What would you do if every time someone in the house got something to eat a certain person walked up and asked what was being eaten? There have been times when the person was asleep and they have woken, cause they smelled something cooking, or heard the fridge.

wow. i would get really annoyed, to be honest. o.o why would someone do that every time?

I would tell them to bugger off. Sounds like thinly veiled begging to me. Maybe they're hoping you'll offer them some.

But yeah, that's kinda weird.

Ugh, my mother does that, too. I always feel ridiculous for being annoyed by it, but it's pretty irritating to have her constantly looking over my shoulder to see what's on my plate and asking me what I'm eating :d Maybe you should just be honest with the person and politely let them know that it irritates you? I've personally just learned to deal with it because she's my mom and it's just one of her less favorable quirks, but I don't think you should have to put up with it if it's really bothering you.

Also, not to seem like a grammar nazi or anything, but I thought I'd let you know that it's spelled "frustration", without the e c:

Well to be really honest I usually respond with "poop". It's a joke between my mother and I but honestly, I'd get irritated and likely respond as such to whoever it was. Or, something along the lines of, "My food." Being snarky is never the 'right' option but if they are the type to get the hint they just might.

Okay wow, they have some kind of issue if they will GET UP FROM SLEEP when they hear the fridge open just to see what it being eaten. :| Not joking, either-there is something screwy with this person. Either way, I'd say something like 'just my normal food. If it's ever something good, I'll come and tell you, alright?' to maybe try to get the point across they are being annoying as hell.

It sounds like they are secretly a dog in a person costume trying to beg whenever the fridge opens, with the way they come running.

Is this person morbidly obese o_O?

My mother is obese and does the same thing whenever I make something to eat. It's really annoying... she usually eats my leftovers/anything I leave for a few seconds. Yesterday I made eggs and home fries, left the table for a minute and when I came back she was eating my food. This happens a lot. Ugh.

Yes, yes they are. Husband has started to call her Pavlov and she doesn't get it. It is my mother, and she lives here cause we take care of her. She has done it my whole life and really it is starting to effect our kids, and my husband. She sits over him as he eats and he just ends up tossing it. She sighs in frustration then storms off. She has taken food off my son's plate. A bite here a piece there or just out right taken his special needs diet food and ate it so he didn't have what he needed.

My best friend asked the other day if my mother had started to eat the baby's food yet. I thought she was joking so I laughed it off, she goes, " No, I'm serious. I really expect her to start eating the puree's next." I have started getting snippy with my mom. And still she does it snide, sarcastic, explaining, telling her to stop, nothing works.

Is your mother quite old? I hate to say this, but if you need to take care of her for reasons that aren't purely financial/due to disability then it may be advisable for you to take her to see a counselor. Taking your son's food is absolutely awful. And she's obese, so I suppose you actually have a reason to take her to see a counselor. Taking others' food and being so obsessed with it is a sign of an eating disorder. If she gets offended, tell her that you only want her to be more comfortable and that seeing a counselor may help her lose weight. Worst case scenario, bring it up to your own doctor and ask what he would recommend.