My husband has done the weekly food shop...

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But he's gone to Iceland and spent well over £100 which would be fine except he's just bought lots of frozen beige shit. There no fresh fruit, salad or nice cut of meat. Don't get me wrong I'm not trying to be mean but he's spent our entire budget and I feel there's nothing for me to eat. I'm trying to lose weight so I've been going to Tesco and getting lots of fresh fruit, fresh meat healthy Greek yoghurt and nice bits for the kids lunches. I feel a bit irritated because it feels such a waste of money.

Don't get me wrong I love a good Iceland haul but I'm a bit miffed that's he's put no thought into it.

Anyway... I'm digging my way out off my chicken nugget quary if you're looking for me lol

You see we both have access to the Tesco app and can share the same basket. I had already filled my basket of things that I wanted to get. However, he took it upon himself to do the shopping in Iceland without telling me he was going to do it. He was picking up kids from football and called in. He didn't plan it, he just clearly lifted lots of crap to fill the feeezer to surprise me, apparently

Shocking, throwing away food like that.

My DH is exactly the same. I‘m often disappointed that he doesn’t come home with any treats, he points out it wasn’t on the list 🙄

Opposite problem here.

Whenever DH does the food shop, he wastes money on random things like artichokes (thought it would be nice for a change...) poncy deli things (Greek olives with shaved gold leaf marinated in Angel's tears), ridiculous things (a whole duck) and then buys shit washing powder and bin bags that rip if you breath on them.

Where do you live?

Im on my way!! 🍽️ 😁

I did a little experiment with my DH last weekend. As he was moaning "where has all the money gone?" There's nothing nice to eat in this house (chocolates etc) I decided in my ultra petty way to show him the price of things. We need to go shopping but I don't feel well will you go ? I asked .Yes I will he said ..off he went ffs he soon got where the money was going and the fact that there is a real cost of living crisis happening! He bought everything he fancied and more and to be fair did a grand job on the staples we usually have except his random throw it in the trolley with gay abandon meant my 160.00 shop came to just under 300.00 ...I think he will pipe down next week!! Stupid bloody fool he is ,lesson learned!

If my DH does the shopping (we plan meals weekly) he will look at the list, see “spaghetti bolognese” and purchase spaghetti and mince. No tomatoes, no onions, no celery, no mushrooms, no red wine…

But olives and artichokes are the kings of foods !!!! I'm giggling at bin bags that rip when you breath on them it's like f*ing hell there should be laws against selling bin bags that thin! They're large, so clearly meant to fit in a large kitchen bin, but only if you fill your kitchen bin with fresh air!!

Ex did the shopping the week after I had one of the kids. Spent a fortune, came back with loads of food but no dinners.

Breakfast, lunches etc all covered. Veg, fruit etc, all good. Because I had reminded him.

And when I asked about dinners he said that there was loads of food, what was I going on about. I pointed out that there were no basic meal ingredients. No pasta, no mince so no spag bol (a staple at the time as quick easy and everyone ate it). No chicken or beef so no roast, another family favourite. No eggs, no cheese, no beans. Said "but you didnt mention dinners" and I did not respond well to that. Oh and also no loo roll or other basic non food stuff.

Sent him again with a list and a flea in his ear about me not expecting to have to tell a man in his late 40's what to buy for his family;s meals for a week and not to forget that he would be cooking too.....

After I was back on my feet, we traded him doing the washing and the dishwasher (no mean feat with 6 kids and us in the house, baby in washable nappies) for me doing all the shopping and cooking. Post divorce he lives on 100% takeaways and food deliveries. Its only because he walks the 1.5 miles each way to work every day that he isnt the size of a house, wouldnt like to think of the state of his arteries though.....

