People with allergies who steal other people's food are honestly just irresponsible and are asking for whatever they get. Natural selection.

Ugh, I had a son-in-law who scarfed up on everything in our refrigerator and pantry every time he visited (before and after the wedding). Never asked. There were some items that I “hoarded” because they were hard to find. He ate through all of it. That sob!

My "father" was diabetic and I have allergies, a lot of them. I would come home from middle school to find that any food I could eat was gone because he'd eaten only my food all day. Nothing stopped him. He even ate a huge bag of Halloween candy I had. The bag was full and hidden on a shell none of us could reach without a chair and put there when he wasn't home. Came home to him sick on the coach and yelling at me for making him eat my candy. Some times you need to get aggressive or you may end up a resource holder like me.

Rub the lemon on the insides and edges of the plate and you don't have to put it in your food. He's being rude. He wouldn't do that to anyone outside of the home because he knows it would be disrespectful so he should apply the same principle inside the home regardless of who it is. I can imagine that he'd probably get upset if the shoe was on the other foot. I respect that you tell him beforehand that the food has lemon in it.

Hubby almost always helps himself to anything I've put aside for myself to eat later. If I buy 2 chocolate bars, he'll invariably eat both. It's ridiculous but I have to hide my share where he can't find it. It's ridiculous and sooooo annoying

My older sister always asked you for your food. Than she takes a big piece if you say no to her she starts whining to my mom. She does that to everyone. Or she goes to your house collecting food. Ask her for her food and she won't give you nothing. My cousin was 3 he asked her for one of her sausages she told him no. She was about to get up and throw her food away. She had all this food still he took a sausage and put it in his mouth she calls him a greedy bastard. Dude he is 3 and was hungry. You was throwing that food away. His mom wanted to drag my sister. She gets everyone in trouble. So everytime me and my daughter knew she was going to be around we would add raw onions to our food she is allergic. We laughs everytime she asks us for our food. We inform her it was raw onions in our food. Lol she is 45 now and still haven't change. Her own kids can't stand her because of that.

When I was 1st dating my now hubby-we went out to dinner one night. I was 18 and he was 22 at this time(20yrs ago now) His dad was working late and asked him to switch trucks with him after we were done. So we go to the hospital where his dad works. My doggy bag was in the truck cuz I couldn't finish my steak. His dad grabbed the box and started cave man eating my steak. I was sooo 😳🤯. My now hubz just acted like that s**t was normal. I then realized my hubby was going to need some "house training " if we were going to stay together. Has worked 20yrs so far. Lol

NTA! This sounds as if he has some kind of compulsion that he could at least try to control. I doubt he has been very hungry for exactly everything you bring into the house and just can't help himself! I don't know what makes people do things like this, but it is definitely a sign of something other than hunger!

OP, NTA , but you hoggish father sure is TA. Great solution to put lemon in your food. I love the way it brightens food so nicely. Professional chefs do add lemon to savory dishes quite commonly. It's also awesome in pastry. That's beside the point, admittedly. I am a bit surprised that your mother has not enjoined this issue and helped you resolve it with your father.

My mil started doing this to me. Even after I told her its was specific to my health needs. I can't be too mad at her. It was a subtle signs of Alzheimer's in her and we didnt know.

Lmao, I had the same problem with this kid I was raising. She was always eating my food even when I got her her own, she always raided the fridge late at night and would eat everything, even the stuff that I packed for lunch at work would be gone in the morning. For years she did this and thought nothing of it, now she's 17 and started working, still living at home eating the bulk of my food but now I get to eat some of her stuff too, hehehe! She brings some things just for herself and expects it to stay where she left it, lol, she gets so annoyed when I eat it but I guess that's life right. Soon she'll move out and I'll probably still have to give her money to help out with her apartment and bills but that's ok because I love her and that's what parents do right, well if she doesn't kill me first with lemons.....

This sounds like my brother lol he doesn't live at home but when he comes home he eats his weight in food 😂 I have to hid my personal food items in the kitchen appliances and paper goods cabinet 😅🤣

A boyfriend who claimed to be a health nut would do this to me. I couldn't eat around him. He would gobble his meal while lecturing me on my health then clean my plate.

I used to work in HR for a company and would always get food theft complaints. HR Manager refused to allow cameras to be placed in breakroom. I just happen to leave a cheap gopro knockoff one day and discovered why my $15.00 boujie tuna melt sub disappeared. Knowing said HR manager had a severe shrimp allergy i started having some shrimp ground into it. One day my boss starts getting sick. I mentioned to the paramedics she ate shrimp she was allergic too. Lost my job because she was sleeping with upper management and apparently adding shrimp to my own food was attempted poisoning of a coworker. Still worth it

My father would "forget" to feed me and my brother all through my childhood. We lived with him, so at times it was a critical problem. A saturday morning i found both bread and cheese, so I made myself breakfast and went into the LR. Sitting there was my "dad" looking at me with utter disgust on his face, asking where his plate was. I gave him mine, and sat there while he ate it. When he asked my why , i told him i lost my appetitt and he was content with that answer and went on with his business. And thats the last time I ate breakfast at his house, because no way i was going to let him steal food out of my mouth again after everything.

My 8 year old daughter would beat my @$$ if I stole her food, not that I ever would.

NTA

Wish my brother also had some allergy so I could do this to prevent him from eating all my snacks and food ..

The old man is a f*****g glutton. That's a problem, and he needs help and therapy.

My stepmom kept stealing food and beverages from me, especially when I ordered them online. She recently asked why I stopped ordering things and I retorted with "I don't know; why do you keep stealing from me?" And she just pouts and grumbles without answering.

I came from a family of 8. My parents were very giving to anyone, food there last dollar whatever. I just couldn't imagine getting upset because a family member ate my food I bought for myself, whenever I got something special food wise for myself I always bought 2 just if someone wanted to try it. My mom was a good cook and so was my dad, they used very little spices because of how they were taught to cook. In my teens I was in culinary arts made loads of things none of us ate before. At class we could buy like TV dinners of the foods we made that day. You could purchase them for like 50 cents. I always bought a few and took them home so others in my family could try what they normally wouldn't get to. I was brought up to share. I'm sorry I'd never co.plain about someone eating my food, I'd just buy extra.

I'd give him general heads-up, then I'd stop warning him about individual foods. His behaviour has been tolerated long enough, any potential consequences are on him.

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Ok so I'm allergic to onions. Most of the time my hubby shares his fries. Whenever he doesn't wanna share his fried item he will get onion rings. Sometimes people are ok with sharing, sometimes no. Difference with us is we communicate about it and listen to boundaries, obviously your dad isn't listening so it's different

Has he always done this or is it a new problem? He could be bored or developing dementia.

I bet dad remembers having to eat a gas station hotdog for lunch because he had to buy diapers, whipes,clothes and a number of other things for his baby girl that now won't even let him have some leftovers so she poisons it to keep him from eating "her" food ? How could you be the a**hole?

I think the commentary have lost their marbles. He's not taking his daughter's boundaries seriously. She, herself, describes this as a minor inconvenience. Ya'll act like he committed rape. He takes food without asking, nit someone's life. Some of you are advocating for capital punishment. Insanity! Daughter has solved problem with another mild inconvenience to her father, but wants validation her actions are right since there is this power dynamic and Father apparently sees nothing wrong with his actions so he continues to cross daughter's boundaries, perhaps in a subconscious effort to maintain the power dynamic, that as king of his house he has a right to any food brought into it.