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Baked 23 cookies, dh ate 8 of them

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27Bumblebees · 18/05/2024 21:49

I baked some cookies after dinner, like I do most weekends so the kids had some slightly less unhealthy snacks to go in their lunch boxes and to just have in the house. At the end of the night I went to put them in a container from the cooling rack and only 14 remained. I had one, so dh took 8 of them in the two hours since I cooked them! What kind of shitty self control is that.

I feel more pissed off that I took a little bit of time to do something nice (mainly for the kids, we're adults, we don't need bloody biscuits), and he's just gone for it with no respect for anyone else. Only apologised when I called him out for it. Ugh.

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WhoGivesaSpit · 19/05/2024 09:17

sorry, 23 is a psychopathic number of cookies to make 😂

Littlestminnow · 19/05/2024 09:17

My DH is a greedy sod too, so I ringfenced certain foods. He's allowed his fair share, and no more. This was after many incidents where he just cleaned us out of biscuits, chocolate or crisps before anyone else got a chance to have any.

And before posters pitch in about controlling him, he's actually grateful. He knows he lacks control around some foods and that it's bad for his health, so now the added incentive of knowing it will cause a major row is enough to stop him gorging himself.

drusth · 19/05/2024 09:16

27Bumblebees · 19/05/2024 02:52

I think this nails it for me. It's our home. And I made the this. He just turned up and scoffed more than his fair share in one sitting. I'm sure he plans to have more over the week. It's not about the size, it's about how many as a proportion of the total, which offended me so. He knew they were for the kids lunch boxes, it's what I do most weekends, so not a novelty.

Oh and I absolutely take back the off hand comment that biscuits aren't for adults. Forgive me. They are, but I wasn't making them for us, it was to have stuff ready for lunch boxes. If he wanted a few over the next few days I don't think I'd have minded.

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I'm sure he plans to have more over the week.

What a greedy pig, he has more than had enough. I’m guessing he does this often?

Please hide the cookies, this weekend and every weekend.

Monochord · 19/05/2024 09:15

ClairDeLaLune · 19/05/2024 08:07

Don’t really understand the pasting you’re getting on here OP except that many posters think it’s funny to have a go at the OP.

I think that your husband is a selfish greedy twat personally, you’ve put effort in to make something good for your kids and he’s taken a load of them and wolfed them down. Entitled wanker. I would lose some respect and attraction for him after this.

Agree.

I’ve also lost respect for all the people saying the solution is for to just make more cookies. Nah, he can make the cookies being as he likes eating them so much.

Wishimaywishimight · 19/05/2024 09:11

DoreenonTill8 · 19/05/2024 09:03

It'll be the same joyless world where adults don't celebrate birthdays!

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Or Christmas 😆 What a miserable existence it would be for those of us without children!

Needapadlockonmyfridge · 19/05/2024 09:10

IbisDancer · 18/05/2024 22:20

Delicious sounding recipe.

Not even remotely healthy though.

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Ah but dried fruit = 1 of your 5 a day.

8 biscuits = almost 1.5 days' worth.

(Biscuit maths).

Therefore healthy.

Wishimaywishimight · 19/05/2024 09:09

I love the suggestion of a weigh in the next day with the children watching 😁

Imagine it the other way round - man weighs wife in front of kids after she eats a few biscuits!

MaryFuckingFerguson · 19/05/2024 09:07

cuckyplunt · 19/05/2024 08:31

Have you actually met any men??
They are adult male humans ( most of the time😝) in case you haven’t..

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I live with 3 of them. None of them would eat 8 biscuits, even the one that’s still growing like a weed 🤷‍♀️

diddl · 19/05/2024 09:04

On the other hand would they not be a bit stale for the lunchboxes at the end of the week?

Biscuit tin?

wp65 · 19/05/2024 09:04

Thank you for the recipe! I'm going to make these

DoreenonTill8 · 19/05/2024 09:03

catmothertes1 · 19/05/2024 08:54

I can't imagine living in a world where treats are just for kids!

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It'll be the same joyless world where adults don't celebrate birthdays!

viques · 19/05/2024 09:02

Withswitch · 18/05/2024 22:07

Our school won't allow coconut (I know it's a seed and have pointed it out!) I realise this isn't the point of this thread.

So the children in that school are not being served that cake with pink icing and coconut sprinkled on top ( used to be called Tottenham cake where I lived) optionally covered with pink custard!

Tell your school that they are denying the children their cultural heritage. They are supposed to be teaching British Values and if Tottenham cake with pink custard isn’t a British Value then what will they do next? Cancel the maypole dancing?

Wishimaywishimight · 19/05/2024 09:02

"We're adults, we don't need bloody biscuits"??

No one "needs" biscuits, like no one "needs" chocolate but they taste good to children and adults alike.

Take it as a compliment to your baking!

Toastjusttoast · 19/05/2024 09:00

Ok 8 in one go is a lot. On the other hand would they not be a bit stale for the lunchboxes at the end of the week? When I was a kid I wouldn’t have noticed but now i do.

My husband is fussy so all I’d need to do is put a pinch of spice in the mix and he wouldn’t eat them.

zingally · 19/05/2024 08:59

You've still got loads left. And unless you've got a zillion kids, no one is going to miss out. It's fine. Greedy, but fine.

DontforgetyourSPF · 19/05/2024 08:57

LTB

Einwegflasche · 19/05/2024 08:56

If he was only allowed a certain number then perhaps you should have made that clear?
Homemade stuff in our house is open to takers, we might say 'don't eat them all' and make sure we all get one/some, but food is to be eaten.

godmum56 · 19/05/2024 08:54

its easy. bake a bigger batch.

catmothertes1 · 19/05/2024 08:54

ILoveYouItsRuiningMyLife · 18/05/2024 21:52

adults don’t need biscuits what joyless nonsense is this

I can't imagine living in a world where treats are just for kids!

QueenMegan · 19/05/2024 08:52

Were they small? It takes a few to get taste buds going. Then my hand has no control.

Channellingsophistication · 19/05/2024 08:50

It is a bit greedy of him and I’d be a bit annoyed. On the upside it’s a credit to your baking

thank you for the recipe. I will give it a go. I’m normally rubbish at cookies.

TTPD · 19/05/2024 08:49

You were doing a chore - preparing food for the kids' lunchboxes - and he undid your work.

I agree. So many comments that OP should make more today - her DH should make more (especially since I imagine he'll eat more cookies today). Or get involved in sorting lunchboxes, since OP is doing some baking for them every weekend.

I don't agree with posters who would lose respect and attraction etc, but I would find this annoying, especially if it meant I ended up being the one sorting something else for lunchboxes.

Poettree · 19/05/2024 08:48

I get it... it's when selfish and greedy to eat more than your fair share in that situation, particularly when kids' lunchboxes are involved.

fieldsofbutterflies · 19/05/2024 08:46

MaryFuckingFerguson · 19/05/2024 08:29

8 biscuits is really gluttonous though. Sounds like he has a bit of a problem.

They're teaspoon sized - hardly massive!

soupfiend · 19/05/2024 08:45

Laughing at OP thinking cookies are 'healthy'. Even though I dont subscribe to the thought of a 'healthy' or 'unhealthy' food but OP seems to think such a thing exists and her 'homemade' cookies are so much better or different than shop bought

And noticing a trend on here, perhaps over the last year, whereby being 'greedy' is the most awful thing in the world now, if husband is greedy, or child is greedy, this must be put a stop to!!!

Someone made a good post some pages back, apologies cant scroll through and find it, where has the idea come from that enjoying food is a moral failing?

Greed is good!!!

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