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To have a secret snack drawer

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Dolly34 · 28/01/2026 22:35

There’s a drawer in our kitchen that I know my husband never looks in. I bought some chocolate to bake with the other day and hid it in this draw so he wouldn’t find it and eat it before I baked. Since then, I’ve bought a big dairy milk caramel bar and left it in there for when I want to pick at it.
It’s been in there over a week, and I know if it was anywhere else, my DH would have inhaled it.

Today, I bought a pack of chocolate hobnobs and put them in the draw - again so I can pick at at my leisure when working from
home.

AIBU by hiding food from my husband to keep for myself?

(some extra context that I’ve been going through IVF this month and just want a stash for when I need it, rather than going to get something and it’s disappeared!)

  • [Note from MNHQ: We've edited the typo in the title and the opening post, just so the thread doesn't (continue!) to get derailed by people pointing it out... Give the OP a break!] Flowers
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AbbaDabbaDooh · 28/01/2026 22:41

He's going to find it one day and feel betrayed 😆

ivartheboneless · 28/01/2026 22:41

hanahsaunt · 28/01/2026 22:36

Drawer

Came to say the same 😂
I can’t understand why so many people call it a draw.

But in reply to OP - no I hide snacks in my house all the time - if I didn’t I would never get to eat them.

chipperchopped · 28/01/2026 22:41

What I want to know is how you keep a dairy milk caramel bar for a week?!

DramaAlpaca · 28/01/2026 22:40

Stop it you lot! Leave OP and her spelling alone, there's no need for it.

I used to have a few hiding places for snacks in my kitchen. Trouble was, the kids were very good at sniffing out where I hid things. Thank goodness they've left home and DH is oblivious.

MidWayThruJanuary · 28/01/2026 22:40

We each have our own drawer.

JustineBeaver · 28/01/2026 22:40

The word is drawer, not draw 🙄

vincettenoir · 28/01/2026 22:39

Yeah I have a secret stash too.

TheUsualChaos · 28/01/2026 22:39

YANBU.
I don't have a specific place where I hide things but I just put chocolate I don't want DH to help himself to in low down, inconvenient places in the kitchen cupboards. Basically if it's not in front of his face then it's safe. He's more than welcome to buy his own 🤷‍♀️

BBear · 28/01/2026 22:38

Totally normal. I have a chocolate stash. Lasts for ages but if it was in the kitchen drawer it would be gone in a day and the empty wrapper left behind.

Chemenger · 28/01/2026 22:36

Is that like a raffle?

hanahsaunt · 28/01/2026 22:36

Drawer