When do you plan to ration your supplies?

When would you start to ration your supplies during any sort of event? Would you force everybody in your group to partake in this, or would you have exceptions?

Personally my plan is to try to eat all the perishable food as soon as possible, and get everybody to gut out and consume the calories as fast as we can. I would rather lay low and gorge myself like a lion for a few days,  rather then let all that stuff go to waste. When those supplies run out, the adults will get to cut back. I will have three small children in our little family collective and they all eat like teenagers. So they will have the priority when it comes to food, and I don't see anybody forcing them to cut back.  They are the reason why I prep, so keeping them alive would be my reason for being. That being said I can handle two meals a day, and maybe a meal and a half in the summer months.

What are your plans folks?