Where can I get a locking box to use in my refrigerator?

Have you tried disguising the food as something else? What does he hate? Use an empty container or wrapper to hide it.

Also, it appears that Amazon carries some boxes.

@tom_g Great Idea! Get a tofu box and hide you cheese in that.

I don’t know why I was amazed that there were actually such things as locking boxes for refrigerators. You can buy anything you can imagine. I just never imagined such a thing a guess.

On toast, in the toaster oven. The lazy man’s grilled cheese sandwich. No mystery here.

Clearly you will not be buying that cheese again.

You planned on it for a meal ingredient or topping, right? So use a trick I learned. Never buy the good tasting stuff if it is going to be cooked or baked.

Buy the lowest calorie, lowest fat “cheese” you can find. It will taste awful if you eat it straight up but will cook up into a meal quite nicely
Think Baker’s Chocolate. It tastes terribly bitter straight but, when baked into cookies with sugar, mmmmm. You never have to worry about thieves pilfering the raw material.

And the low fat is probably better for a person who is piggy enough to wolf down half a pound in a day.
Gosh! That is 720 calories… 62% from fat! Yikes!

I used to hide candy in the vegetable bin. I told the kids when they were young adults about it; they’d never figured it out!

@janbb Any food that was a “problem” simply would not enter the house again for at least a month or two. That seemed to work for my family.

@LuckyGuy But what if I wanted the candy?

Who says that mozzarella – or any other cheese – needs to be cooked? A hunk of cheese is the perfect snack. Most “string cheese” is mozzarella – get him those to nosh on?

@janbb do like I do, keep it in the liquor cabinet. Chocolate and Brandy! Mmmmm!

@janbb I say it is ok if you only take one or 2 pieces per day. if you eat more you can’t bring it back in the house for a month. Clearly you are not mature enough to handle such temptation. ;-)
If I am eating nuts for example and I really like them but have had more than i think is reasonable I will state out loud “That is all I’m having”. If I reach in and take another one I ban myself for a month. That has not happened since I learned self control back when I was in my 20’s
@hearkat String cheese is a great snack – if he can limit himself to one. @Seek_Kolinahr is complaining that he ate a pound in 2 days! (Wow!).

Buy a metal cash box from Walmart. It’s small enough to fit on any shelf, it should have a plastic tray that you can lift out, and it comes with a cheap look and two keys. Might work.

@snowberry Great idea. I often see those for sale at Goodwill for about $5.

@LuckyGuy I keep my favorite candy in the freezer downstairs. It is a very deliberate action when I take a piece and my weight is lower than it’s been in about 10 years.

I agree with the person who suggested putting it in a container he will never check. Maybe cottage cheese or sour cream container?

haha…

Told him I was going to start locking up the cheese. He’s all “I just made a couple of sandwiches”.

This was pre-grated mozzarella I bought to make baked ziti. Sheesh.

He suggested I used the Kraft American sandwich slices instead.

If I could roll my eyes any higher they’d pop out of my head.

@Seek_Kolinahr Send him out to the store to get more cheese.

If you buy a lot of smoked salmon, you would always have lox in the fridge.

^ Oy!

@elbanditoroso Are you trying to start a schmeer campaign?

@janbb – what a cheesy thing to say!

Ah – I’ll cream ya!

Tell him tonight you’re making his portion of baked ziti “cheese free” since he already ate his several times more than his portion of cheese. Yum! Let us know how it goes. LOL

And give us your recipe for baked ziti.

I could easily eat a pound of mozzarella in 2 days without cooking.
I love cheese. :0)

Recipe? Oh gosh. My dishes are rarely the same one time to the next, as I shop and cook by my wallet.

Today, here’s the meal -

Boil a box of Ronzoni garden delight tri-color penne. On BOGO, so 80¢ for the box.

In a bowl, mix 16oz ricotta ($1.50), ½ jar Prego garden veggie combination sauce (1.50 for the whole jar), 2 cloves garlic, minced, about 2 tbsp each Italian seasoning and dried chopped onion, 2 good hands full of shredded mozzarella ($2.19 for 8oz)

Crumble and brown 2 hamburger patties left over from last night. Add that to cheese mix.

Drain pasta, but not all the way. Save about ½ cup water. Return to the pot and mix in the cheese and meat mix.

Pour it all into a 13*9 pan, top with grated Parmesan and some more mozzarella.

350, about ½ hour.