To expect my dh to stop stealing ds's lunchbox food?

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I have to HIDE stuff from dh. It's so irritating.

YANBU. It'd drive me fucking mad.

Hmm...DH nicks the little pork pies I buy as treats for the DC's lunchboxes. Problem is they need to go in the fridge so I can't hide them

To be fair he would only ever have one but sometimes that means there isn't enough for all of them.

buy more of it

its not fair, kids always get the good stuf in thier lucn boxes and we men always get left over meals. Why cant you just buy enough for everyone (rant over)

Blimey, are pork pies still allowed in the lunch boxes at school? I would have thought the food-police would have banned those years ago!

He finds ALL my hiding places and sometimes I forget where I hidden things. He's like a sniffer dog.
It's the ham eating which irritates me. It's like taking food out of your child's mouth. Surely that's just immoral?

YANBU. DH does this all the time, the childish glutton

mr spoc, dh is, shall we say, not a pie dodger and needs to eat far far less.
ds is like a willothewisp and needs his scran!

Whatever I buy gets scoffed. There's a limit to how much one wants to spend per week on such stuff!
I think school dinners may be the only option!

"Why cant you just buy enough for everyone (rant over)"

because it's not cheap, it's not neccessary and DH 'treats' himself with beer and fags.

but stillv kids always get the good stuff while were stuck having left over chilli.

I really do dislike greedy, thoughtless people. It's not a question of buying more food either because if the OP's DH can't see anything wrong in eating everything that hasn't been nailed down then he'd only scoff any additional food too.

mrspoc why can't you go buy your own treats?

can you rub red hot chillies over it then 'hide' it for him to find?

Seriously though, what does your husband say when you say to him, "please don't eat Xs lunch stuff or he won't have any lunch to take to school." If he's eating it without thinking then just remind him. If he's eating it not caring then I would go with the above and rub chillies or something into it. Or paint it with that stuff to stop you biting your nails

Put a note on the packet - Xs lunch please don't eat it.

he couldn't care less! he says "I paid for it"

When he's hungry NOTHING else matters and his child getting a treat is only acceptable if dh has had his fill of any treat he might fancy!

because i cant be trusted, if i went shopping on my own, god knows what i will bring back, probably full of fruitshoots, porkpies, baby bells and watsits.

Then he's a selfish bastard.

Coat the treats with something disgusting.

Switch to school dinners.

ha ha this used to drive me friggin demented

i was forever going to the bloody supermarket and buying more lunchbox food coz DH kept piggin it all.

School dinners actually worked out cheaper and less stressful in the long run.

I mean, FFS, if THEY had to do the shopping and the lunchboxes they'd either give em the crapiest lunchbox ever or they would just do school dinnners.

At one time I used to make up a week's sandwiches and put them in the freezer.

Take out one pack in the morning and its thawed out by lunchtime. You can freeze pork pies too, but not salad stuff.

Maybe if it was frozen he would not steal it?

When DH has to do the lucnhbox, he buys it on the way. Everything in the lunchbox has bright orange price stickers on from the corner shop. The other day we had a note because he'd put in a grab-bag of McCoys on "no crisp" day.

Haha my DH does this - it drives me nuts!! I make him go out and replace it all

PigletJohn I'm intrigued, does it work well with all fillings or are some not freezable? Do you just make a normal sandwich with butter and everything then freeze them in the clingfilm or sandwich bag or whatever?

I agree with Hecate, especially her second post.

I'm thrilled that my DP is not the only one doing this!

He has acutally moaned that I treat him like 'a secondclass citizen' by buying separate lunch box food.

It's quite odd isn't it?

I am prepared to do without things for the sake of my DC if neccessary. I think that is normal parental behaviour. DH doesn't seem to quite think that way. We have bottles of wine in the house for adult consumption, ditto stilton and coffee - he doesn't find that strange, but he feels hard done by because I buy food for the children only.