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

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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!

Knights, craving sugar can be a sign of diabetes. It can also be a sign that your blood sugar is out of whack, and you need to address that to try to prevent diabetes. If you are craving sugar 1-2 hours after eating, that suggests to me that your blood sugars are not reacting properly and are spiking and then falling, creating low blood sugar and a sweet craving. That can lead to type 2 diabetes over time.

This is bizarre. In terms of how much he's eating, if it's cereal alone you're talking maybe 800 calories a day. If you add milk it's goes up to about 1200 calories a day. That's half of his recommended calories intake. Unless he's not eating other stuff he's going to start putting on a lot of weight.

I would love to spend that much each month on booze, but we simply can't afford it at the moment. As an adult who can eat/ drink whatever I like, but as an adult I also have to necessary cognitive power to understand that we can't afford that much on treats.... Therefore I can't have them.

My favourite wine cost £13 per bottle. I would like to have a bottle a week. We cant afford it, so we dont. My monthly wine budget comes to around £14, that is 2 bottles. (Unless I need to marinate something. )

Just stop buying it! Buy a box a week and when it's gone it's gone.

Cutting back on the rest of the family's food to afford a box of cereal a day for one person is insanity.

I don't know about this 2,500 calories a day. I usually put away 3,500-4,000 a day, and if I don't I'll lose weight quickly. (I also have a very low fat content - I'm about a 33" waiste at my 6"2', so I'm not overweight.) If I tried surviving on 2,500 I'd be a walking pole within a couple of months.

If he really is craving the sugar this badly, a diabetes check certainly won't be a bad idea. I just thought sugar was addictive to non-diabetics as well.

The asda version tastes the same! And is about 1/2 the price! My dh is also addicted to cereal but lucky for me its lidel muesli.

That should have been a 33' waste, not a 33" waste. I don't have a thirty-three foot waste.

Mmmm. Lidl's Museli.

[schock] (That's my impression of an animiated eating)

" is the correct one for inches, knights

Ah! That went wrong!

Is it? I thoguht it was " for feet and 'for inches. Is it the other way around?

Has he got worms?

Also, Special K is cereal dust , sugar and salt cemented into flakes. It's the economy burger of the cereal world. I'm actually quite impressed with their marketing because they manage to pass it off as a highish end product

I'd stop buying it and tell him he can only eat cereal if he eats it instead of meals not as well as and he's turning into a greedy pig. Let him shop for it if he wants it.
I'd tell him it's getting silly and has to get a grip and just eat food at meal times and stop stuffing himslef with special k for the sake of it.

I think the cost is a red herring. The main issue is no one needs to eat five bowls of cereal a day in addition to their meals, that's just greedy!

I like lidls muesli, but if I'm eating it during the day it's instead of not as well as another meal eg lunch if I'm feeling lazy.

You have my sympathy my DH is seriously seriously addicted to Pepsi and 7up spends on average about £75-100 per month on it. At least he goes and buys the stuff himself and it doesn't come put of the household budget. Still I have to trip over the cases of Pepsi all over the house.

I would insist that his addiction be funded outside of the household food budget.

Right, I'm not even checking this thread again until I've had dinner!

All this talk of museli and Special K and economy burgars. I'm eating the stationary on this desk over here!

I buy the Waitrose 'Essentials' version now and think it tastes exactly the same.

Special K is full of sugar. this is a sugar addiction.

Make him go cold turkey for a week, he will stop.

All those processed cereals are very, very expensive IMO (as well as rubbishy). I'm sure fillet steak is cheaper by weight.

Try Weetabix (less processed, more satisfying!).

Or porridge, better still. I have mine with roasted pumpkin seeds and raisins. Heaven in a bowl. And you're not hungry 10 minutes later.

Maybe the medical comments here are right about cravings and blood sugar problems.

He's a grown adult he can eat what he wants even if chances are it will make him drop dead or be ill BUT what he cannot do is deprive the rest of his family of needed food to fund his gluttony (love that word even if I was gutted the day I found out it did not refer to an odd sexual practise) on what planet is doing that ever going to be ok.

I've lost count of the amount of women who come into my office hungry and quite frail because they have to starve themselves because the great god man in the house requires vast quantities of food stuff that is not a need and they cannot afford or insists on food or drink way out of the family budget and does not give a shit about the rest of the household. Its abusive wankerish behaviour and is no different to blowing the household budget on special brew.

And most people who over eat to such a massive extent are not diabetic they do so because of learned behaviour boredom and habit and greed some need help but often they just need to stop it.

Sorry if that sounds harsh but last week I had to spend one day at the hospital with a woman who has been surviving on little bits of paper and tesco value squash whilst her husband eats steak most days because that's what he likes.

He's eating half a big box of cereal a day on top of all his other normal food? That is weird. Does he have worms?

Sock that is absolutely dreadful. Those poor women.

that's awful sock