My daughter has an infatuation with mayonaise, butter, and vegan cheese blocks. No matter how many times I go over it with her that she is not to grab them and eat them without my permission, she goes for them again and eats them straight from the jar, or worse smears them all over the place.

A few minutes ago, I was taking a computer break after doing some housework. The kids were playing by themselves right behind me--or so I thought. I smelled what smelled like apple cider vinegar, and sure enough, my daughter had gotten the jar out and smeared a bunch on the floor and then was licking the rest off of her hands! [whatcrazy]

I spanked her and sent her to time out, where she is right now.

I have really, really had it with her trying to get those particular items out of the fridge the moment my back is turned for a couple minutes. Maybe my solution is just to replace the refrigerator lock, I don't know.

Did anybody else have this issue with your kid targeting certain food items all the time? How did you deal with it? Should I tell her that she's not allowed to have any of those things for a certain period of time as a punishment?

TIA!

Is she craving something her body does not have enough of? That would be one thing I would look at before deciding to take it away or not.

The other thing is, well, my kids always want cookies and ice cream, I just keep them out of reach and they get generous spanks if they try to mount some kind of kitchen raid. lol

Is she craving something her body does not have enough of? That would be one thing I would look at before deciding to take it away or not.

The other thing is, well, my kids always want cookies and ice cream, I just keep them out of reach and they get generous spanks if they try to mount some kind of kitchen raid. lol

I would think that she has enough fat in her diet. Hmmm....

We haven't had this issue with food, but with other things. The only thing that worked was consistent discipline. I sure hope she stops soon, gal~

I would think that she has enough fat in her diet. Hmmm....

I find my kids eat a lot more protein/fat when they are about to hit a growth spurt.... just something to look at. she also could just be being naughty, lol.

Our oldest used to do this with cheese a couple of years ago - he used to get up in the middle of the night and take the cheese into his room or wait until I was fully occupied with his then infant brother and sneak it out of the fridge and hole up in a closet with it to eat it. It was pretty funny to find him in the closet with his tiny hands wrapped around a giant block of cheddar and gnawing on the corner like a little mouse, but also frustrating bec alot of the time he would just stash the cheese in the closet and go play and I wouldn't realize the cheese had been taken out of the fridge until it had gone bad - what a waste!

It took alot (ALOT) of repetition and consistent punishment for taking stuff out of the fridge without permission AND we also made sure that he knew if he was hungry all he had to do was ASK and he would get something else to eat. He could not have the whole block of cheese (LOL) but he could have cheese and apple slices or something like that.
Toddlers need to snack often - it might be a combination of hungry and naughty and the items she is obsessed with are the easiest for her to reach/open or just the tastiest ones to her. My closet mouse chose cheese bec he really liked it and it was usually on eye-level for him in the fridge, too. My kids are hungry way more often than I am, but they also eat much smaller amounts than I do at each sitting.
It is usually - breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner (or if dinner is late, another snack and then dinner, too). Their snacks are as big as their meals so usually I just make sure there is leftover breakfast for snack 1 and fruit-and-something for snack # 2.