to want DH to give up trying to fool me with pretend Alpen and just buy Alpen FFS.

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I just like Alpen, always have, always will. Own brand budgie food is not Alpen.

He's been trying to fool me now for about 10 years.

Leave the bastard?

Of course. I had to threaten my DH with castration after the great Flora debacle.
I eat butter, not spread. Butter only.

YABU. The only muesli worth eating is Dorset cereals.

I expect I'd probably do the same as your dh All muesli looks like the contents of a dustpan to me.

Mind you Yeast Spread is most certainly not Marmite so maybe you have point

You mean you don't like 'this museli' but you also like 'this museli'?!

But you must!! All aldi products taste exactly the same as the branded ones donch'a know

Popcorn doesn't as I discovered last night!

Snackrite popcorn just isn't the same!

Alpen is horrible, I recently got some as a treat rather than my usual own brand muesli, but urg, it goes soggy really quickly and it only has raisins in ffs!

YABU.

I'm with the OP I like Alpen.

Posh muesli has too many hard nuts and cheap muesli to few.

no no no, i don't expect you or him to also like alpen, in fact, i positively encourage DH to get his own damn cereal. he makes his own, a concoction of brand cereal with added fruit and nuts. that's fine. But he omits the alpen from the shopping list....cause he's ok.

this is not ok.

Yanbu - we like Alpen and other mueslis are ok but don't hit the spot.

Buy your own?

(helpful me :o)

I do when i'm doing the shopping, but when DH does the shopping, it doesn't seem very fair that i then have to go back out to buy my alpen and whatever else he's decided i don't need.

a) NO brand has got muesli right yet - Alpen is okay but too sugary

b) Most 'own brands' are made by the leading brands for supermarkets

c) Make your own to get measurements right (Not that I ever have but keep meaning to)

Yanbu this would drive me insane.

although to be fair he did buy me a cheesecake

Grrr -incredibly irritating if he knows you like Alpen but buys something else instead. I agree with your first assessment. Leave the bastard!

YANBU to have one or two particular brand preferences. It's when everything has to be a well-known brand that I'd be a bit

Leave the bastard. And take your Alpen with you :)

You do realise he's gaslighting you, don't you?

he has no idea i'm secretly fuming btw. it doesn't seem worth bothering him with when i have mumsnet to let it all out. we live next to a shop that sells alpen in tiny boxes.

FrancesHouseman, the cheesecake is a decoy isn't it?

This is one of these things to blindside him with during next argument.

One minute you can be arguing about who forgot great Auntie Madge's birthday or who left the top off the margarine, the next Wham! hit him with '..and another thing...Alpen' He'll be so he'll probably go and buy a years supply

(I speak as a veteran of 'dredging up all past wrongs' in arguments which is very childish, so probably best to ignore me on this)

Intensly irritating.
Grounds for a divorce, definitely.
Leave the bastard!

yeah, i'll throw it at him at the least appropriate moment in defence of my one of my own misdemeanours.

or perhaps in my old age, as dementia takes hold, i'll develop an alpen hoarding habit and only mumsnet will be able to explain it.

Perhaps he don't like shopping and thinks if he gets the wrong things all the time you won't send him.

Leave the bastard :)

Ah you've lost me now.

If you wanted alpen, he knew that, he didn't buy it for no good reason.

Why the hell aren't you asking him about it? If he doesn't know it bothers you he isn't going to buy it next time is he? Madness.

Ltb .

And Dorset cereal is the only way forward.