Food locker?

elphie754
elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Does any one else have a cabinet with a lock on it? Sounds weird but that is the only way to keep my significant others from stealing snacks that I purposely bought for myself.
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  • grinning_chick
    grinning_chick Posts: 765 Member
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    https://www.containerstore.com/s/collections/banks-safes/fridge-locker/12d?productId=10030818
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    No. If I want to keep something for just myself I put it in my unlocked drawer or write my name on it. If everyone wanted it I would buy enough for everyone. I haven't had an issue.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    Why not buy twice as many?
  • ktekc
    ktekc Posts: 879 Member
    I got tired of throwing stuff out because hubby wont touch something if he thinks its mine. even though most of "my" stuff is on one shelf in the pantry. i bought a small tote and put all the stuff he can go hog wild on and i wont care in it. In the refrigerator we each have a shelf storage box with our own specific goodies in it. anything else is up for grabs unless i have cooking plans for it.
  • evilpoptart63
    evilpoptart63 Posts: 397 Member
    I would be down to lock food away from myself but never from my husband. If he eats it, you can always buy more! Or plan ahead and buy enough for both of you. I've been irritated when I planned a meal with broccoli and realized my kids ate all of it before I could get any. Then I realized my kids are choosing to eat broccoli and just started buying more!!! I would never put a lock on it to keep them out, thats just silly!!
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    Mine has this habit of eating all my *kitten* one night, and then when I complain he buys back 6 times the amount in a different version that I didn't freaking want. Ate all my plain biscotti? What's the problem, he bought 8 more boxes and these ones are better, they have chocolate and nuts on!
  • PaulaWallaDingDong
    PaulaWallaDingDong Posts: 4,641 Member
    ginababin wrote: »
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    Mine has this habit of eating all my *kitten* one night

    Not a problem in my book

    :lol:
  • elphie754
    elphie754 Posts: 7,574 Member
    nic_27_grassisgreener wrote: »
    That sounds a little odd to me. Keeping certain foods in a different cupboard, so that others can easily tell you don't want them to eat it makes sense. But I would hate to live in such distrust of my partner to have put a lock on my things... then again, I don't know all the details of your situation.

    It's not distrust at all. We have had labels on certain things, but when one of us comes home from a 16 or 24 hr shift, labels aren't always read.
    leggup wrote: »
    Why not buy twice as many?

    Because we have a tight budget and can't afford that?
    evilpoptart63 wrote: »
    I would be down to lock food away from myself but never from my husband. If he eats it, you can always buy more! Or plan ahead and buy enough for both of you. I've been irritated when I planned a meal with broccoli and realized my kids ate all of it before I could get any. Then I realized my kids are choosing to eat broccoli and just started buying more!!! I would never put a lock on it to keep them out, thats just silly!!

    No you can't always buy more when on a strict budget.
    brittneyalley wrote: »
    My husband and I share everything. Nothing is “mine” and nothing is “his.” It’s weird to me people care about something like that.

    That's fine. We do things differently than most.
  • Hamsibian
    Hamsibian Posts: 1,388 Member
    edited November 2017
    Other than communal stuff like green onions,eggs, herbs, spices, etc, my family doesn't touch each others' foods. They know I can't eat their stuff due to intolerance issues, so they don't eat mine out of courtesy (although I do make them taste test every once in a while lol.)

    However, I have had jobs where I come home and eat all the things, so I get it. I don't see anything wrong with buying a food locker. Haven't we read threads about people asking spouses to lock up the chips and cookies? Why would this be any different?
  • RAinWA
    RAinWA Posts: 1,980 Member
    You could also get inventive. When my brother-in-law lived with us he had a habit of getting into my quest bars - irritated me no end. So I started putting them in the empty oatmeal container (the big round ones). I knew he hated oatmeal so he never opened the container.

    Or put them in a brown paper bag - sometimes just not being able to see what it inside can stop just random "oh, that looks good" behavior.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Most of the food in my house is communal.
    I have kept my special dark chocolate in places another person wouldn't really go looking for food. If they are raiding my sewing basket, underwear drawer, behind the measuring cups or potatoes and eating my chocolate they are not tired and confused about who it is for. They have made some effort to bypass all the other foods in the house and go looking for it specifically. I have not had an issue after saying "this is mine, that is yours" and putting things away.
    OP- If I remember right you have a lot of food challenges and can't eat whatever? If you need a locked cabinet or box to keep some food for yourself then use a lock.
    I don't think tired is much of an excuse to eat all the food though when you are on a tight budget. When our budget is tight we are pretty conscious of dividing things equally because we know we can't get more.
  • Sp1tfire
    Sp1tfire Posts: 1,120 Member
    In my house we can only 'claim' food if we bought it ourselves with our own money. Anything in our shared budget is shared. We often request 'hey can you save x for me' or 'please don't eat the last of y' and that usually is respected!
  • Meghanebk
    Meghanebk Posts: 321 Member
    elphie754 wrote: »
    I apparently struck a nerve with some people with this question. Kind of sorry I asked.

