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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To find DH bloody infuriating?

29 replies

scentednappyhag · 13/03/2012 18:51

I probably am, but I'm irritated and need some shouting at gentle perspective Grin

Background- we're skint. Proper, stretching money until it's practically transparent skint. I'm budgeting the food shop to within an inch of it's life, and it's flippin' hard to do.

Now I'm getting wound up because DH is just gorging himself every night. If we're having, for example, baked potatoes, he'll cook four and pretend to be shocked that I just want one and eat three for his dinner.
If we're having a sandwich at lunch time, he'll use six slices of bread for himself.
I'm finding it difficult to believe that anyone is just that hungry, and it's pure gluttony at a time when we just can't afford to keep topping up food that I've planned to last.
Also, I'm trying to lose sone weight at the moment, and I'm finding it bloody annoying that he keeps telling me he's lost a stone this month without even trying, despite eating everything in sight.

AIBU to think that if we are struggling to make ends meet at the moment, he could try just having, I don't know, two chicken breasts for dinner instead of four?
I know, I know, it's his face- he can shove what he likes into it... I'm just having a moan aren't I?

OP posts:
LovesBeingWearingSkinnyJeans · 14/03/2012 08:58

Make a batch of soup and keep it in the fridge so he can help himself when he comes in. Just chuck all the bits of veg in some stock with some herbs/chilli and whizz up.

I ^hate* tgat dh will eat stuff whilst I'm cooking tge dinner bit he's an adult, and still eats his dinner.

susiedaisy · 14/03/2012 09:05

My exH was the same always picking over the veg and rice in a meal and scoffing the meat but he didnt have much self control with food we could never leave anything nice in the fridge etc because if you didn't eat it immediately he would go behind you and eat it when you weren't looking, he even ate one of the kids last two Easter eggs one year because apparently Ds was taking too long to eat them!!

Gumby · 14/03/2012 09:12

Is he overweight/ obese?

NoDontLickThat · 14/03/2012 09:50

...4 chicken breasts...?... Yanbu, give him a section of the food budget for himself and he can buy his own food, then if he eats all his weekly budget in one day then he'll realise he has to eat a bit less.

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