To think spending £64 a month on cereal for one person is insane?!

[Mittensonkittens]

Dh has become addicted to Special K. Addicted. He is living on the stuff. He's eating normal meals too but in addition to this is eating bowls and bowls of the stuff.

He's getting through a box (£3.99) every two fucking days! His cereal habit is costing me £64 a month! There's a sentence never thought I'd type.

I've explained to him that his cereal is now costing us one fifth of our monthly shopping budget. Aibu to think he needs to cut back?! Is there some sort of special cereal addiciton group he can go to?

£64! £768 a year!

Special K is rank! Bleurgh. How he can eat one bowl is beyond me. Yanbu

It just sounds a bit selfish of him.

I also get food obsessions. During the summer I can eat salad two meals a day every day for weeks. But, I eat my things for my actual meals, not instead of my meals. His cereal habit is nuts.

First suggestion would be just stop buying it. If he wants it it can come out of his spending money not the food budget.

Second suggestion is you say he doesn't like the cheaper Special K knock-offs, so buy one of those and put it in the Special K box. If he doesn't notice you can just keep buying the cheap version. If he does notice then suggest they must have reformulated, hopefully he won't like the 'new Special K' and won't want it anymore.

Is the cereal his actual lunch at work?

Because you could argue that he is eating it for his breakfast, his lunch, and afternoon and evening snacks.

If my teenage son were doing this I wouldn't particularly worry - partly because it would pass. But he would be chipping into the cost if we couldn't afford it. Special K is very pricey.

Seriously, why do you buy it?
You don't have to buy it. You don't have to go out and get it when he runs out.

If he has to get up and go to the shop to buy it it will be out of his money plus he can work off some of that mountain of sugar and shit in his diet.

I would say 'you have lost your mind. I am not buying it anymore. I am putting the money towards buying a hat for your funeral when you die of eating crap'

My head hurts just at the thought of eating that much sugar. I wonder if he has low blood sugar for some reason. Definitely try to get him to the doctor. And yes to make him buy his own. I eat less of anything I'm craving if I have to move my lazy arse and get it rather than have it delivered to me.

No he has a baguette for lunch.

I've told him it's extortionate, I may start keeping the Special K receipts so he can see for himself. It started off gradually so it wasn't a problem at first but before I knew I was buying 15 boxes a month. At least we will have plenty of cardboard to use to sleep under when we are made homeless after falling behind with the mortgage to finance his addiction.

When I saw the title I thought your DH was buying limited edition hand made organic shite that included gold covered rolled oats.

Aldis version is exactly the same as the old style special k. The new 'improved' version is packed with sugar so I switched when they changed the recipe.

I agree with kmc111 and he should pay for it out of his own budget. My Dh is addicted to chocolate spread and I buy 3 jars a month on the household account - he knows that once it is gone, its gone and he has to buy his own.

What did he say when you told him how much it was costing? I'm not sure if you are being unreasonable or not. I guess it would be slightly easier to stomach the cost if it was something you could all enjoy? Either stop buying it or ration to a smaller amount. When it's out, it's out, he'll just have to wait until you have time to get it (at your convenience).
I'm lucky I do the shopping so dh doesn't notice how much is spent on nutella and wine!

stop buying today op.

liquid nuttella is very addictive.

mittens does he buy baguette or make at home and take in.

my hubby ust gets plain boring sandwch reduced bread, value ham, pack crisps and value yogurt.

still he smokes so £64 better than fags.

My kids love Special K for some reason and I have discovered that Aldi's do a cereal called Benefit which has fooled them completely. It is about half the price and I just buy it and put the plastic inner bag into an old Special K box as they are food snobs and won't eat anything if they know it's from aldi. Worth trying maybe.

Just stop buying it. Tell him if he wants it he buys it.

He will soon see his money disappear and then i am willing to bet his habit will disappear too.

So. You say: 'DH, this cereal is costing so much that me and the kids are having to do without other stuff. Also I'm dragging ridiculous volumes back from the shop each week'

And he says.... ?

I think this is relevant. We can't advise without knowing.

It doesnt sound healthy to be eating so much on top of normal meals so you could chat about that.

Cost wise, try a supermarket brand as normally cheaper and bigger boxes. Given he's the sole earner, i dont think you can stop him having it. I would be mightly annoyed if i couldnt have something i liked after working hard all week.

Sorry but I just started laughing on the bus on the way to work after reading tell him I am putting the money towards buying a hat for your funeral when you die of eating crap and now everyone is looking at me.

Don't buy it. Tell him to stop being so bloody foolish- who eats 5 bowls of cereal a day and normal meals???

Personally id just present the cereal as breakfast lunch and dinner with no other food provided

Just STOP BUYING THE FECKING STUFF!!!!

No brainer.....what happens when he runs out? Does he get arsey?

Now I'm partial to a bowl or two of the flakey stuff myself, but even I would be asking him to dig deep into his pocket money for this one.

Iit's possible he's not really aware of just how much he's getting through, so making him buy it himself might bring it home to him. Ultimately it's not on for the rest of the family to have to go without to feed his addiction.

Yes, what is his response?

Given the impact on your budget I'd buy a few boxes, tell him that's it for the month, it's up to him to ration it and when it's gone it's gone.

Stop enabling him in his absurd addiction!

OP you haven't answered the point about why you can't just stop buying it?

You don't need to stock up, go to Costco, keep receipts etc. Just stop buying it.

Stop buying it for him altogether, or cap it at 4 boxes a week or something.

I'd be annoyed by this - it seems selfish considering you can't afford it!!

When I read the thread title, I assumed someone was addicted to that £6/packet farmer's market organic granola stuff. Not Special K. Do you have to buy milk in those monstrous rectangular tank-shaped bottles?!

Maybe get him a mankini version of those red Baywatch Special K swimsuits they make women swan around in for the ads, and ask when he's planning on getting into it?

He has a baguette for lunch as well?

He can stick it away, can't he?

Oh god, I'm a feeder aren't I?

He just laughed when I told him, I said we will have to increase the shopping budget and he didn't seem to believe it was costing that much.

I will buy two big boxes a week and that is it. That should be enough for two bowls a day. If he can't keep the habit he will have to go to aldi or rehab