Do you hide food in your house?
@cmoneyspinner (9218)
Austin, Texas
August 3, 2018 6:33pm CST
When I was a kid, I made a shocking discovery. I was about 10 years old, and I was in my mother's bedroom looking for something. Can't remember what I was looking for. But I was checking everywhere. On her dresser. Underneath the bed. I went to her chest of drawers and pulled out one of the drawers. Started moving stuff around and what do you think I found? My mom had a stash of Mr. Goodbar candy bars in her drawer. I'm not talking bite-size bars that you get in a Halloween bag. I was shocked! I couldn't believe it! My dear sweet mother had been holding out on me! I immediately confronted her about it and all she had to say in her defense was “Oops! I forgot to tell you not to look in my bureau drawers for anything!” It was one of those real life Family Circus moments. 
Fast forward decades later and I started having my own kids. Borrowed that trick from my mom and started hiding my stashes of favorite food stuffs. You have to! Cause your kids will eat everything in sight!
* Do you hide food in your house?
Do you have a stash?
* My mom would hide her candy.
* I have friends who hide Pepsi Cola sodas.
* If I could figure out a way to hide the ice cream, I would. I just can't figure out a way to camouflage it.
Fast forward decades later and I started having my own kids. Borrowed that trick from my mom and started hiding my stashes of favorite food stuffs. You have to! Cause your kids will eat everything in sight!
* Do you hide food in your house?
Do you have a stash?
* My mom would hide her candy.
* I have friends who hide Pepsi Cola sodas.
* If I could figure out a way to hide the ice cream, I would. I just can't figure out a way to camouflage it.
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@Deepizzaguy (122325)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
4 Aug 18
I have to hide the cookies from my sister's dog since she loves cookies to eat.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
Oh my! I have also heard that could be dangerous if the dog ate cookies or cakes or sweet stuff like that.
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@Deepizzaguy (122325)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
7 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner That is true since cookies are harmful for a dog to eat.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
4 Aug 18
My mother had a place where she kept everything under lock and key. She would collect all of us in the hall and dole out whatever goodies that she had kept in her treasure chest. May be she ate some when we were not looking 
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
Believe it or not, my friend's mom put a lock on their refrigerator. It was like that Mel Gibson movie "Conspiracy Theory". But without the conspiracy. The idea of a lock and key on a refrigerator was even more outrageous when I consider that my friend was an only child. I came from a family of 7 boys and 2 girls and my parents never saw the need to put a lock on the refrigerator. 
The idea of a lock and key on a refrigerator was even more outrageous when I consider that my friend was an only child. I came from a family of 7 boys and 2 girls and my parents never saw the need to put a lock on the refrigerator. 1 person likes this
@allknowing (153529)
• India
7 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner Very mean of your friend to do that
When grand children came on the scene there was one grandson she was fond of He would quietly stretch both his hands held at the back and mother thought no one saw it as she would put stuff in both his hands. This guy now is in the US and is a computer wizard having 3 kids of his own but those kids do not have to do that.
When grand children came on the scene there was one grandson she was fond of He would quietly stretch both his hands held at the back and mother thought no one saw it as she would put stuff in both his hands. This guy now is in the US and is a computer wizard having 3 kids of his own but those kids do not have to do that.1 person likes this
@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
9 Aug 18
@allknowing - Yeah. I thought the lock and key was a bit too extreme.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
@LadyDuck - Even if it were just me and my hubby, there are some things I do need to hide from him. Don't want to tempt him. He needs to stick to his diet. When there are certain things I want I just go out to eat that particular food. I'm afraid if he hide he'll still find the stuff.
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@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
5 Aug 18
@compslick We are only the two of us and there is no need to hide food or anything else.
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@LadyDuck (502812)
• Italy
7 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner My husband does not need to stick on any diet and he never gets snacks, he only eats when we sit for our main meals.
@NJChicaa (127180)
• United States
4 Aug 18
No I don't. I should hide the cheese somewhere in the fridge though other than the deli drawer. Every time I need cheddar slices for burgers or queso fresco for scrambled eggs. . . POOF! it is gone! My husband is a cheese monster. We don't even have kids for him to blame it on. He will make a wrap or a sandwich on the rare occasions that we have bread in the house with. . . SHREDDED CHEESE!
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
You just reminded me of my weakness. I too am a cheese monster. But I prefer the blocks of cheese. Not shredded cheese. My kids mostly buy shredded cheese. If somebody buys the block of cheese, they better hide it from me.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
9 Aug 18
@NJChicaa - I don't have to fight hubby over cheese. My husband is lactose intolerant. In fact, he was the first person I ever met with that problem. He passed it down to some of our kids through the genes. One of my sons will take one of those tablets (Lactaid, or something) before he eats any product with milk.
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@NJChicaa (127180)
• United States
6 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner He will eat any kind, including the shredded cheese. It is ridiculous.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
4 Aug 18
You will find such chocolates and candies in my cupboard. I hide it from my daughters when some guests bring it. I give it to them in a controlled way. If they get hold of it, they finish it too fast overeating it.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
Halloween candy was always hidden and given out in a controlled way.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
7 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner Yes they collect a lot and II take it from them to give it in a controlled way. I do not want them to fall sick post Halloween.
@youless (114117)
• Guangzhou, China
4 Aug 18
I don't hide the food. Actually I like to share snacks with my child. We like to watch the documentary or movie together and meanwhile enjoy the snacks. It is our happy moment. My son is very funny as he seldom will take the snacks by himself. Perhaps he thinks it is better to share
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
It is fun moments like these that you treasure forever. 
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@snowy22315 (209177)
• United States
4 Aug 18
Not really...I don't really have anyone to hide food from.
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@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
Just in case guests drop by, you might want to have a backup plan.
@cmoneyspinner (9218)
• Austin, Texas
6 Aug 18
Most of my kids were not fussy eaters.
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@Hannihar (130150)
• Israel
24 Aug 18
@cmoneyspinner
Now you know her secret.Did you tell her you found her stash?
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@RasmaSandra (98129)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4 Aug 18
Nope there is just me and my cat so I do not have to hide anything.
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@stacy31 (157)
• Nairobi, Kenya
6 Aug 18
I do hide Candy's from my kids and only give out to them when they have been good.