    Don't worry! We obviously love to talk about different ways we do things. Gives us something more to do on the site than just track what we eat!
  • Evamutt
    Evamutt Posts: 2,665 Member
    brittneyalley wrote: »
    My husband and I share everything. Nothing is “mine” and nothing is “his.” It’s weird to me people care about something like that.

    While we do share my home cooking to eat, there are other things we don't. My husband, who loves food doesn't like my low fat foods. He eats foods he likes but ends up eating mine if his runs out or will eat mine then say it tastes awful, like my egg beaters (he loves eggs) or fat free cheese(he loves real cheese & I always have some for him) Also I buy some things to keep in freezer for those in between cooking days. In the past, whatever it was, he ended up eating all of most of it, even when we had plenty ready made food in fridge, then he'll say he's tired of it & doesn't want any more. Well, I'd be tired of it too if I ate say a frozen teriyaki bowl every day or twice a day till it's gone while we had a bunch of home cooked food around. I always ask him if I should buy some for him too, he says no so with it costing more than full fat foods, I don't
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    ^ same on the eats the stuff I bought for myself then complains about it. Well...
  • mygrl4meee
    mygrl4meee Posts: 943 Member
    I never seen a thing.. I hide food in my bedroom to keep my son out.. i can see him taking a ax to it and not knowing how it broke! haha
  • callsitlikeiseeit
    callsitlikeiseeit Posts: 8,626 Member
    no because my son doesnt eat what i tell him not to eat and my fiance isnt interested in my snacks.
  • MelanieCN77
    MelanieCN77 Posts: 4,047 Member
    PaulaWallaDingDong wrote: »
    ginababin wrote: »
    MelanieCN77 wrote: »
    Mine has this habit of eating all my *kitten* one night

    Not a problem in my book

    :lol:

    Oh my :D
  • jasummers76
    jasummers76 Posts: 225 Member
    When I first started showing signs of Bipolar a long time ago I was put on meds that made me crave carbs. I use to eat all the kids snacks for school. Being depressed with carb obsession put my wife through hell. She ended up having to hide the kids treats for awhile.
  • nowine4me
    nowine4me Posts: 3,985 Member
    middlehaitch wrote: »
    @elphie754, don't regret the question. It was a good one.

    As I know, from your previous posts, a little about you, I would think having a safe place to keep foods that are particular to you, and your needs, is a good idea.

    Whether that is in your undies drawer, like me and my toffee, or on a locked box in the kitchen is up to you and your partners to decide.

    (Don't tell them if you decide to stash in your undies drawer- they will ransack it and all your nicely folded knickers will end up on a big confused mess :))

    Cheers, h.

    If my husband were ever to hide something from me, his underwear drawer is the first place I'd look.

    Luckily, I don't have this problem at home, but the work fridge is another issue entirely.
  • leggup
    leggup Posts: 2,942 Member
    If I was on a tight budget and there were treats and I wanted some, I would talk to my husband about how I wanted to split them with him and ask him not to eat mine. It would be really selfish for him to eat them all if we couldn't afford to replace them.
  • MegaMooseEsq
    MegaMooseEsq Posts: 3,118 Member
    I don't think it's odd at all to have standing agreements with your spouse(s) about which food is off-limits and which isn't, or even to have designated areas if there are issues with remembering whose is whose. I eat the same thing for breakfast every morning - coffee with milk and sugar, and two string cheeses. My spouse will snack on the string cheese but only if there's enough left for me to get through the week. Same with the stuff I pack for my lunches. I like to know what I've got on hand and not be surprised when I go to pack my lunch and he's eaten all the __ the night before. If he was eating a predictable amount of whatever I suppose we'd just buy more, but his eating habits are far less routine than mine at this point. He's happy to snack on just about anything.

    To be honest, the idea of sharing absolutely everything with a spouse is more alien to me than the opposite, but everyone is different and I've got no need to judge what's working for someone else. Unless you're one of those people who leave the bathroom door open. Then I'm absolutely judging you. ;)

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