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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 299937" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Good point, lmf64.</p><p></p><p>You shouldn't have to do this, but if there currently are insufficient boundaries between 'food needed for family meals' and 'food you can help yourself to' then you need to lock up the provisions. But you still shouldn't lock up any food that isn't also available in the "help yourself' provisions. Locking it up makes it desirable, and you need to re-educate the family on what constitutes "desirable' and make sure it = 'good for you'.</p><p></p><p>I know this seams preachy, but desperate situations call for desperate measures, and the combination of unhealthy thinking, unhealthy eating and small budget means you need to buy food in season and fresh; you need to buy cheap (which doesn't have to mean poor quality) and you need the skills to manage it all (locking up what you have to, providing healthy snakcs in abundance that are also mini-meals; cooking healthy, nourishing one-pot meals with leftovers to perpetuate the cycle).</p><p></p><p>A suggestion, if oyu have to lock things up - use your 'spare' fridge if you have one. We have what some people wouldcall a beer fridge. We use it for excess produce but if we had to, we'd have a padlock on it and use it to store the bulk ingredients likely to be raided.</p><p></p><p>The other rule - food that gets regularly raided doesn't get bought, no matter how much other family members want it. So if the bacon gets raided and can't be kept safe - sorry kids, no more bacon. We had a similar thing with difficult child 3 eating frozen raw ravioli. So I stopped buying ravioli, unless I bought a packet and cooked it immediately.</p><p></p><p>Eggs are really good. We try to keep at least a dozen, often with another dozen in the spare fridge. difficult child 3 doesn't like omelettes or scrambled eggs but enjoys boiledeggs. I boil 4 at a time (if it's just for him) and he eats two, the other two go in the fridge for later. But I've got omelettes down pat, I can cook an omelette in two minutes. That includes grated cheddar in the middle if you want. mother in law dropped in, I gave her an unexpected lunch of an omelette that I was able to hand to her while she was still saying, "Yes, please"...</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 299937, member: 1991"] Good point, lmf64. You shouldn't have to do this, but if there currently are insufficient boundaries between 'food needed for family meals' and 'food you can help yourself to' then you need to lock up the provisions. But you still shouldn't lock up any food that isn't also available in the "help yourself' provisions. Locking it up makes it desirable, and you need to re-educate the family on what constitutes "desirable' and make sure it = 'good for you'. I know this seams preachy, but desperate situations call for desperate measures, and the combination of unhealthy thinking, unhealthy eating and small budget means you need to buy food in season and fresh; you need to buy cheap (which doesn't have to mean poor quality) and you need the skills to manage it all (locking up what you have to, providing healthy snakcs in abundance that are also mini-meals; cooking healthy, nourishing one-pot meals with leftovers to perpetuate the cycle). A suggestion, if oyu have to lock things up - use your 'spare' fridge if you have one. We have what some people wouldcall a beer fridge. We use it for excess produce but if we had to, we'd have a padlock on it and use it to store the bulk ingredients likely to be raided. The other rule - food that gets regularly raided doesn't get bought, no matter how much other family members want it. So if the bacon gets raided and can't be kept safe - sorry kids, no more bacon. We had a similar thing with difficult child 3 eating frozen raw ravioli. So I stopped buying ravioli, unless I bought a packet and cooked it immediately. Eggs are really good. We try to keep at least a dozen, often with another dozen in the spare fridge. difficult child 3 doesn't like omelettes or scrambled eggs but enjoys boiledeggs. I boil 4 at a time (if it's just for him) and he eats two, the other two go in the fridge for later. But I've got omelettes down pat, I can cook an omelette in two minutes. That includes grated cheddar in the middle if you want. mother in law dropped in, I gave her an unexpected lunch of an omelette that I was able to hand to her while she was still saying, "Yes, please"... Marg [/QUOTE]
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