Both my parents make well over £200k, yet there is NEVER food in the house.

I worry so much about doing that ... I don't want to split the family up

You won`t "split the family up". Social workers take children away from their parents only in the most extreme situations. Their main role is to work WITH the parents to help them with their parenting skills.

They would see beyond the "I'm taking your money to get the food you didn't bother to get us" and call me a "thief" and possibly kick me out the house. I promise you, I know my parents - especially my dad who used to be an alcoholic.

Are you a twin? Both you and your brother are 17? If there are two 17 year olds and a 16 year old you should confront your parents as a group. Your 8 year old sister should be kept out of this but you older ones need to look out for her if nobody else will.

How long has this been going on for? Maybe your parents aren't as well off as they're letting you think and are trying to keep up appearances in other ways, find private school fees (if applicable) and so on.

I remember an eerily similar thread to this some months ago (maybe even a year, can't remember). Either copying another thread or this situation is sadly more common than I thought.

Call the police. What answer did you want from this thread?

I remember an eerily similar thread to this some months ago (maybe even a year, can't remember). Either copying another thread or this situation is sadly more common than I thought.

i swear this thread has been done before

Well spotted .... by me.

so....what do your parents eat?

What do you think?

Why would it matter if I'm a twin or not?

I've been confronting my parents about it for as long as I can remember.

They're LOADED ... they have thousands to spend on food, and they know it.

Food should be a PRIORITY.

I don't know, because from reading your other replies it looks like you don't want to do anything.

Yes food should be a priority, what I was trying to establish was had this situation recently arisen as in had their income suddenly dropped and they were not wanting to admit it. Maybe they are living in some sort of denial.

What DO they spend their money on (that is evident anyway)? Unless you've seen their bank accounts you won't know if they're actually loaded or not you only have their say so.

By establishing you sibling group ages it helps a bit in what to suggest you do. I know people can't use food banks unless they are referred to one but maybe if you approach food banks and ask who you need to contact to give you a referral this might help

Steal from them. If they complain say 'you want some' or 'you've got no flans' or 'first your starving us, then your going to move to Austria, then your going to build a dungeon, then...nooooooooooooooo'