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!

I'm also interested to know how much milk you buy every week to go with all of this cereal??

Nocarsgo the cost is not a red herring. It's the entire issue. He's allowed to be greedy if he wants just not if it financially affects the other members of the household.

Yanbu. That sort of money on Special K is beyond the realms of sanity.

Open a box carefully. Put a dead mouse in the box. Re-seal box. Let him open the "new" box.

YANBU. We currently spend less than £5 a month on cereal (and have 4 kids, two adults and good cereal for the supermarket). Not necessary and it will be damaging your family. He needs to put finances/the family's food before his own personal favourites.

Cereal killer (sorry)

Its actual real paper apparently it gets rid of the hunger pains. She had been doing it for over a year because the money she had access to was nt enough to feed them both within the conditions he gave so she was eating a combo of paper and the scraps he left on his plate from his beef Wellington and steak and other such basic food stuff.

WANKER

She's in a safe place now ( hospital but will go on to a refuge)

Bloody hellfire, if he's not diabetic and hypertensive already he will be soon.

Finance aside (and that's a big factor!) his health will suffer over time. Breakfast cereals are not healthy in large volumes.

Look, if he is eating all those extra calories, yet not putting on weight, there is something wrong somewhere. Forget the annoyance over the apparent selfishness/greediness, and forget the expense. THIS IS NOT NORMAL - and could be a sign of several illnesses including worms, diabetes and coeliac disease (one sign can be you're really hungry but not absorbing foods properly hence not gaining weight and actually being malnourished!).

Talk to him and get him to see a Dr.

There is clearly something in this product that is addictive, I notice they regularly try to get you to "drop a dress size" by substituting another meal for the special stuff....this is how they get you addicted and before you know it you're craving the stuff morning noon and night!

If this was my DP I'd just say 'oy, that is costing us a fortune you're gunna have to give a bit more to the budget - oh and it's going to make you fat'

done and dusted.

Maybe it DOES contain cocaine... that makes you thinner too, doesn't it? Or have I got the wrong drug? [dim]

Sock thats terrible he was deliberatly starving her? Dd they have kids?

read about parents missing meals so kids can eat in some cases.

Im not sure if been raised but could ops husband have a binge eating disorder?

got tesco cheapy special k red berries today £1.50 and hardly any berries.

is he mentally ill?

I think my brain must be on holiday or something - I did read Sock's posts and then just ignored it in mine!

Sock, that is truly terrible. I can't believe there are still "families" (I use the word carefully) out there where the "man" gets the best of everything and everyone else has to make do with scraps, or in this latest case, paper. These are not "men", they are leeches with no humanity and I'm appalled that anyone stays with them - poor woman, I hope she never has to go back to that situation. :(

She was pregnant but as you can imagine that situation is not conducive towards an actual birth.

Yes there still are abusive men like this but its ok because they don't actually beat there wives so they must be decent

Apparently they need a million more kcals than everybody else because they are men

How long has it been going on? Likely to be a fad, or going on for years?

DH probably has 3 bowls a day (but sometimes part of meals). It wouldn't occur to me to work out the cost, though - presumably your DP be eating something else instead, eg bought snacks, bigger portions, which all costs money.

I would just point out the cost and encourage him to eat something more nutritious.

I think if you break down the cost of any one item of food/drink it can seem ridiculous, eg coffee shop coffees/snacks, alcohol.

That is so awful, Sock I hope things get better for her.

buy a shop brand, put the bag inside the special K box. bet he wont notice. Asda isn't far off the mark though it gets soggy slightly quicker.

So have you had another word with your DH, op? Has he realised that 200 extra calories per day is a wee bit excessive?

I had a special K addiction. The oats and honey one. Started out just having my one bowl for breakfast but then I found myself craving another later in the day.

I put on over a stone in weight and have only just lost it really.

Evil stuff.

Anyway he's being unreasonable to be so addicted since they changed the recipe, it tastes awful now.

When I first read the OP I thought there was a new variety of Special K called "Special K Addiction"