The case of the missing Nutella...
Please does anyone have a good private investigator they can recommend? I purchased a jar of Nutella the other day at the store. After the first evening home when I saw almost half the jar gone I hid it. It disappeared from its hiding spot overnight!!! I am really worried that there is some sort of Nutella thief on the loose.
I am quite certain it is ss14. It's just me, dd14, dd10 and ss home. I know it wasnt dd14-she just doesnt roll that way so I only have two suspects. DD10 swears it wasnt her. It is amusing, but, folks I've about had it with ss and his eating. Yesterday from 3:30pm on-he got home from school and had at least one or two snacks and some juice. He went to my parents from 3:30-4:30 and had another snack. He ate supper at Church around 5:00-full dinner along with a dessert. As soon as he got home at 7pm he had a banana. An hour later he had a bag of popcorn. Then a package of peanut butter and cheese crackers. Then I am assuming a 1/4 of a jar of Nutella with whatever he put it on. I am also quite certain there are some snacks I dont see him getting. When he is home he eats pretty much every hour. I just find this excessive. He eats more than anyone in my home-including me and dh! He is about 85lbs so he is very small for his age-so I think that's why he's been allowed to eat all the time. But what I see him doing is not eating much of his meals and saying "My meds make me have no appetite"-he likes to say this a lot which usually causes me to snicker since he eats more than anyone I know.
I dont really know what to do about this as I cant watch him 24/7. He also eats "my" special snacks I buy for myself. I bought bananas the other week and took them downstairs to the basement so that I could have them for my lunch and he came down there and ate them. I eat these lo-cal brownies-I hide those too and he will find them and eat them. And well obviously the Nutella I was hiding and he has probably on his own ate the entire jar in a matter of about 2 days.
Anyone else with this issue? It's not that he's eating unhealthy for the most part-the snacks are fairly healthy. But I think its a bit obsessive. I cant keep enough food in my house for everyone because he eats it all. When he was younger he would eat and eat and eat until he vomited. He stopped that a few years ago. I've always thought this was emotional,but maybe there is something physical here? Anybody got any ideas?
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This happens in my house all
This happens in my house all the time. What I ended up doing and it sounds silly but I bought a small lock box for stuff I don't want eaten.
Sucks though especially when you buy things for dinner and you come home and it is gone so back to the store you go.
Maybe this is something to
Maybe this is something to check into it. He's not normal IMO. I know kids like to eat and such but he is sooo small. And apparently no shut off valve to tell him when he's full. The last time I remember him vomiting was about 2 years ago after we ate at Cracker Barrel-he inhaled a huge plate of pancakes, syrup, 3 or 4 pats of butter in literally 3 minutes-he made it to the parking lot and promptly vomited. He used to go to McD's with his mom and she would let him get two burgers, two fries, ice cream (he lived with us at the time and he made it out like we werent feeding him so she thought she was helping him with his nutrition)and then promptly vomit it all up.
Two words: master bedroom
Two words: master bedroom lock.
My SD will eat until she
My SD will eat until she vomited if you let her. She's only done it a few times, but that's because I usual stop her. She only does it with junk food though.
As for the hiding food.... Id get a locked cabinate for your room. I keep most of my "treats" at work, or else they will be gone in a day or two. My skids will polish off two bottles of juice a day if you don't stop them. A bunch of bananas won't last a day, a big container of strawberries won't last the hour. SD alone will go through 3/4 of a gallon of milk a day if you don't stop her, and make her drink water. Crackers, cheese, yogurt.... Anything snackable is gone two days after I go shopping. They are both very greedy and will eat as much as they can just to make sure the other doesn't get it. So I go shopping on my Monday lunch break for my stuff and just leave it in my work fridge for the week. I will take home small amounts of things everyday to give to bs2 as a treat, or else he would never get any.
I so my best to make them use portion control and ration things for the week, but I can't be in the kitchen 24/7. I usually end up back at the store midweek atleast once or twice a week to replace things I need that they demolished before I got home from work.
My 4 year old is like this.
My 4 year old is like this. If I even walk into the kitchen he's telling me he's hungry, he get's his recommended snacks per day and 3 meals of course as well but when no one is looking he will just help himself. I go through food like crazy!
DH and I used to split the
DH and I used to split the grocery bill. UNTIL SS came to live with us. After that…it was all on DH. I was not going to spend that much money on crap like that. SS was a skinny lanky bean pole, and could eat $20-$30 a day in store bought groceries. It was crazy.
It would not have been bad if he was eating normal stuff…but he would sit and eat a jar pf pickles with a jar of steak sauce and then eat a full breakfast lunch and dinner. He had no consideration of anyone else eating in the house. I had to look up my diet cokes in my truck, just so I could have one every day. DH got a little miffed at that and went and bought a 12 pack of Pepsi ….SS drank 8 out of it in one day!! I laughed my ass off at that one. DH did not buy that crap anymore.
I also made DH do the shopping. LOL.
