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?

Yes, Dorset Cereals is a good brand but it's too expensive for me, unfortunately. I use Sainsbury's Fruit and Nit muesli and it's superb. The price has just come down to £3.79 for 1Kg. I pick out the hazels and almonds and eat them separately. Mmmm.

Nut not nit! as far as I know

I´m with you OP. Many things can be substitued for own brand but Aplen is not one of them. Nor is Heize Tom Ketchup (according to DP) shall I go on?

I buy Alpen as a treat occassionally as over here it is mega bucks, but DP would Never try and fob me off with an alternate, nor would I for Tom K, it´s all about respect.

DH tried to get me with...

Get this...

Unsalted Lurpac!!!

Why?!?! Why?!?!!

Fucking cunt

Unsalted butter is the work of the devil IMO.

I like Alpen but only the tropical one, so no help there OP.

Ah well in that case I would definitely leave the bastard!
No bloody respect. Its not about the Alpen it is really its about him not being able to read your mind and know this annoys the shit out of you! FFS.. Has the man learnt nothing yet? What kind of training are you giving him?? :o

mine used to buy 'I Can't Believe It's Not Butter' ...I fucking could and I left him - I now have Lurpack and am happy

Mine brought, get this,, SMART PRICE TINNED CARROTS!!!!!

Vile vile vile!!!

this is gaslighting, he's just sat on the other end of the sofa eating cheesecake and watching the tour de france on the telly.

i'm going to go start packing.

smart price tinned carrots! thanks for the perspective.

It very much depends on why he's substituting, is it because of money issues and needing to keep your weekly shop down as much as possible if so is he also substituting branded products that he prefers? If so yabu

if not then leave the bastard

well the children are having smoked salmon in their sandwiches , but he's normally mr frugal tight wad.

Sitting on the sofa eating cheesecake and watching the tour de france...

That is so very wrong. My DH goes to the park to eat kebabs and watch the suckers people doing boot camp.

I used to like Alpen.

These days I find eggs are better.

Try eggs.

When in tescos next buy 6 boxes of alpen and he will just have to use them!

don't buy alpen, its rubbish. buy the ingredients and make up your own muesli.

I really want some Alpen now.

this morning the conversation went like this...

me,'oh, i don't like that muesli, could you buy me some alpen next time'
him, 'but this one is less 'dusty'.
me, 'but i like alpen'
him, 'ok'
me, 'yeah?'
him,, 'yep, fine'.

so fucking reasonable! sorry, pointless thread.

Hahaha..

Award for the most pointless rant ever goes to.... :o

I wouldn't relax yet OP.

I reckon he's still gonna buy the cheap shit and put it into an Alpen box.

He caved way too quickly on this IMHO

i will keep a superstitious eye on him, don't worry.