For Cooped-Up Families, Food Becomes Something to Fight Over

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For Cooped-Up Families, Food Becomes Something to Fight Over
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Family squabbles about food—planning for it, preparing it and eating it—are emerging. “People are preoccupied with what they are going to eat in a way that seems different now. Food brings home a sense of the pandemic.”

These coronavirus-induced food fights can be serious—but may also serve as a low-stakes way to let off steamStewart Bick can’t run the risk of running out of black-and-white cookies during the quarantine. Since Mr. Bick, 57, only visits Trader Joe’s “once the bananas start to turn brown” at home, he has started stashing the last few precious cookies from each trip in his desk drawer—safe from the rest of his family.

So far, his wife and 10-year-old son haven’t caught on. “Now that we have to hoard certain things, it’s every man and woman for himself,” says Mr. Bick, the Los Angeles-based founder of a custom-furniture firm. “This...

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