My husband has done the weekly food shop...

[callingyououtmrkitten]

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

He went without telling me! I'd have shut that down straight away had I known!

Yes she does like that thank you. Often we go for walks and meals and days out. I spoil her rotten.

15 years ago my (abusive) ex took over the shopping aka took my bank card off me and told me he could do a better job feeding the family on a budget and did the weekly shop at Iceland in the next town.

Nothing at all to make a proper meal, loads of beige shit and zero food for weaning a 9 month old.

Tell him if he's doing the shopping he's also doing meal planning.

You are a real bundle of joy aren't you, so many light hearted comments on this thread and you marching through like a Sergeant Major bawling all the humour out. I would look in the mirror and think about yourself. I would much prefer a partner who couldn't shop but had a sense of humour.

Having a sense of humour and being able to shop competently are not mutually exclusive and, to coin a MN chiché, a very low bar.

There have been plenty of posters, me included who have not found all this tinkly laughing “aren’t shit men cute lol” stuff funny. For those of us that like to laugh at genuinely funny stuff, this is just boring. Not much funny about a family eating shit for a week and no money left to rectify it.

I do mine a list by section and hate myself for it but don't yet have the energy to fight it

If it's not your humour then simply pass by, as it is clearly humour to a majority of folks. Read another post.

Only a manchild would find being a manchild funny.

Duh

I don’t understand it either! This bizarre indulgent take on it ‘ ah they’re so shit, it’s cute, what would they do without me?” Thing is it’s probably these same women who take to here to post about how they never get chance to go to the gym or go out with pals because their husband doesn’t pull his weight and all their time is taken up down the supermarket or doing chores around the house!

I don’t get it! Do some women actually enjoy being martyrs perhaps?

@bertiebump

be hopes your wife never leaves you eh, otherwise you’ll just have to push on through that boredom and do a decent shop for yourself

I reckon my survival skills would kick in.

That's definitely part of it.

I also don't understand it. What's so funny about an adult claiming they can't do something as basic as a food shop? They clearly can, especially if they can manage a senior role at work. They just believe it's women's work and beneath them.

Sexist? Yes
Misogynistic? Yes
Funny? Not even a little bit

My husband went who'll my with a 4 item shopping list last week and came back having spent £54. His list was:
Grapes
Orange juice
Cat food
Bread

He came back with those and:
Chocolate digestives (Trying not to eat sweet things)
Jaffa cakes (Trying not to eat sweet things)
6 pack marmite crisps (I dont like)
6 pack plain crisps (Not my favourite)
Thin sliced breast of lamb (I hate lamb),
Crunchy nut cornflakes (Trying not to eat sweet things)

Then he looked at the Ocado order I am putting together and threw a wobbly because it was nearly £250. Yes - that is a heck of a lot of money but....
It is for at least 3 weeks, within which my daughter and grandson are coming to stay and we are hosting a family lunch which will be for 8, possibly 10, people. It also contains REAL food as well as some treat things I get when I have my daughter here and food that costs more than normal for family lunch. My grandson doesn't talk much but one of the things he can say is to ask for a 'lolly ice' (ice lolly for those of us that don't come from Liverpool) so I always get a pack of ice lollies.

He also went shopping yesterday for chicken Korma flavoured instant rice pots - and came home with a bag of random things not on the list (of 1 item) that cost well over a tenner (and no rice pots). That included 2 packets of ham and a packet of corned beef 'for my lunches'. I don't actually want them and I dont like ham that has been frozen as it goes all watery so I can't even put it in the freezer. I had asked him not to buy anything that wasn't real food - and only to buy that if he had thought first about when we were going to eat it within a week.

He loves shopping and at the moment we can afford it - but I'm retiring in a few months and my income will be halved so he's going to have to learn to rein it in! At least frozen beige shit can go in the freezer and is usually relatively cheap!

Wowzer - that's expert way to clock up weight.😱😱

DH came home with these last week! I think they are the biggest jacket potatoes I've ever seen.

YANBU, I'm not huge fan of fruit, but I love plenty of fresh vegetables. We do buy pineapple, berries and bananas in for dcs. I would be really disappointed with £100 worth of frozen beige, and find it a waste of money.
We have set things we buy, so dh knows what it is, and I'll tell him if anything needs topped up eg: pasta, greek yoghurt, cheese, bread, or if i'm making a salad, as that goes off.
Sometimes I'll ask for specific veg, although we usually just get the same variety because i'll use it over the week, and our fridge keeps it fresh for ages. If I want specific meat/fresh chicken/occasional sausages etc, we will note that.
He does however sometimes come back with rubbish we don't need, like share size giant bags of weird flavour crisps, new or limited edition, or sugary artifical cereal, florescent icecreams. He'll then proudly present these to the dcs; nobody likes them and they usually end up being binned eventually. Nothing wrong with a treat, but there's much nicer items to get, that would at least not be wasted.

Whoah, they're beasts. Mind you, they'll take some cooking!

Probably cost more to bake than buy!

Mind you. you'll be living off them for at least a month😉

My DH does the shopping/cooking in our house, so this would probably be me if I tried to do a weekly food shop. Get distracted by the treats...

That, and a roast chicken for a week between 5 😂

@BridgetRandomfuck

How did you go on before you got married?

I ate a lot of rubbish! Never been much of a cook so ate a lot of ready meals. He’s made me much healthier.

Dh would do brilliantly at getting stuff for meals, but would then also spend double the amount just getting anything and everything that catches his eye that he thinks looks quite nice, piles of junk food. Basically like super market sweep, with no restraint or concept of money 😂🙈

I always wanted to go on supermarket sweep, god I miss the 90s!