To just eat the fucking left overs and NOT leave a tiny spoonful left??

[ADHDNoodles]

DH made fish sticks yesterday, put the bag back in the freezer. I thought I had enough to lunch or a snack.

Heat up the toaster oven. I have exactly 5, that's right 5 fish sticks.

He has form for this. When he takes left overs he leaves a tiny spoonful that can't possibly be a portion size so he'd not "being rude". He just won't take the last bit of anything. Except candies or biscuits. Those are fine apparently.

Anyway, now some plastic of his has melted on the toaster oven and I feel it could have been avoided if I cleared it off first he just ate the rest of the bag.

I know I'm not BU, I just needed someone to comiserate with and give me tips on how to get melted plastic off a surface.

Do you have a pic? I don't think we have those in America.

LOL Yes! DH is almost home with food for dinner.

I'm kinda on the fence of just not saying anything about his melted sushi roller and seeing if he notices. But I sort of feel like a fish preparer ruined by fish is something that should definitely be shared with him.

Yes, we call that a broiler.

oh no the oven differences chat is spilling into other threads now

It just melted without causing a smell. Like melted cheese. He didn't notice. The irony was not lost on him though. He thought it was pretty funny that fish karma had come to get him.

Those stoves look awesome. We just have toasters for toast. If that's how you make toast, I can see how you make beans on toast. You can just melt the cheese right on top. :)

Toaster ovens are small countertop "ovens" that also make toast. Perfect for fish sticks, burrito's, chicken nuggets, tuna melts, small pizza's or pizza bagels. Microwaves just don't crisp foods like an oven does, and with a toaster oven, you don't heat up the house in summer, and also they save energy as they are cheaper to heat up than real oven. We are on our 3rd now, although since the kids grew up we don't really use it.
www.walmart.ca/en/ip/11630645-black-decker-4-slice-black-toaster-oven/6000100423952

Oops, never mind! I took so long to write a reply that the question has been answered.

My father was born in 1914, to an exceptionally poor family. He and his siblings had the habit of never eating everything on the plate. Apparently it was "good manners", when everyone was broke and no one got enough to eat, to leave a morsel, as evidence you had had enough.

Maybe the OP's DH is doing the same thing.

yes unreasonable , a v minor quirk , leave him alone

No, there's no logical reason for it. We're both young with relatively unremarkable upbringings. He just thinks it's rude to take the last of something. God knows why.

My DH does this, nothing to do with being polite - he just doesn't want to wash up the dish afterwards.

I think 5 of those with an accompaniment is fine.
175kcal with either a jacket potato and some salad, or some beans is a decent sized meal.
Unless of course you simply want to eat more of a crappy processed snack with nothing else.

If I ate nothing else with it at all, 6 fishfingers (much bigger than those things) would be about right. But I would probably never do that.

And why didn't you move his sushi roller from the top of the oven before cooking your fish?
I think this is a most bizarre AIBU to be honest

Agree that 5 seems plenty for a snack but i can sympathise...

DH leaves tiny dice of cheese in the fridge. It drives me nuts. JUST EAT IT!

I find this whole concept of just eating something because it's there really strange though. The right thing to do is to stop eating when you are hungry, rather than to just eat it because it's there.

Clearly he has good portion control, something as a society we are increasingly losing sight of.

We have the striking, stolid figure of the Gorton's Fisherman.

It's all very Hemingway.

I was always told to leave a small morsel on my plate "for Mr Manners".

My late father always used to leave something on his plate after a meal - one chip, or half a roast potato, that sort of thing. It used to drive my mum mad.

When I asked him about it he said that he was so perfect in other ways that he had to give my mum something to nag him about or she would combust from frustration