Buy a bottle of fiber gummies
Buy a bottle of fiber gummies
I bought some because I was crazy constipated while pregnant. Got home one day and it was gone. I called poison control just to be sure and the lady laughed
Make a batch of ex lax
Make a batch of ex lax brownies too
My SD is the eater here too. I had to start hiding all the school snacks because in the mornings when I went to make lunches, all that was there was empty boxes. I started hiding foods too. If you run out of hiding spots, which its apparent since he finds everything, start putting it in your room, in your car trunk or even buy child locks that you can only open if you have special magnets, and keep the magnets in your purse. It's so frustrating, I know. Good luck!
Well, since I have a house
Well, since I have a house full of boys, nothing I buy lasts. My BS14 eats like an animal. NON STOP. I honestly chalk it up to the fact that #1 - he's a boy, #2 - he's growing, #3 - he loves to eat. He's 6' 1, 156lbs. I've grown used to buying things and coming home and poof they're gone. I buy flavored sparkling water for me and keep it away from the refrigerator so they don't acquire a taste for it. I bought an entire box of clementines and it was gone in ONE day. I don't even get mad anymore, it comes with the territory, I just can't wait for the day when it's just me & DH and these monsters are on their own.
My other 3 kids arent like
My other 3 kids arent like this. At all. They enjoy snacks and such-but they will have 1 or at the most 2 a day. SS will plow through that in the first hour. I determined that he actually ate the whole entire jar of Nutella minus about a Tablespoon in 48 hours. This along with all the other meals, snacks, etc that he has. He will eat two mixing bowls of cereal in the morning. I would understand the "he's a growing boy" thing, but he's not a growing boy. He is growth is extrememly minimal and has been for years. He will be 14 in a few days and he could easily pass for 8 or 9. I have a keyless entry lock on the door to the basement where our room is so I can hide things down there, but I am finding more and more stuff that I need to put down there. I didnt realize the Nutella was a hot commodity until it disappeared. Unfortunately it makes it difficult for my kids to have snacks as well. I am likely going to just stop buying the snack foods altogether it is too expensive. A jar of Nutella is like 5.00-for it to last only 48 hours and for one person to plow through it just isnt doable budget wise, IMO. He also ate one of those big boxes of cheese peanut butter crackers-they are not expensive but there are like 12 packages in there I think-I think my dd ate 2, but noone else likes them so he literally ate 10 packages of them in the same 48 hour period.
How long has he been on
How long has he been on whatever meds he's on? are they ADHD meds? Has he been screened for any other health issues?
The ADHD meds I'm on do weird things to my appetite. I feel sick if I eat a large/medium meal (think 2-3 slices of a large pizza). It doesn't always fill me up, but it makes me feel really sick if I keep eating. Sometimes thinking of food will make me sick, even though I'm hungry. My solution is to eat small amounts really often. Some of the side effects are weight loss and messing with your appetite. It also states that if used for a long time it can affect a child's growth rate, weight, and final adult height. I was 16/17 when I first went on them, so docs didn't worry about the last part, but if your SS has been on them for a long time they may be a cause of small stature
Yes, he is on a stimulant and
Yes, he is on a stimulant and has been since age 5. He did have probably an 18 month span in which he was not on them probably around 10-11. We had considered that they were affecting his growth and figured he'd have a massive growth spurt when he wasnt on them-but in that whole 18 months he only grew minimally. He can literally wear a size 4/5 short (as in 4/5 toddler size). He cant wear pants in that size as they would be too short but they do fit him around the waist-he was just wearing a pair. We have also tried giving him weekends, school vaca's off meds to see if that would increase growth but that did not help either. I dont honestly see how it could affect his growth though as seriously he's probably taking in around 5000 calories a day. So shouldnt he grow? His family does have a lot of skinny genes so that is probably part of it too. I do appreciate your input-I have noticed he will not eat a whole lot sometimes at meal times-just small portions-however 30 mintes afterwards he is ready to eat again. I would be ok with like 5 small meals a day-but he wants to eat every single hour-all snack foods-no meal type foods.
This is kind of hilarious.
This is kind of hilarious. Just coming over and taking your table lamp? I could see her coming over and borrowing your suitcase if she is going on a trip-but who just randomly takes someone's table lamp? I guess she thinks you guys are the local Walmart.
SS has always had issues with food and taking food and gorging himself on food. When he was little he could eat a whole large package of oreos in one sitting and then would promptly vomit them up, but then would demand breakfast. He would get up in the middle of the night and gorge himself. I think he is doing it here as well. I hadnt really been paying attention before-but the last 3 days I've noticed that he is up before anyone else in the house-noone wakes him up-he's just already up. How many teens just like to get up extra early each morning-we wake him up over an hour before he has to get on the bus so he has plenty of time-that's not the issue. So I think he is usig that time to raid the cabinets, perhaps fill his backpack with snacks. He also got some money for Easter and he has been taking that to school and buying snacks out of the vending machine all week. I swear this kid has to take in 5000 calories a day.