OH sabotage of batch cooking!

craftdaft

I'm starting to make inroads on this. DH ate extra roast beef after tea one night. For lunch the next day he had 1 roast beef sandwich and the other without beef (just red onions and pickle:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:). He has started to ask a bit more before eating anything that's sitting on the worktop cooling down

money_saving_diva

Yup I have to put it in a plastic container to cool ready for the freezer so oh knows not to touch it. He will ask if it's in the pan and I feel mean saying no.

I had to start doing this when I was at uni though!! The lads I lived with would ask for my left overs that I made cos I batch cooked and I was the only one that cooked proper meals! I remember hiding a bowl of bolognese in my plate cupboard and one of the lads came in the room I was eating in and said how nice my sauce was!? He had got a slice of bread and wiped it all round the saucepan lol!

funkymonkey849

LOL I love how everyone else has the same problem with their gannet OHs .

Mine is v. good now and when serving up the dinner will even ask if any needs to be kept for packed lunches ect :T

It took about 7 years to train him though :rotfl:

Although, twice in the last few weeks he has watched me measure out the ingredients for cakes and start mixing it together before telling me he'd eaten all the eggs :mad:

Aarons_mummy

Mine doesn't even get to be dished up before there's someone in the pot eating it!

LO's dad comes up 2/3 times a week and it'll still be cooking and he eats some, when getting the plates ready he eats it as well grrr!

Now I live on my own it isn't a problem except the days he's up!

Justamum

funkymonkey849 wrote: »

Although, twice in the last few weeks he has watched me measure out the ingredients for cakes and start mixing it together before telling me he'd eaten all the eggs :mad:

You'll have to have an egg-free cake recipe on hand for those occasions :rotfl:

Alison_Funnell

I am beginning to wonder how odd our family might look to others.:eek:

If someone goes to eat something up they always check it's not being kept for something or that someone else didn't want it. If anything gets finished then it goes on the shopping list and a general 'shout' of we're out of ... goes up. We'd all think of it as kinda selfish or rude not to. OH and I grew in houses where that was always the case as well.

Maybe our house is just very old fashioned?:o

lostinrates

Alison_Funnell wrote: »

I am beginning to wonder how odd our family might look to others.:eek:

If someone goes to eat something up they always check it's not being kept for something or that someone else didn't want it. If anything gets finished then it goes on the shopping list and a general 'shout' of we're out of ... goes up. We'd all think of it as kinda selfish or rude not to. OH and I grew in houses where that was always the case as well.

Maybe our house is just very old fashioned?:o

Things in cupboards/fridge etc are never an issue, its just dh sees what he things is a scrap of left overs that would make nice seconds....I see a meal for me midweek, or something I can use in an other way and unnecessary calories after a fair meal.

We tend to meal plan, but dh is here three nights a week only...so doesn't understand the concept f eating left overs...as there is ''new food'' next weekend.

Pooky

Alison_Funnell wrote: »

I am beginning to wonder how odd our family might look to others.:eek:

If someone goes to eat something up they always check it's not being kept for something or that someone else didn't want it. If anything gets finished then it goes on the shopping list and a general 'shout' of we're out of ... goes up. We'd all think of it as kinda selfish or rude not to. OH and I grew in houses where that was always the case as well.

Maybe our house is just very old fashioned?:o

We must old fashioned too then - DH wouldn't dream of eating anything in the way of left overs without checking it wasn't needed first. Even then he'd save it for DD's lunch boxes the next day before he ate it.

Seems to me that some people need a lesson in basic manners. :cool:

JulieGeorgiana

Pooky wrote: »

We must old fashioned too then - DH wouldn't dream of eating anything in the way of left overs without checking it wasn't needed first. Even then he'd save it for DD's lunch boxes the next day before he ate it.

Seems to me that some people need a lesson in basic manners. :cool:

Agreed! Manners cost nothing!

My OH texts me on a Friday lunchtime (he's home early) to make sure he can have 'x' for lunch and it's not been earmarked, or he'll ask the night before what was okay for lunch the next day. If he doesn't then I know he's had a sandwich or toast. The only meal he can eat without asking is chilli (in the pot luck bag in the freezer) and even then he'll tell me right away there is one less so I can change the inventory.

We don't snack in our house much, and most meals are planned.

As I serve dinner I pot leftovers at the same time, and after dinner OH will ask what I want doing with them and put them in the fridge or freezer for me once cooled.

All food in and out of the freezer is monitored.

All new packets being opened are monitored... I always get told by both DH and DS(8) if they are getting something.

The biscuit barrel is the one place they can snack... but if I fill it up... it may be weeks before I do it again... so they are frugal with them!

Maybe I am a force to be reckoned with...!

BUXTONRABBIT

What annoys me is if, I make a big stew of shepherds pie and dont plate it up for the oh. He is usually asleep or at the pub. Yes there is a connection. He will heat up the whole dish, eat what he wants and then doesn't even put the leftovers in the fridge so it ends up being thrown away.