Internet Slams Sister for Tossing $1,000 Worth of Food From Sibling's Home

A woman is being heavily criticized online after her sister alleged that she threw out nearly $1,000 worth of food from her pantry because it was "unhealthy" and "poisoning" her body.

In the post titled "AITA for kicking my sister out of my house at night because she threw ALL of my food away?" the Redditor said her sister went into her kitchen and threw out nearly all of her food without permission.

The woman's sister, known only as u/Scared-Outside4725, posted about the situation in Reddit's popular "Am I The A**hole" forum, where it received more than 15,700 upvotes and 1,600 comments since Tuesday evening.

Many users commented the Redditor's sister crossed a line and needed to deal with the consequences of her actions.

According to Carlene MacMillan, founder and clinic director of Brooklyn Minds Psychiatry, it is important to set clear boundaries with family members in order to have a healthy relationship.

This includes having a conversation with siblings and parents to ensure everyone understands each other's healthy boundaries.

"A healthy boundary is one where each person understands that they have their own thoughts and feelings and they are able to maintain a curiosity about the other person's thoughts and feelings without making assumptions," MacMillan told Allure.

Recently, the Redditor said, her sister asked if she could stay at her place for a week because she had a job interview nearby, the post read.

The Redditor explained that she is not close with her sister due to differing interests and personalities. She wrote that her attitude toward her sister was "apathetic love" and that they just don't talk much.

After hearing that her daughter was coming into town, their mother, who lived close by, was "ecstatic" because she scarcely visited home since she moved across the country after college nearly 10 years ago.

"I was more than happy to open my home up, thinking that we could maybe bond or deepen our relationship," the post read. "It was all kind of awkward but nothing horrible until the third night. I came home from drinks with my friends around 10PM, went into my kitchen for a snack, and realized that almost ALL of my food was gone."

Nearly 90 percent of the pantry was empty, according to the post, and, when the poster asked her sister what happened, she admitted to throwing it away.

"She told me that she was shocked I ate anything with preservatives and 'unnatural' and that I was 'poisoning my body' so she took it upon herself to throw away EVERYTHING she deemed unhealthy," the post continued.

The sister threw away both packaged and unpackaged items and even spices that "weren't fresh." In the comments, the Redditor said her sister tossed out pasta, ground beef, pre-cut veggies, canned soups, juice, rice, chicken broth, and white bread, among other foods.

"It was like someone had robbed my kitchen," the post read.

The Redditor said she told her sister that she needed to pay to replace all of the food, but her sister said she was doing her a "favor" and called her diet "disgusting." But the Redditor said her diet was nothing out of the ordinary and that she mostly ate the "standard food" bought at a grocery store.

"I was so upset I made her pack up and leave, and she ended up having to take a cab about 30 minutes away to stay with my parents," the post read. "My mom is absolutely devastated that we're fighting and insists that I apologize in order to keep the peace, because she really hopes my sister will take the job and move back."

She told her mom that if she didn't want to lose another daughter, she needed to stop pushing her to apologize to her sister. She also wrote that her dad said her mom has been "crying every night" about the situation.

"I love my mom so much I feel like a huge AH for being stubborn about the situation," the post finished.

The majority of the 1,600 commenters sided with the Redditor and called out her sister. Some even said the parents probably just sided with the other sister because it was the easier thing to do.

"She can apologize to you after she pays you back for everything she threw out," one user suggested in the comments.

"NTA and your parents are barking up the wrong daughter's tree. It sounds like they see you as the 'path to least resistance' so they are coming to you to apologize because they obviously see sister as a difficult person," another comment read. "Look, your sister is an absolute a**. Way out of line."

"Your sister was a self righteous a**hole and was lucky she only got kicked out, I wouldve been tempted to call the cops on that shit," one user wrote.

Newsweek reached out to u/Scared-Outside4725 but did not receive comment in time for publication.