People who come over and eat all your food

[rhbgirl24]

I know its rude and annoying! However I would just buy filler food for when they come over - chips, pretzels, dip. So on. Leave that food out and easy to get to. So your fiance doens't have to tell them no. I thnk everyone is right, since its his brothers it was probably the way they were raised and think its a free for all.

 

[mrscushion]

I would hide the chocolate in my bedroom nightstand. Works for me.

With six kids in our family, my Mom had this policy. Only *I* was onto her ... yummmmmmm!

Put it in a tampon box. I guarantee guys won't open that!

Hahahaaaa! Great idea.

I can't offer any more ideas to keep your food safe beyond what's been said. All good ideas. I am sorry about your FI and his ravenous drunkie friends. That would drive me insane, too. And, since you're saying his family wasn't ever very big on manners, I could also see how he doesn't perceive it as much of an issue. I think either you *really* have to make it clear to him that he needs to buy his own supplies for his friends, or you need to label your food as yours as has been suggested.

 

[Jennifer W]

I won't comment on the rights and wrongs of the situation, because other people have put it better than I would, but I can offer you a pretty much failsafe hiding spot for small items of food such as chocolate in a house shared with men. Get a huge, economy pack of tampons and remove them from the box. Put your chocolate or whatever in there, then pile a few tampons back on top to dissuade the more intrepid food hunter.

Great minds, Jennifer. Great minds...

Looks like we were posting our devious plots at the same time...

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I would hide the chocolate in my bedroom nightstand. Works for me.

With six kids in our family, my Mom had this policy. Only *I* was onto her ... yummmmmmm!

Put it in a tampon box. I guarantee guys won't open that!

Yep, tampon box, panty drawer, etc. That's where I hide all my good stuff!

I would be super mad if my husband's friends came over and ate our food! NONE of them do so or would think to do so.

One of my friends DID put a lock on her fridge because her teenage sons' friends would come around and eat all their food! I don't think it worked out though b/c it was a combo lock. lol

ETA - another is buy a cooler and a ton of ice packs to keep in your room. When I was with my in-laws, I kept one in my room! And if the friends, drunk or not, are entering your room, there is a SERIOUS problem going on. Major lack of set boundries!

 

[Autumnovember]

You could try one of these remedies: http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/2010/08/01/those-heirloom-tomatoes-had-sentimental-value/. (One of my favorite sites.)

I just died reading these!!! I think I'm gonna do this...if anything just for the laugh factor, hahahahah!

 

[Autumnovember]

I read your post and thought of this right away, I reckon it'd keep the chocolate safe at least

I need this. It would totally work on FI, he is a scaredy cat...llllollll!

 

[Autumnovember]

I would hide the chocolate in my bedroom nightstand. Works for me.

With six kids in our family, my Mom had this policy. Only *I* was onto her ... yummmmmmm!

Put it in a tampon box. I guarantee guys won't open that!

 

[Laila619]

Autum, My take is that it is a Fiance problem, because your Fiance should tell the People that they can not eat your food. He should said this food is for Autum lunch during the week, please don't eat it I mean, if my friends wanted to eat my DH food I would not let them, or I would buy food for my friends if I knew they were going to come to my house.

Yes. Why are these guests going into your kutchen and heping themselves anyway?! Your FI is letting them I assume.

 

[Autumnovember]

Autum, My take is that it is a Fiance problem, because your Fiance should tell the People that they can not eat your food. He should said this food is for Autum lunch during the week, please don't eat it I mean, if my friends wanted to eat my DH food I would not let them, or I would buy food for my friends if I knew they were going to come to my house.

Yes. Why are these guests going into your kutchen and heping themselves anyway?! Your FI is letting them I assume.

The kitchen is the most common area people are in because the beer is in the fridge so they're usually opening the fridge for the beer...see something they like....you get the idea.

 

[TooPatient]

Autum, My take is that it is a Fiance problem, because your Fiance should tell the People that they can not eat your food. He should said this food is for Autum lunch during the week, please don't eat it I mean, if my friends wanted to eat my DH food I would not let them, or I would buy food for my friends if I knew they were going to come to my house.

Yes. Why are these guests going into your kutchen and heping themselves anyway?! Your FI is letting them I assume.

The kitchen is the most common area people are in because the beer is in the fridge so they're usually opening the fridge for the beer...see something they like....you get the idea.

Buy FI a beverage refrigerator so they don't have an excuse to go in the kitchen. (I mean... would any of them really get off the couch for a beer if they could just reach over and grab one?).
Stock up on the inexpensive "guy food" snacks before you leave so FI can just toss the bags out for everyone. Maybe some cheap pickles to go in the beverage refrigerator?


Hmmm....
Ya know....... You could stock the refrigerator with laxative food (cake with a laxative in the filling, etc)

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Suggestion? Fool them. Use your food budget to stock your fridge with nutritionally good foods (fruits, yougert, and veggies) and no inebriated person will touch them! Good for you

cheers--Sharon

 

[Shoopy]

I'm jealous chocolate lasts so long it needs a hiding spot. I wish I had that willpower.

 

[iLander]

I think this is kind of hopeless; you're trying to keep food away from 7 brothers? Holy moly, that's a lot of "man-sized' hungers.

Don't they have fridge locks for dieters?

That probably won't work either, they'll just razz him and whip out the power drill.

I say just move, and don't tell them where you're going!

But, seriously, tampon box is the way to go.

 

[VapidLapid]

well since they're family you could tell them they have to contribute $30 a week each to the grocery kitty and just buy an extra $150 of the sorts of things they would want. Theyre eating your pickles because they dont have so many options. buy a case of cheeze in a can and a case of silly string, then switch the labels.

 

[iLander]

well since they're family you could tell them they have to contribute $30 a week each to the grocery kitty and just buy an extra $150 of the sorts of things they would want. Theyre eating your pickles because they dont have so many options. buy a case of cheeze in a can and a case of silly string, then switch the labels.

 

[sctsbride09]

Ditto 100% Canuk-Gal. My DH (before he was my DH) used to have this problem. As soon as I moved in, the groceries went from things that people could grab and eat immediately to things that had to be cooked, and healthy stuff. That stopped the guys in their tracks. However, if Im given notice that people are coming over, I will always prepare snacks and put them out on our table. But I would not be up for a bunch of drunks to come tap my fridge out when they can just as easily order a pizza.

 

[luv2sparkle]

Tell 'em you licked everything in the fridge just before they came over, and darn but you feel like you are coming down with
something!

 

[partgypsy]

Maybe I'm the odd one, but what would be surprising is if a bunch of young guys DIDN'T raid the fridge. I wouldn't expect them to know the pickles (not an extremely expensive food item) are off limits unless someone told them, and apparently even you haven't as you said they have done this in front of you and you didn't know what to say. I would simply put a note on those items stating as someone said "for Tuesday lunch" and they should get the idea.

I could be skewed because I was raised with relatives who forced food upon us when we visited (it would be a horror to have someone visit and NOT offer them food!). My husband's mother actually kept a running receipt going at a store deli so he could get a fresh sandwich whenever he wanted, and she also kept an extra freezer in the garage with all manner of frozen foods and snacks so he and his teenaged friends would always have food available. And as some of his friends were on the football team, suffice to say they ate ALOT of food. One time my husband and his friend were literally banned from a buffet restaurant for abusing the privilege .

 

[waterlilly]

Tell your fiance he is responsible for buying food to have out in bowls etc. on the table when his friends are over and to SIMPLY say "hey, guys - don't eat that, it's for my fiance's lunch"

Who does that anyway? Goes into someone else's fridge and helps themselves to the food?? Are they teenagers?