to do the food shopping alone even though DH will be annoyed

[OhdearNigel]

My DH never, ever lets me go food shopping on my own. He always insists on coming, I suspect because he wants to fill the trolley up with biscuits and chicken kievs that he knows I won't buy !
We should have gone shopping last week, the cupboards and fridge are looking like mother hubbard's and the cats are having to eat tuna because there is no cat food. However, due to our shifts there is no opportunity for us to go food shopping this week as the only time we are both off is tomorrow evening when I will be putting DD (18m) to bed. He will be at work now until probably next week.
The only way I can get the food shopping done will be to have it delivered or go on my own - both of which will cause a row because of his odd obsession with coming shopping.
WWYD ? I have no milk, no sugar, no butter, no potatoes, no lots of things and really do need to go shopping before next Tuesday

Faffing, not rafting...

Why do you have 5 cats when you can't buy a packet of biscuits ?

for back up food obviously

"They have five cats!? This thread just gets crazier!"

And what's wrong with having five cats, tryingtoleave?

Cats are expensive - they only like the most expensive brands certain things and to dine out of fine crystal dishes and stuff.

Wow. So he controls the money, controls what goes in the trolley, but err... you get the responsibility for cooking it all and worrying that there's not enough money to go round? I don't think so!

Time to down tools I think. He's an expert and in charge of it all, right? So I'd just leave him to it - unless of course he wants to treat you as an equal partner in all this 'running your joint lives' stuff.

"Why do you have 5 cats when you can't buy a packet of biscuits ?

for back up food obviously"

rofl at summertime

And, he sounds like an unhealthy pig.

Why does anyone need 5 cats? Surely that's mad-old-woman-with-scary-hair territory

with all this tuna consumption - these cats have had a taste of the good life, while Shrek has to make do with spooning condensed milk while he waits for his measly portion.

OP on the other hand - is knee deep in cake mix and biscuit tins

And has OP been back to tell us if her H is really horribly fat? If he isn't I hate him even more.

Oh god OP my ex was exactly the same!! I wasn't "allowed" to do the shopping alone as he insisted he needed to come with me. Only he'd go one further and not allow me to buy anything I wanted insisting that he'd found better alternatives.

Do the shopping, don't let him control you. I'd certainly never make this mistake again!

ha, I knew I would get in trouble for that! Sane people have no more than two pets. ( now waits to get in more trouble )

Just thought maybe op's went quiet because the cats are already eating her.

I think everyone is being way too judgmental, not everyone with 5 cats is a madoldcatladywhosmellsofwee. Just most.

weird thread.
OP, for gods sake. Just go shopping. Seriously, ffs. GO!

"Why does anyone need 5 cats? Surely that's mad-old-woman-with-scary-hair territory"

In this poster's case, because 2 poor buggers out of the 5 had been abused and let down by shitty humans and so someone has to do the decent thing and rescue them.

Those 2 cats, now treated, vaccinated, spayed and so on, are on the rehoming list although I'm not trying to rehome them too hard!

cold I didn't say they smell of wee. But they probably do.

IMO one cat is too many until the day they learn to wipe their own arses before sitting down on my sofa.

I have 10 chickens. Make of that what you will.

OP, just go shopping. Get what you want/need, and your DH can swing by Sainsbo's on his way home if he's that bothered. I honestly can't relate, because DH would rather stick hot pins in his testicles than be forced around a supermarket. I shop online, and he gets what he wants/needs as and when if I've forgotten his stuff. Which happens a lot, because I'm so busy looking after all the chickens.

I mean, you wouldn't let a human do it, would you?

Oh my my cat won't eat tuna. She will lick the sink when I've emtied the tuna juice [boak] down it though.
And my husband would rather eat his own hair than do shopping.

Frozen condensed milk? Is that a thing?

Is it wrong to be eating biscuits while reading this thread?

tryingtoleave, sanity is highly overrated! :o

I don't see chicken people as mad; just wholemeal (in a nice way).

BadTaste, they don't need to wipe, they lick. Tasty. See another reason why cats probably don't taste nice. They lick their own arses, in the case of one of mine seemingly all the time.