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DH chucking out my homemade sauce?!

27 replies

fryscream · 15/05/2012 08:46

So, tell me, was I BU?

I made a pot of pasta sauce last night, to be portioned up and put in the freezer for meals for me, DH and DD. This morning (pre work) I was starting to decant it into the wee silicone muffin pans that I freeze it in. DH offered to take over as I needed to leave for work earlier than him this morning. So, I thank him and go and get ready for work. When I come back into the kitchen he has piled the sauce into the muffin pan, each ?segment? is piled as high as could be. I suggest (nicely) that it might be an idea to take some out of each portion as it will expand when it freezes and make a mess (and I didn?t mention this, but lord knows how he would get it to the freezer without it going everything when it was so overfilled, but anyway?.). So, he starts spooning some of theme homemade tomato sauce out of the portions and puts it in the BIN. WTAF?

His rationale was the muffin tins were full, so what else was he going to do with it? Apparently putting it in any one of the other 7 million pieces of Tupperware or food bags we have wasn?t an option. I must admit I told him I couldn?t believe what he was doing and could he not see it would be slightly irritating to me to see food that I made being thrown in the bin like that.

Yes, I know it is only pasta sauce. But it was homemade, took me time and effort and he was just flinging it in the bin without any thought. But, was IBU?

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SilentBoob · 15/05/2012 08:50

I have GOT to get off the internet and do something useful.

squeakytoy · 15/05/2012 08:50

It is surely only a few spoonfulls of sauce... you do sound a bit unreasonable.

CuriousMama · 15/05/2012 08:53

Unless it was laced with shavings of truffles then YABabitU. But then he is too. So you're both abitU iykwim? This can happen.

fryscream · 15/05/2012 09:01

He actually stopped throwing it in bin once I said something and put the rest in another container and it was easily enough to do us for 2 meals. So not a little amount at all!

I cooked it down for a couple of hours and everything, lots of tlc!

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BIWItheBold · 15/05/2012 09:02

Were you being unreasonable to do what?

fryscream · 15/05/2012 09:06

Hmm, maybe I should have clarified. Unreasonable to have been annoyed at DH

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MothershipG · 15/05/2012 09:07

Leave the bastard! (OK, not really but YAdefinitelyNBU!)

But seriously it is exactly this king of thing that makes steam come out of my ears, after several demonstrations of which my DH now knows better. Grin

Throwing away perfectly good food that has had money, time and effort spent on it is completely incomprehensible to me.

BIWItheBold · 15/05/2012 09:08
Grin

No YANBU. I would have been cross too. How stupid of him. My DH, with his 'tidy' mind would probably have done this too. He has an irrational hatred of all the plastic takeaway boxes that I keep for freezing stuff in. If he could, he would chuck the lot.

startail · 15/05/2012 09:09

He is being totally unreasonable and would be cooking tea for the rest of the week.

Freezing portions of sauce in a muffin tins a brilliant idea, thanksGrin

TheHouseOnTheCorner · 15/05/2012 09:10

I think you're an old fuss pot and to post about something so silly is odd. I think you need to get out more. YABU.

fryscream · 15/05/2012 09:12

Thanks Mothership. I just incredulous when he starting doing it. I was almost speechless!

Startail - I got the muffin tin idea from someone on here. It is great. One portion of sauce etc is perfect size for my DD (19 months) and they pop out the silcone so easily!

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fryscream · 15/05/2012 09:14

Hahahahha houseonthecorner. I didn't realise AIBU was limited to entirely serious topics! Must have missed that rule.

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MothershipG · 15/05/2012 09:17

TheHouse Maybe frys could get out more if her silly DH didn't throw away the carefully planned food she had prepared for them and her daughter!

GingerBlondecat · 15/05/2012 09:29

Make HIM cook all the meals for a month. yanbu !
( from another kitchen slave who does cooking in bulk and freezes)

samandi · 15/05/2012 09:43

YANBU. I would be annoyed too.

CuriousMama · 15/05/2012 14:47

Oh now you didn't mention it was a reduced sauce, makes all the difference Wink

Glad he saw sense. I hope he's learnt a lesson?

Ithinkitsjustme · 15/05/2012 14:50

My DH threw out the entire pot of homemade mushroom soup I had made! I think YABslightly U about this one. At least he was trying to help.

saturdaygirl · 15/05/2012 15:41

Think we need the recipe to judge AYBU Grin please

nectarina · 15/05/2012 17:31

YANBU
all the people saying you ought to get out more clearly don't cook, or use ready meals, and shouldn't be listened to. Anyone who respects food would find this crazy and unacceptable.

Floggingmolly · 15/05/2012 17:38

Maybe it was rank and he was trying to dispose of it discreetly? (but not discreetly enough, obviously)

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 15/05/2012 17:41

Just picking up on the ".... and everything". My mother says this too about anything she has done. It's overkill, really it is. Grin

ErikNorseman · 15/05/2012 18:59

YANBU at all! I'm boggled at the stupidity of throwing good food in the bin for no reason. What a dick.

fryscream · 15/05/2012 19:39

Oh flogging, he would tell me if he thought it was minging, believe you me! It is old fav of ours. Honest!

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IAmBooyhoo · 15/05/2012 19:44

is this for real?

he didn't think, you sugested he use the tupperware. he did.

what's the problem?

haven't you ever done something without thinking? made a mistake?

bogeyface · 15/05/2012 19:47

Does he ever complain about your shopping bills? Might be worth remembering for when he does.....Wink

I would be mad too btw.

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