OH sabotage of batch cooking!

Ches

We had friends come to lunch and I cooked a roast beef dinner. I served a generous portion of meat for each of us but after they had finished eating what they had on their plates the wife said 'I will cut off some more meat shall I' and between them they ate most of the remainder of the large joint I had cooked. I was not best pleased.

nodwah

My Dh is a nightmare for that!

The minute he's finished his dinner he's on the prowl looking for some other food and he's often finished off a pan of something that I thought would do 2 or 3 more nights:eek::mad:
Doesn't matter how much I moan about it or shout and lose the rag!

He'll often eat a whole packet of biscuits at one sitting and especially home made cakes - wooofed down in a second ( and he has got a massive tum now he's pushing 50 :rotfl: )

DS1 is heading that way too

Westywoodpecker

Well I honestly thought it was just our house

OH is quite greedy thinking all that is left in the pan is left overs ready for him to eat. I "got him" this evening though. I made a chilli using two chillies I've never heard of before & included the seeds. It was so bloomin hot I had to add another tin of tomatoes & a tin of baked beans to calm it down. Consequently I've got loads left :rotfl:

brownsauce

i cook for my two house mates most of the time, they dont understand the concept of left overs, and if there is something on the plate, no matter how full they are they will eat it!!!!!

I made loads of dinner last night (a slow cooked beef stew), with a wild amount of mash potato thinking they will fill up on the mash rather than the meat AND there was apple crumble for pudding!

J served up the dinner, put all the potatoes on the three plates (im telling you there was enough enough potatoes in there to feed six Michael Phelps) and I left the stoneware pot in the middle of the table for them to take what they want out of it. Before i even had time to get a drink, the whole pot was gone (apart from some carrots left at the bottom), then J says AFTER serving all the food up, 'oh you werent trying to do that leftover thing again were you?':mad:

We actually had so much food that we all needed to take an hour break between dinner and pudding (the hour break was some football match...)

Eugh i think i am being more unfair than they deserve because just woke up and realised that the dishes hadnt been done even after i text j a reminder (and i had done most of it apart from an apple crumble dish and some mugs)

mummyjane

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

I wish our house was like that! I don't have a problem with the youngest two children as they know better than to just take without asking. However, when my stepsons (15 and 17) visit it feels like a swarm of locusts are in! Dh is bad enough on his own - I have to hover over leftovers until they are cool enough to pop in the freezer or they are gone :mad:

I also get a bit peeved when I go to make something, say for the kids tea and dh has opened the pack of meat/cheese eating a slice or two only and then not wrapping it properly :eek: so much food gets wasted and that really makes me mad. He is very slowly getting better but still drives me crazy with it - ok rant over :A

Alison_Funnell

mummyjane wrote: »

I wish our house was like that! I don't have a problem with the youngest two children as they know better than to just take without asking. However, when my stepsons (15 and 17) visit it feels like a swarm of locusts are in! Dh is bad enough on his own - I have to hover over leftovers until they are cool enough to pop in the freezer or they are gone :mad:

I also get a bit peeved when I go to make something, say for the kids tea and dh has opened the pack of meat/cheese eating a slice or two only and then not wrapping it properly :eek: so much food gets wasted and that really makes me mad. He is very slowly getting better but still drives me crazy with it - ok rant over :A

It's the whole ethos of give and take, not just food, noise, tasks etc.

Stepsons are hard, if their homelife has no rules it's hard to come in to a place with them, if it has rules then they are just taking the mickey. Be brutally honest, tell them it can't go on and ask them for suggestions. Include Dad in that. It's not fair for the boys to have rules if dad doesn't stick to them either.

It's very disrespectful to you and all your hardwork.

Alison_Funnell

Ches wrote: »

We had friends come to lunch and I cooked a roast beef dinner. I served a generous portion of meat for each of us but after they had finished eating what they had on their plates the wife said 'I will cut off some more meat shall I' and between them they ate most of the remainder of the large joint I had cooked. I was not best pleased.

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Sorry but that is just plain bl***y rude. I wouldn't dream of doing that anywhere. Not very good friends if you ask me.

Alison_Funnell

JulieGeorgiana wrote: »

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

You and me both! :rotfl:

In the grand scheme of things sometimes there has to be a plain and simple no.

mummyjane

I have to say that dh is very good at helping with everything else. He works long days but still helps get the kids to bed and will always do the dishes if I have cooked. He is pretty good with most things, I just need to work on the appetite - I think one day he may explode due to food overload :rotfl:

LadyC

This post has made me chuckle as I can't seem to get over a dreadful thing my husband did the other day.... I cooked a big ham joint the other day, which had enough to do a couple of dinners, a few sarnies and a massive batch of soup with the stock. After dinner I went out to the kitchen to start prepping the veg to get the soup made, only to find the big pot draining by the sink. Asked him where he'd put the stock... he'd only poured it away down the sink before washing the pot!!! I might need counselling if I don't stop harping on about it soon.