Food locker?

leggup

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

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.

ahoy_m8

Hi, elphie. A combination of (1) serious food allergies that limit what you can eat, (2) labels that aren't always observed and (3) a tight budget make the food locker a really creative idea.

coolfry

I have small totes for snacks. Mine in one his in another. Makes grabbing food for meal prep super easy and I get to keep my mini reeses hidden under fruit cups and he knows which stuff to grab at 4am.

mph323

Ha, neither my husband nor I deliberately eat food one or the other of us has designated "mine!" for whatever reason, but we suck at communicating. Sometimes I'll be thinking all day about some leftovers I plan on having for dinner only to find he's eaten them for lunch because I never mentioned my intentions. Or like this weekend, when someone gave us a precious box of bakery gf biscotti which I intended to save for Thanksgiving. I told him this very clearly in my head. Unfortunately I forgot to say it out loud...

mitch16

I know that you have a non-traditional living arrangement, but I seem to remember that you have "family meetings" fairly often? Have you surfaced your concerns with your SOs? Rather than jumping straight to locking up your food--have you considered separate bins for each of you and rationing the snacks? That's what my mom used to do for me and my siblings when we were ravenous teenagers... Never mind that my brother would eat an entire bag of candy bars--if I ate the last one I was accused of "eating them all."