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

Ah @bertiebump you should’ve shown me your thread police badge earlier 🙄

lol

Not forgetting the massive salad.

He shouldn't get it either, that's the problem!

Assuming that DH are not able to work in a role without special adjustment I think we might be being unreasonable and mean.

DH need to feel they can contribute for wellbeing. Compiling your own list can be challenging if you are unable to think beyond your own current needs. A list compiled by someone who can do this can be confusing when faced with the biscuit aisle. I think a laminate, hole punched with string that can be worn around the neck, is more inclusive. DH can feel special that he has accomplished a task. Plus the list can be shown to staff if an item can't be easily located.

And then the family is fed. Win win.

The only way to deal with deliberate incompetence is to simplify the task until it can be done without special measures.

Ha ha mine is the opposite , he is supposed to shop and cook for the weekend . I’m pretty sure he spends about the same on those 2 days as I do the other 5 . He buys expensive ingredients, doesn’t check what we have before meal planning then can never be organised to plan ahead so it doesn’t go on the food shop but he buys it at smalls stores and M and S !!

My partner did our shopping on Sunday asked me if I wanted pies/pasties or crisps for lunches told him no thank you and lo and behold they made it into the shopping bag 🤦🏻‍♀️. Trying to lose my baby tum after 4months and he is not helping!!! He is good getting fruit that’s going out of date too 😂

This is why people make shopping lists, for the fundamentals at the very least. It doesn't stop the other half reading "fresh vegetables" and coming back with manky crap but it is a start.

Can totally relate to this…..i am recovering from an Op and have limited mobility, my husband has been doing the food shop on his own. I had to drag myself round supermarket this week on my crutches because otherwise we are surviving on party food and cakes/biscuits/crisps. I did batch cook a load of things ahead of the Op.- thank God!

Regret to say I'd eat that. Love bacon.

DP went to local shop for milk and bread.Came back with large pork pie ( I hate pork pie) and 1kg of smoked bacon ( he won't eat anything smoked)

Unless you were astute enough to hive him a list tge tough luck- know better for next time....

I think you're married to my husband 🤣

Sent my ex husband for the weekly shop when I was heavily pregnant with my third baby - he came back with three loaves, four tins of beans and one pint of milk. He thought that was OK for a week.

Haha, my dh does this. Always on the app scouring for the frees items. Bakery is the first stop, then free grated cheese/crisps or what ever else there are vouchers for, scrolling through percentages off items, and getting disappointed if we don't need it, "but are you sure it's 20%off etc.
God help us if he misses the expiry date, he'll be there on the last day, nobody else is getting that free cookie!

@Shotokan101

hmm yeah cos it’s really OP who needs to be more astute here isn’t it…

@NewBrightonEel

no wonder he’s ex! How useless

The other day we had a whole conversation about my dislike for sweet and sour chicken. Yesterday, I sent DP out to get emergency meal making ingredients (didn’t do big shop at weekend due to work not paying me on time) and suggested some pork tenderloin from butcher and a Chinese style sauce base which I’d jazz up with ingredients we have here. Out of a selection, he chooses sweet and sour sauce. He also got the wrong pork from the butchers and it was dry and tough.
I’m on a low sugar diet, I hate this sauce. It’s like he ticked all the boxes ”no” boxes. Why?

My XH decided that the kids weren't eating 'nutritious enough food' - they were eating as small children eat, the usual fishfingers and beans and home made stews and roast dinners. So he 'went food shopping'. He bought exclusively 'healthy' food, lots of lettuce and tomatoes and lentils and proudly brought them home for me to cook. I said, dubiously, that I'd give it a go...

And yes, most of it ended up in the hens' run. His simply 'deciding' that the kids should eat salad every night was not enough to convince the kids that they should eat salad every night (they were all under the age of six). So although he would deride me for buying rubbish - I bought what they would eat. His opinion was that we should starve them until they ate what he would buy.

Yeah, he's a ex for lots of reasons, chief among them being a dick and not considering other people as individual, thinking beings.

Correct - nothing wrong with your eyesight at least.....

My late OH once got to the end of a meal, plonked down his knife and fork and said: "God I'm sick of these healthy meals!" He packed the 3 children in the car and took them to Tesco's where they had a fabulous time filling the trolly with all sort of naughty treats! They thought it was fabulous! - and behaved impeccably for him from then on, in the hope that he might do it again!

Maybe your OH is sick of all those healthy meals!!!

I'm sure they just hear "blah blah sweet and sour blah blah" and then buy it

He may aswell!

My dh just follows my list because I meal plan so this just wouldn't happen in my house thankfully

My Husband and i go together none of us enjoy it but we have to eat.