Food stealing question?

[aussienic]

Ds1 and 2 share a room.. their room is so messy.. It is just as much my fault as theirs but anyways....

I was remaking Ds2's bed tonight and I notice a food packet.. then behind the bed a muesli bar wrapper.

I asked why they had put rubbish in their room and by the looks of their sheepish faces I asked if they had been eating in their bedroom..

anyways apparently when they get up to get 1 more drink they sneak food. I asked why on earth would they do that? Apparently they are hungry and we don't feed them enough dinner.. Seriously?? If you could see the way my boys eat and the fact that most nights around 6 - 6:30 they have fruit or some other snack..

Why would they do that??? Is that normal behavior?

[tellytubby]

Honestly. It sounds kind of just like something kids do.
I know that sounds like a half ar$ed answer, but kind of like, "heehee, lets steal a muslie bar and eat it, mum will never know!" The fun of it?? and to avoid going to sleep for just that extra 10 minutes ?
Then when you confronted them, the first thing they thought of was to say you don't feed them enough, lol.

May be off track, but thats how I would interpret it

[aussienic]

that is sort of the way I was heading.. I know I feed them enough..Always running out of food (they are wormed)

I was curious if others have dealt with it..

[mrslancer]

I know my brothers and I used to do it when we were kids

[Rivlas]

Quite normal. One way to put a dampener is to leave out a snack for them. Not as much fun

[Glamourcide]

My brother's nearly 22 and STILL 'sneaks' food (he lives with my parents)... drives them nuts. I remember doing it heaps as a kid, it wasn't so much that I didn't get fed adequately (I did!), it was more that certain 'treat' foods had restrictions on them in our house (eg Mum always bought those bags of fun-size chocolates to pop in our lunchboxes, but we were only supposed to have them in our lunchboxes, not eat them whenever we felt like it, itms) and if I got a sugar craving I'd sneak them into my room to snack on
I agree with Rivlas, offer them other snacks and they'll probably lose their taste for forbidden goodies that have been snatched behind your back!! x

[aussienic]

I just told Dh (he is at work) and he laughed and laughed.. He reassured me as well that is perfectly normal

but we are going to have a chat with them because it isn't healthy what they are eating (well it is just usual lunchbox snacks but we would rather they didn't eat after they clean their teeth