So what does your husband stick in the marmalade each morning?

uolypool

As for the marmalade...well, I buy seperate jams as himself leaves crumbs in the jar as I really can't stand it but what's worse is when I find jam in the flora...he's obviously spread on piece of toast then put jam on it and then went back to spread his other piece :mad:[/QUOTE]


Crikey this is one of my pet hates ,:mad:it infuriated me when my ex use to do this .The Jam/marmalade was only used by him when this happened, how I would have loved to have throttled him for doing this.Now life is so much nice as A) he has gone and nobody puts jam in the butter or visa versa. Peace and tranquility is restored in the uolypool household:D

onlyroz

ailuro2 wrote: »

my DH does something similar with the toast, spreads his toast then wipes the excess back into the tub, then leaves the tub out on the worktop even though DD and I always have cereal for breakfast..

When my husband makes toast he can leave the entire kitchen covered in crumbs, as well as leaving butter, breadboard, knife and empty plate strewn over the kitchen counter for someone else (me?) to clear up, so think yourself lucky...

mazinmouse

My DH makes a show of using 'one spoon per dip' into the choc hazelnut spread jar... but I know what happens when I'm not there! I have my own secret stash of the spread. Inspired by OP's wife I'm off to buy more cutlery!

ailuro2

onlyroz wrote: »

When my husband makes toast he can leave the entire kitchen covered in crumbs, as well as leaving butter, breadboard, knife and empty plate strewn over the kitchen counter for someone else (me?) to clear up, so think yourself lucky...

Well he is very considerate, he leaves the knife sitting on top of the tub so someone else can re-use it. ( Maybe the cat enjoys a bit of toast with her elevenses?)

He butters the toast on a plate so the crumbs don't go on the worktop.:)

Loanranger

PhylPho wrote: »

By way of explanation: Mrs P and I are about to celebrate 41 years of untrammelled marital bliss. This is due to two reasons:

1) we have never had a trammel, and:

(2) we first met in church where I was a page boy and Mrs P was a child bridesmaid and the vicar was so drunk he married us instead of the couple who were supposed to be hitched.

Anyway. After all these years of marriage, I thought we were getting along reasonably well. But. . . apparently not. Mrs P has lately taken to bedecking the breakfast table with more bloody cutlery than you'd see on Come Dine With Me on Channel 4.

Turns out, the reason for this sudden abundance of Taiwanese Sheffield plate is because Mrs P is fed up of throwing marmalade away, and so is on a moneysaving-in-marriages economy drive.

Why has she been throwing marmalade away?

Apparently, it's because of what I keep sticking in it when I get up.

I take my knife, I scoop out the butter (actually, Probiotic Eternal Life Lo-Fat Flora) and spread it over my toast, and then *with the same knife* get the Dundee, or possibly, Taiwanese, marmalade and spread it on top.

Mrs P now tells me she can't stand it any longer.

For over 40 years she says she has tolerated this. But no more.

So now, in addition to my coffee spoon, now I have a second spoon and two knives by my plate, the second spoon to get a dollup of marmalade, knife number 1 to get a smidgeon of Eternal Life Flora to spread on the toast, and knife number 2 to dip into the marmalade dollup that's landed on my plate (as well as the table) and then layer it atop the Immortal Flora that's atop the toast.

C'mon. Brain surgery's an easier procedure than all this. And the risk of serious misfortune is predictably high: yesterday I unthinkingly used my coffee spoon to get at the marmalade; this morning I inadvertently stirred my coffee with the marmalade spoon.

Mrs P says she's fed up of chucking Dundee's best away because it's covered in breadcrumbs and Live Forever Flora -- I did wonder why we keep buying in bulk from a wholesaler.

And that she's also fed up of my unsophisticated ways -- what, moi? I have moved in sophisticated circles all my life, have never watched Big Brother, and if funds ever permit would willingly take Mrs P for a weekend in Monte Carlo rather than continue to go en vacance in a rented static on a clifftop south of Skegness.

So. . . :

1) Is it really money saving to chuck away jars of perfectly good marmalade just because there are buttery crumbs in it?

2) Is it really money saving to require most of the blasted cutlery drawer to be shoved in the dishwasher every morning?

3) Is what their husbands choose to stick in the marmalade each morning a matter of concern to other wives?

Advice appreciated. I really don't want to have to go to Marriage Guidance over this.

TRAMMEL, noun, a shackle used to teach a horse to amble
:rotfl:

SugarSpun

I might be odd, but if I find crumbs in the butter or the jam I like to carefully use that bit so the remaining butter/jam is clean but the bit with the crumbs in hasn't been wasted The jam's home made and since the husband never uses the bought marmalade it is always pristine.

The dial on the toaster is what causes ructions here. Sometimes my beloved will knock it as he's trying to plug something in behind it and then my toast is either untoasted (but two rounds of barely-warming makes it too toasted) or over-toasted :mad:

whowants2brich

I am often frowned upon in our home for preventing the so-called "double dipping" approach to jams and honey and the likes. Not because it irritates anyone, necessarily, though I do agree that it's wrong and should be avoided at all costs.

We have a gluten-free allergy in our house, call it coeliac. If my wife were to eat some jam or flora with a few crumbs from anyone's toast, she'll be going somewhat ballistic at whoever caused the crumbs to be there. So, I enforce the double dip rule at each and every opportunity, and make sure that each item has its own clean spoon or knife, and watch like a hawk at breakfast. And if anyone makes me feel bad for being pedantic, I blame my wife and say it's for her benefit, not mine.......

And then I get brownie points for having helped her stomach!

webitha

Artytarty wrote: »

Mr Tarty is the s as above! Takes too much Flora scrapes it all over thee taost and puts the crumby mess back in the tub.
I've given up compliaing and just make sure I dont use that bit. He likes his toast sold ish so the stuff dosent melt. to obtain the correct temperature he waves the slice about ilike some demented air trafiic controller. I simply look at him and he says.. yes, i know I'm odd.

:rotfl::rotfl: omg i do this too :rotfl::rotfl:


righto i have been giving this conundrum a good hard think, and the answer is...........................






mix the marmalade in the tub of forever flora, only one knife needed...problem solved :D

Frogletina

ailuro2 wrote: »

My husband may leave crumbs in the toast

How can you tell!

pelirocco

webitha wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: omg i do this too :rotfl::rotfl:


righto i have been giving this conundrum a good hard think, and the answer is...........................






mix the marmalade in the tub of forever flora, only one knife needed...problem solved :D

I have just spent ages reading all the posts just
to find you pinched my idea!!!:mad: