think about eating this!" or "Do Not Touch!", etc.. Thanks for the chuckle I've had over this today.

That's cute Barbara..my boys would just sneak one anyway...

I do hide a few treats...if I don't I'd never get any.

But usually I just make or buy something I know I'm the only one who'll enjoy it!

I picked over my kids Halloween candies and hid them. They had enough treats to last a couple of months. They never missed them and it was less junk they would eat.

I do on some occasions, if I do not want DH to know about it.
When there were kids still at home, I would hide some items.
When Makayla and Kaden are here I have to hide all the junk food
or Kaden would eat it all.
Deb

I don't hide food, but I do leave post- it notes on things I want my kids to take, or leave alone. The last can of Pepsi has a tag "Mom's". But the leftover eggroll from my last night of Chinese food has "Egg roll. Help yourself". Sometimes I find the food gone and the note on the floor. I call that "my mouse".

I do- I hide my chocolate when I buy it and I have to hide my canned soda. I have a house full of teen boys. They eat anything not nailed down. I buy them their own but they eat it so fast I don't think they taste it- worse than the dogs I tell you!

Trish

I only hide candy Chocolate of course in my purse:)

I have to or my DH will eat it. I buy stuff to make a special dish, get ready to prepare it and he has eaten everything I had. Can't keep bananas..he says he eats them to keep them from ruining...2 days gheezzzz and they are gone. I now take them to my bedroom so I can have one for breakfast. I can't keep pickles..he devoures them..even my pickle relish, I have to hide it so I'll have some for chicken salad. When I say something his reply is why do you buy it if I can't eat it??? DUH!!!!

am i lol'ing...we used to buy cans of poppy c0ck that rich carmel pop corn, and would tell the kids before they could read, it was some of daddy's pipe tobacco...now that's really mean! pay back time! neither of us dare eat it anymore...

Not really. I might put something in an out of the way place in the refrigerator or cabinet to save for later. (Then I usually forget about it!) I use to have to hide candy when I was young because my sister use to eat all of mine. To stop her I hid some chocolate covered ants in my hiding place. After she had eaten it, I told her what it was. She nearly killed me! LOL
Clare

No there are only two of us and he couldn't find his head if it was sitting on a shelf looking at him...I swear this man will come and ask me where something is and I tell him and he says...I just looked there. Now you all know the rest of this story...I get up, go and look in the drawer and there it is as plain as the nose on his face...

Ruthie your post made me LOL,why?? Because it sounds just like my dh.He'll look for something that i know is certainly there,then tells me he can't find it.I get up and go right to it.He won't move anything aside to look.If it doesn't jump in his hand when he opens the cupboard or drawer,then it's not there.
Kathi

Ruth, Kathi, I think I am married to a smart man except in the area of finding something. He is completely a moron. (sorry honey) He can't find a thing. Like Kathi says "if it doesn't jump in his hand"... I think he just likes for me to get up and get it for him. Bless his heart..

I hide a banana for my breakfast, too!!

I have to hide lots of stuff--Hubby used to work offshore, so was used to eating as much as he wanted of everything and the supply would soon be replenished by the cook.
Not so around here!

A few times, our son would not have gotten any breakfast, had I not prepared him a plate and 'hidden' it in a separate location!:(

How I wish I could hide things from myself...sigh. One of the down sides of living alone.

Ruthie, I hear ya about those men who refuse to see the nose on their face...weird! Those same men can't find an item at the grocery store that you know darn well is there. It's like if it's not at eye level, they can't look up/down/left or right. And even then, they pick up the wrong stuff when you've made a very detailed list. :(

Yes...there are certain things that I hide, just so they aren't "ruined for the next person". MIL will open a container from the refrigerator...stand there with a fork or spoon, eat right out of the container...and put it back. Doesn't matter if it needs heating up or not. She will eat it cold. I have made cakes, that she has taken a fork to and eaten straight from the pan.

Totally grosses me and my DS out! Especially since she usually does it when she has no teeth in. Doesn't seem to bother DH. Ewwwwww the bacteria growth. Double dipping doesn't bother her either.

