Taking food from a hotel breakfast buffet- cheeky??

I'll take a banana or an apple, perhaps a pastry but no more however I stayed at a hotel in Scotland (near ski resort) where they actually left plastic sandwich bags on the buffet to make up sandwiches. If it's ai have no issues making lunch up for a day trip

I've just noticed the OPs NN...Nanny Ogg would stuff her drawers with pastries and take a few kippers for Greebo.

I am meaning to also include hotel breakfast and buffets which does feel more cheeky.

At ClubMed (very nice AI) they just have boxes and bags so that people can prepare themselves a takeaway lunch at breakfast buffet, so that solves the problem. It’s mainly for those who will be missing lunch anyway, we aren’t talking about someone just hoarding food in their room, no?

@AnnieMcFanny guess it just felt that way because all the emails came through at once 🙂.

That's entirely different. If you were in the US they'd offer to wrap your leftovers, and decent places in the U.K. will too if you ask.

Everyone is jumping on you?

I thought it was about 3 or 4 people.

Yep seen this in Iceland and Disneyland Paris, probs cause it’s very expensive, but yeah a bit naff but also secretly admire this x

I might have done if it was my last day but I had two more nights to go so didn’t want to risk it!

My coat and cardigan pockets are for toast, croissants, fruit and little jam jars. Yum yum.

Somehow that is even worse than taking food for lunch. You make your husband stay in the room and feed him leftovers for breakfast??

I think that’s slightly different, as you’re not taking extra food, but more of a doggy bag. Eg. If they can’t eat a whole pizza, you take the uneaten half, rather than a fresh new pizza to eat later.

Thing is they probably wouldn’t have minded that as I’d have been eating it in the breakfast room!
They seemed to be very good at spotting anyone trying to slip out the door 😅

No offence to overweight people but most don't get that way by eating salad, let's be honest. I see so many overweight people in the Greggs next to my work (and pretty much every other fast food joint) and it just feels like a bit of a stretch to assume it's all down to a latent medical condition rather than the excessive sausage roll consumption you can clearly witness.

I eat 2000 cals most days but I burn it off with a physical job and lifting 3-4x a week.

Yeah chuck it in the tuppaware.

@GoldenLegend clearly I am!

I still don’t see the problem with eating a piece of toast and taking some fruit for later.

50% of this thread have said that they do the same. Yet everyone is jumping on me because they think I’m judging them for how much they eat at breakfast. So unbelievably touchy. I don’t give a damn how much other people eat at breakfast. It’s just a straight observation that most people eat more. It’s actually pretty upsetting that the idea of eggs and bacon or pancakes at 8am makes me feel nauseous. I miss out on a lot!! So yeah, I’m gonna take that mini pain au chocolate for later thanks.

The last hotel I was in - a very smart one, paid £450 a night - outright encouraged me to take a couple bits for later, and even gave me a little cardboard box. Didn’t ask for one.

Your dh is a true CF. There are no excuses. I have spent half my life looking for toilets just like you, it is horrible. No way in hell would my bored dh take advantage and steal things. Your husband is s thief, and it’s hardly charming, And ”looking very European”, what does that mean? We’re Scandinavian and look it, and I never once used it to be CF’s. Or my illness. You should be ashsmed of yourself, but entiitled people like you never be.

Since having young children, I always bring tuppaware when out eating. They never finish or eat enough/getting too distracted so whats left on their plate, I will chuck in the tuppaware to offer them again later…

Pre Covid I travelled a lot with work. (Now it’s all bloody Teams meetings!) My usual was to go to breakfast, eat something like scrambled eggs on toast and some juice, then take a croissant and coffee back to my room and finish off my makeup before going to whatever I had on work-wise. I was generally on my own and didn’t want to hang about, and didn’t see the difference in whether I ate a croissant in the dining area or my hotel room.

No, I wouldn’t make sandwiches.

And you're precious.

I think what's not on is the people who pile their plate high and leave a lot of it uneaten.

We do this all the time.

We often stay in Premier Inns (I have changed my name here to reflect that, and to avoid repercussions from this post!) and they do the amazing £9.99 breakfast with two kids eating free per adult. So I pay, kids eat free, and I take some breakfast up to DH who stays in the room. Not a cooked breakfast, but a couple of rolls and a muffin. I also take some rolls and muffins for lunch for the day.

It’s a buffet, there are people who’d probably eat all that ‘legitimately’ anyway, nobody goes short as a result of it and the food would otherwise end up in the bin. I don’t feel any guilt whatsoever, nor do I feel like I’m being cheeky or tight or anything else apart from savvy.

Can you seriously not afford tea bags, or was it just the entitled thing? Pathetic.

I think if you have already put it on your plate but couldn't manage it or changed your mind at breakfast, then it's okay to save for later.

I've seen people pile plates high, but never noticed anyone making rounds of sandwiches!

I don't have IBS. I have IBD.
I was frequently unwell for around 40 minutes or so about 30-60 minutes after eating breakfast (pre medication which now makes this more tolerable).
As we were often out and about I would head to nearest hotel to try to get myself sorted - I reiterate, it would take about 40 minutes or so.
I spent so much of my illness pre-medication (and post), embracing life and not letting it stop me. Yes, I could have spent an hour in the room making sure I was okay, but it wasn't every day and fuck me if I was going to lie around when there's something to explore.
My DH (who possibly was a CF), would largely wander around the chosen 'toilet' hotel looking very European (because he is) and ingratiate himself into the breakfast buffet to enjoy a glass of something (in Italy and Spain it was often alcohol based).
Kept him from being very bored and me from feeling super guilty for taking the best part of an hour out of our day.