Eating last sandwich

Gothicfairy

Jojo

Sounds like our house..I buy a large whole chicken and roast it with extra vegs for leftovers: day 1 roast with trimmings, day 2 chicken pot pie with champ (ish) and then day 3 soup

Only what really happens is : Day 1 roast with all the trimmings, day 2 he wanted sandwiches so picks all the meat of the chicken and eats the cold potatoes with salt ( plush picking at the rest every time he goes to the fridge) Day 3 beans on toast cos he has eaten everything else.

He claims we have mice, yep one bl**dy big shrek like one.

ska_lover

''The surprise was the meal, not the day off of course. I was surprised as I expected her to be in the 'crease reduction area' of the house doing work there''

I read this and spat my tea out over my computer. This is fantastic - the best laugh ive had in ages. Leory, what other 'areas' do you have in your house?

ska_lover

I would hate to have someone 'police' what I ate, or doing it to my partner. If he is paying half of the food shopping bill and working hard, then he can eat what he bloody well likes..These men must feel like children being TOLD what they can and can't eat..

brettcta

Booley wrote: »

Not surprised, she's probably miles away by now poaching someone else's baps

it worked though

SohoAnthem

I haven't laughed so hard in ages! Is it too much of a big deal to buy enough for both of you? Or enough plus a little extra should you fancy a little treat? :rotfl:

bargainbetty

ska_lover wrote: »

I would hate to have someone 'police' what I ate, or doing it to my partner. If he is paying half of the food shopping bill and working hard, then he can eat what he bloody well likes..These men must feel like children being TOLD what they can and can't eat..

Sorry, but if you are on a tight budget, and someone else has done the shopping and meal planning, using up chunks of it, wasting more and not replacing it is not fair.

My flatmate once ate the piece of pate I had been saving myself as a treat. It was big enough for two portions, but he put the whole lot on his plate, toasted about four slices of bread (the remainder of the loaf, obviously) and then ate half, leaving the rest to go dry and manky on the counter top till i got home. When I asked what he planned for my dinner now, he suggested I get a takeaway. Then asked if he could 'dip in'. I told him that the next time he took my food without asking and wasted yet more of it, I would shove the value of it in two pences pieces so far up his backside he would be jingling for weeks.

He made me an omlette, did all the washing up and cooked dinner the next night. We have an understanding now.

jennikitten

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

Worse food sins abound...

One is claiming to not like something you've bought for the children, but after it disappears, you find that it's been hidden so the children don't get it.

Another is buying bread, butter, eggs, sausages, cheese, bacon, beans, four potatoes, tomatoes and mushrooms with the last of your money. You know you have enough food for Monday (cheese & mushroom omelette), Tuesday (toad in the hole), Wednesday (jacket potato, cheese & beans), Thursday (sausage casserole), Friday (pasta carbonara) and Saturday teatime (beans on toast or egg & chips), whilst leaving enough little bits for at least one more meal with a little inventiveness.

You go out for some boring, mundane reason, like a hospital appointment, so you're gone for about 4 hours.

And you come back to find that he 'felt a little peckish' - he has cooked himself two eggs, half a packet of bacon, three sausages, all the mushrooms, two tomatoes, having eaten another one whilst cooking, fried everything in near enough half a pack of butter (ignoring the cooking oil by the oven), two slices of fried bread and one toast, left the bacon out unwrapped so a fly has got in the packaging, welded the baked beans to the base of your only serviceable saucepan, put your iron pan in the dishwasher after having scrubbed it with steel wool to try and get the tomato off and chucked your potatoes away 'because they looked a bit manky'.

He then sulks because you point out that he has just destroyed a week of shopping for one meal, rather than praise him for putting the pan in the dishwasher, and wanders off, thinking he can stuff the biscuits he hid from the children whilst you are trying to work out what can be salvaged. but you've already found them and he is not happy about you taking them back.


That's a sackable offence.

At least he got three of his five a day?? Hope your other meals each day consisted of just fruit/veg to make up

KxMx

Of course I can understand the frustration of OH using last of milk etc. But there is always UHT you can have in the cupboard for just those situations (if you won't use it then tough), an extra pack of meat in the freezer etc.

The tightest budget can accomadate this.

bubbles0169

but what if you havent got the money in the first place to buy the extra to save for a rainy/snowy/greedy day kxmx?

Dave101t

we have a rule, my food, her food.