My late grandad starting doing an online shop in his 80's and he managed pretty well for the most part except once (and I'm still not quite sure how!) He managed to accidentally order 100 bags of oranges instead of one! I can imagine the look on my Grannys face when they appeared at the front door 😂

Yes, I love olives and often buy them. But not necessarily the most expensive Queen Olive wrapped in rare Japanese Truffle and Diamond Dust. He will buy 6 pots of the most expensive deli counter treats, open the fridge when he's feeling a bit peckish and consume £25.80 of poncy deli things in forty seconds flat.

He soon learned about the bin bags though - the hard way dribbled bin juice on his lovely trainers when the bag instantly ripped on exist

Ah, the age-old tale of delegation gone awry. You hand a man the reins, and he rides straight into the first battlefield he sees guns blazing, no strategy, no foresight. What you wanted was a carefully curated campaign of nutrition and balance; what you got was a stockpile of frozen surrender.

Now, I wouldn’t be so quick to chalk this up to malice or incompetence. No, this is something far simpler. Convenience. Predictability. The siren song of an easy win. Iceland isn’t a grocery store it’s a fortress of the familiar, a place where a man can walk in, see “big deal” plastered on a bag of breaded despair, and feel like he’s conquered the household budget.

But here’s the real kicker: he’s spent all the resources, and yet you’re left rationing. That, my friend, is poor governance. A leader who spends without securing the needs of the people is no leader at all. You don’t just shop you strategize. You allocate. You foresee consequences. And what’s the lesson here? Trust, but verify. Next time, you lay out the battle plan. A list isn’t a suggestion; it’s doctrine. Either he sticks to it, or he reports back for a debrief before the funds are deployed.

For now, I’d say you have two options: Make peace with the frozen wasteland, or make damn sure that next week, the only thing he’s hauling home without clearance is the receipt.

I genuinely am. I’m not being snobby at all. I have a lifelong heart condition and simply cannot eat like that because my medication wouldn’t be able to combat it, as I have to manage it with lifestyle and fitness at well. How can people eat that and be well?!

I think I am the annoying impulse buyer in our family.

DH sticks faithfully and completely to the list. If no brand etc is specified he just gets the cheapest, eg cheapest sliced white bread, but if you specify a brand or type he always will do his best to track it down, including asking the shop assistants to help him find it. He keeps a little list on his phone with acceptable substitutes - under tea it says “NEVER PG Tips”.

I quite often come back with doughnuts or something.

Not one bit surprised he’s dropped £100 in Tesco, it’s an absolute rip off! Were Aldi or Lidl and he always gets a list! saying that, even with a list my partner seems to overspend and everything goes out of date the following day 😂

That's exactly why dh is banned from buying food.. he tried to slip out to Costco today..

I bet you were fabulous at English in school! Loved your response!

@bertiebump

to be frank, I’d divorce you if you were my husband

I read 'guinea pigs' at first.

DH in my house is on a diet, so it's a sh!tload of mince, rice, and broccoli. No goodies, nothing tasty, just flavoured with various curry sauces.

Came back with ONE doughnut because it was free.

My FIL has been divorced for 32 years (and single) and lives off pork pies and sandwiches. He’s never cooked a meal in all that time.

If you were Frank I wouldn't be your husband.

I did once order six pork chops forgetting it was a pack of four, I ended up with 24 pork chops!

@bertiebump

learn to food shop

But whilst you find it a bit funny now, and I get that, it’s actually kinda shit because whilst he clearly must know that your DC have e.g. porridge and fruit and yoghurt for their breakfast, and things like lasagne, chilli, stir fry, roast dinner, stew, tuna pasta bake etc for their dinners, you now know that if you ever ended up incapacitated and unable to intervene in his decision-making, he’d just blow out on potato waffles, nuggets, and breaded onion rings apparently without having the thought “hmm, this doesn’t look like what my wife and children usually eat all week” and they’d live on beige crap because he can’t be bothered. That part isn’t very funny (and nor, really, is that you have a very modest grocery budget and he’s not even thought about what you’re going to eat this week.)