to be furious with dh for eating cakes he knew were destined for the bin!

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OK. I bake a lot. And sometimes my cakes are beautiful, and we all enjoy them. But sometimes it does not go so well and the cakes come out sunk or burnt or still wet in the middle (if dh would get the fan fixed on the oven this would happen a lot less often, but that's another thread)

There is a system, dh and the children are well aware of it. If the cakes are good to eat, they either go in a freezer bag for later use, or in a sealed tin for use over the week, or on a plate on the side so that they can be eaten now. DH knows this and I never complain about him "sampling" even if th cakes are meant for after dinner or whatever. I bake a lot so there is usually something there if he fancies a nibble.

If the cakes are not up to scratch, they go in the bin as soon as they are cooled (or as soon as dh empties the bin - there's another thread there!)

so this morning dh saunters into the kitchen to get himself breakfast. I come in and find him cramming his mouth with the burnt, crappy cakes that were sitting in the bun tray by the bin. I was really pissed off and had a go at him for it. I can make really nice cakes and I make plenty of them, so he has no need to wind me up and embarrass me by eating the ones that have gone wrong. He know it is a pet hate of mine.

so he strops off to work having called me a "control freak" in front of our children who were sitting having their breakfast. I am Not Happy.

No, TheSecondComing you have not. It only gets crazier.

The CAKES ARE CONDEMNED!

I really want these other threads to happen too. I hope DH does a lot of sauntering!

Very funny OP. You have cheered up my Monday evening! Wanders off slightly relieved that this is a wind up and that no one can actually be that loopy....

Cheers Pag, I now have your corrupted version of the Carpenters going round in my head Snorted at my desk and my colleagues asked me what I was laughing at.

(With apologies to Keats. . .)

O what can ail thee, wretched man,
In the kitchen palely loitering?
You've eaten bits of condemned cake,
And no birds sing.

But WHY ARE THERE NO BIRDS?

I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed to know

Wont anyone think of the birds?

Ok I admit I've skimmed because I'm saving this brilliant thread for later when the children are asleep so I can really enjoy it.

If he is happy to eat the cakes let the poor bugger eat them. I made a truly foul coffee cake recently, the coffee had gone stale and I detest coffee and coffee cake so didn't taste it. DH (who the cake was for) admitted it tasted funny but it didn't bother him enough not to eat it. If he wanted to eat horrible cake it was entirely up to him. He's a grown up.

Major fuss about nothing and, tbh, if cake making causes you such stress and your cakes are regularly so bad that you have a system for disposing of them then maybe you need to take up cross-stitch or something instead. Baking is supposed to be enjoyable.

I blame care in the community.

There's NO BIRDS TSC

None. At all her DH probably ate them all as he's not allowed in the kitchen

I can't imagine telling my husband what he can and can't eat , surely you can't be that controlling that a grown man has to ask permission first !

Perhaps the birds were blackbirds and are now in a pie which might be condemned

thesecondcoming you missed that she lives in a place with no birds (hence she can't feed the cake to the birds instead of putting it in the bin. And she is married to Paul Hollywood so she is quite right to be ashamed of her substandard baking skills. X

I wonder are there any animals where the OP lives?
Squirrels, foxes, spiders?

Or is it a sterile bubble?

Is <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=alfrex+cake&hl=en&sa=X&tbo=d&biw=970&bih=292&tbm=isch&tbnid=4eBYLSSvp5Q79M:&imgrefurl=www.onesixthwarriors.com/forum/front-page-news/632859-first-1-6-creepshow-action-figure-fathers-day.html&docid=cx5rs9itcDqxOM&imgurl=www.figures.com/forums/attachment.php%253Fattachmentid%253D26333%2526stc%253D1%2526d%253D1332032362&w=400&h=400&ei=I3D9UNCqCe6q0AWCt4CIDQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=2&vpy=-66&dur=168&hovh=225&hovw=225&tx=48&ty=151&sig=102671539489206620822&page=2&tbnh=138&tbnw=105&start=6&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:0,i:118" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this one of your cakes OP?

It's just if you google alfrex + cake this is what you get

I can kind of imagine maybe going 'oh no those were for the bin they're horrible' in a mildly irritated manner upon discovering my DH shovelling burnt cake into his mouth over the bin. But then I imagine he'd mumble 'it's ok they taste really good' through all the cake in his mouth, and I'd shrug my shoulders.

It's the 'furious' 'the system' the 'knowing better' and the bothering to post on the internet about it that really makes you seem unhinged about such a tiny insignificant matter.

You do sound excessively controlling and obviously your DH thinks this too so you really need to consider that issue.

He is an adult, he can eat whatever he likes, trying to dictate what he can or cannot eat eat is not loving behaviour.

Will no-one think of the birds??!!

Hi everyone,

Thanks to everyone who reported this thread to us. We can assure anyone who was worried that the OP is a regular MN and we have absolutely no concerns about her posting history/intentions. Please stick to the guidelines and cool it with the PAs and trollhunting.

OP, surely he is actually giving you a compliment because he thinks that even the cakes which aren't up to your usual standard are still good to eat.

Surely it is up to the adult eating it to decide whether it is fit to be eaten or not.

You really are being unreasonable OP.

Yes everyone, stick to the guidelines...

Plate on the side, tuck right in,
If it's by the bin, scoffing be sin.

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