I post it note things she better not touch.

I can relate to most of the quirks in these posts! I'm chuckling a lot as I read. From DH's who can't find things right in front of them, to kids knowing the last of something belongs to mom (or dad) and not touching it for days! (Not so much the double dipping MIL, though, vicki. That is gross.) My kids won't take the last Pepsi even at grandma/grandpa's house, they are trained to not take the last of something without permission. LOL. I remember my brother and I as children claiming that the one who ate the last of something (i.e. cereal, chips) ate "all of it."

I don't hide food as a habit, but something I know I will need to if I want it there when I come back. I might need shredded cheese for a recipe, but I'll come back to find it gone in a day or two b/c one of the older kids used in snacks. Sometimes I mark things with an "X" in permanent marking so they know to leave it, I need it for something.

My favorites are not the kids' or DH's favorites, so I don't have to hide things for that reason. I love coffee ice cream, no one else will touch it cuz they don't like it. That's nice. I can leave it in plain site and know that they will all just pass it by. ;o)

this thread is just way to funny..im rolling! sorry i didnt answer your question im laughing to hard!!

Granlan my Dear Husband has gotten pretty good at shopping. At least now he doesn't have to call me 25 times to pick up half a dozen items. I used to get so frustrated cause he wanted to know why there was so many kinds of mustard (for instance) then it was what kind do you want, what size, what price, etc etc and at some point I always wanted to say ...just buy some damned mustard...but then I would remember that he was out there shopping because I couldn't and I would feel bad for thinking like that. He has gotten really good at it now and I told him the other day that it's probably good because I always buy a ton of things I want but don't necessarily need and he sticks pretty close to the list..

No, can't say I hide food. If I should bake something for church, I might put it in another place so hubby won't eat it or just tell him. One time he did cut into the pie for church! If I wanted special snacks for myself, I could put them in my room in my little refrigerator, but there is seldom much in there. Right now apples and eggs it seems. I didn't have room for them in the kitchen refrigerator.

Sue

I hide it in my mouth... then other parts give me away.

When I was growing up there was no need to hide things. We were raised in a different time. When parents said "don't touch" WE obeyed. (Or seldom were repeat offenders.)

Oh, Cynic -- that's so perfect! (ROFLOL) I guess that's what I do, too. And, I had the same sort of upbringing.

When DS was still living at home, I asked him to hide MY jar of peanut butter.

He tried, but when the craving hits, your sniffer can find anything.

I did: in the bottom of his golf bag :o)

Sun Chips. I buy the big bag, but if I don't hide it, DH will finish them off within a half hour

Apart from the occasional spider or mose, I'm the only one who lives here ... so it'd be something of a fruitless enterprise!

When we were kids, we didn't cut a whole pie or cake without permission, as it might be something to take to church, community group, etc.

Once when I was near the end of high school, I made a pumpkin pie and, as I was going away to a course to learn about co-operatives for a few days, hid it on top of the furnace ...

... and, as I didn't rescue it shortly after my return (I think - or maybe, as it was summer, it deteriorated quickly) it developed that fur that sometimes food does. But not the kind that leads us to refer to such a carrier as a "furbaby".

Good wishes for finding ways to enjoy the stuff that you want to enjoy.

ole joyful

This thread is so funny about the DH's.
I can't count the times I have said from another room....
LOOK HARDER!!

Trin

When my sons were kids they ate like locust. I would have rather clothe them then feed them. They drank soda like there was no tomorrow. Yes,I did hide food otherwise they
ate me out of house and home. lol

I only temporarily hide food in my mouth. Then it magically travels to my stomach. :)

I love food. Don't bother to hide it, just eat it. :)

Moni

My husband is one that will eat anything in the house. I will go to make chocolate chip cookies and can't find the chips, he had a midnight snack. But I will admit I buy things way in advance just in case, since it is a half an hour trip to the store. With 4 little ones all the snacks and candy are on top of the refrigerator.

Stacie
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